The Gazette & Colorado Springs
1900-1919

1900
Daily Gazette sold to Isaac N. Stevens.

Worst-ever windstorm levels scores of buildings.

1901
Colorado Springs Millionaires baseball team founded.

Second Antlers Hotel built.

First ascent of Pikes Peak by automobile.

1902
Daily Gazette expands to 30-plus pages with news, sports, society, fashion, color comics.

Gold-mining millionaire Winfield Scott Stratton dies.

1903
Daily Gazette sold to McNeil-Babbitt group.

Wright brothers' first airplane flight

1904
Thirteen non-union miners die in Cripple Creek explosion.

Union ejected from mining district.

1905
Zoo Park founded.

First public library opens.

1906
Daily Gazette sold to Clarence P. Dodge.

Dodge buys the Colorado Springs Telegraph, an evening newspaper, and runs it and the morning Gazette.

Golden Cycle Mill opens in Colorado City.

1908
Henry Ford introduces the Model T.

1909
Town-founder Palmer dies.

Charles E. Perkins' family leaves the Garden of the Gods to the city.

1911
City's worst murder leaves six dead, including three children.

1912
H.M.S. Titanic sinks.

1913
Worst-ever blizzard dumps nearly four feet of snow.

16th Amendment to U.S. Constitution established income tax.

1914
Myron Stratton Home opens.

1915
Pikes Peak highway opens.

1916
First Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb.

Bleacher collapse at world championship fight kills one, injures 150.

1917
Colorado Springs annexes Colorado City.

U.S. enters World War I.

1918
Gazette sparks citywide celebration of the end of the Great War (World War I).

Broadmoor hotel opens.

Influenza epidemic sweeps through city.