All 21 occupants died in the crash or the ensuing conflagration. The conflagration was the result of arson. The resulting conflagration destroyed the wooden fort. An hour into the raid the fire department abandoned its efforts to stop the conflagration. This edifice was destroyed by an 1882 conflagration, with only a marble rotunda remaining. These factors combined to turn a small barn fire into a conflagration. It was the Union Army that saved the city from widespread conflagration and ruin. She saw them burn wounded people in the conflagration. He recorded in his diary that the eastern gale had turned it into a conflagration. Forty thousand people died in the conflagration. Mwerinde is assumed to have survived the church conflagration. During a conflagration a significant movement of air and combustion products occurs. The cause of this conflagration was never established. The resulting conflagration is said to have hit Nalanda's library. Some of these settlements were permanently abandoned after the conflagration.