Complex sentence: In 1750 a serious fire destroyed 93 buildings and in 1801 another serious fire destroyed 63 smallholdings together with their harvested crops and left two thirds of the population homeless and destitute.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1750 a serious fire destroyed 93 buildings. In 1801 another serious fire destroyed 63 smallholdings together with their harvested crops and left two thirds of the population homeless and destitute.