The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-11-08
The Disastrous COnfIagratiOnS Of Mod
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Norfolk, Virginia, was destroyed
by fire cannon, January !. l77G.
Property to the amount Of 81, 100000
was destroyed.
Soon after New York passed into
the hands of the British, September
20. l77G, 500 buildings wero consum-
cd by FIRE.
In 1871, December 26, tho theatre
at Richmond was burned, in which the
Governor aud many lcadinga citizens
pcrishcd.
Six hundred warehouses, and pro-
pcr.y to the amount Of $50, 200, 900,
we're destroyed by fire in Now York,
December l6, l7S5.
April 27, 1888, in Charleston, S.
c., 1853 buildings wcro consumed, -,
governing Ids acres of ground.
April 10, l845, in Pittsburg, 1000
buildings were destroyed by fire.
Loss SG,00o,0OO.
Fifteen hundred buildings were
burned i'll Quebec, May 90, l845, aud
i'll less than month afterwards,
1900 more /; in all two thirds of the
city.
July l9, ls45, in New York city,
3o2 stores and dwellings and Sc,
100000 worth Of property were con .
sumed.
June l2, 1916, the whole town of
Newfoundland was destroyed by fire,
and 5000 persons rendered home
less.
September 8, 1918, in Albany,
600 buildings, besides steamboats,,
piers, &e. q acres burned over loss,
$3,0OO,O00.
St. Louis lost Is blocks and %
steamboats, by fire, May, II, 1919.
July 8, 1850 in phiiadcl phia, $50
buildings were lost by fire, 25 persons
burned, 8 drowned and l2O wounded
Los Sl,5oo,5o0
In San Francisco, May to 5, 1851,
$500 buildings were burned. Many
lives lost, and $3,500,O0O worth Of
property destroyed.
December rs, 1852; $4,000 vol.
umes were destroyed by ti,o in our
Congressional Library.
July l2, 1852, 1000 houses were
burned in Montreal.
Angus; 25, 1851. Damariscotta,
Maine, was entirely destroyed by fire.
Tie same day more than loo houses
in Troy, N. Y, and II large portion of
Milwaukee; Wis.
! October 8, 1857, a great fire occur
red in Chicago $500, 900 in property
destroyed.
July 4, 1865, the city of Portland,
Me-, was nearly destroyed by (irc {;
ten thousand people rendered home
less loss sis, 100000.
February II, 1865, tho city of
Charleston was almost destroyed BY
fire, and great quantities of military
and naval stores.
THE GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.
This great fire whose ruins covered
436 acres, extended from the Tower
to tho Temple church, and from tho
northeast gate to llolborn bridge.
1t destroyed in the space Of four days
89 churches, the city gatcs, tho Roy
al Exchange, tho customhouse, Guild
hall, Sion College, and many other
public buildings besides l3,2OO houses
laying waste 400 streets. Over 200,-
ooo people campcd out after the fire
in lslington and lIighgate.
Concerning this fire Sir Christo-
phcr Wren built a monument with
this inscription thereon
"This pillar was set up in perpe-
tual remembrance of that most dread.
ful burning of this Protestant city,
bogus. and carried on by ye trcachcry
and malice of yo Popish faction, in
80 beginning Of September, in yc
gear Of our Lord, 1866, in order to yc
carrying on their horrid plot for cx-
tirpating ye Protestant religion an
old English liberty. and yc introdu-
cling Popery and slavery"
This inscription was finally erased
by order Of the common council Jan.
uary 26, 1881.
The church of the Campania, San
tiago, was burned December 8, 1868
and 1000 persons pcrishcd in the
flames.
1t will be seen from the above ro-
cord that the conflagration in Chicago
is the largest which has taken place
in tho world since the great fro in
London in 1866.
The Arrest OF Women in York.