The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-10-26

zing homes hoping to reach place oil
safety, were roasted to death By it.
Altogether, about twenty persons wcro
roasted in the streets or houses. Tho
loss Of property am)uuici to about
as, 600 600 and fifty buildings were
destroyed.
sAN FRANCISCO, 1851.
- '."he most destructive Of the many
connagrations which bsyc occurred in
San Francisco began on tho 81 OF
May, 1851, at eleven o'clock. p NJ,
and was not subducd until the 9th
instant. The loss that was caused W
il ar,nun,cd to 81, 500, 900, and it do.
.,royed 5, 800 buildings. Tho FIRE be-
gan 10 paint shop on The west side
Of Portsmouth squlr, adjoining the
american House. Although but n
small blaze when discovered, the bull
ling was within five minutes enwrap-
ped with fines, and before the fire eu-
sincs coull be got to work the Amer
House and the buillpg on the other
side Of the paint shop were also burn.
~. The building, being all Of wood
and extremely ,mbustible the fire
spread up Clay street, back to Sacra-
mento aud down Clay street towards
Kearney with fearful rapidity. So,n
the fire department was compelled -
give up every attempt to cxtineuish
/. and to coDfne their work to making
IFS advance less rapid. Pursuing this
plan thcy checked tho flames on tho
north side at Dupont street. But in
every other directian it took its own
course aud was only arrested at the
waters edge aud the rufus Of the h,u-
.cs tha, had been blown up. Tue ship
ping in tie harbor was only protected
by the breaking up Of the wharves.
IL.asands'of persons were made homc-
less long time after lived in tents.
lhurng the continuance of the fire
Aumber Of persous were burned and
others died frcm their -cxcrticns to-
word subduin: il.
Another large FIRE devastated a
great portion of San Francisco lu June,
1861. 1t occurred on the I'D Of that
month, and 500 buildings were de-
stroycd BY it. The loss was cs,ima'
ted a, s3,OOo,OOo.
CHICAGO, 1867, 1865.
On tho morning of the 10Th Of Oc-
tober, lS67, a fire occurred in Chicago
which though the amount of proper
ty destroyed by it was comparatively
tridiug wasmadc awful by the loss OF
human lie which it caused. The fire
broke out 10 II large double store in
South Water street, and spread cast
aud west to the buildings adjoining,
and across an alley 10 the rear TO II
block Of now buildings All these
were completely destroyed. When
the flames we're ,h'cateuing one OF
the tuildings a number of persons a..
cended to its roof to there tight o.
gaiust them. Wholly occupied with
their work, they dill not notice that
the wall Of the burning building tot
tered, and when warned Of their dau-
ger they could not escape crc it fell,
crushing through the hoise on which
they were, and carrying them into its
cellar OF the number fourteen were
killed and more injured. The loss on
property caused by tho fire amounted
to over half million Of dollars.
The fire which occurred on the
18th Of January, 1858, was tho most
destructive by which Chicago had
ever been visited. 1t broke out iu o
large boot aud shoe factory on Lake
street, aud destroyed tho entire block
on which that vas situated. Tho
sparks from those buildings set iirc to
others distent from them on the same
street, and caused their destruction.
10 all the loss was about 50, 600, 900.
PORTLAND, 1866.
The terrible fire which laid in ru.
ms more than half Of the city Of z ort-
land, Me-, commenced at five o'clock
on the afternoon of the 4th Of July,
1866. Oue half OF the city-and that
the one which included its business
portion-was destroyed.
Two thousand persons were rem
dered houseless. The loss was es,i-
mated at sl0'000,000.
CHARLESTON, 1888.
Charleston, s. c. was Oh the 9th
of April, 1888, visited by one Of the
most destructive fires that has ever oc-
cured in any city Of this country.
There were l,l5s buildings destroyed,
and the loss occasioned was about S3,-