The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-10-19
55iwHil,o,I1lE. No. 1e4.

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special note being the burning of the
cotton and other wharves of ToeleF
street in June and July, 1861. 1.-THE
fire continued raging with greater or
less fury for nearly month. Several
persons were killed and property was
destroyed to the value of f2, 100000.
On the 9th of May, 1912, a fire broke
out in the City of Hamburger, Ger
many, which RAJ ged with great fury for
four days, destroying about one4tlird
of the city. ofi Sixty-oneo Streets con-
tanning !, ,747houses were utterly laid
waste and thousands of people were
rendered homeless. There were few
public buildings of value destroy d.,
and that portion of the city was quick
ly rebuilt in a much more substantial
manner than before. di9al A' '4ot3f :
In this country great fires, especially
before the day OF improved tfife-en-
gines, have. been comparatively fre-
Quent, and New York has had her full
share. D In September, 1776, soon after
the city came into the hands of the
British 500 houses were destroyed, !,
forming at that time a large portion
of the town. The buildings were
rather huddled together at the lower
end of the island, and were mostly of
wood, and the district west of Broad
way and below CORTLAND. street was
swept bare. OF New York was visited
by another great cohfagration. the
greatest in its history on the 18th of
December, 1885, Six hundred ware
houses, and property TO tile extent on
over $4,000 700, were Consumed u Our
oldest inhabitants still remember the
horrors of that terrible disaster. con
the 9th Of September, 1889, the city
had another severe visitation, when
forty!six buildings and property Ealr
ued at i$I0,Oo0,0OO were .destroyed.-
The next conAagfation of large extent
in this city took place on the 10th iof
July, 1916, when 302 stores and dwell
ings in the lower. part of tile city were
destroyed. These. however, were of
comparatively inferior zvalue.T the
whole loss amounting to- So ,0OO, ,OO0. =
-Four lives, were lost on this occasion,
Since that time, owing to. the increas.
ed efficiency of the means employed
to prevent and extingaish fires, they
have GENERALLY been confined to- a. sin4
gle building or . small group. d,iw fo
In, the same year of the, last great
fire in New FORK, In 1845, Quebec 'suf-
fered terribly from the same destroy
ing element On the 2SthI of May, a.
fire broke, cut in eFaubouRg oS ST.,
Roch which destroyed l,500 buildings
before it could be quelled. Several
Hives were also lost. Exactly one
month later 1,300; buildings 9were
burned, and by these two icopffagfa-s
tions nearly two-thirds, ofJthe, entire
city was laid in ruins q The peeuniaiy
loss has1been stated at 5000, 900. E In:
the same year, ON the 18th dof9 June,
nearly the whole town off st! Johns,
was destroyed and
6, 600 peopleiwere rendered fhomeless.s
o Albanyysu suffered from 10 great coDha-
grafton on the 9th of September, 1848.,
Six hundred buildings, besides steam
boats, piers andsother property, valu ed
$4,000 was. burned
TWenty-fopr acres of land within the
city limits were covered with ruins.
Il St. Louis had q great fire in May,
1849, when fifteen blocks sofIhouses
and twenty-three steamboats, r were
consumed. causing q loss of over 3d..
sf.3 t.{s5.-5 5ao2 9aelg 9d9 q.
} Philadelphia has been fortunate in
having few great fires, but one OCCUR
red in that city on the 9th of July, 1850,
h5destroyed $50 buildings. These
were of inferior value and the whole
loss was but 81, 5000 though TWEEN
ty-fiye. persons were killed, III nine
drowned and 16o injured. ads an I'll "A
A large portion of San 3 Francisco
was, destroyed in 1884, the Sd of
May n fire broke out which consumed
nearly 2, 500 buildings, causingI a loss 4
of $4,000, 600 and several, hyess "A lit
tie over aemontha later, ;ou cthei 22d of
June, 500 more buildings were burn
ed, valued at $3,O00,OOO or more.ol9 Il
II Twelve acres of land were burned !
over in Syracuse sonithe 8thi lofINDr
1856. About 100 buildings !
were destroyed, and the loss of fliprop- ]
ertyi amounted to $1,000, 600. siGoh I 4
i The scene most naturally recalled 4
by this fearful idisasferIin Chicago is /
The terrible celebration of the Fourth |
of July in Portland, Me-, in0 1856. Il
The leading facts of lthat9 great event |
sre still freshlin the pubiicimindIdThe |
fire, beginning in ABBOT sh0p ON High
street, swept north, and DESTROYED, in |
it's course nearly aone-half lofdthe city,
-
and -one-fourthi of futhe;popula-j
lion rendered homeless. .mooh Iuf ! /
1t seems probable from the reports I
hus far received that the terrible fifea'
n Chicago has no parallel in modern
history, unless in the confiagratfonsJ
war; Evenothe' great fire
ofti London though relatively more
destructive, did not equal itin absoap P
ute extent. The London of that day-l
was little more than two-thifds the /
ize of the Chicago of to-day, having 7
ess than 250, 600 inhabitants: and if,
10, reported, two thirds of, Chicago is
n ruins, the deso1ated territory Is far
.feater than the Tfive-sixths Of Eondondi
aid to- have been laid waste In 1866. 4
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A DAYS iW0RK- idgia I'd 4,
In labor, as in most things. man Il
ind are prone to run TO extremes, so +
bat on the one, hand the community r.
5 afflicted with class, of persons, who
eern to view labor as curse to be 4
voided, instead of a. means OF de&el-It
pment and progress itrehilyis, there,
re others who try to accomplish each
ay a greater task than, they have 4
trength to perform. Yet there are y
ewi men who ever iattain ntiie full ,
leasure ofIsuccess they amiglit havel /
ecnred had they worked in accord X
nee with the laws w hich govern their IA
hysfcal and mental systems. Thus it
appens that most of the instances Of i
o-called death from overwork, are3 III
lore strictly speaking, cases in which III
ature has rvindicated her kenllaws., In