The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-15
from the Boston Journal
CssisONOEOciECA ksECOsED.
OF THE
GREAT fires og tisc Near 1921;

<srcut rircs og thc Near 1873;
INCLUDING THE TOTAL LOSSES nr FIRES OF
AL DESCRIPTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES
DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS.
We have carefully gone over the col
umnS Of TheS DaHy JoN1R0l for the year
lust past, with II view to finding out and
reporting what the flames have been doing.
and here present as the result of our pa
ticnt labor the sum of the matter.
The following list presents in the order
of their occurrence the destructive fires OF
the frst-cass that destroyed, chiefly in this
country, each over one hundred thousand
dollars in property viz:
JANUARY.
Disastrous fire at New York; Fifth
Avenue Theatre burn, and Fifth Avenue
Hotel damaged. Loss $275,O00. At Aims
worth, H., the Fertilizing Works were de
stroyed; loss $4,000.
At Oswego, n. Y. two blocks were
consumed with a loss of S'l35 600
10 The Hope Wooden Mills at Jackson
Vile, H., were destroyed by fire; loss
100000.
16 A great fire at Greenville, Pa, de-
stroycd 80 buildings; loss not stated.
lG The First Congregational Church at
Chicago burnt loss $4,000. a fire in Il
dry goods store at New York destroyed
property amounting to Sl35,000
10 A fire at Parler's Landing, Pa, de-
stroycd ten public buildings and thirty
dwellings; total, 55 buildings burnt; loss
S25O,0OO. A great fire at Ottumway, Iowa
destroyed of property $4,000.
20 Cobb's bronze warehouse at New
York consumed; loss 100000.
The Garantizador Bank at Santiago,
Chill, was burnt this month, causing loss
of 100000
81 A fire at Green Bay destroyed dry
goods stores valued at $l22 900.
% The National Theatre at Washington
ID. c., is burnt: loss $4,000.
20 At Jackson, Tenn, stores were burnt
valued at 100000.
80 a 100000 conhagration at New Or
leans destroyed the Crescent City Sugar
Refinery.
81 A great conhagration on Broadway,
New York. burnt of property 100000.
On the 9th a great fire at Yeddo, Japan,
destroyed 400 houses.
FEBRUARY.
The Royal Military Academy at Wool
wich, Eng, burnt; loss $250,000.
The Court House at Quebec, p. G.,
was consumed together with all the rec
ords, deeds and legal documents since its
foundation.
A fire at Springfield, Mass, consumed
the Mutual Life Insurance building; loss
100000
10 Granville, N. T., was visited and lost
100000 by bad fire.
II A 100000 fire at San Francisco.
81 A block of thirteen first-cass houses
consumed at Bridgeport CT loss $500,
600. St. Petersburg, o., nearly destroyed
by fire.
% Stores burnt at New Bedford. Mass
and loss of 100000
"a The State Industrial School for Girls
burnt at White Sulphur Springs, O. large
loss.
p By great fire at New Orleans, poo
houses were consumed, six squares burnt
over, and the loss was $250,000.
MARCH.
. A tar mandatory in Dublin Ireland.
destroyed by fire loss $3.50, 900
3 The United States and Great American
Tea Companies buildings at New York
burnt; loss $500, 900.
At Blossburgh, n. Y, 500, 900 fire
destroyed thirty-five buildings
II At Williamsburgh, n y, gas eX-
ploson caused the destruction by ire Of f
brewery and ice house valued at $50, 900
The Woodburn Indianapois) Wheel Fac
tory burnt; loss 100000. Tuscola. III.
has sixteen buildings consumed; loss St00,-
600.
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con.cd q, G6 600 io u's"' ~ /" great Al'
Is fire. ot Macon a., 1,.,,.,.o,
twentv.five buildi,m. '' '''' "'s'ioS 81
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