The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-15
NAY.

of the town was destroyed; loss $500, 900.
All the business centre of Paris, Tenn, de-
voured by flame; loss 10000
9 At Tanneries near Montreal fire
burnt up most of the village; 100 families
were made homeless.
8 At Taunton, Mass, 80 or 40 horses
with extensive stables were burnt loss
$150,000.
. Serious fire at Munroe, La. loss
$150,000.
II A 100000 fire at New Orleans.
10 News that 100 dwellings and six per-
sons had persisted by fire at Port au Prince
on the list and 4th.
lG At Ottawa, Z. O., SO houses were
burnt with a loss of $4,000.
10 The Wabash Elevator Companys
Elevator No. ., with 10000 bushels oats
and 5000 bushels corn, burnt at Toledo,
Ohio; loss being 100000. Railroad shops
ut Aurora. H., destroyed by fire to the
amount of S250,000. Niagara Central
Railroad works burnt loss 100000.
% At Montreal, p. O., Parker & Co.'S
flour mills were destroyed; 100000 loss.
1913 Prospect mill at Halifax, Eng,
burnt; loss @275O0O: 400 thrown out
"a Jarvis, Ont, consumed in all its
business centre.
81 Great fire in Berkeley square, Lon
don, Eng, and six persons consumed.
% Warden, Miss, has 100000 fire.
30 Great fire in Boston. Globe Theatre,
Chickering'S piano warcrooms, ETC., etc +,
burnt: eleven acres burnt over; loss ST.
POO, 600.
On the 9TH of this month the palace of
the Mikado at .Ieddo, japan, was wholly
consumed by fire.
81 At Constantinople fifty houses weIe
destroyed to-day.
JUNE.
Potter & Kings furniture factory and
stores burnt at Chicago; loss $12O,00O.
1 John Brown & Sons cotton mill burnt
at Philadelphia; loss $2j0,00O
6 At Toledo, Ohio, number of blocks
and score of firuis were burnt out loss
$685. 700. Hyde Park Wooden Mills Mass. }
destroyed by fire 400 men thrown out of
employment; loss 100000
s The New York pie baking establish
mcnt and thirty horses burnt; loss 1925,
900 A fire at Detroit on the wharves de-
stroyed in values 5000, 700; and another at
Cincinnati, Ohio, burnt 400 bbls. coal oil
and 20 cars, with 100000 feet of lumber,
and seventeen dwellings; loss Sl50,000.
. Alexandra Palace at London is de-
stroyed by fire. loss S3,0O0,O0O. Also a
$500, 900 fire in the timber yards of Dublin,
Ireland. Great fire in Front street, New
burg, n. Y; loss S2j0,000.
~ Woolen mill at Milton Mills, n. H.,
burnt; loss 100000.
If Two-thirds of Maxwell, Ontario,
burnt; Gloss heavy" a $20o0Oo fire at
Navasota, Texas.
10 Bigclow Iron Works, New Haven,
Ct, destroyed, with $l0O,000 loss.
II Carlsts burn II railway depot and
500 cars at Besain in Spain.
10 At Burlington, Iowa, four squares,
including 40 buildings were destroyed by
fire. the loss 100000. Forty families
| homeless.
% Vast forest fires in Ontario. The
Mount Vernon cotton mills, Baltimore, arc
burnt loss $500, coo.
1870 The town OF Michagamme,
Mich, is entirely destroyed by forest fires
200 houses and lives were consumed; loss
not stated.
20 At Pottsville, Pa 80 buildings were
consumed, 80 families made homeless, and
| there was a loss of 5000, 900. AT Saginaw
| Mich, fire destroyed 26 buildings.
81 The Huron Salt and Lumber Com
panys works, near Bay City, Mich, were
burnt by nccndiary; loss Sl25,000
% Fifty horses with stables burnt at
Buffalo.
81 A warehouse with 400, 600 pounds OF
tobacco burnt at Covington, Ky. Loss
nearly 100000.
90 Three million pounds meat and 1900
live hogs burnt up with packing house at
St. Louis, Mo. loss 100000.
~ A fire RACES in Plymouth woods,
! Mass, over GO square miles of territory.
terrible fire reported for Port au Prince,
which destroyed large portion of the bust
| ,,;4, IL,
is destroyed in flames. The loss was half
million of dollars. Phoenix Building at
Providence, r. l., burnt; loss 100000.
80 Half the business portion of Thorn
asvillc, Ga, destroyed; $780, loss. AT
Virginia City fire caused by explosion en-
tailed Il loss of $4,000 and nine lives.
6. The great city of Manget Khiva, to-
| tally burnt in war.
10. AT Leominter, Mass, fire destroy
ed in houses and property 100000
H. Sixty houses burnt at Alcoy, Spain,
by Intcrnatonalists.
Is. AT Grcenbush, near Albany, n Y "a
buildings with lumber and coal yards are
consumed; loss $4,000. At Pittsburgh,
Pa, occurs Il 100000 fire. Seventeen
firms burnt out at Grand Rapids, Mich.
loss 100000.
II. An extensive conilagration occurs
among the coal stores at amsterdam, IIol-
land.
Ii. Serious fire in the south wing of the
War Department. Three brick buildings
bnrnt at Jefferson, Texas: loss $4,000.
| Three fires in one night at Louisville, Ky,
caused loss of 100000.
II A great fire in Trebizond harbor.
10 Twenty houses destroy ed at Montreal
| loss $4,000. The town of Igualake
Spain is all burnt in civil war.
% Great fire in Baltimore, Md. IL
houses were destroyed and two churches
the loss is 1000, 900; 60 families were
burnt ou,.
2G Newton's buildings Norfolk, burnt
loss $4,000. On Long Island %, 900 acres
of woodland are destroyed by fire; the loss
100000.
% In the stage stables of New York q
fire destroyed to the amount OF $4,000
30 A Government warehouse at New
Yorl; is burnt; loss and damage $500, 900
81 4 large bonded warehouse at Eas
Boston is destroyed by fire; loss $500
600.
AUGUST.
? Twcnty-three blocks, including 500
| buildings, are consumed by fire in Portland
Oregon; hotels, mills, dwellings, etc. Fam
lilies made homeless, $50. Loss Of property
81 100000.
4 At Mitchelville, Mass, the shoddy mil
was burnt; loss $4,000.
3 At Hunters Point, L. l., I'll works
were destroyed to the value of 100000
At East Pine Knott, Penn, coal breaker
is consumed; loss $4,000
6 Rice's mills at Stepney, England, were
consumed to ashes, and the loss reached
the great sum Of S5,000,000
0 Large fire at Portland, Me-, on Gait,
! wharf Three steamers, warehouses, ele.
yator and five lives destroyed Loss $500.
600.
- Chrislianoplc, in Sweden has been
entirely destroyed by fire.
10 Quebec, Canada, has II 100000 fire
Disastrous fire causing loss Of $500, 900
announced for Valparaiso, South Amer
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