Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-15
Work of the, Flaln,es, ]

fire broke out in a.drug store at Arcadia,
Carroll county, Ia, on the 18th inst, and be-
fore the flames could be got under control sew
eral stores and dwellings, we're destroyed. The
loss is estimated at $4,000; and is only partly
covered by insurance. xz,
Prof. Alex.*Agassiz's summer cottage at New
port, R. l., was burned on the 18th inst. Loss
$4,000. - - -
At Beaver Dam, Ky., large storehouse was
Destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss about
Smith g. Wick's tin can factory at Baltimore.
Md, was destroyed by fire on the 11th inst.
Loss $50, 600: insured. ~.
Peterson Bros hardware store. and several
other buildings at Des Moines, Iowa, were
licked ur by flames on tho 18th inst. Loss
$4,000. :+~-75 sssg.-t
The large grain elevator Scotia, Of the Inter-
national Elevator company, laying at the Red
Star steamship dock, at Jersey City, N. j., took
fire on5the morning of the 10th inst. and burned
to the waters edge. Loss $4,000; fully in
sured. z.~zl' = ,@a.s
By the destruction Of Finer Bros tobacco
works at Louisville, Ky., ,son the 10th inst, $50
many Of whom depended entirely upon work
they received at the factory for their subsistence
The total loss estimated at $15O,0OO.
Thirty-two houses We're destroyed and one
hundred people rendered homeless by fire at
Saint Beat, Upper Garonne, France, on the 10th
inst.
At tKankakee, ILL.,, on the 10th, fire destroyed
the cloth and button factory. Loss not stated;
insurance sS1l 500. ~ ~ =. s. 49,. ,
A.fre occurred on the southside sof the. pub
lie square at. Winchester, Ill, on the sth inst,
causing a loss of $50, 600. :" . = - T4" . :
story brick block was destroyed on the 9th inst.
Loss $4,000.
A fire in the shoe shops of the state peniten-
tary at Trenton. N. j., on the 8th inst, caused
loss of 100000; insured for $25,O00.
Manhattan market. New York city, covering
an entire block of space, was burned on the 8th
inst. The aggregate loss to the 200 stand
owners will be IN the ueighborhood Of 81, ,OO0,-
600, while the loss on the building will be very
heavy. %x,.- S4x-
Galendo hotel, San Francisco, CAL, burned
| on the 9Th inst. Loss probably $50,OO0. ~
Simpsons Knitting factory at Toronto burned
on the 7th inst. Loss heavy. -
Three ice houses Of Huse, Loomis d Co., and
three smaller ones belonging to the Mississippi
Ice company, on the'river front between Florida
and Bates streets, st. Louis, Mo-, burned be-
tween and O'Clock on the evening of the 7th
inst.> Huse, Loonis & Co.'s loss is $3.50, 600 on
ice, S12, 600 on buildings; insured for $4,000.
The Mississippi Ice company lose $4,000 on ice,
Sc, 600 OH buildings; insured for 1000. The
flames spread to the extensive stove foundry of
the Excelsior Manufacturing company on the
West Side, and consumed the storing, moulding
and casting houses on Smith and Lewis streets,
embracing perhaps about one-third the, ,estab-
lishment. Loss $135, 1000. Pat Lynch and Ed
Sanders, fireman. were killed bya falling roof.
Pat Conway sustained conclusion Of the
brain, John Collins is badly, perhaps fatally,
injured internally, and Jas. Tooley, Chas. Til
ton and Arnold gGBauers, all fremen, badly
bruised. -: :>"as
A fire in the village of Pestrick, Pomerania,
destroyed seyenty-two houses =
Paul Populorum's tannery, .zon Fleetwood
street, Chicago, burned to the ground 81 the
9Th inst, Loss on building and contents, be-
tween $50, 600 and $50. 900. -.