Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-20

tercely in the upper portion of the town that the
inhabitants barely escaped with their lives.
During the confusion many valuables were
stolen, one lady losing $4,000 in government
they we're burned beyond recognition. Loss
yariously estimated at from one to two million
dollars. The fire originated in the car works.
The village of Stuyvesant, eleven miles north
OF Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th inst, involving loss of over 5000,
91o. me tire caught in the storehouse of the
New York and Catskin Steamship Co. A tramp
is under arrest, charged with causing the fire.
Mihills sash, door and blind factory, at Fond
du Lac, Wis, burned on the 18th inst. Loss
estimated at $125, 900, upon which there is an
insurance of $67,2O0.
+,;;iSsa The Whitewater Valley Coffin companys es;
on the 18th inst. Loss $4,000; insurance light.
West Liberty. O., was visited by disastrous
confagration on the 18th. The total loss is
estimated at 100000
bonded warehouse at Bordeaux, France,
was consumed by fire On the 18th inst. Loss
1900, 900 francs.
The hospital and stables of the Carbon coun-
ty, Pa, almshouse We're destroyed by fire on the
night OF the 18th inst. Nine horses, twenty
four head of cattle and forty hogs were burned
to death.
-Four large bark sheds at Tecumseh tannerv.
Everett, Bedford county, Pa, were DESTROYED
by fire on the 10Th inst. The sheds contained
TO- 900 cords of bark, valued at $40, 900; insured
The Cuban village Of San Luis was burned on
the 11th inst. Three hundred houses were de-
stroyed.
The village of Tobyhanna Mills. Monroe
county, Pa, is almost entirely surrounded by
forest fires which are extending through this
and Pike counties. Large quantities Of bark
and hemlock and spruce logs have been burned
and the fires are threat ening the destruction of
all the bark and logs in the woods. The Toby
hanna and Lehigh lumber companies are the
principal sufferers.
~, New Jersey is still suffering from forest fires
obscured. Thousands of birds and animals are
lying dead in the woods tell of the destruction.
The fire seems to be feeding upon the half char
red woods of the late great forest fire. The
line of coast from the direction of Toms river
to Squam was sheet of flame, at dusk, on the
evening of the 18th instant. The damage in
the neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant is estimated ed
at $4,000, and in the neighborhood of Harri-
sonville and Irish mills the loss is about $4,000
in cranberry bogs alone, while the cedar timber
land burned was the most valuable in the state.
Although there are no forest fires within ten
miles of Atlantic City, clouds of cinders are con-
tlnually falling over the city. The loss in the
county in live stock, buildings, timber, etc.,
destroyed, is estimated at 5000, 0,O0O and to Vine
yards around Egg Harbor City at $4,000 In
Galloway township 80 buildings were destroyed
The villages of Oil Centre and Meddaughville.
in the Pennsylvania oil regions, were entirely de-
sroyed on the 18th inst, by fire, which, at
last accounts, was ravaging the oil districts.
About mile above Dukes Centre nitro-gly-
cerine repository came in the course of the
flames and exploded with terrible force. The
territory over which the fire swept is so wide and
the point SO inaccessible that it is impossible
to gain correct information as to the actual loss.
Benster's furniture factory at Buffalo, N. Y,
burned on the 18th, Loss $4,000; insurance
100000.
The village Of Fayette, about thirty miles
south of Adrian, Mich, was visited by de-
structive fire on the 9th. About forty build
ings, including the principal hotel, the news
paper Office and the Methodist church, we're
burned. The entire loss is placed at 575, 5000,
and the insurance at $4,000. The fire is sup
posed to have been caused by incendiaries.
Another great fire occurred in the oil regions
Of Pennsylvania, on the 9th and 10th inst, the
district devastated being in the neighborhood of
Rexford. Eighty light frame buildings, over
11O, 900 barrels of oil and Forty der1icks were
burned.
L. Thirty buildings, mostly residences, were de-
stroyed by blaze at Allegheny City, Pa, on the
The saddlery and harness establishment of
Eberhardt & Co., Akron, O., was destroyed by
fire on the 10th inst. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000