Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-08
TIE TONGUE OF FLAME.
Hu,nan Life and Property Destroyed by
Fierce Fires.

Fierce Fires
JAEuARy
/. King Lcopoll's summer palace at Laeken
near Brussels, Belgium, burned.
Fire IN tne p-uper's school o. Forest Gate dis
trct. London. 20 boys suffocated.
r. 40 blooded hofTas, iaeiuding Bell Coy. burned
with the stables Of Macy Bros. at Lexington
Ky loss $4,000
l3 Grain elevator Ia Baltimore, Nd, burned
VITA the British steamship Saerobosco; 8
killed. loss. s9s0.o00
FEBRUARY
9 Tenement house IRE IN Boston Mass. II
killed. loss, $4,000
g. Mrs Benjamin r. Tracy, wife Of the secretary
or the q 5. navy. her daughter and woman
servant burned TO dc1tl "a tao home OF the
Tracys at Washington; SECRETARY Tracy al
most sufocated; Mrs and Miss Wilmerding.
his daughter aud granddaughter severely IN
iured by janping from q window
O. palace OF Marguerite Of Navarro burned in
Paris: loss $4,000.
10. Dry goods house Of J. v Fe-wel s Co. chi
cago Ills. burned; loss, S59d0O)
MARCH
g. Mine fire at Wsesnarre, Pa; 3 kliiei
II. A burning building ia Indianapolis, Ind, fell
10 killed, Is injured > more Allel by falling
walls days later.
10. Mine tire st Hurley, wis killed
Ar4...
> Nine explosion at Nantieo!le. Pa; killed;
hurt
G. fire Ia the Singer sewing niachins works al
Flizahesh r. j. loss, 81 COZ 90. 1900 people
thrown ont Of employment.
insane as lum a. Tongue Point, Quebec, burned;
81 klied; loss, S10o.0oo.
8. Chenung county On. " poorhouse burned;
10 pauper idiots killed
II. Fire in the U. S. government storehouses al
Wlletss Point N. T.. loss, S5o0o0o.
49, 81 killed aud 100 hurt by powder explosion al
Havana, Cuba
30. Allen Bradley Distiling CO s works burned III
Louisville, Ky; loss sl5o00e; Standard OIL
Co.'S refinery killed
JULY.
4 Steamer Iron King aud docks burned at Ash
land, Wis. killed.: loss Sl50,oe1.
H. 30 killed. by boiler explosion steamboat
Togo at Chicago.
a. Gould block and other properly burned at
Galveston, Tex; loss. 81, 100000
IS Security Co.'S warehouse at minneapolis
burned; loss, 81 o0ica9.
10 killed, IS seriously injured aud 200 slightly
hunt by explosion of Kings powder mills near
Clnc.unati.
IS. Upper part Of Western Union building. New
York, burned; los, q ,0o0oo0.
e. Inoendiary fire destroyed $4,000 Of property
at Spokane Fails, Wash.
e7. wa.lace, Idaho, burned; 100 homeless; loss
$4,000.
90. 10 l.i..ed and s. injured BY fire damp explo-
sion u ST. Eticlne, Franco
AUGUST
H. Ten acres of land near Waldron, Shelby
county. Ind, torn up by an explosion OF
natural gas; pieoes OF the river fiat rock
thrown hnlf a mile
Il. Fire in the Keatuciy distiilery at Louisville;
boss sa,0c0oo0.
fire Destroyed AZ business houses az Austin
Potter county. Pa; loss $4,000
q killed by burning Of hota aud 10 cottages a.
Thousand Island Park, Y; loss Sisa0OO.
%. Mcviclrar's theatre in Chicago burned; loss
S2oo.0Oo
SEPTEMBER.
Q. Is killed and q injured by the premature ex-
plosion of blast at Spokane Falls, Wash
TO- Fire in the Palace of the Alhambra at Grena-
da, Spain,
"a. Colon. on the isthmns Of Panama, burned;
several men killed while robbing the ruins
"a steamer explosion at Newcastle Pa; ~
killed
OCTOBER.
Q Fire at sydney, \. S. W; loss, s., 10000
Z. II killed by an explosion at the Dupont
Powder works near Wilmington, Del
o. 10 killed by an explosion in a gold mine at
Rosario Cal.
iG killed and Is injured by the burning Of
the Leland house, at Syracuse n. y; loss.
$4,000
28 Mills, warehouses, cotton, steamboats,, cars,
coal and wood yards waarves and a freight
depot burned at Mobile. Ala. loss, $650,0oO
NOVEMBER
8 Burlington hotel. Grand hotel and other build
ings at San Francisco burned; loss, S., 100000.
G. ST. Elmo hotel and other buildings at Denver
Colo. burned; killed; loss, 100000.
Z Rudd house and other bail lings mt Owens
boro Ky, burned loss Ssi0001; killed.
many hurt
DECEMBER
l. The A. Campbell Manufacturing Co cotton
yarn mill burned at Philadelphia; ! killed.
3 hurt; loss, SS0o,000.