Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31
THE FIRE RECORD.

AT the village of Rebstein, near st. Gale
| Switzerland, 80 houses have been burned to
| the ground
AT Tarentum yesterday fire broke out in
| the second story OF Hansbary's barber shop.
Loss small and fully insured.
AT Clinton, N. j., Thursday night, l9
| buildings, including society halls, stores
and dwellings, burned. Loss estimated at
$lOOOOO.
ENGINE COMPANY No. s, Allegheny, an
swered to still alarm yesterday morning
for slight fire on the roof of house on
Hanover street.
AT Johnstown yesterday morning a fire
broke out in the coach and wagon shop of
Kantz Brothers. Loss about $500; fully COW
cred by insurance.
AT Chicago, Thursday night, the Inter
national Packing Company's smoke house at
the stock yards burned with 100000 pounds
of ham. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
AT Cleveland, yesterday morning, H. Mil
ler & Co.'S immense malt house was burned,
together with its contents, consisting of
100 600 bushels of barley and a large quantity
of malt. Loss at least $500
AT Loda, Ill, Thursday morning, the busi-
ness portion of the town was completely de-
stroyed. Every business house in the town
was burned. No residences were DESTROYED.
Loss is estimated at more than SO, ,000
AT Brazil, Ind, yesterday, the Turnbuckle
factory was entirely destroyed. Loss, s4O-
900; insurance, $4,000; Fifty men are thrown
out of employment. The factory was owned
and operated by the Brazil Steel and Iron
Company.
AT Peoria, Ill, early yesterday morning
the Advance elevator, owned by Kingman,
Warren & Co., was completely destroyed.
There were 100000 bushels of grain in the
buh"'ng of all kinds. some OF which can be
s.Ved. Loss about 500, ,O00 with SIS 600 insur-
ance On the building.
in the Boston Superior Criminal Court,
in the case of the city against Henry Abra-
hams, secretary of the Central Labor Union,
who delivered an Grafton in Franklin Park,
July 4, without the consent of the Park Com
missioners, Judge Bond found the defendant
guilty, and the case will be taken to the Su-
preme Court.
AT Holt. Mo-, Thursday night, fire broke
out in H. II. Lincoln Il Co.'s lumber yard,
and rapidly spread to Main street. In few
minutes all the lower half of that street was
a mass of flames. Fully $25 900 worth OF
property was destroyed in a few minutes.
The whole town for q while was at the mercy
of the flames.
Samuel W. Thornton and Miss Eva Jew
ell are held guiltless of any wrong by the
committee appointed by Mount Olivet Pres
byterian Church, Brooklyn. The commit
teemen report that after careful investica-
tion they believe that the two persons above
mentioned were carried away by the under
tow at Coney Island, rescued by vessel and
landed on the Florida coast.
AT Macon, Ca, Thursday, the Union sta.
tion building belonging to the Central Rail-
road of Georgia, burned. Anewsboy in Par
ker's news stand in the front of the building
started the fire by attempting to light the
fire in the stove with a bottle of coal oil.
The loss will be about $4,000. Henry Sloan
the boy who started the blaze. was so Sc
riously burned that he died.
AT Nashville, yesterday morning, fire
broke out in the Nashville Gas Company's
four-story building. The third and fourth
floors were burned out and the rest of the
building drenched with water. Loss, $35, 900.
The Vendome Theater in the rear, and en-
tered by long passageway through the Gas
Company's building, was saved. Some of
persons rooming in the Gas Company's
building had narrow escapes.