Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-30
DEMONS OF DESTRUCTION.
Property and Lives Sacrificed During the
Year Through Fires, Explosions, Etc.

Property and Lives Sacrificed During the
Year Through Fires, Explosions, Etc.
JANUARY.
g. Fire in Nashville; loss, $4,000 deaths.
g. Town of Saybrook, Ills. destroyed by fire:
loss, Sl0O,UO
g. s killed in collision on the Wabash r. r.
in Illinois,
8. 65 deaths from fire damp explosion at
krebs, !. tt injured, rs.
10. Fire destroyed n brass factory In Water
bury, Conn; loss, S26O,Oo0.
49, S2n,OO0 grain warehouse fire in New
York city: death.
Grand opera house block burned in Wau-
sau, Wis: loss, S2tN,0O0.
10 buildings burned at An Sable, Mich.
Is. killed by explosion at Phoenix Powder
mills, Central City, W. Va.
81. 10 patients killed and u injured in II hos
pital fire at indianapolis.
"a. Pine Bluffs, Ark, lost Slj0,OO0 by fire.
% 500 people made homeless by fire at Bev-
erly, w. Va.
%. A block of buildings burned in Columbus.
o.; loss, SJ0O,O00.
A S:WO.WO fire at Elizabethport, n. J.
Cotton factory burned at Chester. S. c..
loss. S22O,UU.
q. Railway shops burned at Meridian, Miss,
loss, SlJD,WO
FEBRUARY.
2. The Appomattox (Na) court house building
destroyed by fire.
g. Shoe factory burned at Danvers, Mass;
loss, Sl0U,OOO.
9. business blocks burned in Rochester, Ills;
loss. Sl25,0OO.
I. Hotel Royal burned in New York city; 80
deaths.
8. Large fire in business portion of Memphis.
loss, nearly Sl,O0,00O.
II. Grand Central hotel burned at FL Paso
Tex; loss, Slt0,OO
IL. The opera house block burned at Mon
mouth, His; loss, SljOOU.
H. Town of Mrrta, Ark, nearly destroyed by
fire; loss, sl25,OO0
49, State insane asylum burned at jackson,
Miss; loss, s20O,0U.
II. million dollar blaze in New Orleans.
81. Library block burned in Decatur, Ills; loss
Sl0O,00o
y SluO,uOO fire at Malvern, Ark.
% acres of business properties burned in
San Antonio. Tex; loss, S250,OOO.
MARCH.
l. The state female reformatory burned at
Indianapolis; 80 inmates escaped
Seven workmen killed in railroad COLI
sion in Milwaukee.
g. Detroit lost S2O0,OOO by fire.
East Liverpool, o., lost Sl600OO by fire.
g. The Eden Musee at Omaha burned.
T. The AllOuz block burned in West Superior
Wis. loss, $4,000.
II. Fire damp exploded In the Anderlino coal
mine near Chartered, Belgium, destroy
ing over 200 lives.
field, Ia; loss SlGj,000.
10. Gun store burned at Fort Worth, Tex;
loss, Sl300OO.
3 Kittannng, Pa, lost 100000 by fire.
A SlO0U0 blaze in Danbury, Conn.
20. The Gust ON house at ST. John, n. b., burned;
loss, S3OO0O0.
81. 10 killed by the explosion of a mill boiler
AT East Jordan, Mich
81. Sli5OO fire at Cambridge, Mass.
%. Alto, Tex, lost over 100000 by fire.
%. Glass works burned near Braddock, Pa;
a loss, SlOO.OO.
loss, S200,O0O
30. a Sli0,OOO factory fire in Cincinnati.
April.
2. A S2OO,0OO fire in Erie, Pa
Greenvlle, Miss lost SlOO,0O0 by fire.
8. New Orleans lost nearly S2,j0OOOO in fires.
8. deaths by an explosion and fire at Fort
Madison, la.
Furniture factory burned at Piqua, o.; loss,
Slj0.m
g. Lead works burned at west st. Paul; loss,
$4,000.
7. Distllery burned at Portland, Or. loss,
II. Factory burned at Manitowoc, Wis. loss,
S2OO,OOO.
l3 deaths by gunpowder explosion at Moo
sic, Pa.
L. The main building OF Clarke university,
near Atlanta, burned; loss, $4,000.
tonic, Tex.
10. killed BY powder mill explosion near
Lake Hoptacong, n. J.
blocks burned at Kenosha, Wis; loss over
S6O0,0OO.
~. Is buildings destroyed by incendiary fires
at Louisville
IL miners drowned In flooded mine near
Minersville, Pa.
q. The town of Sights, Mich, destroyed by
| fire.
%. A S2OOOOO incendiary fire at Gainesville,
| Tex.
q. The Central theater and The Times Office
burned in Philadelphia; loss, 81 10000; L
deaths and nearly 100 people injured
20. 63 buildings burned at Chase, Mich; loss
Sl0OOO.
~. Pittsburg lost $4,000 by fire.
NAY
o. Furniture factory burned at Rushville
| Ind; loss, $4,000.
| 7killed and 20 injured by train crashing
| through a trestle near Revere, Mo.