The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-08
LOSSES BY FIRE.
Many Buildings in Two Towns Re-
duced to Ashes.


IRoNToN Ohio, April The Yellow
Poplar Lumber Company's plant was
burned this afternoon. The trestle of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad was also
destroyed, and the passage of all trains
stopped. Thirty dwellings were burned,
catching from sparks from the burning
mill. Twenty-Five families lost their
household goods. Mrs. Brush, an inva-
lid, who was confined to her bed, was
burned to death, although efforts were
made to save her. The Norfolk and
Western road lost seventeen cars. The
foreman at the mill places the loss on
property at 100000. The loss on dwell
ings will reach $4,000. Two hundred and
fifty persons are thrown out of employ
ment. The fire is still burning, and
should the wind change the rest of the
town will go.
QUANTITY OF WHISKY LOST.
OwENsBoRo (ky.), April IA fire this
afternoon destroyed large Warehouse
of the Glenmore Distilling Company
here. The buildings contained 1S,9s7
barrels of whisky, of which there are but
400 barrels on which the tax was paid
The entire loss tonight is estimated at
S35O,000. This does not include the loss of
three cottages which were also DESTROYED.
The loss is fully covered by insurance.
VILLAGE ALMOST WIPED OUT.
PoMERoY CO.,, April 7.-Clifton, a vii
lage just below here on the West Vir-
GINA side, was almost completely wiped
out by fire to-day. Twenty-Five houses
three stores and salt works were con-
sumed. The loss is estimated at $500, 900.
GROCERY HOUSE BURNED.
HOUSTON (Tex.), April The whole
sale grocery house of w. d. Cleveland q
Co. was burned tonight. Loss, Sl65, OcO;
insurance, $4,000.
PRAIRIE FIRES IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
YANKToN IS. d., April L. Sparks
from locomotive set fire to the grass a
few miles north of Yankton yesterday.
The fire wiped out the firm of Dilen &
Macgregor, destroying property worth
$4,000. Other losses sustained aggregate
S25, 900.
Hot SPRINGS IS. d., April IA prairie
fire to-day burned over an expanse of
country miles in width. The damage
will prove the greatest ever done by fire
in this part of the Black Hills.
GREAT BELLOWS OF FLAMES.
OMAHA (Neb.), April IA gale which
swept over Nebraska to-day bore before
it great pillows of flames, which swept
from thousands of fertile acres every
vestige Of vegetation. 1t is too soon to
get any idea of how much the exact
damage is for the places most affected are
remote from telegraph lines, and in those
that have means of communication the
populace are busy fighting the fire. 1t is
known, though, that much grain and
hay, together with many barns and other
out-buildings, miles of fences, dozens of
dwellings and many bridges, were lick ed
up. Whether any lives were lost is not
reported. Banner, Keits, Dawson, Blaine
and adjoining counties were completely
devastated by the flames.
Word was brought from Harrisburg
tonight by the driver of a stage
that the town of Ashmore is directly
in the path of the fire, and
the entire population of the village en-
gagged in battle to save their homes.
The stage driver reported having seen
several dwelling-houses in flames and
the settlers fleeing for their lives.
Meager details received tonight from
Ogalalla, Harrisburg, Dunning, Invrson,
Kearney, Grand Island, Lexington and
Hastings give accounts of great losses to
property. The Burlington bridge at
Cunning and another at Hastings were
destroyed. At Kearney the fire destroyed
a brewery located at the edge of the town.
At Dunning an old lady named Bartlett
was burned so badly that she may die.
The gale subsidized by nightfall, but the
fire scarcely abated, and in the threat
ened sections the inhabitants spent long
hours in combating the fire.
A TowN's NARROW ESCAPE.
SIOUX FALLS rs. d., April This
city this afternoon narrowly escaped a
most disastrous fire. While a gale was
blowing the prairie caught fire, and the
blaze swept rapidly toward the outskirts
of the town, burning several small build
ings and a considerable amount of grain.
The flames were subdued after burning
one house in the city and scorching
others.