Mower County transcript., 1893-01-04
DEMONS OF DESTRUCTION.

Property and Lives Sacrificed During the
Year Through Fires, Explosions, Etc.
JANUARY.
2. Fire in Nashville; loss, S475OOO; deaths.
8. Town of Saybrook, Ills, destroyed by fire:
loss 100000.
in Illinois.
8. Is deaths from fire damp explosion at
Krebs, l. T.; injured, lis.
l3. Fire destroyed brass factory in Water
bury, Conn.,; loss, $26O,OOO.
16. A 100000 grain warehouse fire in New
York city; death.
Grand opera house block burned in Wau-
sau, Wis; loss, 100000.
10 buildings burned at Au Sable, Mich.
1s. killed by explosion at Phoenix Powder
mills. Central City, w. Va.
n. 10 patients killed and 21 injured in hos
pital fire at Indianapolis.
"a. Pine Bluffs, Ark, lost $15O, 900 by fire.
rs. 500 people made homeless by a fire at Bev-
erly, w. Va.
26. A block Of buildings burned in Columbus,
/ o.; loss, $5O0,000.
A $5OO,OOO fire at Elizabethport, NJ.
Cotton factory burned at Chester, S. c.;
loss, $22O,OOO.
q. Railway shops burned at Meridian, Miss:
loss, $15o,0GN.
FEBRUARY.
2. The Appomatt6x (Va.) court house building
destroyed by fire.
g. Shoe factory burned at Danvers, Mass:
loss, 100000
ss. business blocks burned in Rochester. Ills;
loss, $125,0OO.
=. Hotel Royal burned in New York city: 80
deaths.
s5. Large fire in business portion of Memphis;
!; loss, nearly 81, 100000.
Il. Grand Central hotel burned at Ell Paso,
Tex; loss, 100000.
H. The opera house block burned at Mon
mouth, Ills; loss, S150,00O.
i3 Town Of Murta, Ark. nearly destroyed by
t fire; loss, $125,oo0.
16. State insane asylum burned at jackson.
Miss; loss, 100000.
II. A million dollar blaze in New Orleans.
81. Library block burned in Decatur, Ills; loss
A 100000 fire at Malvern, Ark.
% acres of business properties burned in
San Antonio. Tex; loss, $250,O0Q>
MARCH.
n. The state female reformatory burned at
Indianapolis; so inmates escaped.
Seven workmen killed in a railroad COLI
sion in Milwaukee.
g. Detroit lost 100000 by fire.
East Liverpool, O., lost sl6o 900 by fire.
g. The Eden Musee at Omaha burned.
ia. The Allouz block burned in West Superior
Wis; loss, $l20,0O0
IL. Fire damp exploded in the Anderlino Goa
mine near Charleroi, Belgium, destroy
ing over 200 lives.
Opera house and stores burned at Bloom
field, Ia; loss, $l65,OU
15. Gun store burned at Fort Worth, Tex.
loss, $130,O0o
Kittanning, Pa, lost 100000 by fire.
A OOOOO blaze in Danbury, Conn.
20 The custom house at st. John, N. B., burned
loss, 100000.
q. 10 killed by the explosion Of mill boile
at East Jordan, Mich.
e. A $145, ,000dre at Cambridge, Mass.
%. Alto, Tex, lost over 100000 by fire.
rs. Glass works burned near Braddock. Pa
loss, 100000.
~. Hardware company burned out at Omaha
30. A $4,000 factory fire in Cincinnati.
n. A 100000 fire in Erie, Pa.
Greenv1lle, Miss, lost 100000 by fire.
8. New Orleans lost nearly 81, 600 in 2 fires
s. 9deaths by an explosion and fire at For
Furniture factory burned at Piqua, O.: loss
$15O,OOO.
6. Lead works burned at west st. Paul; loss
100000
T. Distj3lesy aes burned at Portland Or; loss
. II. Factory burned at Manitowoc, Wis; loss
100000. r
13. 9deaths by gunpowder explosion at Moo
sic, Pa.
H. The main building of Clarke universit,
#-s near Atlanta, burned; loss, 100000. =
r 49, 100000 lost by incendiary fires at San An
tonic, Tex. r..
49, killed by powder mill explosion nea
j. Lake Hoptacong, N. j. .%
blocks burned at Kenosha, Wis; loss owe
$6OOOOO. r
20 Is buildings destroyed by incendiary fire
at Louisville.
' IL miners drowned in flooded mine nea
Minersville Pa. l
q. The town Of Sights, Mich, destroyed
.&5 fire.
q. A 100000 incendiary fire at Gainesvill
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