Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-02
DEMONS OF DESTRUCTION.
Property aud Lives sacrificed During the
Year Through Fires, Explosions, Etc.


A s;l1,OO1 fire at Elizabethport, n. J.
Cotton factory burned at Chester. S. c.;
loss. S:22l.HN.
e Railway shops burned at Meridian, Miss.
loss, Si5u,Gsl
FEBRUARY
2. The Appomattox tVaIcourt house building
destroyed by fire.
3. Shoe factory burned at Danvers, Mass.'
loss, $4,000
g. cuisines blocks burned in Rochester. Ills;
loss. Sla5.oo.
I. Hotel Royal burned in New York city; 80
deaths.
g. Large fire in business portion of Memphis.
loss. nearly Sl.0o,OO.
II. Grand Contra, hotel burned at FL Paso.
Tex. loss, SlO1,OU
ie. The opera epuse block burned at Mon
mouth, Ills: loss, $4,000.
IL. Town Of Murta, Ark, nearly destroyed by
fire: loss. Sl25.00n
10. State insane asylum burned at Jackson,
Miss; loss, s20O.O00.
II. A million dollar blaze in New Orleans.
q. Library block burned in Decatur. Ills; loss.
SlU0,O1o.
A $4,000 fire ut Malvern, Ark.
Is. acres of business properties burned in
San Antonio. Tex; loss. Se5O,00o.
MARCH.
|. The state female reformatory burned at
Indianapolis; 80 inmates escaped.
Seven workrnen killed in railroad COLI
sion in Milwaukee.
Q. Detroit lost s2n0.oO0 by fire.
East Liverpool, o., host sls0,o00 by fire.
Q. The Eden Musee at Omaha burned.
:. The Allouz block burned in West Superior.
Wis; loss, sl20,000
Il. Fire damp exploded in the Anderlino coal
mine near Chartered. Belgium, destroy
ing over 30 lives.
Opera house and stores burned at Bloom
field. la: loss, Sl65,000
ID. Gun store burned at Fort Worth, Tex;
loss, Sl3n,000
Kttanning. Pa, lost $4,000 by fire.
A Slm,mO blaze in Danbury. Conn.
10. The custom house at st. John. N. b., burned;
loss, S;O,1a.
81 10 killed by the explosion of mill boiler
at East Jordan. Mich.
-. A $4,000 fire at Cambridge, Mass.
2. Alto. Tex, lost over $4,000 by fire.
y. Glass worSs burned near Braddock, Pa;
loss. Sl00.00o
q. Hardware company burned out at Omaha;
%. A sl40,O0o factory fire In Cincinnati.
April.
.. A S21O,0co fire in Erie, Pa
Greenville, Miss. lost $4,000 by fire.
8. New Orleans lost nearly S2.500,0O in 2 fires.
s. 9deaths by an explosion and fire at Fort
Madison, la.
Furniture factory burned at Piqua. O.: loss.
g. Lead works burned at west st. Paul: loss,
sltD,U00
7. Distillery burned at Portland. Or; loss.
Sl01,OG0
II. Factory burned at Manitowoc. Wis: loss,
S.u1.tU0.
10 deaths by guupowder explosion at Moo
sic. Pa.
"a. The main building of Clarke university.
near Atlanta, burned: loss, $4,000.
10, Sln0,90 lost by incendiary fires at San An
tonic, Tex.
Is. killed BY a powder mill explosion near
Lake IIoptacong, n. j.
blocks burned at Kenosba, Wis. loss over
S6D01.
~. Ia buildings destroyed by incendiary fires
at Louisville.
L. miners drowned in flooded mine near
AIiDersville. Pa.
q. The town Of Sights, Mich. destroyed by
fire.
q. a s.no.0o ineendiary fire at Gainesville.
Tex.
q Tho Central theater and The Times Office
burned in Philadelphia: loss. si.0G 600. l2
deaths and nearly lOl people injured.
- 65 buildings burned at Chase. Mich loss,
siO,U.
% riitsburg lost $4,000 by fire.
NAY.
g. Furniture factory burned at Rushville,
Ind; loss. sl5D.iU.
killed and 90 injured By a train crashing
through trestle near Revere. Mo.
Salt works burned at Ludington, Mich; loss,
SioUn.
Gar factory burned al Robinsdale. Milan;
loss, s20oa0.
5ehidren buried under the failing roof OF
cyclone cave at Anthony, Kan.
10. Gas exploded IN coaiSnine at Roslyn.
Wash, killing a miners.
L. a pottery burned ut Trenton. y. j.; loss.