The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-01-07


10. Melting company's plant az Louisville
damaged by fire St3j,0D.
20. 1000 acres Of grain burned at Merced, Cal:
loss, slOO,Ooo
2j. IL killed and - injured in a collision at
Harrisburg
| co. Warehouse burned in Seattle. Wash.i loss.
siOO000
July.
g Wholesale dry goods store burned at Mont.
gomery, Ala; loss, S2jO,0OO.
Cotton warehouse burned at Providence.
loss S1OOOh.
g. San Jose, Cal, visited by fire, causing
$4,000 loss.
g. ST. Johns n. r.. nearly wiped out by fire:
1000 people made homeless; deaths.
loss estimated at s2O,OOO0.OOD
Giant Powder works near San Francisco
wrecked by explosion: many deaths
Is. A sjO1OOO fire in Montreal
~. A sle5,0J0 fire at Providence
81. Rio Vista, Cal, lost si5O,OlO 10y fire.
-. OIL warehouses burned at St. Louis: loss,
S2OO.OO.
q. Is miners killed by gas explosion in the
York Farm colliery, Pennsylvania
"a. Iron River, Wis, almost wiped out by fire;
loss, s20O0OO.
%. Bay City, Mich, swept by a terrible fire;
loss, slOOO,OOO; death.
q. Bodie Cal, nearly destroyed by fire
AUGUST.
g. National Bit mills burned at Paris. Tex;
loss, S2jOUOO
8. White lead works burned at Jopkin. Mo-;
loss, se0OOO.
"A. Red Mountain Mining Camp. Colo, de-
stroyed by fire; loss, S915O0O.
The Brooklyn compauy's cooperage burned
in New Orleans; loss, S3j0,O0O.
lS- "a buildings burned in Geneva, o.. loss,
sI.5o9S, i& %.
20. Fire damp explosion in the Parksitp coal
mine, bear Brgend, Wales; 100 deaths
q. Interior Of Metropolitan opera house in
New York city burned loss, siOaOOO
30. A Milwaukee brewery damaged SajOOO by
fire.
SEPTEMBER
l. Iron works burned at Muncie, Ind; loss,
sl75,OO0.
:. Planning mill and lumber yard burned at
New Boston, o.; loss, S2jOOOO
g. II deaths in n collision on the Clearfed
and Cambria railroad, near Altoona, Pa.
Academy Of Music is burned in Cleveland.
10. killed and 3j injured in a railway collision
at West Cambridge junction, Massachu-
sets.
IL. Printing office containing state documents
burned in Albany; loss over s2jOOOO
l3. deaths by the deraiment OF an electric
motor car in st. Louis.
20 Rockaway Beach, Long Island, nearly de-
stroyed by fire; loss about SS0OOOO.
81. 10 killed in a collision on the Fort Wayne
road near Wooster, o.
. p School furniture factory burned at Battle
Creek, Mich; loss, SajO.OOO.
q. Howard, 5. d., swept by fire; loss, $780,
100; deaths.
%. sayles & jerks woolen mills burned at
Warren, Mass; loss S3OO,OOO,
OCTOBER.
l. Sawyer Bros dry goods store in Waco.
Tex, damaged S2OOOOO by fire
0. The Cary-Ogden Paint factory burned in
Chicago; loss, slGOOOO.
6. Kinney Bros cigarette factory burned In
New York city; loss, $4,000,
The Nickel Paper mills burned in Rich
mond, Ind; loss. $4,000.
L. Fire destroyed the village of Salix, la.
l3. Flour mills burned at Lockport, n. Y. loss,
Slj0OOO.
81. deaths by explosion at feto I'm Los An
geles, Cal.
"a. deaths in collision on the Reading road
near Manayunk, Pa.
2S. Fire in the wholesale district of Milwau-
kee; loss, S3,j0OOOO; 10 deaths.
30. A Sl50OOO fire in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
NOVEMBER.
2. killed, II injured in railway collision
near Thirsk, England.
5. Several factories burned in Brooklyn: loss
S4jOOO0
Il. Camden, Me, lost si9OOOO by fire.
II. Storage stores burned in Brooklyn; loss,
Si0OOOO.
Il. A S25O.OO0 fire in Winston, \. G.
keily's dry goods store burned in Miiwau-
kee loss, Sl3OOOO.
10, A SNOOO fire at Gladstone, MINI.
p. Fleckenstein's brewery burned at Fari-
bault, Mimi; loss, S9O0,OO0
"a. The Zinzendorf hotel burned at Winston,
\. O.; loss, Sl25,0O0
sljO,OOO fire at Lynchburg. Va
DECEMBER.
2. The new Elm Park Methodist church,
Scranton. Pa, gutted by fire; loss. Ss0O,OO.
The main business block of Cumberland
Gap, Tenn, burned; loss, Sj0,OOO
4. The Park opera house at York, Pa, burned.
Sl0O,OO0 fire in Crawford, n. j.
Train cOllided with street car in Phila-
delphia; II killed and injured.
3. 5 buildings hurned in RAYMOND, y. H.
loss, Slu,gJU.
The business center Of Alexandria. Ind.
burned; loss, Sl2O,0O1.
6. The Ledger Office burned out in Philadcl-
phiu; loss, SljO,uOl
s. Accident on The Jersey Central at Jersey
City; Is injured.