Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-28
FIRE RECORD.
JANUARY.

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FIRE RECORD.
JANUARY
8. Fire in Toledo destroyed elevators, the
Chamber OF Commerce, a museum and
wholesale drug store; losses, $S5o,09
Einchlnann G Sons drug house burned in
Detroit; loss, $lC0000.
s. A granite block burned in Worcester,
Mass; loss, $149.Q00
g. The Albany theater burned at Albany; loss,
S125.010.
g. Large fire in the Worlds fair buildings;
loss. about 81, 000,090
TO- The Starr Manufacturing company's fac
tory at Richmond Ind, totally destroyed
by fire; loss, $685. 600.
ID Iinllham's WOODEN mill burned at Harri-
sonville, f. l.. loss S4S0.000.
blocks burned at Ipswich, Mass. loss,
100000
%. Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind, almost
destroyed by fire; loss, $leo,00o
"a. The Sherman oil and cotton mill burned at
Sherman Tex. loss, S100,0 600.
28. AT Bath, Ne, a hotel, banks and sew
eral stores were burned; loss, $500, 900.
FEBRUARY.
8. In Omaha 2 stores, a Catholic church
and a schoohouse destroyed by fire; loss,
$350,000
G. At Dublin, Tex, a cotton press burned;
loss, $l50,G90
z. II stores and Offices burned at Montgomery,
Mo-. loss, %l3o, CO.,
9. 9 tobacco factories burned at Henderson,
Ky; loss, 500 600.
IL. Fire destroyed over 500 coo worth of bust
ness property at Wapa- Koneta, o. T.
Al Duluth the board of trade building was
burned; less, $Gi zoe.
Is. The State Normal school at Oneonta, N.
" burned; loss, about 100000.
is. The main building and annex of Knoxville
college burned at Knoxville
is. At Ottawa Stewards stable of valuable
trotters burned; loss, $33l000
The Griswold Linseed Oil company at War
rem. O., lost mill plant valued at 100000
by fire.
"a. 20 buildings burned at Mcdonald, Pa;
loss, $l0l,090.
e. e6. Feeble S sanitarium burned at San Antonio.
Tex.
Davis Eros bazaar burned in San Francis
CO; loss, $129.090.
MARCH.
l.. Alum Springs hotel, near Danville, KY,
destroyed by fire; loss 100000.
Henry Opera House block burned at North
Baltimore, O; loss, Sl00,OJ1
8. At Shreveport La, wholesale drug house
was burned; loss, $125, 600.
5. Deadwood, S. D., nearly destroyed by fire;
less $t35.0o0.
10. The Lansing Lumber company at Clare,
Mich, burned out; loss, $4,000.
II. A block of stores burned at Gloucester,
Ness; loss, S125, 600.
Is. The Union depot in Denver destroyed by
fire; loss, $301,00o.
20. Business property to the value of s15O,0O0
destroyed by fire at Fort Worth, Tex.
%. A lumber plant cfeosote works, 20 dwell
ings and q schooner burned at Money Point,
a suburb of Norfolk; loss, $500, 900.
80. The business portion Of the town of Barry,
His, destroyed by fire; loss, 100000
APRIL.
9. The Davidson hotel and theater burned in
Milwaukee,: deaths; loss, 1925, co.,
10. Mlnion S livery stable, with $50 horses and
$50 carriages, burned in Baltimore; loss,
$500 co., death.
u. The American Glucose works and other
property burned in Buffalo; loss, 81 ,0o0;
II workInen killed.
IA. q buildings burned in Santa Cruz. CAL;
loss $3y5JJ9.
II. Iron and steel works burned at Burnharn
Pa. loss, S150,000.
IS. The City Electric Power company Of Sac
ramcnto destroyed by fire; loss, $100,0G0
20. The National Linseei Oil works at St
Louis destroyed by fire; loss 100000.
rs. The village Of Townsend, VT, nearly de-
stroyod by fire.
The Colorado smelter at Butte. Mon, de
stroyad by fire; loss, $l00, GEO.
q. The business portion of Gasport N. Y,
destroyed by fire.
% The famous old ST. Charles hotel in New
Orleans destroyed by fire; loss, $5G0,000.
90. The Vaughn Library building burned at
MAY
l6 The William N Whitley Reaper and Mower
works burned at Muncie, Ind; loss, $245,
600
10. The town Of Norway, Me-, destroyed by
fire. loss, $4,000.
10. Rev DR.. Talmage's new Tabernacle and
the Hotel Regent adjoining destroyed by
81: re; losses over 81, GG0,000.
Is. Il acres Of territory burned over in Boston;
nearly 200 buildings destroyed loss, s., G0O,-
COS.
IS. Coal and lumber yards burned at Pawtuck
ct, r. | loss, $500, COO.
Is. Hillsboro college burned at Hillsboro, o.;
loss $4,000
20. Fire destroyed several millinery, lace and
trimming establishments in Philadelphia;
loss, $.50,Ct0.
g2 The residence of E. B. Haskell, one of the
proprietors of the Boston Herald burned
at Auburndale; loss, $lG0,Go0.
30. 2 acres of icehouses and other property
destroyed by fire at Arlington, Mass; loss,
over 100000.
8. Is shops and stores and 20 residences burned
at Cttumwa, Ia; loss. 1925, COO; 2 deaths.
9. Lumber mills and buildings burned at Du-
buque, Ia. loss $c00O00.
II. 2 agricultural warehouses burned in Kan
sas City; loss S3J0,0GO.
ID. 31J buildings destroyed by fire at Panama;
loss, %, 100000.
l6. The abattoir of the Central stoclyards of
Jersey City burned; loss, $1,500,000.
JULY.
2. fhe mill OF the Vermont Marble company
at Proctor, VT. destroyed by fire; loss,
S100,000
4. % buildings in Judson, Mass, destroyed by
fire; loss, S5O0,OG0
81 buildings burned at Edwards. N. Y; loss,
SCI go.
5. The 6 great structures surrounding the
court OF honor at the Worlds fair grounds
DESTROYED by incpndiary fires.
Y. ~ buildings burned i'll Eden, O.; loss, s175,-
90.
10. fire III II Paso, Ills.. destroyed the bust
ness portion Of the town; loss, $250,000
20. The G. ntrsl Market block burned in Min
neapolis; loss, $5JJ,0Ju
21. The Caldwell hotel and other property
destroyed by fire al Birmingham, Ala;
losses. over $50J,U00
Is. The KNOX Express company and Adams
Express company stables burned in Wash
inytcn: 10 over $7J0,03O; 3 firemen killed,
20 Boz factory burned at ~ ivss.
S151OC0.
q. Fine destroyed 90 business places at Celna,
O.; loss, $i50,000
The town Of Phillips Wis, wiped out by a
forest fire. leaving 1900 people homeless:
loss, Sl,25Q. 600; about 20 persons lost thcil
lives
g. 60 buildings and business concerns de
stroyed by fire at Belle Plain Ia; loss,
S45j,O01
II buildings blIOtSl at BTOoklyn, La. loss. |
$l25,090
60 s300,09J worth of lumber and other proper |
fy destroyed by fire at Minneapolis.
Mayo college burned at Cooper, Tex. loss, |
SlUJ,000
AUGUST
1. Fire Destroyed 5000, 600 worth of property
IL the lumber district of Chicago.
2. The business center of La.noure N D.. |
destroyed by fire; loss $2a9O0o
Aliens Opera House at Jamestown N Y, |
burned; loss, $150,050.
5. $139,053 fire in the business portion of Mar
ion. II.
G. 20 business houses and residences destroy
ed by fire at Adair, la.
z. Grocery warehouse burned at Pueblo |
Colo. loss $251.09a.
- 8. StTylsl's pottery burned at San Jose. CAL
loss, nearly $l9301). /
g. Pegeon, small town i'll Elk county, Pa
destroyed by fire.
Clifford Ills, wiped off the mao'' by fire.
The Coliseum burned at Minneapolis; loss, |
$500
II. The Hawley silk mills at Port Jervis, N.
Y, destroyed by fire; loss s5000O0.
Fl. 100000 worth of property destroyed at
Memphis by the burning of a drug plant
and a wholesale grocery.
e. 2 blocks burned at Bowling Green, Ky;