The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-21

destroyed by rre at Birmingham. Ala.
Losses over s5C0000
Is. The Knox Express company and Adams
Express company stables burned In Wash
inrton: loss over sIOOuOi hremsn kliieo
% Box factory burne- at ,>orron, Mass. loss.
$4,000.
q. Fire destroyed 20 business places ut Cclina.
o.; loss. ti5Q.oo0
The town Of Philips. Wis. wiped out by a
forest fire. leaving 5000 people homeless; ;
loss. 81, ,25s, 600; about 20 persons lost their
lives.
es. 90 buildings and business concerns de
stroyed by nre at Belle Plain. La. loss,
~ buildings burned at Brooklyn. In. loss,
$4,000
90. $500, 600 worth Of lumber and other proper
ty destroyed by fire at Minneapolis.
Mayo college burned at Cooper. Tex. loss
100000.
!. Fire destroyed 81, 900, 900 worth OF property
I'm the lumber district OF Chicago.
q The business center Of Lamoure, N. D..
destroyed by fre loss, $4,000.
Aliens Opera House at jamestown. N. r..
burned loss, $4,000
g. A sl00. 900 fire In the business portion Of Mar
ion, Ia.
Q. 20 business houses and residences destroy
ed by fire at Admir-, Ia.
7. Grocery warehouse burned at Pueblo
Colo. loss, t2E0, 600.
g. stryker's pottery burned at San jose, Cal. !;
loss nearly $4,000.
o. Pegeon, a small town In Elk county, Pa.
Clifford, lis, wiped OF the map" by fire.
Tho Coliseum burned ut Minneapolis; loss
$4,000
II. The Hawiey silk mills at Port Jervis. ~
Y, destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
Fl. 10000 worth Of property destroyed nj
Memphis by the burning OF drug plant
and a Wholesale grocery.
f2. 2 blocks burned at Bowling Green, KY;
loss, sl50,0C0,
20. The town Of Ellston. Mon. destroyed by
fire; loss. 10000
SEPTEMBER.
g. The business portion.of Conrsd, Ia. surn-
ed: loss. $4,000.
o. Tho basiness portion Of Kitsap, Wash. de-
stroycd by fire: loss: $4,000.
10. 81 buildings nj Dalton, o., burned by In.
cendiary fres; loss. s20CO.
Is. 2hotels and stores burned at Cape Vim
cent. N. Y; loss, sl5o,0o0
OCTOBER.
8. Fatal FIRE In Detroit; 0 deaths.
A $4,000 fre ia Nashville.
30 houses burned at Buchanan, W. Va; loss
$4,000
49, The Morse-coc shoe factory burned at
Omaha; loss, sl25, 200.
40. Tho n. c. inarrnary and several business
buildings burncd ut Houston, Tex. 2
deaths; financial loss. 10000.
~. The village Of Latham, Ills. suffered tho
fifth extensive blaze in years; loss, $40, 600.
%. Porter's Wholesale millinery establishments
in Pittsburg destroyed by fire; loss, $50,
000.
NOVEMBER.
D. The Indiana Medical college and Scottish
Rite hall burned In Indianapolis; loss,
ti75000.
TO- At Frederick. 8. D., nearly all the leading
business places were burned; loss, 500, 600.
IL. The Arlington inn at Fort Worth, Tex, de-
stroyed by fire; loss, sl25.0o0.
II. - thousands bales Of cotton burned on
wharf AZ New Orleans; loss. s750,000.
L. Sheffield, Ia. totally destroyed by fire;
loss, $4,000
n. ai buildings burned at Columbus. Ky. 4; loss
$4,000
Fire in the lace district of Nottingham Eng.
land, destroyed values aggregating $3.50, ,OO0
20. The business portion Of Savannah, No.,
nearly destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
q. 0 buildings burned at Sinner, Tex; loss
10000.
"A. An armory, livery stable and other prop
erty burned at Springfield, his. loss, $l25.-
600.
2. 81 dwellings and all the stores in town do.
stroyed by fire at Marion, N. O.. loss sl25,-
600.
q. The business part Of Athens. Ca. burned !;
DECEMBER.
I. The Charity hospital burned at Birming
ham. Ala.
l. Fire gutted a story building on Broadway,
New York; loss, $4,000
In Omaha the Exposition building, q theater
and tho First Baptist church destroyed.