Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-01-04
THE ANNALS OF 1898.
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE EVENTS
OF THE YEAR

OF THE YEAR.
SAD RECORD OF ACCIDENTS, OF CYCLONES
AND sToRMS-ENoRMous FIRE LOSSES
AND OF COMMERCIAL TROUBLES.
JANUARY.
! l. Dry goods store burned at Emporia Kan
loss, SS5,n0
| Dry goods store burned at Denison, Tex
loss, S.i.ts0
1 A $1,000 lire at Wheeling
4 8. Loss Of Sl75.oo by fire at Memphis.
4 D. Halleck building burned in Denver loss
S2a,UD.
1 The Omaha Printing company burned out at
Omaha: loss, sHnn
!. The Troy building burned in Fall River
Mass; loss, sl;5.@a.
TO- Several warehouses burned in Boston; loss,
Sl.6j0Gn.
H. - stores burned in Chateaugay, n. y: loss.
Slj1,01
Is Fire caused a loss OF set5Onp in Kansas
The Calumet clubhouse burned in Chicago:
loss, S.HOiun
ST. Louis hotel burned in Duluth; loss.
Sl0ouo.
Il. Allen a Ginters cigarette factory burned
In Richmond; loss. S2j00p
q. The Mckay building burned In Rochester.
loss, S250un
=. The Car ndelct grain elevator burned in
81 lS'ul>' loss, cl.st.ts.
A SltuHu fire at Eln,wood Ind
% Sl"+on fire at Clinton, No
Grain elevator burned at Indianapolis; los.
Sln0a.
"a The Beehive building burned al Sioux FANS.
loss. S.5puD
- Wheelworks burned at Portsmouth q
loss, Slan.nn
FEBRUARY.
!. A San,oo FIRE at Little Falls n Y
& Chemical works burned at farport y, Y.
e. The Warehouse of the Grape Suear com
Fany burned a, Peoria, His. loss, siuaun
g. a block OF stores burned at CLARK syiue |
Tex; loss, Sl5o0o
- Planning mill burned at FELTON,. Ga; loss,
slj@uu
MARCH.
4 The state insane hospital at Ogdensbure, |
y y, partially burned; loss. Sl1an
D. Lannon's foundry burned at Pueblo, Colo: /
loss, Slu1.pu.
@. hirkAau's tile and pottery works burned /
at Barbcrton. o.; loss S.aupn
10. A s., Fnon fire in the old burned district |
OF Boston; Killed, 81 injured
Is, he Denison compress burned at Denison,
Tex: loss, Sljann.
Il one-haIf 81 Arkansas City. Ark. burned;
loss, Slonen.
L. The Wheeler Opera House and 6 stores
harmed at Toledo; loss, S2auoW
h' he iFiend block burned in Milwaukee;
loss. SJplp..
70 49, .lich4 IAeloFy burned at south
Ea>tnn. Mis-; loss about S41aun
fremont temple the famous Baptist house Of
worship. burned in Boston; loss. Ss.i.Wp
'l' "1 h'hot mourning MN burned nj Litch-
i."d. HIS. loss over sl.Vn,un. an employee
., r, Ai'''H ahd "ahy injured.
deaths.
- II ! ~ ''FA Me.A"dist church at Scran-
. ,n vi 'St' oy Afe second time: loss
7''N uAFhs burned at Mason
:, .,9 -, ''9' 4, IL i.ot5fs oVsr >IhU"
APRIL
ne summer residence Of Joseph jefferson,
tAe '"r' at bu=@ard' Bay. Mass, burned:
!oss' $3.50.
I5lAr q S"hS clraretie factory burned in
New YORK: loss siruu
4 a iapyF WAREHOUSE, a malt hou,e. plan
lik h'!,- aAd I!c kle WORKS burned at Allie
A.AAy' la-' loss, sSs',tn.
"A sou" ire IN the business portion OF An
soA' Tex
O. 4he college, liill sanitarium. near CiI.cin-
han' burned; loss, s9",""
= i-AHpeF H"'u anu - dwellings burned at
HGisu4.eFy warehouses; burned at Owensboro.
ny; lo>9' - "n
eie's.aha Cos wholesale grocery burned
al Houston; loss. Slh5Un.
breeding stables and . valuable horses
burned al W ars'". Ind; loss, S5U.Uou.
y ne Lily olork burned at Waterbury. Conn.
loss, SA,S','' .,. n
loss, sUuG, 81 -as'N > "
z. \ barn struck By lightning near Gal
latin. Tenn, and = valuable brood mares
instantly killed; loss over s.sOon
IS Cassville. No, swept BY ire: loss. san,Wn.
" The Clinton wire works at Clinton Mass
destroyed: loss S2J9uU.
D. The business portion OF Wardner Ida.
burned; loss nearly S1p,rn
sA"-o" hre al Colfax, Wash.
- CAFFylne factory burned at " oburn, Mass;
ioss, i'1,Jb-
MAJ
Bromley q burns yarn dyeIng mill burned !
al rankiord, IA; loss, S-4oun
g. j. b. Wells dry goods store burned at I IL
ca. y. y; loss over $4,000.
burned; loss, 5000.
SlsOup fire al Pttsburg.
~ 10 houses burned at Saginaw, Mich: loss
over Sl.Jn,bn.
%. A sljo,tn fire AT Beding, Mich. deaths.
Tanaery burned at South Salem, Mass: loss,
SlG,on.
D. Baltimore lost 100000 by the burning Of
sugar refinery.
JUNE
2 The main building OF the Cornell Iron works 4
burned in New York city: loss, S5uUl
Lightning set fire TO shiverichs' furniture
store in Omaha, causing a loss Of over /
s3u,Ou and deaths
!. Fire swept away dozen fine residences in
San Francisco: loss, $4,000: 4 deaths.
S3D,Uu fire On the main street OF Oshkosh,
Wis.
The Bradstreet-Thurber Co.'S store damageA
SlA,up by fire in Minneapolis.
One-half the city of Fargo. y. D., destroyed !
by fire; 800 people homeless; loss over |
S3.JnUn.
g. Inc lie Marie convent near Montreal. |
burned; loss, SlUc,UJ.
JULY.
& The oDera house at New Haven damaged |
Sln0po IN FIRE
ia The Glen House Nount Washinptop \ |
II t.,.-.l,, ~. -. ~, M,
T. ., h,,iIit,,,. h,,r-o, ~ ~ h;,ass ,,;
Taadlr. ~ - raoCnS
s1 Tho hnejress ,,orrioT ~ the ,ov,r n, Fws,
Ifnn entirely das, rovsd hv fire. Ioss ss5n
uu
q n bnildinos hnrnea in Long Island Ci,v
y. Ioss sn1m0
n pnrt Iopis the cani-al of Nauritius dew
astated by ire
10 Dof the rriucinal business houses Of pauld.
ing o.. burned: los. sanuo.
a Carter's lumber and shinrle mill burned al
Ludinptop. Mich: loss. sl25m
August.
2 The harm and other outbnildinps on ex
! We prapidar, Mor.on,s form, a, Rbine
| bant, X v h-,-nad. Ios sao1oo
a Tba ko,sas I'll, ~ bonss tho whi,-
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