Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-28
40. NO. So.
OCTOBER.


5. Fatal fire in Detroit; 6 deaths
A $100, coo fire in Nashville.
20 houses burned at Buchanan, W. Va. loss,
$4,000.
Is. The Morse-Coe shoe factory burned at
Omaha; loss, $125,C0
IA. A $50, eco fire at Chester Hill, o.
16. The r. c. infirmary and several business
buildings burned at Houston, Tex; 2
deaths; financial loss, S5O0,OOO.
II. The village of Latham, Ills, suffered the
fifth extensive blaze in years; loss, $40, 600.
%. Porter's wholesale millinery establishment
in Pittsburg destroyed by fire; loss, $3.50, :,
coo.
8. The Indiana Medical college and Scottish
Rite hall burned in Indianapolis; loss,
Sl75, Goo
10. At Frederick, S. D., nearly all the leading
business places were burned; loss, 500, 900.
IL. The Arlington inn at Fort Worth, Tex, de-
stroyed by fire; loss, $125,0O0.
IL. % thousands bales of cotton burned on
wharf at New Orleans; loss, S750,OO
IA. Sheffield Ia, totally destroyed by fire;
loss, 500, 600.
II. q buildings burned at Columbus, KY. loss,
$4,000.
Fire in the lace district of Nottingham, Eng
land, destroyed values aggregating $75O, 900.
90 The business portion of Savannah, No.
nearly destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
o. buildings burned at Sinner, Tex; loss
100000.
a. An armory, livery stable and other prop
erty burned at Springfield, Ills. loss, s125-
600.
Is. 81 dwellings and all the stores in town de-
stroyed by fire at Marion, N. c.. loss, $780,
Co.,
DECEMBER.
l. The Charity hospital burned at Birming-
ham, Ala.
4. Fire Quilted 6 story building on Broadway
New York; loss, $150000.
In Omaha the Exposition building, theater
and the First Baptist church destroyed.
MARINE DISASTERS.
Events of Interest to Those Who Go
Down to Sea In Ships.
JANUARY.
Is. The Norwegian bark Have1ock, from Pen
sacola for Calais, France, foundered in a
storm in the mid-Atlantic; the crew of II
rescued by life savers from the steamship
France.
FEBRUARY.
2. The famous war corvet Kearsarge wreck
ed on Roncador reef in the Caribbean sea;
the officers and crew were saved.
10. Numerous disasters to shipping on the Brit
ish coast by heavy storm.
APRIL.
y. The bark Belmont, from Boston, wrecked on
Peak Hill bars, Mass; 6 sailors drowned.
10. The schooners Albert ". Smith and Kate
Marlzee wrecked on the New Jersey coast
16 sailors drowned.
The lumber schooner Susan H. Richie
wrecked at Bay Head, N. j.; the crew
taken off by life savers.
q. The coasting steamer Los Angeles wrecked
on Little Moro rock CAL. 5 sailors drown
ed, 81 of the crew and So passengers saved
by boats and a life raft; the vessel total
wreck.
MAY.
Michigan; % lives lost, including several
women. At Port Huron volunteer life
savers were drowned in attempting to res
cue crew from the rigging Of the water
logged schooner William Shupe
JUNE.
4. The Dominion line steamer Texas, from
Montreal for Bristol, wrecked off New
foundland; loss, $500, 900.
"A. Fishing tug sank off Atlantic Highlands, N.
j.; nearly so drowned.
NOVEMBER.
3. The schooner Alaska, from Rockport for
Boston, wrecked and burned at Ports
mouth, N. Fl.
Is. The schooner Antelope capsized in Grand
Haven harbor, Mich; her crew of men
drowned.
%. Schooner Oracle Benson cut down in Bos-
ton harbor by the steamship Reading;6
sailors drowned.
DECEMBER.
4. The schooner Clara Simpson run down in
Long Island sound by the British steamer
Dorian; 5 Of the crew drowned.