The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-01

Is. Box factory burned at Norton. Mass. .sIod4s.
s15O,OO0.
q. Fire destroyed 20 business places atCelina.
O.; loss, $f50,0O0.
The town Of Phillips, Wis. wiped out by
forest fire, leaving 1900 people homeless;
loss, 81, $50. 600; about 20 persons lost their
lives
q. 60 buildings and business concerns de
stroyed by fire at Belle Plain. Ia; loss,
$3.50, COO
Il buildings burned at Brooklyn, Ia. loss.
Sl25, COO
50. $500, COO worth of lumber and other proper
ty destroyed by fire 81 Minneapolis.
Mayo college burned at Cooper. Tex; loss,
500, 900.
/. Fire destroyed SO, 0O0. 600 worth of property
in the lumber district of Chicago.
2. The business center of Lamoure, n. D.,
destroyed by fire; loss, 100000.
Aliens Opera House at Jamestown. N. Y.
burned; loss, $4,000
3. 500. 600 fire in the business portion of Mar
ion. Ia
8. 20 business houses and 3residences destroy
ed by fire at Adair. Ia
9. Grocery warehouse burned at Pueblo,
Colo. loss, $3.50, 900.
8. Stryker's pottery burned at San Jose, CAL:
8. Pigeon, a small town in Elk county, Pa,
destroyed by fire.
Clifford, Ills, wiped off the map by fire.
The Coliseum burned at Minneapolis loss,
$1,000.
II. The Hawley silk mills at Port Jervis, N.
Y. destroyed by fire; loss, 100000
q. 100000 worth of property destroyed at
Memphis by the burning of a drug plant
and wholesale grocery.
%. 2 blocks burned at Bowling Green, Ky;
loss, $150,O00.
%. The town of Ellston, Mon, destroyed by
fire; loss, 500. 000
SEPTEMBER.
6. The business portion of Conrad, Ia, burn
ed; loss, $50, 600.
g. The business portion of Kitsap. Wash, de-
stroyed by fire; loss; $50 900.
10. A buildings at Dalton, O., burned by in
cendiary fires; loss, S25o0oo.
IS. hotels and stores burned at Cape Vim
cent, N. Y; loss, $3.50, 00O
OCTOBER.
5. Fatal fire in Detroit; deaths.
A $100. 900 fire in Nashville.
20 houses burned at Buchanan, ". Va. loss.
$4,000.
10. The Morse-Coe shoe factory burned at
Omaha; loss, $4,000.
II. A $50, 600 fire at Chester Hill, o.
16. The R. G. infirmary and several business
buildings burned at Houston, Tex; 2
deaths; financial loss, $500 600.
II. The village of Latham, Ills, suffered the
fifth extensive blaze in years. loss SAC, 900.
20. Porter's wholesale millinery establishment
in Pittsburg destroyed by FIRE; loss, $780,.
900.
NOVEMBER.
8. The Indiana Medical college and Scottish
$175, 0O0
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, 1925, 000
IL. 25 thousands bales of cotton burned on
wharf at New Orleans; loss, $750, 900.
Il. Sheffield Ia, totally destroyed by fire;
loss. 100000.
II. 81 buildings burned at Columbus, KY. loss,
$4,000.
Fire in the lace district of Nottingham, Eng
land, destroyed values aggregating $3.50 600.
20. The business portion of Savannah, Mo-,
nearly destroyed by fire; loss, $50, 00O
%. buildings burned at Sinner, Tex; loss,
500, 900.
"a. An armory. livery stable and other prop
erty burned at Springfield, Ills; loss, s125,
900.
p. 81 dwellings and all the stores in town de-
stroyed by fire at Marion, N. C. loss, $685.,
600.
q. The business part of Athens, Ca, burned;
loss, $500
DECEMBER
1. The Charity hospital burned at Birming
ham, Ala.
4. Fire Quilted story building on Broadway,
New York; loss, S150;O00.
In Omaha the Exposition building, theater
and the First Baptist church destroyed.