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

8. Fire in Toledo destroyed elevators, the
Chamber of Commerce. a museum and
wholesale drug store; losses $3.50 CO.,
Hinchmann & Sons drug house burned IN
Detroit loss, 100000.
8. A granite block burned in Worcester,
Mass. loss, $4,000
6. The Albany theater burned at Albany; loss,
SI25, 600
g. Large fire in the Worlds fair buildings;
loss, about 81 100000.
10. The Starr Manufacturing company's fac
tory at Richmond, Ind, totally destroyed
by fire; loss, $3.50 900.
Ii. Tinkham's wooden mill burned at Harrl-
sonville, R. l.; loss $4,000.
blocks burned at Ipswich, Mass; loss
100000
%. Purdue university, Lafayette. Ind, almost
destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
"a. The Sherman oil and cotton mill burned at
Sherman Tex. loss, $780, 900.
.. At Bath, Ne, a hotel 3 banks and sew
eral stores were burned; loss, 5000
FEBRUARY.
5. In Omaha stores, d Catholic church
and schoo1house destroyed by fire; loss,
$3.50, 900.
6. At Dublin, Tex, a cotton press burned:
loss, $150.000.
2. II stores and offices burned at Montgomery.
Mo; loss, $780, COO.
9. tobacco factories burned at Henderson.
Ky; loss, $500, Co.,
IL. Fire destroyed over 100000 worth of bust
ness property at Wapa-K Oneta, o. It.
At Duluth the board of trade building
burned; loss, $04. 00G.
Is. The State Normal school at Oneonta, N.
Y, burned: loss, about $780, 900.
16. The main building and annex of Knoxville
college burned at Knoxville.
Is. AT Ottawa Stewards stable of valuable
trotters burned; loss $500, 900.
The Griswold Linseed Oil company at War
o., lost a mill plant valued at $1,000
by fire.
"a. 20 buildings burned at Mcdonald, Pa;
loss, 100000.
26 Feeble s s anitariun burned at San Antonio
Tex.
Davis Bros bazaar burned in San Francis
CO; loss, $I20,OOO
MARCH
!. Alum Springs hotel, near Danville, KY,
destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
Henry's Opera House block burned at North
Baltimore, o; loss, $1OO, 600,
8. At Shreveport, La. q wholesale drug house
was burned; loss, 1926, 600.
5. Deadwood, S. D., nearly destroyed by fire;
loss, $l25, 900.
10. The Lansing Lumber company at Clare,
Mich, burned out; loss, SIZE, 900.
II. A block OF stores burned at Gloucester,
Mass. loss, S125,O00
Is. The Union depot in Denver destroyed by
fire; loss, $500 900.
20. Business property to the value of $50, 600
destroyed by fire at Fort Worth, Tex.
%. A lumber plant, creosote works, 80 dwell
ings and a schooner burned at Money Point,
a suburb of Norfolk; loss, $780, 900.
80. The business portion of the town of Barry,
Ills destroyed by fire; loss, 5000 900.
APRIL.
9. The Davidson hotel and theater burned in
Milwaukee; deaths; loss, S225 900.
10. ManiOn's livery stable with $50 horses and
$500, 900; death.
u. The American Glucose works and other
property burned in Buffalo loss, 81, 20O, 900;
y workmen killed.
Il. "a buildings burned in Santa Cruz, Cal
loss, 1855, 900.
IL Iron and steel works burned at Burnham,
Pa; loss, S150OO0.
10. The City Electric Power company of Sac
ramento destroyed by fire; loss $1OO, 900,
20 The National Linseed Oil works at st.
Louis destroyed by fire; loss, s4O0,O 900.
rs. The village of Townsend, VT, nearly de-
stroyed by fire.
The Colorado smelter at Butte Mon de-
stroyed by fire; loss, S100, OO0.
r. The business portion Of Gasport, N. Y,
destroyed by fire.
28 The famous old st. Charles hotel in New
Orleans destroyed by fire; loss, $500, 900.
30 The Vaughn Library building burned at
Ashland, Wis. loss $4,000.
MAY
g. The William N. Whitley Reaper and Mower
works burned at Muncie, Ind; loss. s245,
10. The town of Norway, Me-, destroyed by
fire; loss s239, 600.
ID Rev: DR.. Talmage's new Tabernacle and
the Hotel Regent adjoining destroyed by
fire; losses, over 81, OOO,O coo.
L.. II acres of territory burned over in Boston;
nearly 200 buildings destroyed; loss, 81, OOO,-
600.
16. Coal and lumber yards burned at Pawtuclx-
ct, R. l. loss. $500, 600.
1s- Hillsboro college burned at Hillsboro, O. :;
loss $50, 600.
20. Fire destroyed several millinery, lace and
trimming Establishments in Philadelphia;
loss, $S50.000
2. The residence of E. B. Haskell, one of the
proprietors of the Boston Herald, burned
at Auburndale; loss, 500 600.
oe5 ,aI
destroyed by fire at Arlington. Mass. loss,
over $1,000
JUNE.
8. Is shops and stores and 20 residences burned
at Ottunwa, Ia. loss. 1925, coo; 2 deaths
g. Lumber mills and buildings burned at Dr1-
buque, Ia. loss, 5000 0O0.
IL. 2 agricultural warehouses burned in Kan
sas City; loss, $4,000.
13. 800 buildings destroyed by fire at Panama:
loss, IS, 100000
16. The abattoir of me Central stockyards of
Jersey City b-lrned; loss. $1,5O0,OOO
JULY.
}. The mill of the Vermont Marble company
at Proctor Vt. destroyed by fire; loss,
100000
= p buildings in Judson, Mass, destroyed by
fire; loss, $500. 600.
81 buildings burned at Edwards. n. Y. loss,
s62 600.
). The 6 great structures surrounding the
court of honor at the Worlds fair grounds
destroyed by incendiary fires
AZ 72buildings burned in Edon, o.. loss, S175,-
900.
10 A fire in Ell Paso, Ills, destroyed the bust
ness portion of the town: loss, $3.50, 0Oo
20 The Central Market block burned in Min
neapolis; loss. $5OO.OO0
r. The Caldwell hotel and other property
destroyed by fire at Birmingham, Ala
losses. over $500, coo.
Is. The Knox Express company and Adams
Express company stables burned in Wash
t0etap loss ever 500 COO: fremea killed.