St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-01-01
EVENTS or 1896.
Varied Annals of the
Old Year.
A PAGE OF HISTORY.
Havoc Caused by Fire, Flood and
Storm Commercial Failures-Per-
sonal, Political and Miscellaneous
Happenings Classified Summary
FIRE LOSSES
FIRE LOSSES.
JANUARY.

JANUARY
q 10000 fire at West Palm Beach, Fla.
Q. Franklin County Children's home, at Co
lumbus o. loss, $4,000.
Is buildings burned at erosion, H.; loss,
$4,000.
g. Central hotel and Street block burned at
Altoona, Pa
II. A $3.50 900 fire in ST. Louis.
Is. Crescent City Rice mills burned in New Or
leans; loss Sl,0O0,OOO
10. 2 large apartment houses burned in Chica-
go; loss. $4,000.
FEBRUARY
g. West Virginia State Normal school at West
Liberty burned.
ID Fire at Grecnvlle, N. c.; loss, $4,000.
II. Buckeye Glass works burned at Martins
Ferry, o.
%. A S9GJOOO blaze nt Binghamton N. Y.
q. Is business places burned at Florence, 8.
c., loss, $4,000.
MARCH.
l. The village Of Colevillo, Mono county, CAL,
wiped ont by fire.
g. Is buildings burned at Danbury. Conn.,;
loss, $lj0,000
10. In Providence the Masonic building was
burned; loss, 100000.
81 Plant Of the Pennsylvania Salt works at
Natrona, Pa, burned; loss, sl,0OJ,OOO
g. % houses burned at Colon, Colombia.
% Pleasure Ridge distilery near Louisville,
burned; loss, S325,0OO
A $4,000 fire in Waterbury, Conn.
%. Weston, W. Va, suffered by fire to the ex'
tent of nearly S5OO,OOO
APRIL
o Fire destroyed docks, warehouses and stores
valued at 10000 at Brunswick, Ga
z. $4,000 fire at Douglass, Ga
8. tl7jOO fire at Savannah, Ga
10. Dauntless Bicycle Co. burned out at Toledo;
loss, $4,000
26. Fire destroyed business blocks valued ut
100000 at Cripple Creek, Colo
%. Metz block and other properties burned at
Quincy, Ills. loss, $4,000
MAY.
o Residence Of Senator Hale, at Ellsworth
Me- burned; loss, $4,000.
Z. A $500, 900 fire ut Somerset, Ky.
0. Fire destroyed lumber and ore docks at
Laure, Mich causing loss Of 100000
10 At Ashland, Wis, fire destroyed 100000
feet Of lumber, valued at nearly $4,000
lA A $4,000 fire at Painted Post N. Y.
IL. 20 buildings burned at Blue Island, Ills.
loss nearly 10000.
H. firemen killed and missing at fire In
Washington money loss, 100000.
Is. A $4,000 fire at Dallas.
A $1,000 fire at Fort Worth.
JUNE
II. Fire in the New York Horse Exchange; 100
horses burned loss, 100000
JULY.
9 San Luis obispo, Cal, suffered to the OF.
tent OF $3.50, 900 by fire.
II. Business block burned In Nashville; loss,
10000.
Is Car barns Of the Chicago City railway burn.
ed; loss, $35O,0O0.
%. Park theater and Barrett House burned at
Henderson, Ky. loss, s2500oO
n. MAYORS Opera House and other buildings
burned at Terre Haute, Ind. ; loss, $4,000
q. Fire in shipyard at Belfast caused a loss
of 81, $4,000
DO The Montreal exhibition building nearly
destroyed by fire; loss $4,000.
81. Grass Valley, Cal, partially destroyed by
an incendiary fire; loss, $4,000.
AUGUST
@ Explosion and fire at Swift g. Co. g packing
plant, Kansas City; loss, 100000; several
persons injured.
~ The Manhasset House, Shelter Island, N.
Y, destroyed by fire; loss, 100000
10 Chemical laboratory building Of the Uni.
versity Of Illinois, at Champaign, burned
loss, 100000.
e The Exposition building Buffalo Driving
park, burned; loss, $2O00OO
u The town Of Ontonagon, Mich, destroyed
by fire; loss several millions of dollars
the plant Of the Diamond Match company,
valued ut 100000, among the properties
burned.
D. Iowa State Institution For the Feeble Mind
ed struck by lightning and burned; loss
$4,000.
SEPTEMBER,
J. Masonic hall burned at Winston, N. c.;
loss $4,000.
Yores Opera House burned at Benton
Harbor, Mich. II firemen killed.
H. The Delaware Oil works burned at Chester.
Pa; loss, $1,000.
a. Mount Holyoko college destroyed by fire at
South Hadley, Mass.
The wooden elephant" at Coney Island
burned.
OCTOBER
Q blocks burned at Jeanerette, La. loss,
$4,000
B. Fire in knit goods factory at Camden, N.
j.. loss, $4,000
J. $4,000 fire in Detroit.
grain elevator and blocks Of business
houses burned at Corning, Ia. loss, $780,.
OOO
10 Furniture factory burned at Holland,
Mich. loss, $4,000.
% Stoneware works burned in East Akron,
o.. loss S20O,0OO
& A $4,000 fire in "A cotton warehouse In Gal.
weston.
20 business houses burned in Ladonia, Tex
Lumber yard and farm dwellings burned at
Zilwaukie Mich. loss, $4,000
u. grain elevators burned in Chicago; loss,
tl,2OO,0O0.
A $4,000 factory FIRE in Brooklyn.
NOVEMBER.
d Globe theater burned in st. Louis
Z. The Boston Bridge company at Cambridge
port Mass, burned ont. loss kl60 OO0