St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-12-28
RECORD OF 1898
Notable Events and Casual
ties Of the Year.
THE SPANISH WAR.
Losses by Fire, by Storms and by
Violence-Personal, Political and
Miscellaneous Happenings-A Gen.
eral Review of Memorable Year.
FIRES.
JANUARY.

FIRES.
JANUARY.
1. acres OF factory buildings burned at
Wnooski. Vt; loss, 100000.
Grain warehouses OF the Farmers un-
ion Milling Co. burned at Stockton.
Cal: loss 100000.
g. Hardware and dry goods store burned
al Denison. Tex. loss. 100000.
10. 80 buildings burned at Ransburg, Cali
loss. 100000
20. Fire at East Grand Forks. NJ D.;
loss $4,000.
Is. Union elevator, filled with grain. burn
ed in East St. Louis; loss sl,O00.OOO.
FEBRUARY.
/. U. S. Rubber Co. at Naugatuck. Conn,
burned out: loss 100000
2. The Mcintyre block. Winnipeg. burn
ed loss. 100000.
G. A s35OOOO fire at Savannah; the Roman
Catholic cathedral burned.
o. A S250.0OO fire at Fort Worth, Tex.
10. Storage company and other concerns
burned out at Pittsburg; II deaths and
property loss of 81 100000.
g. Plant of the American Tobacco Co.
burned at Louisville loss. $S5O.OOO.
MARCH.
10. smelter and some railroad property
burned at Deadwood. s. D.; loss, $780,
000
a. Loss Of 100000 by the burning of the
Schoeneman building In Chicago
APRIL
q ~ buildings burned at Rock Hill. s. c.:
loss. 100000
s. The Piazza Opera House and other
property burned at Vicksburg. Miss.
loss. sl25.000.
II. Grain elevator and other property
wlz Inan
81 900 000
90 Surgeons tabernacle burned in Lon
don.
%. ST. Andrews Catholic cathedral and
other buildings burned in Glasgow,
loss. $75O,00O
MAY.
/. Elevator and warehouse burned at
Augusta. Ca; loss 100000.
O. The Elms hotel. Excelsior Springs.
Mo-. destroyed by fire: loss, 5000. 900.
II. A wool storehouse valued at s250,0OO
burned at Balardvale. Mass.
H. Grain elevator and adjoining property,
covering 4 acres, burned In Chicago:
loss. 81. 200 0O0
Is. A $2S5. 900 fire at Muncie. Ind.
IS. The business section of Attleboro.
Mass. wiped out by fire; loss over
$l.000,00
JUNE.
1. Fire destroyed 1000 houses at Pesha-
wur. India.
10. Fire destroyed the business portion OF
Park City Utah; loss. s1,OOO,OOO.
q. 100000 lost by fire at Lincoln. Neb.
JULY.
5. 20 buildings burned at Bath. Me-; loss.
s100. 000
g. Parsons block burned at Cleveland:
loss. 1856 900.
Sands and Mills lumber yards burned
at Pentwater Mich: loss over s50OOOO
TO- The Western Starch works burned at
West Hammond. Ills; loss, s25O.OOO.
II. Hotel St Joseph at st. Joseph. Mich,
burned; loss. $4,000
The Worlds theater burned at Pitts
burg; loss. $4,000.
1S A $2.OOOOOO fire at Sunderland. Eng
land
AUGUST.
O. A great part of the business portion
OF Bismarck. N. D.. including banks,
postoffice, newspaper plants and bust
ness blocks burned: loss nearly $780,
000
H. The business portion of Wheatland.
Cal, destroyed by fire; loss. $4,000
H. 4 lives lost and 100000 worth of prop
erty destroyed by fire at Fresno City,
Cal
SEPTEMBER
l. A 100000 fire at Owosso Md.
g. Grain elevator and mills burned at
Memphis; loss, s242 900.
g. The Ocean House at Newport. r. l..
burned.
TO- "a buildings burned at Livermore
Falls. Me-. loss. sl25.OO0.
II. $50 residences and % stores burned at
Jerome, A. T.; many lives lost; prop
erty loss about 81. 900 900.
IL AT New Westminster. B. c.. 500 build
ings burned; loss. s2500.000
% North Weymouth. Mass, suffered a
s2O0.000 loss by factory fire.
OCTOBER.
g. Immense tobacco warehouse and 9TH
er buildings burned at Gainesville.
Tenn loss over $500 900
g. A block of business buildings burned
al Atlantic City: loss, 100000
16 40 buildings burned at Dawson City:
loss. $500 900.
20 The Texas Drug Co. burned out at
Dallas; loss. s500OOO.
a. 3 city blocks and the docks on their
front. together with several vessels.
burned In South Brooklyn: loss. $780,
600
NOVEMBER.
8 Shops OF the Southern Pacific r. r.
at Sacramento damaged TO the ex-
tent Of 5000 900 by fire.
40 buildings burned In Pitkin. Colo.
loss. 500 900.
H. The town hall and 3 blocks of build
ings burned at Covington. La. loss
100000
10. Starin's shipyards at West Brighton
N " partly burned; loss. 100000.
g. Baldwin hotel San Francisco burned
loss. $500 900: Q deaths
Is. Keiths furniture house in Kansas
City burned loss s2io000
DECEMBER.
TipcoIn NorrooI uniy.rsity naor I tu
coin. Neb.. burned; loss 100000
T. Home Life building one OF New
York's "skyscrapers. Quilted by fire
loss. 81 100000
Eufaula. l. T.. visited with a dlsas
trous fire; loss $l50000
g. business houses burned at Franklin
Ind; 2 deaths: property loss. 100000.
T. A sl25,OO0 fire at Danbury, Conn.