The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-30
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 Gem
eraI Review of a Memorable Year.
HRS.


JANUARY.
/. 2 acres of factory buildings burned at
Winooski, VT; loss, 500, 600.
T. Grain warehouses of the Farmers I'm
ion Milling Co. burned at Stockton,
Cal; loss, $50O,0
8. Hardware and dry goods store burned
at Denison, Tex; loss, $20O, oO0
o. 80 buildings burned at Ransburg, CAL;
loss, 100000
10 Fire at East Grand Forks, N. d.;
loss, SIPS, 600.
g. Union elevator, filed with grain burn
ed in East st. Louis; loss, $1,000, GOO.
FEBRUARY.
l. u. s. Rubber Co. at Naugatuck, Conn.,,
burned out; loss, 500, 900.
g. The Mcintyre block Winnipeg, burn
ed; loss, $500 900.
6. A $3.50 900 fire at Savannah; the Roman
Catholic cathedral burned.
O. A $3.50. 900 fire at Fort Worth, Tex.
10. Storage company and other concerns
burned out at Pittsburg; IL deaths and
property loss of 81, 500, 0O0
D. Plant of the American Tobacco Co.
burned at Louisville; loss, SS50o0o.
MARCH.
10. A smelter and some railroad property
burned at Deadwood, S. D.; loss, $780,
600.
d. Loss of 100000 by the burning OF the
Schoeneman building in Chicago.
APRIL.
q u buildings burned at Rock Hill, s. c.;
loss, $200,0O0
S. The Piazza Opera House and other
property burned at Vicksburg, Miss.
loss $125, 600.
II. Grain elevator and other property
burned at Charlestown. Mass; loss,
1000 900.
70. Surgeons tabernacle burned in Lon
don.
Is. ST. Andrews Catholic cathedral and
other buildings burned in Glasgow;
loss, $4,000.
MAY.
l. Elevator and warehouse burned at
Augusta, Ca; loss, 100000.
g. The Films hotel, Excelsior Springs,
Mo-, destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000
Il. A wool storehouse valued at $3.50, 900
burned at Ballardvale, Mass.
u. Grain elevator and adjoining property,
covering acres, burned in Chicago;
loss, s., zoe, 900.
I5- A $2S5,OO fire at Muncie, Ind.
IS The business section of Attleboro,
Mass, wiped out by fire; loss over
100000.
JUNE.
/. Fire destroyed 1900 houses at Pesha-
wur. India.
10. Fire destroyed the business portion of
Park City, Utah; loss, 100000
g. 100000 lost by fire at Lincoln, Neb.
JULY.
s. % buildings burned at Bath, Me-; loss,
S100, 900.
0. Parsons block burned at Cleveland;
loss, $685., 900.
Sands and Mills lumber yards burned
ct fd,- ir11 1oc
10. The Western Starch works burned at
West smmond, Ills; loss, $3.50, 600
II. Hotel st. Joseph at st. Joseph, Mich,
burned; loss, 100000.
The World S theater burned at Pitts
burg; loss. SITE. 600.
IS. A $4,000, 900 fire at Sunderland. Eng
land.
AUGUST.
9. A great part of the business portion
of Bismarck, N. D., including banks,
postoffice, newspaper plants and bust
ness blocks, burned; loss nearly $3.50,
000
u. The business portion of Wheatland,
Cal, destroyed by fire; loss, $185,000.
IA. 4 lives lost and $500,0O worth of prop
erty destroyed by fire at Fresno City,
Cal.
SEPTEMBER.
A. A 100000 fire at Owosso, Nd.
s. Grain elevator and mills burned at
Memphis; loss. $4,000.
8. The Ocean House at Newport, r. l.,
burned.
10. "a buildings burned at Livermore
Falls, Me-; loss. $125,000.
IL. $50 residences and % stores burned at
Jerome, A. t.; many lives lost; prop
erty loss about s1.00O,00O
H. At New Westminster, B. c., 500 build
ings burned; loss, 50, 100000
Is. North Weymouth. Mass, suffered a
$780, 600 loss by factory fire.
OCTOBER.
5. Immense tobacco warehouse and 9TH
err buildings burned at Gainesville,
Tenn; loss over $500, 000
s. A block of business buildings burned
at Atlantic City; loss, 5000 900.
l6. 40 buildings burned at Dawson City;
loss, $500 600.
20. The Texas Drug Co. burned out at
Dallas; loss, 5000
"a. city blocks and the docks on their
front, together with several vessels,
burned in South Brooklyn: loss, $780,
000
NOVEMBER.
8. Shops of the Southern Pacific r. R.
at Sacramento damaged to the ex-
tent of 100000 by fire.
40 buildings burned in Pitkin, Colo;
loss, $100, 900.
Ii. The town hall and 8 blocks of build
ings burned at Covington, La; loss,
100000
10. Starin's shipyards at West Brighton,
N Y, partly burned; loss, 100000.
g. Baldwin hotel, San Francisco, burned;
loss, 81, 100000; deaths.
Is. Keith's furniture house in Kansas
City burned; loss, $240 900.
DECEMBER
/. Lincoln Normal university, near Lin
coin, Neb., burned; loss, 100000.
4. Home Life building, one of New
York's ''sRyscrapers, Quilted by fire;
loss, 81, 00O. 900
Eufaula, /. T., visited with disas-
trous fire; loss. s150000.
5. business houses burned at Franklin,
Ind; 2 deaths; property loss, $100, 600.
Z. A $125, 900 fire at Danbury, Conn.