St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-01-08
1901 IN REVIEW.
FIRES.
JANUARY.

JANUARY.
1. A s185, 900 blaze at Burlington, Ia.
o. The Grand Opera House burned in Cincinnati;
loss, 100000.
o. A block Of business buildings, including the
board of trade burned at Montreal loss, ST..
100000
q. Several buildings, including an opera house,
destroyed by incendiary fires at Matawan,
N j.; loss, 100000
49, Fire in the business district of Des Mones,
Ia, caused a loss of 100000.
81. Coates Opera House burned at Kansas City;
loss on building, $15OOOO.
FEBRUARY.
!. Wholesale millinery establishment of Foote,
Reed & Co., burned in Cleveland; loss, $780,.
900.
4. The National Wire works burned at Fair
Haven, Conn; loss, 1925, 900.
s. Fire caused a loss of $1750O0 in the business
district of Evansville, Ind
9. Armstrong Bros cork factory burned at
Pittsburg; loss, 100000.
II. glass plant burned at Rochester, Pa. loss,
$5OO,OO0
81. A block in the wholesale district OF Atlanta
burned loss, 100000.
MARCH
9. The Odds Motor works burned at Detroit,
Mich. loss, $4,000
II. The office of the New York division Of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
in upper New York city, burned; loss, 81, OOO
900.
A. Glue factory at Gowanda, N. Y, burned;
loss, $l500O0.
fire caused by the explosion of natural gas
nearly wiped out the town of Cloverport, KY;
loss, 100000.
The Morning Advertiser burned in Boston; loss.
$150000.
H. The main building of the Pttsburg exposition
and other property burned; loss $780, 900.
49, 30 of the 60 houses in Memphis, Ind, destroy.
ed by fire; loss, 100000
49, The jerks shipbuilding plant at Port Huron,
Mich, burned; loss, $l75,OOO.
The Ken-Muuay Machine works at Fort Wayne,
Ind, nearly destroyed by fire; loss, 100000.
a. The village of Glen Garden, n. j., nearly de-
stroyed by fire caused by food of burning
oil from a railway tran loss about $20O,OOU
20. The jefferson hotel burned at Richmond; loss,
S1,00O,0OO
100000 loss in a fire in the business district of
Paterson, n j.; the plant of The Guardian
Publishing Co. destroyed
80. The Santiago Park hotel noted landmark
of Passac, N. j., which originally cost $780,
900, destroyed by fire.
81. The new 100000 hotel, Hendrix Hudson, at
Yonkers, N. Y, destroyed by fire.
Plant Of the Dold Butterine Packing Co. burn
ed at Kansas City; loss, 100000.
APRIL.
Q. Sawmill Of the Ashland Manufacturing Co.
at Ashland, Me-, burned; loss over 100000.
8. Elevator of the st. Louis Storage Co. burned;
loss, $G5O,0OO
IA. The Sturdevant Blower works at Jamaica
Plain, Mass, burned; loss over 100000.
10. Plant of the Platz Leather Co. burned at
Racine, Wis. loss, 100000.
Fire at the Heinze smeter, Butte, Non, caused
a loss Of 100000.
2s. A loss of $4,000 by fire in the plant Of the
American Steel and Wire Co. at Latrobe, Pa.
MAY.
4, Disastrous fire in Jacksonville, Fla; loss les
timated), $4,000, 900; l48 blocks laid waste.
B. Webb & Co.'S warehouse burned in Philadel-
phia; loss over $3O0,OOO
7. The Fifeld Tool Co.'s plant burned at Lowell,
Mass. loss, 5000, O0O
IL. Fire swept Del Ray, suburb of Detroit, de-
stroyng property valued at $S0O,O00
16. American Steam laundry burned at Elizabeth,
N j.; loss, 100000.
Is. Thomas B. Wanamakers country house at
Meadowbrook Farms, near Philadelphia, de.
stroyed by fire; loss (estmated), $5O0,0OO
JUNE.
2. The town of Jasper Jasper county, Tex,
wiped out by fire; loss, 100000.
II. The West Baden Springs hotel at West Baden,
Ind, destroyed by fire; loss, $500, OOO
The Empire theater burned at Lynn, Mass loss,
100000.
20. Fire at the mill Of the Tower Lumber Co.,
Bear Lake, Mimi, caused $l50,000 loss.
The Sickles saddlery plant and other buildings
burned in St. Louis; loss, 100000.
%. Fire destroyed a brush factory and other prop
erty valued at 100000 in Newark, N. ].
90. Fire in the business district of Bradford, Pa,
caused loss of 100000
JULY.
]. Allenhurst inn, near Asbury Park, N. j., de-
stroyed by FIRE; loss $4,000.
2. Homestead hotel at Hot Springs, Va, burned;
loss $500,000.
100000 blaze in Huntington, W. Va.