Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-09
FIRES.
.IANTARN.


!. A s1s5 900 blaze at Burlington, Ia.
81 The Grand Opera House burned in Cincinnati;
loss, 81, O0o,0Oo.
% A block Of business buildings, including the
board of trade, burned at Montreal, loss, ST.
900, 900
o. Several buildings, including opera house.
destroyed by incendary fires at Matawan,
n. j.; loss, 10000.
20 Fire in the business district of Des Moines
Ia caused a loss of 100000.
81 Coates Opera House burned at Kansas City;
loss on building, $4,000.
FEBRUARY.
l. Wholesale millinery establishment Of Foote,
Reed Co, burned in Cleveland; loss, $780,
4. Tie National Wire works burned at Fair
Haven, Conn; loss, 1926, 900
s. Fire caused a loss of $4,000 in the business
district Of Evansville. Ind.
Q. Armstrong Bros cork factory burned at
Pittsburg; loss, 500, 900.
L.. A glass plant burned at Rochester, Pa; lose,
S5DO,090
q. A block in the wholesale district OF Atlanta
burned; loss, 100000.
MARCH.
9. The Olds Motor works burned at Detroit,
Mich loss, 100000
II. The Office of the New York division Of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad.
in upper New York city, burned; loss, $1,000
a. Glue factory at Gowanda. " Y, burned;
loss. $4,000.
fre caused by the explosion Of natural gas
nearly wiped out the town OF Cloyerport, Ky;
LOGS $500, 900.
The Morning Advertiser burned in Boston; loss,
$4,000
IL The main building Of the Pitsburg exposition
and other property burned; loss, 100000.
IS 30 Of the GO houses in Memphis, Ind. destroy.
ed by FIRE; loss, $500 900.
10 The jerks shpbuilding plant at Port Huron,
Mich. burned los $4,000
The Kerr Murray Machine works at Fort Wayne,
Ind, nearly destroyed BY fire; loss, $500, 900.
"a The village Of Glen Garden, N. j.. nearly de-
stroyed by fire caused by food Of burning
oil from a railway train; loss about $500 U0O.
ga The jefferson hotel burned at Richmond loss,
sl,O00,OoO
$500 900 loss in Are in the business district Of
Paterson, N j.; the plant OF The Guardian
Publishing Co. destroyed
80 Tn Santiago Park hotel noted landmark
Of Passaic. n. j., which originally cost $780,
900, destroyed by fire.
81. The new 100000 hotel. Hendrix Hudson, at
Yonkcrs n y, destroyed by fire.
Plant of the Dold Butterne Packing Co. burn
ed at Kansas City; loss, 100000.
APRIL.
g. sawmll Of the Ashland Manufacturing Co.
at Ashland, M, burned, loss over 100000
q. Elevator OF the St. Louis Storage Co. burned,
loss, S65Oo0
il. The Sturdevant Blower works at Jamaica
Plain Mass, burned; loss over $500, 600
10. Plant q the Plat Leather Co. burned at
Racine, Wis; loss. 100000,
Fire at the Teinzc snelte;, Butte, Mon, caused
u loss Of 100000.
Is. A loss Of $4,000 by Are IN the plant Of the
American Steel and Wire Co. at Latrobe. Pa.
MAY.
4. Disastrous fire in Jacksonville, Fla; loss (e5.
timated), $1,000 900; l4s blocks laid waste.
g. Webb & Co.'S warehouse burned in Ph.!2del-
pha; loss over $4,000,
2. TIL Fiaeld Tool co.'s plant burned at Lowell.
Mass; loss, 5000 900.
u. Fire swept Del Ray, suburb Of Detroit, de-
stroying property valued at $soO,0oo
le. American Steam laundry burned at Elizabeth,
N j.; loss, 800 900.
IS. Thomas Il Wananakers country house at
Meadowhrook Farms near Phila lelpha. de-
stroyed b. fire; loss (eHinated), 100000.
JUNE.
2. The town Of Jasper Jasper county, Tex.
wiped out by lre; loss, 100000
Il. The West Baden Springs hotel at West Baden,
Ind destroyed by ERE; loss, $4,000.
The Empire thcater burned at Lynn, Mass, loss,
500 coo,
10 Fire at the mill Of the Tower Lumber Co.,
Bear Lake MINI, caused $3.50, 900 loss.
The Sictles saidlery plant and other buildings
burned in st. Louis; loss, s5OoO00.
20 Fire destroyed a brush factory and other prop
erty valued at 100000 in Newark, N ].
20. Fire in the business district Of Bradford, Pa.
caused loss Of 100000
JULY.
!. Allenhurst inn, near Asbury Park, N. j.. do
stroyed by FIRE; loss, sl7500o,
3. Homestead hotel at Hot Springs. Va, burned
loss, 100000.
A 100000 blaze in Huntington, W, Va.
81 buildings, mcuoins mills and dwellings
saltwater, Me.