Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-01
THE WORK OF THE FLAMES.
Dwellings, Stores, Factories and Pub
lie Buildings Quilted or Destroyed.


Dwellings, stores, Factories and Pub
lie Buildings Quilted or Destroyed.
JANUARY.
13. Loss of $1,000 by the burning of Cen
trail City Masonic hall at Syracuse
IA. The Kennard block and Park theater
destroyed by fire at Manchester, N.
H.. loss, $500. 900.
Is. Loss of $150,O00 by fire at Los Angeles,
Cal.
1s. Loss of 100000 by the burning of
wagon factory at Kalamazoo, Mich.
19. Loss of 100000 by fire in the Globe
Yarn mills, Fall River.
q. Loss of $25O000 by fire in the business
district of Columbus, o.
70. st. Mary's Roman Catholic church in
New Britain. Conn, destroyed by fire;
loss, $3.50, 000
Is. 2 hotels and bathhouse burned at
Mount Clemens, Mich; loss 5000, 00O
%. Loss of 100000 by fire in the business
portion of Wolcott, Ind.
The Peoples church in St. Paul de-
stroyed by fire; loss, s1O5,OG.
go hotels, apartment louse and
stores and office buildings burned in
Norfolk; loss, 100000.
FEBRUARY.
e. blocks in the business center of Wa
terbury. Conn.,, burned; loss about 49,
00OO00
g. A blaze at New Milford, Conn, caused
a loss of 500, 900.
T. The Vendome hotel, Minneapolis, val
ued at 100000. completely Quilted by
fire.
8. The town of wabella, ILL.,, nearly
wiped out by fire; loss. 100000.
9. 26 blocks burned in Paterson, N. J.;
loss. $6,000.000.
10. IL manufacturing plants burned in
Springfield, o.; loss, 100000.
Is. The Seventh Day Adventist sanitarium
hIlrnod af of 1Occ
$500, 900.
q. A 100000 fire at Lafayette, Ind; offices
of the Journal and the Call destroyed.
MARCH.
Z. A 100000 fire in the business district
of Hudson, N. Y.
16. Loss of $225,O0O by the burning of a
dormitory at Bryn Mawr college.
Is. Phoenix liner British Queen and sew
eral lighters burned in North river, off
the Hoboken docks; loss, 81. co., 900.
30. The State Capital printing plant. no.
tells and other buildings burned at
Guthrie, Okla; loss, $S50,0OO.
APRIL.
/. Paint and varnish plant burned In
Louisville; loss, 100000.
3. Il hotels destroyed by fire at Atlantic
City; loss, $75O000.
6. A 500, 900 fire at Chesterton, Ind.
10. Southern Plow works burned at Co.
lumbus, Ga; loss, $3.50, 600.
20. Hager's steel plant burned at Madi-
son, ILL.,; loss, $250.000.
different fires in Dallas, Tex, de-
stroyed property valued at 100000.
Railway trestle burned at Sunbury, O.;
loss $500, 900.
q. Gem City sawmill and lumber yard
burned at Quincy. ILL.,; loss, $350,00O.
"a. % buildings burned in Croghan, N. Y;
loss $780, 900.
q. Fire in the business portion of Glens
Falls, N. Y, caused loss of 100000
S. Loss of 100000 by fire in New Milford,
Conn.
u. Naphtha explosion caused heavy loss
of life and damage amounting to $780,
600 in the yards of the Panhandle
r. R., near Pittsburg
16. Loss of 100000 by fire in the Armour
lard refinery, Chicago.
Moench & Sons tannery burned at Cat
taraugus, N. Y; loss 100000
II. Fire swept the business district of
Houlton, Me-; loss, $780, 600.
Il. The Enterprise tobacco warehouse
burned at Maysville, Ky; loss, $40. 900.
%. The town of Glover, Halifax county,
Va, nearly wiped out by fire; loss,
100000.
A. The Illinois Car and Equipment Co.
burned out in Hegerwisch, a suburb of
Chicago; loss, $1000,000.
s. The Arcade, Citizens bank block and
Theater Saratoga burned in Saratoga
loss, $500, 900; 5 lives lost.
Is. Alexander City, Ala, wiped out by
fire; loss, $75O,000
10. Berry & Co.'S hat factory burned at
Orange Valley, N. j.; loss, $200O00
q. blocks burned in Portland, Ore: loss
$6OO,OOO
3. Plant of the Capewell Horse Nail Co.
at Hartford. Conn.,, burned; loss over
100000
S. Main building of Swift & Co.'s pack
ing house. Chicago, destroyed; loss
81, 100000
Z. SIPS 900 loss in a fire at Plattsburg,
N. Y
Cummings -four mills at Oswego. N. z.
struck by lightning and burned; loss.
100000.
1s. Guayaquil. Ecuador. South America
suffered a loss of 81. 100000 by fire.
q. Camden, S. c., visited by fire; loss,
$1O0, 900.
rs. l fireman killed, several injured and
a property loss of $250,00O in a fire in
Albany, N. Y.
%. 100000 loss In fire in Pittsburg.
AUGUST
TO- killed and $4,000 loss In fire at San
Angelo, Tex.
schwarzschild & sulzberger's packing
house at Pittsburg burned; loss. $780,
600.
IL. Gasoline explosion caused fire in Padu-
cah KY; damage. 100000.
20. Parsons college, Fairfield, Ia, de-
stroyed by fire.
%. Woods Opera House burned at Bay
City, Mich; loss 100000.
SEPTEMBER.
{ The Music hall damaged and the
Odeon theater destroyed by fire at
Cincinnati; $4,000 loss
II. Stonewall (A1iss.) cotton mills burned;
loss, $125 600.
Fire in the Beaumont (Tex.) oilfields;
loss over $500, 900.
L. Plant of the Bridgeton IN. j. Wooden
Co. destroyed; loss, 500. 900.
l6. Coal bunkers, ETC.. of the Tesla Coal.
Co. of Stockton, Cal. destroyed; loss,
100000.
g. Five blocks burned in Stockton. Cal;
loss, $4,000.
OCTOBER.
16. The famous Waddington mansion. at
West Haven, Conn, which cost $780,
000 destroyed by fire.
81 BY the burning of a glucose factory In
Chicago 10 workmen were killed and
"a. deaths in the burning of the Corn
Products Co.'S plant In Chicago; loss,
$5OO.o00
/. st. Pierre. island Of st. Pierre. of
Newfoundland, devastated by fire;
loss $500, 000
s. 3 factory plants burned at Camden
n. j.; loss. 100000