The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
SOME OF TAE GREAT
FIRES OF MODERN TIMES

liat lletS NOT pseI VISITED by deStfIGS>
i've fires. many of them practically
munity. London has been especially
! unfortunate. experiencing its first ViSi,
tation in los. when it was nearly de-
stroyed. Again in %S2 the greater part
OF the city burned, and this was re-
peated in 12l2. In 1856 the great FIRE
occurred, destroying tie buildings on
433 acres. including some of the most
magnificent structures i'll the city, en-
failing q property los of over $50, 600, eco,
London's last severe fire vas III 1851.
when the damage was $40, 600, 900.
In 1871 Paris suffered to the extent of
$50. 0Qo,C through communist incen-
diarism.
In 1928 Copenhagen was nearly de-
Stroyed.
In 1852 $4,000 houses burned in Mos
COW. In 1872 that city had been set
on fire to drive Napoleon out of Rus
STA. This fire continued -four days and
destroyed nine-tentlS of the city, with
a loss of $3.50, 900, COO.
In 1928 Co~nStantinople was visited by
a cohtiagration that cost 1000 lives and
destroyed Il, 900 houses. About twenty
fires OF great magnitude have occurred
in C~onstantinop!e up to 1870, and it
seems to have suffered more than any
one city. In 1922. Canton. China. was
practically destroyed, and in 1866 two
thirds of Yokohama, Japan, went up in
smoke.
In the United States Boston has beer
hard hit since 1879. when it experienced
a Sl,Oo0,00o fire. Like other large cit
les, Boston has had its great fire"
which in 1872 burned over sixty-ive
acres of buildings and caused 6. loss of
$45, 100000.
New York's greatest fire was in
1892. when buildings. covering ffty-two
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600 600.
In 1886 Pittsburg was the victim to
the extent OF LOO buildings, a loss of
$40. 600, 900.
In 1851 ST. Louis was three-fourths
destroyed; loss, s11.o0o,000
The same year a Francisco expe-
rienced two big fires, the first causing
a loss of $4,000, 600 and the other 3d.
| 100000.
In 1871 the greatest fire of modern
times visited Chicago. covering an area
of 2,l24 acres, causing Il loss OF $50
lives and a property loss OF about $780,
600, 900.
In Canada Quebec suffered severely
in 1916, and again in 1866.
In 1877 three-ffths of the city of ST.
John, n. b., was destroyed, the prop
erty loss being S11 100000. :
In 1852 Montreal suffered to the ex-
tent OF $5,0O0,00G, and 10000 people
were maze destitute.
Following is "a list of the greatest
| iires in modern times:
Great Britain and Ireland.
! 1861. Toolay street wharves at London
burned; So 2O, 600 loss.
1902. Liverpool. $4,000. 600 loss.
1854. Gateshead, $4,O0o.GW loss; 80 lives
lost.
France.
1871. Paris; property destroyed, SLIGO, 0oo,-
600.
Russia.
1862, st. Petersburg, s5.0Co,O 900 loss.
1872. MOSCOW. $3.50, D00. coo loss.
Turkey.
1S4S. Constantinople, $3.50, COO, coo loss.
1903. Bombay, s3.ooo.0Oo loss.
United States.
1872. Boston, richest quarter of the city
destroyed; S45, goo, 900 loss.
1898. Charleston, 3,0e8.D 600 loss.
1870 Savannah, s4,o00. 900 loss.
1885 New York, SIS. 100000 loss.
1S45. New York, 5000. 600 loss.
lS4a. Pittsburg. $40, 900 loss.
1S4S. Albany. SO, Goes 600 loss.
1S49. St. Louis. $2,SO0,O0 loss.
1851. St. Louis. S1l, 10000 loss.
1851. San francisco, SIC, Co., 600 loss,
1871. Chicago, $3.50, 00O, 600 loss.
1866. Portland. $4,000, 0G0 loss.
British, North America.
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1886. St. Johns. Newfoundland loss about
s4.000,O eco.
1862. Montreal, loss 5,OO0,0 coo.
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