Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — The World’s Great Fires. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Great Fires.

The following statistics concerning some of the great fires of the world wall be found of interest: host. London, 1666, 13,000 buildings burned, covering 136 acres, with 80 churches... $85,000,000 Constantinople, 1778, 1,500 buildings burned 18,500,000 Constantinople, 1782, 3,000 buildings burned 15,000,000 Constantinople, 1788, 10,006 building! burned 30,000,000 Constantinople, 1791, 32,000 buildings burned 115,000,000 Copenhagen, Denmark, 1794 28,000,000 Smyrna, 1796. 5,000 buildings burned.... 50,000,000 Island of St Thomas, W. 1., 1805, 30,000,000 Moscow, 1812, 18,000 houses, including royal palaces (rubles) 160,000,000 Constantinople, 1816, 4,500 buildings.... 10,000,000 Constantinople, 1818, 5,000 buildings.... 15,000,000 Constantinople, 1831, 18,000 buildings... 80,000,000 New York city, 1835, 1,000 buildings 20,000,600 New York, 1839,46 warehouses and buildings 10,000,000 Smyrna, 1841, 10,000 buildings burned.. 18,000,000 Hamburg, Germany, 1842, 2,000 buildings burned 10,000,000 Constantinople, 1848, 3,000 buildings burned 15,000,000 Philadelphia, 1850, 400 buildings and warehouses 15,000,010 San Francisco, 1851. 1,250 buildings 13,01)0,000 Sacramento, 1852, 2,500 buildings 10,000,000 London, England, 1861 10,000,000 Glarus, Switzerland, 1861, entire y destroyed 11,500,000 Port au Prince, 1865, 450 buildings 57,000,000 Valparaiso, Chili, 1866, 500 buildings.... 13,000,000 Potland, Me., 1866, 800 buildings 10,000,000 Constantinople, 1867, 6,037 buildings.... 17,500,000 Charleston, 8. C., 1868, 1,158 buildings.. 3,000,000 Constantinople, 1870, 10,000 buildings... 25,000,000 Strasbourg, 1880, destroyed by Prussians 93,000,000 Paris, 1871, partially destroyed 140,000,(XX) Chicago, 1871, 18,000 buildings 200,000,000 Yeddo, Japan, 1872, 3,000 buildings 10,000,000 Nijini, Russia, 1872 40,000,000 Boston, Mass., 1872, 748 buildings. 80,000,' 00 London, England, 1874 15,(XX),(X)0 Yeddo, Japan, 1876, S,(XX) buildings 10,000,000