Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — FIRE RECORD. [ARTICLE]

FIRE RECORD.

The fire record of the week, as reported by telegraph, is as follows: Loss. Elmira, N.Y., Arcade building $15,000 Albert Lea, Minn., two stores 10,000 Middle Falls, N. Y., leather-board mill.. 80,000 Mound City, 111., flour mill 12,000 Phillipsburg, Ohio, glass works 125,000 Rome, N. Y., two stores -0,000 Toronto, two grain elevators 255,000 Belmont, Wls., hotel and stores 25,000 Goodwin, Dakota, two hotels 17,000 Minneapolis, Minn., warehouse 20,000 Uvalde, Tex., several stores 15,000 Leadville, Col., railway round house 60,000 Searcy, Ark., stores and shops 20.000 Buffalo, N. Y.. planing mill 25,000 Pueblo, Col, livery stable and dwellings. 20,000 Nashville, Tenn., business block 20,000 Alliance, Ohio, several stores 50,000 St Louis, Mo., Nelson’s plumbing goods manufactory 95,040 Brookfield, Mass., shoe factory 40,000 Gowanda, N. Y., flouring mill 35,000 St Paul, Minn., furniture factory.. 10,000 Camden, N. Y., lithographic works 60,000 Ohio, flouring mill 20,000 Detroit, Midi., Swan's restaurant 30,000 Lonoke, Ark., ten stores 60,000 Niagara Falls, oil warehouse 10,000 Mt Pleasant, Ont., Croaker’s store 30,060 Jackson, Miss., business block 25,000 South Toledo, Ohio, Pearl flouring mills. 30,000 San Francisco, milling property 125,000 Stamford, Ct, private residence 30,000 Rockport, Ind., flour mill 15,000 Fire Losses for January. The details of January fires In the United States show an aggregate of $12,000,000 destroyed during the month. Of this amount $10,200,000 was burned up by 284 flies, where the reported loss was from slo,r 000 upward. No such' fire waste in a single month has occurred since. 1872, as far as the records show, except in January, 1879, and July, 1877. There-were twenty fires in January where the reported loss was, SIOO,OOO or more, the- total of the twenty fires being $3,250,000, or more than one-fourth of the month’s total Are waste.