Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — FIRE RECORD. [ARTICLE]

FIRE RECORD.

A record of the conflagrations shows that there were 181 fires in February where the loss was between SIO,OOO and $200,000, with one other fire of $500,000. Adding the January fire loss, this makes for two months $19,000,000, the loss in January being $12,000,000 and that of February $7,000,000. There were only eight fires in February where the loss reached or exceeded SIOO,OOO, but-there were twenty-six the destructiveness of which ranged between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO. The fire record for last week was as follows: TjQSBCS. Amesbury, Mass, Union Blocks 4£U<oo Lorain, Ohio, brass works 35,000 Mishawaka, Ind., wagon works 25,000 Chesterfield, 81., stores 50,000 Oil City, Pa., Opera House Block 50,000 LaGrange, Mo., grain warehouse 20,000 Lanrenburg, N. C., ten stores 40,000 Portland, Conn., stamping works 500,000 Utica, N. ¥., the Observer Building and nine other structures 800,000 Painted Post, N. Y., engine works 40,000 Weatherford, Texas, Court House 50,000 New Paltz, N. Y.. Academy Building 30,000 Canisteo, N. Y., six business buildings... 100,000 Fond du Lac, Wis., drug warehouse 10,000 Bastrop, La., steamboat 20,000 Pentwater, Mich., flouring mtll 25,000 Denton, Texas, hotel 20,000 Somerville, Mass., dye works 20,000 Waucedah, Mich., business property 10,900 Freeport, IIL, flouring mill 10,000 Seneca, Mo., five stores 10,000 Hannibal, Mo., four stores 20,000 Waterville, Me., wire factory 25,000 Horicon, Wis., grist mill 15,000 Pottstown, Pa., Academy Building 30,000 Providence, R. 1., yarn factory 20,000 Aukona, Minn., hotel 15,000 Detroit, Mich., dry goods store 10,000 Odessa, Mo., business property 50,000 Philadelphia, oil cloth factory 100,000 Rhinebeck, N. Y„ freight house 40,000