Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1907 — FIRES [ARTICLE]

FIRES

FEBRUARY. ft The Union elevator in East St. Louis destroyed by fire; loss, $1,500,000. 17. Fire in the Duluth elevator plant caused a lose of $1,000,000. 22. Fire in the San Francisco lighting plant caused a loss of $1,000,000. 25. Fire in the plant of the Intercolonial railway at Moncton, N. 8., caused a loss of $1,000,000. MARCH. 26. Wrangel, Alaska, nearly wiped out by fire. 27. The steamer Plymouth of the Fall River line, with other properties, burned at Newport. R. I.; loss, $1,000,000. 28. Fire in the business section of Johnstown. Pa., caused a loss of SBOO,OOO. MAT. U. A 83,000,000 Are in the leather district of Paris. 18. Forest fires devastated over 400 square miles of territory in Michigan. 2ft Loss of $1,000,000 by the burning of New York's chief refuse destroying plant on Barren Island. 2ft A 8850,000 blaze in the business district of Ogden, Utah. 2ft Fairbanks. Alaska, suffered a loss of $1,000,000 by fire in the business section. JULT. ft The famous St. Michael's church in Hamburg burned. OCTOBER. 19. Fire destroyed several public buildings In Altoona, Pa., causing a loss of $500,000. NOVEMBER. 7. Loss of 81.000,000 by the burning of a dry goods block in Hamilton, O. Plant of the Harvest King Distilling company burned in Kansas City; loss, 8400,000. Ift Fire caused a loss of $500,000 in the business district of Scranton. Lehigh Valley coal dock burned in Chicago; loss, $957,000. 18. Fire in the business district of Peoria, 111., caused a loss of $840,000. DECEMBER. ft Loss of $500,000 in a factory lire at Lynn, Mass.

» •. 4 1. The Chi Psi fraternity house of the Cornell students, the finest aul most elaborate chapter house in the world (formerly the Flske-Magraw mansion), burned at Utica; 7 deaths.