Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1909 — WORK OF THE FLAMES [ARTICLE]

WORK OF THE FLAMES

JANUARY. IL Loss of 35,000,000 by the' burning of the Parker building in New York city; 3 firemen killed and many injured. 34. City hall and police building destroyed at Portland. Me.; loss 81,000,000. 37. Fire caused a loss of over 8800,000 in the wholesale district of Portland, Me. FEBRUARY. 5. Loss of 5500.000 by fire in the business district of Rochester, N. Y. Fire caused a loss of 3400,000 at Berlin, N. H. MARCH. L Fire swept over an area of 65 acres at Tampa, Fla., causing a loss of 3600,000. S. The famous Drury Lane theater burned in London. APRIL18. Fire destroyed 20 blocks in Chelsea, Mass; 13 deaths and a property loss of 810,000,000. MAY. ' 8. Loss of 31,500.000 by Are in the business district of Atlanta. 15. Loss of 81,250,000 by fire in the Omaha Packing Co.’s plant at South Omaha. JUN*. • 18. Plant of the Shelby Steel Tube Co. burned at Shelby, O.; loss 82,000,000. M. Loss of 81,000.000 by the burning of a grain elevator at Duluth. JULY. 8. Fire on the Boston piers caused a loss of 81A00,000. AUGUST. 8. Bush fires started a conflagration which swept over 100 square miles of territory in British Columbia; loss 87,000,000, and many deaths reported. Mi Fire in the business district of New Orleans caused a lose of 81.500,000. SEPTEMBER. . 8. Forest fires wrought destruction to towns and villages in Minnesota and Wisconsin; damage estimated at upward Of 36,000,000. 4. Fire destroyed the business section of Rawhide, Nev., causing a loss of 8750,000. 18. Fire destroyed the plant of the Cosmodale Cement Co. near Louisville, Ky.; loss 82.000,000. 1 OCTOBER. 14. Loes of 3500.000 by fire which nearly destroyed the town of Bisbee, Aril. Loss of 350C.010 by the burning of the Jenkins lumber mill plant at Blaine, Wash. 13. Fire in a lumber plant at Rock Island. 111., caused a loss of 8500.000. 18. The Colonnade and other buildings on th* Chautauqua assembly grounds at Jamestown. N. Y.. destroyed by fire; lose 81S.OOO •

MWIVJ®MnBTBR< | IX The Park theater, Brooklyn's flMsflt playhouse, burned. 18, Fire in the Tom Moore distillery warehouses at Bardstown, Ky„ caused a loss of 3400,000 on stock and 8150,000 government tax. | DECEMBER. A Malvern Hill, historic mansion on the Site of the battlefield of July 1, 1862, estroycd. Loss of 3500,000 by flames at the Grand Trunk railway docks, Portland, Me,