Cheat Conflagrations

Lohdöii, 6pt. 2-8, Kifcttty-nlnê ehurche, many public buildings and 13,200 hoilses destroyed; 400 strfeeta laid waste; 200,000 persons homeiess, The rulns corered 436 acres. New York, Dec. 16, 1835.- Six hundred buildings; loss, $20,000,000. Sept 6, 1839.- $10,000,000 worth of property. Plttsburg, April 10, 1845.- One thous&nd buildings; loss, $6,000,000. Philadelphia, July 9, 1850.- Three hundred and flfty buildings; loss, $1,500,000; 25 persons killed; 9 drowned; .20 wounded. St. Louis, May 4, 1851.- Large portion of the city burned; loss, $15,000,000. San Francisco, May 3-5, 1851.- Two thousand flve hundred buildings; loss, $3.500,000; many Uves lost. June 22, 1851.- Five hundred buildings; loss, $3,000,000. Santiago, Spain, Dec. 8, 1863.- A flro n the church of the Campania, beginning amld combustible ornamenta; 2,000 persons killed, moatly women. Charleston, S. C, Feb. 17, 1865.- Almost totally deatroyed, with large quantlties of naval and military stores. Richmond, Va., April 2 and 3, 1885.- In great part destroyed by flre at time of confedérate evacuatlon. Portland, Me., July 4, 1866.- Almost entirely deatroyed; loss, $15,000,000. Chicago, Oct. 8 and 9, 1871.- Throe and one-half square miles laid waste; 17,450 buildings destroyed; 200 persons killed; 98,500 made homeiess. July 14, 1874.- Another great flre; loss, $4,000,000. Great forest flres in Michigan and Wiaconsin, Oct. 8-14, 1871.- Two thousand 11 ves lost. Boston, Nov 9-11, 1872.- Eight hundred buildings; loss, $73,000.000; 15 killed. Fall River, Mass., Sept. 19, 1874.- Great factory flres; 60 persons killed. St. John, N. B., June 21, 1876.- Loss, $12,500,000. Brooklyn Theater burned, Dec. 5, 1876. - Three hundred llves lost. Seattle and Spokane, Wash., 18S9.- About $10,000,000 each.