Tables Predicting Weather, Facts For Builders, Dates Of Fires And Periods Of Digestion. Greatest Fires Of Modern Times
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This section is from the book "Hill's Manual Of Social And Business Forms: A Guide To Correct Writing", by Thos. E. Hill. Also available from Amazon: Hill's Manual Of Social And Business Forms: The How-To-Do-Everything Book Of Victorian America.
Tables Predicting Weather, Facts For Builders, Dates Of Fires And Periods Of Digestion. Greatest Fires Of Modern Times
Date. | Year. | City. | Property Burned. | Values Destroyed. |
Sept. 2-6....... | 1666.. | London, Eng ....... | 13,300 Buildings.... | .$53,000,000 |
Sept. 27.......... | .1729.. | Constantinople ..... | 12,000 Buildings .... | .......... |
July 21........... | .1794.. | London, Eng ....... | 631 Buildings .... | .. 5,000,000 |
Sept. 14.......... | .1802.. | Liverpool Eng...... | .................. | .. 5,000,000 |
Sept. 15.......... | 1812. | Moscow, Russia .... | 12,000 Buildings.... | . 147,000,000 |
Dec. 16 ....... | 1835. | New York, N.Y..... | 674 Buildings ..... | .. 19,000,000 |
April 27.......... | .1838.. | Charleston, S.C..... | 1/2 the city ........ | .. .3,000,000 |
May 4-7......... | .1842.. | Hamburg, Ger...... | 1/3 the city ......... | .. 36,000,000 |
April 10 ......... | .1845.. | Pittsburgh, Pa ...... | 1,100 Buildings ..... | .. 10,000,000 |
May 28.......... | .1845.. | 1,650 Buildings ..... | 8,000,000 | |
June 28...... | .1845.. | Quebec, Canada..... | 1,365 Buildings..... | |
July 19........... | .1845.. | New York, N. Y.... | 450 Buildings ...... | .. .6,000,000 |
July 20........... | .1846.. | St. Johns, N.F...... | Most of the city ..... | .. 5,000,000 |
Aug. 17.......... | .1848.. | Albany, N.Y ....... | 600 Buildings ...... | .. 3,000,000 |
May 17 ....... | .1849.. | St. Louis, Mo...... | 1/3 the city ......... | 3,000,000 |
May 4......... | .1850 . | San Francisco, Cal... | .................. | .. 3,000,000 |
May 3............ | .1851.. | San Francisco, Cal... | 2,500 Buildings ..... | .. 3,500,000 |
June 22........ | .1851.. | San Francisco, Cal... | 500 Buildings......... | .. 3,000,000 |
July 12........... | .1852.. | Montreal, Canada... | 1,200 Buildings ..... | .. 5,000,000 |
Feb. 17........... | .1856.. | Charleston, S.C..... | Most of the city ..... | ... 8,000,000 |
June-July ...... | .1861.. | London, Eng ....... | Immense Wharves ... | .. 10,000,000 |
July 4............. | .1866.. | Portland, Maine..... | 1,600 Buildings..... | .. 15,000,000 |
Oct. 14........ | 1866. | Quebec, Canada..... | 2,517 Buildings...... | ........... |
Oct. 8-9.......... | .1871.. | Chicago, Ill........ | 25,000 Buildings .... | .290,000,000 |
Nov. 9-11 ..... | .1872.. | Boston, Mass....... | 959 Buildings ...... | . 100,000,000 |
July 14........... | .1874.. | Chicago, Ill........ | 346 Buildings ...... | 5,612,425 |
April 28.......... | .1875.. | Oshkosh, Wis ...... | One square mile ..... | .. 3,000,000 |
Oct. 26........... | .1875.. | Virginia City, Nev... | Bus. part of city ..... | .. 4,000,000 |
June 20-22..... | .1877.. | St. John, N.B...... | All Public Bldgs..... | .. 15,000,000 |
June 8......... | .1881.. | Quebec, Canada .... | 700 Buildings ...... | .. 2,000,000 |
Dec. 7............ | .1882.. | London, Eng........ | Bus. Bldgs. 1 block.. | .. 15,000,000 |
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