Show F OF HISTORY Most Host Calamitous Conflagrations in inthe i inthe the te Old and ad New Worlds Lis Weekly ekl The Th old worlds most not calamitous fire te vi was as that which took tok place in London in m 16 G 6 which destroyed detroye 10 build buildings bui lags ings Ings laid 40 streets waste and ren rest rendered dered persons homeless homle the loss lOs of life being bing 1000 10 1 and that tbt of property 40 conflagration in consumed 8 of the Iti buildings compelling OOOO 30 of o tb tb inhabitants to sleep sep on the te ground goun de do destroyed de 0 lives ami 1 d of prop property property erty rt and had political consequences which affected the history of 0 Europe It I brought Russian Russin cam campaign campaign paig to disaster caused cu a retreat in inthe inthe the dead of winter in which the lives lve of I 10 of his soldiers Idler were lost lot broke the spell of his invincibility and incited i ithe the new combinations against aist him hi which eventually resulted in his over overthrow OV throw New York City Cit bad had a fire in 18 which destroyed of property and one in 1 which inflicted a loss of OI 0 and an this was va followed by byone byone byone one in ISIS 15 in which 00 of proper property ty t wept went weft up in smoke Pittsburg had ha a ft fire fre in 1846 1 followed flowed by one in Albany which inflicted a damage of 53 in 1848 And n by one in St Louis Luis which destroyed of property in 1840 San Sa Francisco had two fires fire six bix weeks apart in 1861 inflicting a loss IOAS of HOO in the first and of in the th e second send The T Fourth of July eel cel celebration in Ut ise I caused cus in Portland Me Methe Methe the most mo destructive live five fe ever eer known kown on the American continent up to that time except New Yorks of 1835 18 Port lands l ng loss being O like Jack The T two two most mot calamitous fires fire ever known anywhere In the world work wol occurred in the United Unie States State within thirteen months of each other In the t first tt of or these thee in Chicago on Oct 89 89 1871 th the property loss lo was wa oM and in inthe inthe inthe the second in Boston on Nov 9 1872 Soo of or property was wa consumed In Chicago 11 persons were we left lef with without wih without out homes home and a were killed k Chica Chicago go heads th the list of the worlds de destructive destructive conflagrations but as a she sh had over 30 population in 1871 the te loss less lessIn lossIn In Jacksonville Jac onie in 1901 1501 with 28 20 pop population popUlation ulon is proportionately pr not ye very exy far farbelow farbelow Michigan below that or of the metropolitan on Lake Lae j |