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Show GENERAL. I txteusive Fires. XorwV.k, Ct., 21. The lire at Sun tb Xorwalk, this morninu, destroyed de-stroyed Tounsbury Bro's shoe factory, the i-'airlk-ld fire insurance office and a frame building of C. A. Lauder. Total li,s, $120,1 M0. Osceola, Pa., 21. The insurance of the Murshaunon land and lumber company, whose property was dc-. dc-. '.loved yesterday, amounts to 1,-fcvO.000 1,-fcvO.000 in eastern and foreign companies. com-panies. Pottsville, La., 21. A fire in the vicinity of Elabgowan colliery, de-stroyLtl de-stroyLtl twelvo miners' boosts this morning. Tyrone, Pa., 21. The fire is still ragiug furiously throught tho woods. About 2-"0 bouses were consumed iu Oaceoln, and 400 families are rendered ren-dered homeless. Great praise is given to D. D. Wood, train-master at Tyro-ie, who loaded a lot ol box cats with men, women and children nnd sent them past the burning forest at fast speed to Pbillipsburg. Four trips were made and about a thousand people peo-ple taken to a pi ice of safety, l'loutz- dale, six miles from Osceola, is reported re-ported entirely destroyed. Tno lire is spreading rapidly beyond Houiz-dale, Houiz-dale, and at 'the latest accounts had reached Parsonville, six miles from there. The treble work on the railroad rail-road from Osceola to HouUdale is burned 0 tha t no coal can be shipped lor some time. A meeting will be held to raise funds for the suflVrers. Tbo heaviest losers by the Osceola lire are as follows: Pennsylvania railroad rail-road company. S&3.000; Liveright, Single fc Co., SoO.OOO; Heims Co., S30000; Jno. K. Whito, $2o,000; Isaac Taylor, $20,000; Walker Bros., $15,000; Dr. D. K. Good, $10,000; G. M. Brisbin, $14,000; L. 8. C. Single, Sin-gle, $10,000; Jas. H. Lip toe, $11,000: L. A. Ciist. $:l,000; Jno. Elliott Sl Co., $12,000: S. C. Henderson, $10,-000; $10,-000; Emmet Sagers, $S,000; Presbyterian Presby-terian church, $3,000, and a host ot smaller amounts. The insurance on the mills will reach probably a quarter oi a million outside of the Mor.-hannon land and lumber company's com-pany's mills. The Morshanuon miil is placed in Philadelphia, and the insurance will reeh about $300,-000. $300,-000. Later reports says a woman named Stonebergen was burned to death. |