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Show Fire Record for Last Year. Tho fact that when a servant be-cornea be-cornea master a cruel foe Is suddenly dovcloped Is attested by tho dreadful havoc and loss of llfo occasioned by flro In tho United States within tho 12 months covered by n summing up of these kisses for I90C. This record shows that nearly 7,000 lives were lost nnd mure than 1100,000,000 worth of property was destro)cd by flro during dur-ing that period In no other country In tho world Is the tiro loss. In bulk or pro rata, an) w hem near our own Ijt year, owing to tho devastating flro that followed the earthquake In I Ban Kranclsco, this loss was In great S excess ot tho average, hut tho averago for soma years past has been (200, ..-v 000.000 a year. |