Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
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1808--Spanish Town: 7,500,000
1812--Moscow, burned five days; 30,800 houses destroyed: 150,000,000 1816--Constantinople, 12,000 dwellings, 3,000 shops: ---- 1820--Savannah: 4,000,000 1822--Canton nearly destroyed: ---- 1828--Havana, 350 houses: ---- 1835--New York ("Great Fire"): 15,000,000 1837--St. Johns, N. B.: 5,000,000 1838--Charleston, 1,158 buildings: 3,000,000 1841--Smyrna, 12,000 houses: ---- 1842--Hamburg, 4,219 buildings, 100 lives lost: 35,000,000 1845--New York, 35 persons killed: 7,500,000 1845--Pittsburgh, 1,100 buildings: 10,000,000 1845--Quebec, May 28, 1,650 dwellings: 3,750,000 1845--Quebec, June 28, 1,300 dwellings: ---- 1846--St. Johns, Newfoundland: 5,000,000 1848--Constantinople, 2,500 buildings: 15,000,000 1848--Albany, N. Y., 600 houses: 3,000,000 1849--St. Louis: 3,000,000 1851--St. Louis, 2,500 buildings: 11,000,000 1851--St. Louis, 500 buildings: 3,000,000 1851--San Francisco, May 4 and 5, many lives lost: 10,000,000 1851--San Francisco, June: 3,000,000 1852--Montreal, 1,200 buildings: 5,000,000 1861--Mendoza destroyed by earthquake and fire, 10,000 lives lost: ---- 1862--St. Petersburg: 5,000,000 1802--Troy, N. Y., nearly destroyed: ---- 1862--Valparaiso almost destroyed: ---- 1864--Novgorod, immense destruction of property: ---- 1865--Constantinople, 2,800 buildings burned: ---- |
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