Comments on: Disasters-List of Great Fires since the year 1212 http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2008/04/20/disasters-list-of-great-fires-since-the-year-1212/ Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Manitowoc County Genealogy and History Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:48:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ellen http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2008/04/20/disasters-list-of-great-fires-since-the-year-1212/#comment-52 ellen Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:49:06 +0000 http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2008/04/20/disasters-list-of-great-fires-since-the-year-1212/#comment-52 I found more fires as listed in the following news article: Decatur Weekly Republican (Decatur, Illinois) > 1883 > January > 18 The Newhall House fire in Milwaukee recalls the other disasters of the kind that haver recently transpired in this country; but the loss of life in all of them combined was insignificant in comparison with the Milwaukee holocaust. The greatest loss of life before was in the destruction of the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, on the morning of April 11, 1877. The fire in that hotel broke out at 1:30 a.m. and caused a loss of eleven lives and the entire destruction of the building. Among the other hotel fires have been those in the following house: St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, December 10, 1869 Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, December 16, 1872, eleven lives lost Ocean Hotel, Long Branch, N.J., March 1, 1879 Metropolitan Hotel, New York, January 23, 1881 Manhattan Hotel, New York, December 15, 1881 Parshall House, Titusville, Pa, April 15, 1882 Ocean Hosue, Swampscott, Mass, September 7, 1882 Cliff Hotel, Newport, R.I. August 26, 1882 Sturtevant House, New York, December 17, 1882 Pavillion Hotel, Staten Island December 17, 1882 I found more fires as listed in the following news article:
Decatur Weekly Republican (Decatur, Illinois) > 1883 > January > 18

The Newhall House fire in Milwaukee recalls the other disasters of the kind that haver recently transpired in this country; but the loss of life in all of them combined was insignificant in comparison with the Milwaukee holocaust. The greatest loss of life before was in the destruction of the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, on the morning of April 11, 1877. The fire in that hotel broke out at 1:30 a.m. and caused a loss of eleven lives and the entire destruction of the building. Among the other hotel fires have been those in the following house:
St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, December 10, 1869
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, December 16, 1872, eleven lives lost
Ocean Hotel, Long Branch, N.J., March 1, 1879
Metropolitan Hotel, New York, January 23, 1881
Manhattan Hotel, New York, December 15, 1881
Parshall House, Titusville, Pa, April 15, 1882
Ocean Hosue, Swampscott, Mass, September 7, 1882
Cliff Hotel, Newport, R.I. August 26, 1882
Sturtevant House, New York, December 17, 1882

Pavillion Hotel, Staten Island December 17, 1882

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