Saturday, May 23, 2009

Fires

St. Louis, April 9. – The wooden ware factory of Tanner & Merier burned last night. Loss fifty thousand dollars, insured fifteen thousand.

The distillery of Wonderly, Haydell & Co., at Carlonsville, Ills., with five hundred barrels of whiskey, burned on Monday morning. Loss on building and machinery thirty-five thousand dollars. No insurance.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Thursday, April 10, 1862

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