DAVENPORT, May 6, 8 P. M. – The grain elevator in this city belonging to J. B. Townsend & Co., of Boston, containing 8,000 bushels of corn and wheat and 200 barrels of meat was totally destroyed by fire this evening. Loss, $15,000. Building and grain insured in New York offices for $7,000.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3
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