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Great Fires

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 22.

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Great Fires.

Following hard upon the news of the fire that nearly destroyed the city of Oshkosh, Wis., comes a report that the village of Meadville, Pa., has suffered a worse calamity. The place was hemmed in by the flames and the inhabitants escaped only by fighting their way through them. Two hundred houses burned, twelve hundred people rendered homeless. The amount of property destroyed in houses, coal, cars, &c., is put at over, 2,000,000. Insurance light.
Later accounts state that another village has been destroyed, the damage has reached the sum of 3,000,000, and the fires are still raging over the mountains in that section.