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497 deaths by fire in 1911. Ja 7

Equitable Bldg.; loss $18,000,000. Ja 9

Liberty Knitting Mills, Bklyn.; loss $50,000. Ja 9

Terminal Storage Company Warehouse destroyed; loss est. $1,250,000. Ja 17

4 East side tenements burn; loss $300,000. F 10

Pan-Hellenic, Greek newspaper, 1 building destroyed, 3 damaged; loss $250,000. F 11

St. Nicholas Auto Depot; 30 machines destroyed; loss bet. $50,000 and $75,000. F 18

Bklyn. tar plant burns; loss $300,000. F22

2 die in tenement fire; loss $15,000. Mr. 1

Blaze in Church of Messiah ; $10,000 damage. Mr 2

Boarding house destroyed, 1 dead, 1 hurt. Mr 3

Tenement burned. 2 dead, 6 injured. Mr 3

2 suffocated, 5 injured in waterfront hotel. Mr 24

Five story manufacturing building destroyed; loss $200,000. Mr 26

Fire in Mercer St. factory bldg.; loss $200,000. Mr 27

Commissioner Johnson's rept, shows losses of over $12,000,000 in 1911, large increase over 1910 Ap7

Explosion in varnish concern followed by fire; loss, $10,000. Ap 14

Woman and 2 children burned to death in tenement blaze. Ap 24

200 women in loft fire, none injured; loss $10,000. Ap 26

Man leaps to death in Bowery fire; loss $15,000. Ap 26

Builders' Exchange Bldg. burns; loss est. $350,000. Ap 29

West Broadway loft bldg. burns; loss $50,000. Ap 29

3 tenement houses in same vicinity damaged. My 15

Fire on Vandewater St. fought from Brooklyn Bridge. Je 3

Several amusement places at Brighton Beach burn; loss est. $25,000. Je5

Isidor Steinareulzer, thought chief Harlem firebug, arrested. Je 21

$100,000 loft fire. Jl 10

Old Beck Presbyterian Church burns. Ag 8

Pier burns; $100,000 loss. Ag 10

Girl jumps from window, killed, as firemen break door. S 10

Market block burns; loss estimated, $100,000. S 16

Loft fire causes $115,000 loss. O 4

Chemical plant burns, Brooklyn; loss estimated, $175,000; 6 hurt. O 17

"Westminster Abbey" curio shop burns. N 9

Explosion in Union Sulphur Co., Brooklyn, burns 3 blocks; 13 hurt, 7-8 missing; loss, $1,000,000. N 25

2 dead, 2 hurt. 5 missing in tenement fire. D 3

1 dead, 4 hurt in oil works fire, Greenpoint. D 11

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Hat works burn, loss $100,000. N 30

4 hurt in leather works fire. D 13

Rush bldg. destroyed; loss, $100,000. D 18

2 dead in $200,000 fire. D 29

Several buildings destroyed; loss $35,000. Mr 6

Business district partly burned; loss estimated, $600,000. Jl 2

Fire in office building; loss $150,000. Ja 8

Wharf and 3 buildings burn; 1 dead; loss, $300,000. Ag 29

Evicted, man fires lodging house; dies in flames. Ag 21

Beach resort burned; loss estimated, $1,000,000. S 3

12 reported missing. S 5

Building destroyed in principal retail blocks; loss $350,000. Ap 13

Hotel destroyed; loss $250,000. Ja 14

Pasadena hotel destroyed; loss, $250,000. Ja 15

Northern Pacific R. R. icing plant burns; $100,000 loss. Ag 11

Department store and 5 other buildings burn; loss $500,000. D 15

Silk factories burn, loss $100,000. D 22

3 large factory buildings burn; loss $1,000,000. F4

Summer home of Barclay H. Warburton in suburbs destroyed; loss $60,000. F 6

Wharves and railroad property; loss, $1,000,000. O 1

Pottery, alleged oldest U. S. business concern, burns. O 22

Automatic alarm fails; dozen houses burn. O 24

$400,000 fire. D 12

Girl, 4, saves brother, 2, from burning house. D 23

See also

$300,000 Academy of Music destroyed. Ja 27

W. J. Butterfield's home burns; loss $100,000. F 4

Water front threatened; 2 vessels burn; loss $100,000. Je 30