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                            LOSSES BY FIRE
                          
                 HALF THE TOWN OF MUSKEGON DESTROYED
                          --FIRES ELSEWHERE
                        
                A fire in Muskegon, Mich., yesterday de-
              stroyed nearly half the city.  The fire was in the
              portion of the city consisting of wooden buildings,
              and comprising the old town.  The best portion, to-
              gether with all the mills, escaped. The fire origi-
              nated in Hart's boot and shoe store, at the corner of
              Western avenue and Terrace street.  Thence the
              flames swept away everything up to the Chicago
              and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad depot.  Nearly
              200 places of business and about 100 dwellings were
              destroyed.  No estimate of the loss has yet been
              made.  The insurances are comparatively light,
              states that the principal losers by the fire are J.A.
              Hart, Peck & Murphy, L.A. Sawyer, A. Perrensky.
              A special dispatch to the Detroit Free Press
              Wm. Krek, N.A. Ruel, J. Jacobs, P. Covert & Co.,
              M.P. Booth, National Hotel, D. Guinn, D. Blake,
              Hubert & Co., Wm. Marten, Otto Krebs, Garvey
              Bros., Wm. Sprigg, Forest City Hotel, Frank Scott,
              M. Kochling, Wm. Fleming, A. Towl, J. Bronson,
              Robt. Black, J. Lenhoff, J.P. Thebiout, J. Anthony
              Cooper, A. Jordan, W.A. Sibley, and C.S. Hil-
              bourne.  A large number of saloons were burned,
              and those that are left have been closed by order of
              the Mayor, on account of the great number of intox-
              icated persons on the streets.  Only three brick
              buildings were destroyed.
                New York Times, New York, N.Y., August 2, 1874
                
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