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Newspaper
Ashtabula Telegraph
Location
Ashtabula, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1874
Page
2
A large oil factory fire in Chicago Tuesday afternoon devastated an area of sixty acres, destroying wooden buildings and forcing hundreds homeless. Firemen fought persistent flames driven by a southwest wind, with damage concentrated in a district spared by the 1871 blaze, while speculation swirled about regional railroad leadership and public inquiries into Henry Ward Beecher.
The Cuyahoga County Grand Jury returned eight hundred twenty five indictments against liquor dealers. Various national figures and events are noted, including President Grant and Mrs Grant sailing for Saratoga, reactions to hydrophobia, and political commentary on Ohio and national figures. Beech er scandal, Erie Railway matters, and a long string of political and legal notices fill the page with names and issues of the era.
A blaze at Weehawken on the morning of the 1st destroyed all oil in tanks at the N Y and Erie oil deposits. Two hundred men were set to work tearing up rails while firemen saved the brick water house. A temporary dock is being built above the old wharf. Total losses include eighty five thousand barrels of oil and about sixty thousand barrels of naphtha, with an estimated total loss of two hundred thousand dollars. Superintendant Sweet expects shipping by the next morning.
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