Date
|
Fire
|
| 1848 - May 7 |
Hodson Brewery
& home of William Hodson, Janesville |
| 1850 |
Richardson Mill,
on the raceway, Janesville |
| 1853 - April |
Stevens House,
Janesville |
| 1865 - Nov. |
Janesville Steam
Brewery |
| 1867 - Jan. 12 |
Hyatt House, Janesville;
maid Maggie Emerson dies |
| 1868 (Abt.) |
Rufus M. Hollister
of Janesville lost thirty-seven U.S. bonds in a fire (house or
business fire?) |
| 1868 |
American House,
Janesville |
| 1870 - April 15 |
William Schenck
home struck by lightning & burned to ground (Sect. 27, La
Prairie Twp.) |
| 1871 - June 29 |
"Big Mill"
(a Janesville flour at the west end of today's Milwaukee Street
Bridge) |
| 1872 |
Janesville Steam
Brewery |
| Janesville ice
skating rink (corner of S. Main & S. Second Sts.) |
| Elijah Hull lumberyard
store in Lima Center |
| C&N Railway
Passenger Depot (day after the ice skating rink fire) |
| 1878 |
"old Williams
house burned to the ground" in Janesville |
| 1879 |
"First disastrous
fire" in Clinton |
| 1888 |
Wisconsin Shoe
Co., Janesville |
| 1889 - Feb. 20 |
Myers Opera House,
Janesville |
| 1897 - May 5 |
Henry Preston home,
1 miles south of the Manchester Free Church, is a total loss
(insurance covered $400 of the estimated $800 loss) |
| 1900 - June 15 |
Wisconsin Carriage
Co. plant, Wall Street, Janesville |
| 1900 - Sept. 10 |
Choate-Hollister
Furniture Co., Janesville |
| 1901 - March 25 |
Gasoline engine
at Janesville Barbed Wire Co. explodes killing Jim Horn and Daniel
Preller |
| 1902 - Feb. 4 |
Janesville Street
Railway Co. shops & barn |
| 1902 - Feb. 23 |
F. M. Marzluff
& Co. shoe factory (estimated loss $55,000) |
| 1902 - Jan. 30 |
Isabel Co. (estimated
loss $30,000) |
| 1904 - April 23 |
Janesville Art
Study Co., near Monterey in Janesville |
| 1908 - Jan. 18 |
Julius Marquese
& Co. tobacco warehouse (estimatd loss $250,000); 3 firemen
injured |
| 1908 - March 5 |
L. L. Olds seed
warehouse, Clinton (estimated loss $50,000) |
| 1908 - July 31 |
Resseguie & Decker farms
tobacco warehouse & other buildings, Milton Ave., Janesville
(estimated loss $72,000) |
| 1909 - Jan. 10 |
Christian church,
Footville (estimated loss $4,000) |
| 1909 - Oct. 11 |
Milton Junction
acetylene gas plant explodes (estimated loss $3,000); no injuries |
| 1910 - Jan. 9 |
Mrs. Julius Deitche
& 2-year-old daughter, Tina, killed in kerosene fire explosion |
| 1910 - July 13 |
Harden & Poleys
butcher shop fire, Clinton |
| 1911 - Jan. 9 |
Abel Fisher's tobacco
warehouse, Janesville (estimated loss $30,000) |
| 1911 - June 3 |
Hough Shade's paint
shop, Janesville (estimated loss less than $1,000) |
| 1911 - Aug. 10 |
Thunderstorm's
lightning causes many barns in county to catch fire; livestock
destroyed (estimated loss $12,000) |
| 1912 - Jan. 21 |
Fire at Stowell
Cottage, Beloit College campus; Miss Katherine Jeffris puts it
out & rescues two other girls |
| 1912 - Feb. 13 |
Bassett & Echlin
saddlery plant, Janesville (estimated loss $140,000) |
| 1912 - April 14 |
Doty & Feed
Mill on Milwaukee St., Janesville (estimated loss $10,000) |
| 1913 - April 1 |
Milwaukee St. bridge,
Janesville |
| 1913 - Sept. 8 |
St. Paul railway
station, Milton (struck by lightning) |
| 1914 - Dec. 31 |
Hotel, hardware
store and H. B. Crandall meat market, Milton (estimated loss
$10,000) |
| 1915 - Feb. 23 |
Indianford's hydro-electric
plant destroyed by fire |
| 1915 - Nov. 2 |
Former home of
Burr Robbins, Spring Brook, Janesville (estimated loss $1,500) |
| 1920 - Dec. 5 |
Gas explosion in
Beloit |
| 1925 - March 2 |
Fire in Janesville;
fireman Edward Lichtfus dies |
| 1931 - Oct. 18 |
Fire in the WCLO
studio in the Janesville Gazette building |
| 1934 - Aug. 6 |
Fire destroys historic
hotel on Thomas Frusher property in Union Twp. |
| 1934 - Nov. 6 |
Fire causes smoke
damage in beauty shop at 7½ East Main in Evansville |
| $10 damage from
floor fire in White Star School in Porter Twp. |
| 1937 |
Fire destroys North
Milton Rural School |
| 1948 - Jan. 14 |
Fire destroys Lima
Center (Gates Bros. Lumber, Dadmun Feed Mill, Earl Reese's General
Store, the post office and Della Bowers' home destroyed; town
hall, telephone office and two welding & auto repair shop
escape damage) |
| 1948 - May 13 |
Two warehouses
of the Green Tobacco Co., Janesville, burn ($750,000 damage -
Janesville's most costly fire at the time) |
| 1948 - July 19 |
Fire at Rural Electric
Association office and Bowman Dairy, Janesville |
| 1959 |
Schleuter Co.,
Janesville; fireman Bill Finnane dies; two others (Paul Finley
& Lt. John Shea) injured |
| 1963 - April 20 |
Fire at Pruden Products Co.,
Evansville |
