The August Fire Loss
The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of August, 1912, as compiled from the carefully kept records of the Journal of Commerce, aggregates $ 14,158,800, as compared with $12,662,650 for the same month last year. The losses by fire since the first of January this year total $163,750,650, about four million dollars less than for the first eight months of 1911. The following table gives a comparison of the losses by months thus far this year with the figures for the same months in 1910 and 1911, together with the losses for the balance of those years;
There were some 262 fires during the month just closed which caused a property damage estimated at $10,000 or over in each instance. A detailed list of these fires appears on the insurance page, this issue, and a classification according to their destructiveness affords the following comparison:
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