Note XXVII-89 — Chapter XXVII · CENTRAL AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 1886.

Four disastrous conflagrations visited the present city of Panamá prior to 1825; namely, in 1737, 1756, 1781, and 1821, the first being the work of incendiaries from Guat. Seemann's Voy., 288. Chagres was nearly all burned down Dec. 9, 1847. Polynesian, in S. F. Californian, iii. no. 4, Aug. 14, 1848. Gorgona was ruined in 1851. Panamá had property destroyed in 1856 valued at half a million dollars. Colon was afflicted in 1863 and 1868, and finally ruined by the incendiaries Prestan and others in 1885. Panamá had three great conflagrations; viz., June 5, 1870, Feb. 19, 1874, and March 6, 1878. The loss of property in the three probably exceeded four million dollars. Pan., Merc. Chronicle, March 29, 1868; Nic., Gaceta, Feb. 7, 1863; Apr. 25, 1868; June, 1870; Id., Boletin Ofic., June 18, Dec. 25, 1870; Jülfs, Die Seehäfen, 3; S. F. Chronicle, June 21, 30, 1870; March 10, 1878; S. F. Alta, July 1, 1870; Feb. 28, March 9, 1874; S. F. Call, June 9, 1870; March 9, 1874; Apr. 2, 1878; Pan. Star and Herald, Feb. 21, 24, 1874; Pan., Gaceta, July 10, 1874; March 17 to July 1, Dec. 15, 1878; Colombia, Diario Ofic., May 30, 1874, p. 1749; S. F. Post, Feb. 28, 1874; March 8, 1878.