DISASTERS IN 1888. 



271 



7. Fire : farm-house burned near Sault St. Marie, 

 Mich., 4 lives l->t. 



','. Earthquake in Maryland. 



! k-aw rains destroy much property in the Mis- 

 'pi and Ohio valley >. 



11. Fire: diamond-mine at Kimherly, South Africa, 

 224 lives lost ; at Alpena, Mich., 1,300 people rendered 

 homeless. 



1-2. Kail way : broken bridge near Orange Court- 

 House, Va., 10 killed ; derailment and broken trestle 

 near Orange Court-House, Va., 9 killed, 22 injured. 

 Floods : in Pennsylvania, much damaoc done. 



13. Shipwreck:" British ship Star "of Greece, off 

 Adelaide, Australia, 17 lives lost. 



15. Volcanic eruption hi Japan, 500 lives lost (esti- 

 mated) ; violent storms in the northern United States. 



17. Railway : collision near Oxmoor, Ala., 2 killed, 

 8 injured. 



19. Storm: Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity, 23 

 lives lost. 



20. Explosion on board a tug-boat near Westport, 

 Ind., 7 lives lost. 



July 30. Volcanic eruption reported in Philippine 

 Islands, 100 lives lost (estinur 



Eailway : summary for the month, total number of 

 accidents" 157, killed'60, injured 169. 



August 1. Kailway: collision at Olive Hill, Ky., 3 

 killed. 3 injured. 



3. Fire : New York city, 20 lives lost. 



8. Railway : train derailed near Morgantown, Ind., 

 18 injured. "Fire : New York City, 4 lives lost. 



9. Fire: at Chattanooga, Tenn.," 5 lives lost. Yacht 

 upset on the Delaware river near Pennsville, N. J., 

 5 women drowned. 



10. Yellow fever becomes epidemic at Jacksonville, 

 Fla. 



11. Flood: reservoir bursts in Valparaiso, Chili, 50 

 lives lost. 



13. Railway: landslide near Shohola, Pa., -wreck 

 took fire, 1 killed, 33 injured. 



14. Shipwreck : collision off Nova Scotia, steamers 

 Thingvalla and Geiser, the latter sankj 117 lives lost. 



21. Floods: great damage in Louisiana and on the 

 upper Ohio. 



22. Shipwreck: collision off San Francisco, steamers 

 City of Chester and Oceanic, 20 lives lost. Boiler 

 explosion at Neenah, Wis., 14 killed, 9 injured. Tor- 



.-nado in the vicinity of Still Pond, Md.,'and in Dela- 

 ware, 11 lives lost. 



26. Railway: train derailed near Fort Buford, Dak., 

 5 injured C3 fatally). 



27. Railway : collision near Krum. Iowa, 3 killed, 

 4 injured. 'Shipwreck : Norwegian steamer Brats- 

 berg on Cape Balance, Gulf of St. Lawrence, 15 lives 

 lost. Fire in Hamburg, 6 lives lost. 



31. Shipwreck : collision, steamers Snaresbrook 

 and Cairo, off Tarifa, Spain, 11 lives lost. Water- 

 spout near Little Rock, Ark., 7 lives 1< ^t. 



Railway : summary for the month, total number of 

 accidents"222, killed "56, injured 2"2. 



September 1. Oil-tank b'ursts near Findlay, Ohio, 

 fire ensues, 3 lives lost. 



2. Fire in Baltimore, Md., 7 lives lost. Platform 

 falls at a religious meeting in Belgium, 3 killed, many 

 injured. 



4. Landslide, Monroe, N. H. , 5 killed. 



5. Railway: collision in France, 9 killed, 13 injured. 



9. Railway : collision near Waynesville, Ohio, cir- 

 cus train run into by freight train, 5 killed, 22 in- 

 jured, cause, fog. Fire in San Francisco, estimated 



. "00. Destructive floods in Spain. 



10. Railway : collision, excursion train run into by 

 freight trainj Rittman, Ohio, 4 killed, 25 injured. 

 Disastrous floods hi Mexico. 



11. Explosion in a Montana mine, 9 killed, 6 in- 

 jured, Destructive floods hi Georgia. Severe earth- 

 quake shocks in Greece. 



12. Railway: train derailed by cattle near Pocatel- 

 lo. Idaho, 3 k'illed, 11 injured. "Cyclone in Mexico. 



13. Shipwreck : collision, Stea'mers Sud America 



and La France off Canary Islands* 40 lives lost ^re- 

 ported ). Cyclone: Cuba. I/HAI lives lost (estin 

 Volcanic emotion and floods in the Philippine Islands, 

 several hundred lives reported lost. 



14. Railway : derailment, collision, and explosion, 

 two trains wrecked near Ankenytown, Ohio, 3 killed, 

 36 injured (several fatally). Destructive floods in the 

 Carolinas. 



17. Floods : Tyrol, Switzerland, 28 lives lost (esti- 

 mated). 



19. Railway: collision near East Winona, Wis., 18 

 injured ; accident in Hanover. 4 soldiers killed, many 

 injured. Fire in Queensland. alle_-( 



26. Fire: prairie fires consume many houses and 

 hundreds of acres of grain hi Dakota. Destructive 

 storm on the North Atlantic coast. 



i^7. Fire in Kronstadt, 14 lives lost. 



29. Destructive hurricane hi the West Indies. 



Railway : summary for the month, total number of 

 accidents"l28, killed 46, injured 223. 



October 2. Severe storm on the Great Lakes, several 

 lives lost, and many wrecks. 



5. Shipwreck : French fishing-bark Madeline run 

 down by steamship Queen. 21 lives lost. 



6. Railway : collision near Dickerson's Station, Md., 

 3 killed, 6 injured. 



7. Platform trives way at a church celebration in 

 Reading Pa., 158 injured. 



10. Railway : collision, excursion train, near Mui 

 Run, Pa.. 63 killed. 23 injured; Amphitheatre Falls at 

 Quincey, 111.. 300 injured. 



16. Railway: collision near Tamanend Switch. Pa., 

 10 killed, 23 'injured. 



17. Explosion and wreck : steamer Ville de Calais, 

 25 live- 



19. Railway : train derailed owing to a misplaced 

 switch near Washington, Pa., 2 killed, 23 injured. 



27. Railwav : train derailed near Alexander City, 

 Ala., 2 killed, 10 injured. 



29. Railway: collision near Pulaski, Ky., 3 killed, 

 several injured. 



Railway : summary for the month, total number of 

 accidents" 146, killed 120, injured 25 



November 2. Explosion : a thrashing - machine in 

 Bucks County, Pa., (3 killed. 



3. Explosion in a coal-mine in Avevron, France, 

 80 killed. 



4. Railway: collision near Marshall. Tex., Skilled} 

 2 injured; train derailed near Vicks burg. Miss.. 3 

 killed, 2 injured. Fire: at Godfrey, 111., young la- 

 dies' seminary burned, loss $250.i."X'. Explosion in 

 a mine in Clinton County, Pa., 17 killed. Shipwreck : 

 steamer Sasrnundian off Cowes, 22 lives lost. 



0. Explosion: in a mine near Frontenac, Kan., 

 39 killed. 



7. Shipwreck : steam ferry-boat sunk near Calcut- 

 ta, 60 lives lost. 



9. Fire : at Rochester. N. Y., 33 lives lost. Ex- 

 plosion: in a mine near Pittsburw, Kan. 1 150 killed. 



10. Shipwreck: collision off New York, steamer 

 Iberia sunk by the Umbria. 



12. Railway : collision near Rock Station, Wyo- 

 ming, 2 killed, 10 injured. 



14" Explosion : fire - damp in a mine near Dour, 

 Belgium, 32 lives lost. Railway : collision near Val- 

 ley Falls. W. Va., 5 killed, 4 injured. 



'16. Shipwreck: steamer off the coast of India, sup- 

 posed loss of 900 lives. Destructive storms on the 

 coast of Great Britain. 



20. Explosion : steam-boiler in Montana, 4 killed, 

 4 injured. 



23. Fire: business part of Eureka Springs. Ark., 

 estimated loss 200.000. 



24. Fire : Judson Female College. Madison, Ala. 



26. Railway : collision near Husted, Col., wreck 

 causrht tire, 2 killed, 4 injured. 



27. Wreck: a life- boat upsets off the English coast, 

 12 lives lost. 



30. Fire : in Calumet and Heck mine, Michigan, 8 

 lives lost. 



