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DISASTERS IN 1890. 



ing the month that it sensibly increased the death 

 rate, and interfered with business all over the North- 

 ern States. 



Summary of railway accidents for January : 76 col- 

 lisions, 89 derailments, 6 miscellaneous; total, 171. 

 Killed : 51 employes, 15 passengers ; total, 66. Hurt : 

 123 employes, 102 passengers, 2 trespassers ; total ? 227. 



February 1. Explosion: Plymouth, Pa., 6 killed, 

 several hurt. Railway collision near Big Spring, Va., 

 2 killed. Fire : Boston, 9 killed, 10 hurt, some fa- 

 tally. .Railway bridge breaks near Cascade Locks, 

 Ore., 9 killed, 12 hurt. 



3. Fire: Washington, D. C., house of Secretary 

 Tracy burned, 3 lives lost. ' Kailway bridge breaks 

 near Peoria, 111., 3 killed. 



4. Cloud-burst on Yangtse river, China, about 100 

 drowned. 



5. Destructive floods in Oregon, business practi- 

 cally suspended in Portland for several days. Fire : 

 Jersey City, 40 families homeless. 



6. Explosion : coal mine, Abersychan, Wales, 190 

 killed. Kailway bridge near Vincennes, Ind., car- 

 ried away by a flood ; train runs into the gap, 2 

 killed, 2 hurt. Train derailed near liinton, W. Va. 

 Telegraph office knocked into the river, 3 drowned. 



7. V iolent storm with wind, hail, and snow in west- 

 ern Pennsylvania, much damage done. Slight earth- 

 quake in New Jersey. Land slides in southern Ore- 

 gon. Railroad collision near Dermot, Ark., 3 killed. 



8. Fire : Paterson, N. J., loss, $150,000. Train de- 

 railed near Glade Spring, Va., 1 killed, 5 hurt. 



9. Train derailed near Pembroke, Va., 2 killed, 1 

 hurt. Fire : Paris, the palace of Marie de Navarre. 



10. Many oystermen wrecked in Chesapeake Bay. 



12. Kailway collisions: near Coaling, Ala., 1 killed, 

 13 hurt; near Placerville, Col., 3 killed. 



13. Locomotive boiler bursts near Douglass, Pa., 2 

 killed, 3 hurt. 



14. Fire : University of Toronto, Canada, burned. 

 Drowned: a wedding party of 10, near Pontivy, 

 France. 



15. Kailway collision near Melville, Tenn., 2 killed, 

 Ihurt. 



17. Shipwreck: British steamer Duburg, in the 

 China Sea, 400 lost. 



18. Railway collision near Bairdstone, Ohio, 3 

 killed. Shipwreck: Steamers Coral Queen and Bri- 

 nio in collision, about 25 lives lost. Colliery explo- 

 sion near Decize, France, 43 killed, 8 hurt. 



19. Shipwreck: British steamer Highgate sunk in 

 collision off Wales, 6 lives lost. 



21. Shipwreck : British ship Sovereign, about 30 

 lives lost. 



22. Explosion : a steam boiler in Omaha, 2 killed, 

 several hurt. Railway accident: at Galansville, Va., 

 2 killed, 6 hurt. Runaway horse at Elizabeth, N. J., 

 2 women killed. 



23. Faulty construction : storage reservoir gives way 

 on Hassayampa river, Arizona, 40 drowned, $1,000,- 

 000 damages. Fire : on a New York canal boat, a 

 mother rescues her five children, all badly burned, 1 

 dies. 



26. Train derailed near Roanoke, Va., 11 hurt. 



Summary of railway accidents in February : 64 col- 

 lisions, 55 derailments, 9 miscellaneous; total, 128. 

 Killed : 50 employe's, 3 trespassers ; total, 53. Hurt : 

 111 employe's, fio passengers, 4 trespassers ; total, 180. 



March 1. Destructive flood in the Ohio river. Ship- 

 wreck : British steamer Quctta goes ashore in Torres 

 straits. 



2. Snow-storms on the north Atlantic coast from 

 Maine to Virginia. 



3. Fire in colliery near Wilkosbarre, Pa., 8 lives 

 lost. 



5. Train derailed near Washburn, Minn, 3 killed. 



6. Heavy wind and snow in the Middle and Eastern 

 States and killing frosts in the South. Railway col- 

 lision near Bay view, N. Y., train parts and the two 

 sections crash together, 6 killed, 17 hurt. 



7. Floods of unusual height in all the Western riv- 

 ers. 



13. Explosion: dynamite near Rockville Center.. 

 L. I., 2 killed, 6 hurt. 



14. Land slide: near Charleston, W. Va., 2 killed. 

 Train derailed by fallen bowlder near Black llund,. 

 Ohio, 1 killed, 7 hurt. 



15. Bridge breaks at Glens Falls, N. Y.. several 

 hurt. Land slide : Warren Hill, N. Y., 3 killed. 



16. Railway collision near Inland, Neb., 2 killed. 



17. The Mississippi bursts its levees in several 

 places. Drowned: 2 students of Yale College while 

 sailing near New Haven. Fire: Indianapolis, 12 killed 

 by falling walls. 



19. Heavy snow-storm on the north Atlantic coast. 



21. Broken trestle near Cordova, Ala., 1 killed, 6 

 hurt. 



22. Floods in the Ohio river. Much damage from 

 floods in Italy. Railway collision near Portage, N. 

 Y., 4 killed, 5 hurt. Train derailed near Terra Cotta 

 Junction, Kan., 10 hurt. 



23. Floods unabated in the Western rivers. 



24. Railway collisions : near Kings Mountain, N. C... 

 causes explosion of gasoline tank car, 3 killed ; ana 

 near Nashville, Tenn., 2 killed, 2 hurt. 



25. Train derailed near Heron, Montana, 1 killed, 7 

 hurt. 



26. Additional breaks in the Mississippi levees, 

 much distress and many fatal accidents. 



27. Tornadoes : in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and 

 Tennessee. At Louisville, Ky., a path 1,000 feet 

 wide is cut through the city, about 100 killed, 300 

 to 500 hurt. Many more lives lost in small towns 

 in the tornado track. 



29. New crevasses on the Mississippi. The Yazoo 

 delta flooded. 



Summary of railway accidents for March : 67 col- 

 lisions, 93 derailments, 11 miscellaneous ; total, 171. 

 Killed : 35 employes, 7 passengers, 2 trespassers ; total, 

 44. Hurt : 95 employes, 67 passengers, 3 trespassers ; 

 total, 165. 



April 2. Colliery explosion at Nanticoke, Pa., 3 

 killed, 6 hurt. 



3. Train derailed near Shaw, W. Va., 1 killed, 5 

 hurt. 



4. Train derailed near St. Charles, Mo., 15 hurt. 

 Violent rain and wind in the Mississippi valley, much 

 damage to property. 



5. Fresh crevasses open in the Mississippi levees. 

 A yacht upsets off Toronto, Canada, all hands lost. 



6. Land slide near St. Johnsville, N. Y., 4 killed. 



8. Derrick falls at West Point, Ky., 4 killed. Wind 

 and hail damage property in the West. 



9. Tornado in Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and 

 Virginia, 12 killed, many hurt, and much property 

 destroyed. Destructive floods in west Pennsylva- 

 nia. 



10. Shipwreck : collision, steamships Avoca and 

 North Cambria, off the English coast. 



14. Fires : Des Moines, Iowa. Gilbert Starch Works- 

 burned, loss, $100,000, 3 killed; gas works burned 

 in Madrid, Spain. 



15. Shipwreck: steamship Shakarah ; cargo total 

 loss, value $400,000. 



17. Fire at Orianenburg, Russia; the imperial pal- 

 ace burned, 7 killed. 



19. Railway collision near Barncsville, Ohio, 1 

 killed, several hurt. 



21. Train derailed near Hibbard, Mo., 7 hurt. 



22. Levees break in the vicinity of New Orleans, 

 La., several drowned, many houses swept away. 



23. Tornadoes in New Hampshire and Texas. 



24. Earthquake on the Pacific coast. Fire in a silk 

 mill at Catasauqua, Pa.; falling walls kill 4, hurl 15. 

 The Mississippi continues to burst its levees. 



25. Cloud-burst at Gainesville, Texas, much dam- 

 e done. 



27. Hail in Baltimore, nearly all exposed windows 

 broken. 



28. Earthquake at Lisbon, Spain. Runaway rail- 

 way train near Staunton, Va., 1 killed, 8 hurt. 



29. Fire : steamer H. B. Plant burned on St. Johns- 

 river, Fla., several lives lost. 



