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Summary of railway accidents in April : 64 col- 

 .sion.s, 67 derailments, 4 miscellaneous; total, 135. 

 [illed : 13 employes, 2 passengers. Hurt : 81 emp- 

 oye"s, 59 passengers ; total, 140. 



May 4. Fire : 22 business houses burned in Gilboa, 



I. Y. 



5. Train derailed near Butte, Montana, 3 killed, 1 



Tornado : Salt Creek, Texas, almost destroyed, 

 iy killed. Fires : Singer Sewing Machine Works 

 irned, Elizabeth, N. J., 3,500 out of work ; Longue 

 *oint Insane Asylum, Canada, about 100 lives lost. 

 7. Kail way collision near Allentown, Pa., 2 killed, 

 hurt. 



10. Storms of great violence at the West, many 

 illed, 19 dwelling houses wrecked at Akron, Ohio. 



11. Tornado in Kansas, several killed. Fires : 

 rovernment property burned at Willet's Point, N. Y.* 

 , large part of Elliotville, N. Y., burned. Floods in 



the river Darling, Australia. Locomotive boiler 

 bursts at Buffalo, N. Y., 2 killed. 



12. Train derailed near Clayton, Mo., 2 killed, 1 

 hurt. 



13. Locomotive boiler bursts near Shamokin, Pa., 

 3 killed. Explosion of balistite near Turin, Italy, 9 

 killed. 



17. Train derailed near Danville, Ky., 3 killed. 

 Explosion : steam boiler bursts at Marseilles, France, 

 .3 killed. 



18. Explosion: powder magazine in Havana, 34 

 killed, about 100 hurt. Shipwreck : steamer Harold 

 founders oif the Irish coast. 



20. Heavy storms in the North Atlantic States. A 

 dam gives way in Maine, many houses unroofed. 

 Train derailed near North Stratford, N. H., 2 killed. 

 Eailway collision near Elizabeth Furnace, Pa., 1 killed, 

 2 hurt. 



23. Railway collisions: near South Lyme, Conn., 1 

 killed, 3 hurt; near Sheffield^ Mo., 8 hurt. 



24. Rain, hail, and wind ot destructive violence in 

 many States. At Lucas, Ohio, the storm exploded 

 -dynamite, 2 killedj 25 hurt. Earthquake in the Mo- 

 hawk valley. Railway collision near Troy, 111., 1 

 killed, 4 hurt. 



25. Floods in Morocco, many lives lost. Train de- 

 railed near Paola, Kan., 2 killed, 2 hurt. 



26. Storms in Germany, 5 killed by lightning, 16 

 drowned. Train derailed near Soldier Summit, Utah, 

 6 men badly hurt by jumping. 



30. Open railway drawbridge near Oakland, Cal., 

 engineers " skylarking," 13 passengers drowned, en- 

 gine men save their nves by jumping. Faulty con- 

 struction : dam gives way on Sevier river, Utah, large 

 damage to farms. 



31. Fire: " Summer Palace " burned at Fort Worth, 

 Idaho, 1 killed, many hurt. 



Summary of railway accidents in May : 68 collisions, 

 56 derailments, 5 miscellaneous; total, 129. Killed: 

 43 employes, 19 passengers, 3 trespassers. Hurt: 

 102 employes, 36 passengers, 2 trespassers ; total, 140. 



June 3. Storms devastate wide tracts in Illinois, 

 Iowa, and adjacent States. Tornado in Bradshaw, 

 Neb., 15 lives lost. 



4. Railway accident at grade crossing, Newark, 1 

 killed, 2 hurt, probably fatally. 



6. Train derailed near Rockford, 111., 5 killed, 3 

 hurt. Heat and lightning end many lives in the 

 Northern States. Train derailed near English, Ky., 

 11 hurt. 



8. Steamer City of Rome runs upon Fastnet Rock, 

 bow stove in. 



9. Railway collisions : near Oakfield, Tenn., several 

 hurt ; near Warrenton Mo., 8 killed, 11 hurt. 



10. Shipwreck : British bark Sinapore, on Cape 

 Corientes, 6 lost. 



II. Tornado in Illinois. Fires in the Ural mines, 

 Russia. 



13. Cloud-burst in Kentucky, several lives lost. 



14. Train derailed near Marshall, N. C., 1 killed, 

 11 hurt. Nitro-crlycerin explodes near Toledo, Ohio. 



16. Train derailed near Kerrville, Tenn., 2 killed, 



1 hurt. Fire-damp explosion near Hill Farm, Pa.. 

 about 40 killed. 



17. Runaway railroad train near Melrose, N. C.. 3 

 killed, 5 hurt. 



19. Railway collision near Rushville, Mo., 1 killed, 

 5 hurt. Destructive floods in New York and Penn- 

 sylvania. 



20. Railway : wreck near Childs, Md., 2 killed, 13 

 hurt, among them Bishop Keane, of Washington; 

 collision near Buffalo Mills, Pa., 1 killed, 5 hurt. A 

 tornado near Cornell, 111., demolishes buildings and 

 injures many people. Severe storms elsewhere in the 

 North and West 



21. Train derailed near Island Park, Iowa, 14 hurt. 

 A pleasure boat goes over Niagara, 1 or more lives 

 lost. Tornado in Illinois, many lives lost. 



22. Railway collision near Calira, Ohio, 1 killed, 3 

 hurt. 



23. Tornado : Pleasanton, Neb., demolished, sev- 

 eral hurt. Electric storm in Omaha, 2 killed, several 

 hurt. Fire : Port de France, Martinique, 5,000 peo- 

 ple homeless. 



24. Train derailed near Lawrence, Kan., 7 hurt. 



25. Lightning strikes a church at Harlem, N. Y., 

 destroys another at New Rochelle, and a third is 

 burned at Ashfield, Conn. A foot bridge gives way 

 at St. Jean, France, hundreds of persons fall into the 

 sea, many drowned. Railway collision near Parsills, 

 Ind., 2 killed. 



26. Boiler bursts at Ithaca, Mich., 3 killed. Train 

 derailed near Josephine, Ala., 2 killed. 



27. Fire : business parts of Carbon, Wyoming, 

 burned, loss, $100,000. Excessive heat in the West, 

 several deaths from sunstrokes. 



28. Train derailed near Joliet, 111., 2 killed, 7 hurt. 

 German steamer Prins Frederick sinks, 1,000,000 

 guilders in specie on board. Train derailed near Ne- 

 vada, Mo., 1 killed, 27 hurt. 



29. Explosion : gasoline stove at Hutchinson, Kan., 



2 killed. 



30. Train derailed near Drummond, Montana, 1 

 killed, 12 hurt. Train derailed near Josephine, Ga., 



3 killed. Explosion : at Elmira, N. Y., cause, a 

 lighted lantern and " Japan dye," several hurt, build- 

 ing burned". Fires : distillery* at Louisville, Ky., loss, 

 $150,000 ; also oil refinery in Louisville, several se- 

 verely burned. 



Summary of railway accidents in June : 64 collis- 

 ions, 67 derailments, 6 miscellaneous ; total, 137. 

 Killed: 41 employe's, 14 passengers, 3 trespassers. 

 Hurt : 98 employes, 1 53 passengers, 2 trespassers. 



July 1. Intense heat causes many deaths in the 

 Northwestern States. Fires: in Troy, Ala., opera 

 house burned, loss, $100,000 ; in Danvers, Mass., 

 Peabody Institute burned. Earthquake in California. 



3. Cloud-burst in Texas, considerable damage. 



4. Fire: Flint Mill, Columbia, Pa., $20,000 loss. 

 Shipwreck : British steamer Regius sunk by collision 

 near Calcutta. 



5. Destructive storms in New Jersey and the Ohio 

 valley. Collision of excursion steamers in Hell Gate, 

 New York harbor, several hurt. Railway ^collision 

 near Bay view, Mich., 10 hurt; grade-croseing acci- 

 dent, Louisville, Ky., 3 killed, 9 hurt. Explosions: 

 powder at Tower City, Pa., 6 hurt, and at Scott 

 Haven, Pa., 7 hurt, 4 perhaps fatally. 



6. Railway : collision near Lucine Siding, Mo., 8 

 hurt ; two trains derailed by locusts in Colorado, 3 

 killed, 15 hurt. 



7. Electric storm, Fargo, N. D., houses destroyed. 

 Passenger train overturned bodily, 9 killed, 19 hurt. 

 Fire : Evansville, factories and stove works burned, 

 loss, about $160,000. Train derailed near Maneti, 

 111., 1 killed, 5 hurt. Wind : custom house and other 

 buildings damaged in New Orleans. 



8. Heat : many deaths from sunstroke. Railway 

 collision near Clear Creek, Ala., 5 killed, 1 hurt. 

 Giant powder explodes in Milton, Utah, freight house 

 destroyed. Earthquake in Wyoming, with outburst 

 of new crater geyser. 



9. Fires: Roseville, Pa., almost destroyed; at Har- 



