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DISASTERS IN 1890. 



mony, Ky., 3 killed. Violent wind storm at Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. Train derailed at Sibley, Ark., 4 killed, 

 10 hurt. Steam yacht upset at Rouse's Point, N. Y.. 

 3 drowned. Hurricanes at Muscat, Arabia, several 

 hundred lives lost. 



10. Fire : cotton-seed oil works burned at Atlanta, 

 Oa., loss, $100,000. 



11. Explosion: on steamer at Chicago, 15 killed; 

 and in bottling works, New York, 3 killed. Fires : 

 brewery burned in Philadelphia, loss, $100,000 : 250 

 houses burned at Walden, Russia, 7 lives lost. Tram 

 derailed by exploding powder near King's Mills, Ohio, 

 9 killed, 32 hurt, 3 perhaps fatally. Drowned : at 

 Dartmouth, N. S., 6 persons. 



13. Hurricane near St. Paul, Minn., total loss 01 

 lite more than 100. 



14. Accidental poisoning : 150 excursionists made 

 ill by drinking water from an old well near Solon, 

 Iowa. Fire: Sherman, N. Y., damage, $50,000. 

 Railway collisions : Dodge City, Kansas, 3 killed ; 

 Chilicothe, Ohio, 3 killed : Smithville, Ind., 10 killed. 



15. Epidemic of typhoid at Manor, Pa., 200 persons 

 ill, average of 4 deaths daily for two weeks. Yacht 

 Marion, of Boston, strikes a rock and sinks, 3 drowned. 

 Railway collisions: near Rochester, N. \., 2 killed; 

 near Hartford, Md., 2 killed. Fire in Constantinople, 

 estimated loss, $5,000,000. 



16. TornaMocs in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Fires : 

 in Brockton, Mass., the town nearly destroyed, cause, 

 careless painters in a church spire ; in Valparaiso, 

 Ind., 4 lives lost. 



17. Violent wind and hail in Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey, several lives lost. Railway : collision 

 near Decatur, 111., 2 killed ; runaway train near Laura 

 Junction, New Mexico, 2 killed, 2 hurt. Lightning at 

 Winnipeg, Manitoba, 3 killed. 



18. Steamboats in collision near Alexandria Bay, 5 

 drowned. Fire : warehouses in Liverpool, England, 

 loss, $300 000. 



19. Railway collision near Cook's Falls, N. Y., 1 

 killed, 3 hurt. Explosion in a foundry, New York, 

 16 men severely burned. Wind destroys two busi- 

 nt-s blocks and. several dwellings in Pacific Junction, 

 Iowa. 



20. Fire : machine shops in Paterson, N. J., $150,- 



000 lost. 



21. Railway bridge washed away near Limon, Cal., 



1 killed, 13 hurt. Fires: grain elevator burned at 

 Binghampton, N. Y. ; brick block in Greencove 

 Springs, Fla., loss, $45,000. 



22. Tornado in North Dakota, 7 killed. Fires : in 

 New York, 1 woman killed ; and a mill in Alleghany, 

 Pa., loss, $75,000. A hurricane wrecks Slomni, Rus- 

 sia, 19 killed, 



23. Cloud-burst in Grand Canon, Col. Boiler bursts 

 in North Jackson, Ohio, 2 killed, 1 hurt. British 

 steamer Egypt burned at sea, no lives lost. Ship- 

 wreck : lost at sea, American schooner, William Rice, 

 16 lives lost. 



24. Powder mill explodes near Paterson, N. J., 2 

 killed. 



25. Fire: Edwardsville, Pa., loss $17,000. De- 

 structive rains in France. 



26. Tornado in South Lawrence, Mass., cuts a 

 track 200 feet wide through the town, kills 9 people, 

 injures about 40, destroys much property. Railway : 

 accident near Grafton, W. Va., 5 killed ; collision ne'ar 

 Tigerton, Wis.. 2 killed, 4 hurt. 



27. Fire in Wallace, Washington, town nearly con- 

 sumed, loss, $400,000. 



28. Steamers Virginia and Louise in collision in 

 Chesapeake Bay, 3 killed, 3 hurt, 10 missing. 



29. Kailway : 3 children killed on a trestle near 

 Patterson, N*. J. Supposed incendiary fire : Gale, 

 Ind., 4 killed. 



30. Fire: Seneca Falls, N. Y., loss $700,000. De- 

 structive floods in Austria. 



31. Railway collision near Germyn, Pa., 4 killed. 

 Tornado at Wiers, N. H. Steamer Obdam sinks 

 French fishing bark on the "Banks," 4 lives lost. 

 Fire: Braddock, Pa., 38 houses burned. 



Summary of railway accidents in July : 84 collis- 

 ions, 59 derailments, 6 miscellaneous ; total, 149. 

 Killed : 47 employe's, 13 passengers, 10 trespassers ; 

 total, 70. Hurt : 116 employes, 97 passengers, 36 tres- 

 passers ; total, 249. 



August 1. Four hundred deaths from cholera in 

 Mecca. Many fatal cases of sunstroke reported. Two 

 persons killed by train near Magnolia, N. J. Fire: 

 mills burned at Canonchet, R. I., loss $40,000. 



2. Lightning: 2 men killed near Hamilton, Canada, 

 Sixteen deaths by drowning reported in various parts 

 of New England, mainly due to bathing ana boating 

 accidents. 



3. Railway collision near Guthrie, Ind., 4 killed, 8 

 hurt. Fires: Farina, 111.. 2 blocks destroyed; in 

 Danville, N. Y., paper mill burned, loss, $150,000; 

 insurance, $100,000; in What Cheer, Ind., $100,000 

 damages estimated. Collision near Hannibal, Mo., 3 

 killed, 6 hurt. Heavy damages from storms in Min- 

 nesota and Manitoba. Trains in collision near Bed- 

 ford, Ind., 3 killed, 6 hurt. 



4. Lightning: 2 young women killed in Prince 

 George County, Va. 



5. Explosion in coal mine at Carbono, Washington, 

 2 killed. A 



7. Explosion of gas in Norwood, Ohio, 2 killed. 

 Fire : Murray Hall Hotel burned at Pablo Beach, Fla. 



8. Railway collision at Howe, Texas, 2 killed, sev- 

 eral hurt. Violent thunder storms in northern Wis- 

 consin. Railroad buildings at Three Lakes struck 

 by lightning and destroyed. Much damage elsewhere. 



11. Railway collision near Fishers, N. Y., 3 killed. 

 A destructive storm on Long Island Sound. Cloud- 

 burst at Boulder in the Rocky mountains, 2 drowned. 

 Explosion : natural gas near Waldron, Ind., 10 acres 

 of land blown into the air. 



12. Fires: at Dayton, Washington, loss, $85,000; 

 and Greenville, Miss., loss, $60,000. 



13. Destructive floods in Styria. Railway collision 

 at Duckers, Ky., 1 killed, 7 hurt. Train kills 2 per- 

 sons at Orange, Mass. 



14. Fires: at Louisville, Ky., 25,000 barrels of 

 whisky burned ; at Guilford, Md., cotton mill burned, 

 loss, $"35,000 ; at Bellaire, Ohio, factory burned, loss, 

 $50,000. Explosion in soap factory, Providence, R. I., 

 12 hurt. Many drowning accidents. Railway collis- 

 ion at Castile, Wyoming, 1 killed, 4 hurt. 



15. Railway collisions : near Alton, 111., 3 killed, 14 

 hurt; and near Augusta, Mich., 2 killed, 7 hurt. 



16. Clay bank caves in at Bordentown, N. J. , 3 killed. 



17. Railway : grade-crossing accident near Roches- 

 ter, N. Y.. 3 killed. 



18. Tram derailed near Barela, Cal.. 7 killed, 14 

 hurt. Fires : iron works at Steubenville, Ohio, loss, 

 $100,000; and Winona, 111., loss, $30,000. 



19. Train derailed near Quincy, Mass. ; cause, a 

 track -jack left near the rails, 20 killed, 31 hurt. 

 Hurricane in and near Wilkesbarre, Pa., 200 houses 

 wrecked with other property, 15 killed, many hurt. 

 Train derailed near Port Henry, N. Y., 2 killed, 1 

 hurt. Collision near Garrison, Montana, 1 killed, 8 

 hurt. 



21. Wind: wall blown down in Philadelphia, 4 

 killed, several hurt. Fire: Park Hotel, Thousand 

 Islands, with many cottages. 



22. Runaway train at Summit, Cal., 2 cabooses and 

 18 cars wrecked, snowsheds damaged, station house 

 knocked down mountain-side, 4 killed ; cause, brakes 

 left unfastened. Another runaway train near Read- 

 ing, Pa. ; brakes failed, 4 killed, 14 hurt. Train de- 

 railed near Lyons, Col., 2 killed, 2 hurt. Collision at 

 sea, British steamer Red brook and American steamer 

 Ame"rique, 3 drowned. 



23. Scaffold falls in Baltimore, 3 fatally hurt 



24. Fire : Peoria, 111., wagon works burned, loss, 

 $60,000. 



26. Fires: Chicago, McVickar's Theatre burned,, 

 loss, $200,000. Tokay, Hungary, nearly destroyed. 

 Destructive hurricane in Perugia, Italy. 



27. Locomotive boiler bursts near Mansfield, Ohio, 

 2 killed. 



