158. Fire : Keneshma Eussia, loss, $2,000,000. 

 10. Floods on the Ehine, many persons drowned. 

 31. Yacht upsets near Gloucester, Mass. , 2 drowned. 

 Eailway accident at grade crossing, Cleveland, Ohio, 

 3 killed. 



Summary of railway accidents in August : 85 col- 

 lisions, 82 derailments. 11 miscellaneous; total, 178. 

 Killed: 65 employes, 30 passengers, 5 trespassers; 

 total, 100. Hurt: 196 employe's, 92 passengers, 4 

 trespassers ; total, 292. 



September 1. Fires : Oxford, Iowa, nearly destroyed ; 

 Woltbrd House burned, Corno, Cal., 3 killed. Ex- 

 plosion in a mine in Gallia, 80 killed. 



2. Train derailed near Eagle Grove, Washington, 

 . 2 killed, 16 hurt. Fire : town of Cocoa, Fla., burned. 



Sloop Petrel upset near San Diego, Cal., 6 drowned. 

 Scaffold falls in New Orleans, 3 killed. Shipwreck : 

 Steamer Portuense founders near Anegada, West 

 Indies, supposed loss, 10. 



3. Fire: Brooklyn, N. Y., Wallab'out Market 

 burned, loss, $200,000; Hiawatha. Kan., loss, $150,- 

 000. Flood: Moldau river, Austria, 19 drowned at 

 Prague. 



4. Explosion in coal mine, Edwards ville, Pa., 3 



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20 killed. Bridge breaks near Kovno, Poland, about 

 400 Eussian soldiers drowned. 



28. Fires: Chicago, Fowler Bros, packing house, 

 loss, $700,000 j Clarkesyille, Tenn., damage, $85,000. 

 Eailway collision : Tenino, Washington, 2 killed. 



30. Extensive forest tires in South Dakota. 



Summary of railway accidents in September: 124 

 collisions, 120 derailments, 10 miscellaneous ; total, 

 254. Killed: 73 employes, 41 passengers, 13 tres- 

 passers ; total, 127. Hurt :. 164 employes, 172 passen- 

 gers, 2 trespassers ; total, 338. 



October 2. Fire : Sidney, New South Wales, alleged 

 loss, $7.000,000. 



3. Fire: Marlborough, Mass., 2 killed. Shipwrecks 

 in the North Sea, 5 vessels lost. 



5. Fires: natural gas at Johnsonburg, Pa., town 

 nearly destroyed ; Dubuque, Iowa, 3 killed. Train 

 derailed near'Olympia, Ky., 20 hurt. 



7. Explosion: powder works near Wilmington, 

 Del., 12 killed, about 40 hurt, several severely. Train 

 accident near Sargent, Col., 1 killed, 11 hurt. 



8. Locomotive boiler bursts near Mexico, N. Y., 1 

 killed^ 2 hurt. 



9. Explosion: Eosario gold mine, Cal., 10 killed. 



killed. Europe: widespread damage by floods'; bridge Fire: Pittsburg, Pa., Academy of' Music burned. 



falls at Prague, Austria, 30 drowned. Eailway acci- 

 dent near Calais, France, 4 killed. 



5. Eailway collisous : near Howards, N. Y. , 3 killed ; 

 and near Caney, Indian Territory, 5 killed (4 tramps), 

 1 hurt. Fire : Philadelphia, loss, $150,000. Explo- 

 sion : dynamite at La Eochelle, France, 10 killed, 

 many hurt. 



6/Eailway: collision, South Norwalk, _Conn., 7 

 hurt ; tramcar run down by a locomotive in Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, 1 killed, 11 hurt; similar accident in 

 Lexington, Mo., 3 fatally hurt. Destructive storms 

 in West Virginia and North Dakota. Premature ex- 



E'osion of a blast in Spokane Falls, Washington, 18 

 lied, 27 missing. 



7. Eailway collision near Florence, Col., 5 killed, 

 33 hurt. 



8. Eailway collision near Littleton, W. Va., 2 

 killed, 5 hurt (3 fatally). 



12. Destructive floods in nearly all the Middle, 

 Eastern, and Southern States. 



13. Tree falls on excursion train near Lead City, 

 S. D., 3 killed, several hurt. 



14. Fire : Lynchburg, W. Va., Western Union 

 Telegraph building burned. 



15. Shipwreck: Schooner Comarade lost in Lake 

 Superior with 8 men. American ship Hartlepoole 

 dismasted at sea, 12 men swept overboard. 



Shipwreck by collision, Portuguese steamer sunk, 4 

 lives lost. 



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10. Explosion: Bourges, France, 10 killed. 



12. Fire : Chicago, aliotel burned, 4 killed. 



13. Fire : London, a factory burned, 11 killed, 

 hurt. 



14. Eailway collision near Zanesville, Ohio, 4 killed, 

 2 hurt. Fire : Fairport, Ohio, $75,000 damage. Ex- 

 plosion : giant powder in a railroad tunnel near Lead - 

 ville, Col., 2 killed, 8 badly hurt. 



15. Eailway collision near Walpole, Mass., 1 

 killed, 13 hurt. Falling rocks : at Iron Mountain, 

 Mich.; and at Audenried, Pa., 6 killed, others badly 

 hurt. 



16. Coke-dust explosion : Pittsburg, Pa., 2 killed, 

 several hurt, Fire : Syracuse, N. Y., Leland Hotel 

 burned, 5 killed, 15 hurt, 2 missing, loss, $200,000. 



17. Heavy gale on New England coast, much dam- 

 age to shipping. Fire at Lacrosse, Ind., many thous- 

 and tons of s'tacked hay burned. 



19. Eailway collision near Columbus, Ohio, 2 killed. 

 Falling derrick : Chicago, 2 killed, several hurt. 



20. Locomotive boiler bursts: Pittsburg, Pa., 2 

 killed, 5 hurt. Grade-crossing accident: Center- 

 viDe, Iowa, 3 killed. Fire : St. Louis, estimated loss, 

 $425,000. 



SLCU ut iscw, L* men awcpi, uvciuuaiu. 21. Eailway collisions: Machias z N. Y., 9 hurt; 



Eailway collisi9n near Vicksburg, Miss., 2 Ensley, Ala., 2 killed, 28 hurt ; Johet, 111., 1 killed, 



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killed. Lightning kills 2 men in Provincetown, 

 Mass. Fires : in Salt Lake, Utah, 2 killed ; in Al- 

 hainbra Palace, Spain, damage, $250,000. 

 wreck : an Austrian man-of-war founders 

 Black Sea. Explosion in Ehenish Prussia, 25 min%rs 

 killed. 



17. Broken rail, near Goldens, Ark., 15 hurt. Dis- 

 astrous floods in China and Japan. 



18. Tornado near Manning, Ohio, 2 killed. Train 

 derailed near Carrolton, Mo., 2 killed, 2 hurt. 



19. Train derailed near Shoemakcrsville. Pa., 22 

 killed, 30 hurt. Fire: Whitehall, Mich., 30 build- 

 ings burned, loss, $100,000. Shipwreck : Turkish 

 man-of-war Ertogroul founders, 587 lives lost. 



21. Burning railway trestle breaks near Neoga, 

 Iowa. 3 killed. Collision near Hawthorne, 111., 4 

 killed, 8 hurt. 



22. Eailway collision near Forest Park, Mo., 5 

 killed, 13 hurt. 



23. Locomotive boiler bursts near Sherman Heights, 

 Tenn., 2 killed. Earthquake in South Carolina. 

 Fires: in Palmer, Mass., loss, $35,000; in Bayonne, 

 N. J., oil refinery, loss, $250,000 ; in Colon, Isthmus 

 of Panama, town nearly destroyed. Heavy floods in 

 France. 



24. Explosion: Newcastle, England, 12 fatally 

 hurt. 



27. Eailway collision near Waucauga, Idaho, about 



8 hurt. 

 22. Railway: collision near Sloan's Valley, 



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Ship- 7 killed, 10 hurt ; grade-crossing accident near Chick- 

 in the amauga, Tenn., 4 killed. Collision near Kansas 

 City, 8 hurt. Shipwreck : British ship Fearnaught 

 lost at sea, crew rescued by British ship Engineer. 



24. Train derailed near Wakarusa, Kan., 30 hurt. 

 Disastrous storm on the New England coast. 



25. Eailway collision near Warwick, Pa., 2 killed, 

 9 hurt. 



26. Fires: Mobile, Ala., cotton presses, mills, fac- 

 tories, cars, and steamboats burned, estimated loss, 

 $650.000 ; Philadelphia, large confectionery establish- 

 ment ; Youngstown, Ohio, Eolling Mill, loss, $100,- 

 000 ; Stillwater, Pa., whole place burned, mill, store 

 and 13 dwellings ; Pinkney, 111., railroad buildings, 

 estimated loss, $80,000. Eailway collision near Beach 

 Tree, Pa., 2 killed. 



27. Storms and very high tides on New England 

 coast, much damage. 



28. Eailway : collision near Monticello, Ga., 2 

 killed, 2 hurt; Barnum's circus train wrecked near 

 Murder Creek, Ga., 5 killed. 



29. Eailway : displaced freight wrecks a passenger 

 train near Valley Falls, E. I., 3 killed, 8 hurt ; train 

 derailed near Seneca, S. C., 6 hurt. Collision at sea, 

 off Barnegat, Spanish steamer Vizcaya, American 

 schooner Hargraves, 65 drowned, both vessels lost. 



