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DISASTERS IN 1890. 



31. Railway collision near Steele's Mills, Ga., 2 



Summary of railway accidents in October: 152 col- 

 lisions, 115 derailments, 16 miscellaneous; total, 283. 

 Killed: 81 employe's, 10 passengers, 9 trespassers; 

 total, 100. Hurt : 54 employe's, 43 passengers, 3 tres- 

 passers ; total, 100. 



Novembers. Fire: New Rochelle, N. Y., several 

 tine buildings burned with valuable contents. Rail- 

 way collision near Mayfield, Fa., 3 killed, several 



6. 'Fires: Denver, Col., St. Elmer Hotel, 1 killed, 

 estimated loss, $100,000; Buffalo, N. Y., elevator 

 burned, estimated loss, $250,000 ; Truckee, Cal. (in- 

 cendiary) business part of town burned. Train 

 wrecked near Carbon dale, Pa., 2 killed, several hurt. 



7. Fires ; Winslow, Ind., burned, 400 people home- 

 less ; Owensborough, Ky., several hurt, estimated loss, 

 $250,000. Several persons hurt in sundry train acci- 

 dents. Violent storm and many wrecks along the 

 British coast. 



8. Boiler bursts : Magnolia, Miss., 2 killed, several 

 hurt. Fire : Pictou, N. S. 



10. Shipwreck : schooner Ocean Wave on Lake On- 

 tario, all hands lost. 



11. Railway collision in England, 10 killed, 8 hurt. 

 F'erryboat capsizes in the Danube, 55 drowned. 



12. Train accident near Olathe, Kan., D. G. Camp- 

 bell, the temperance lecturer, killed. Shipwreck: 

 British torpedo cruiser Serpent, on coast of Spain, 

 272 lives lost (only 4 saved). Fire : Wellington Bar- 

 racks, London, burned. 



13. Railway trestle breaks near Salem, Ore., 3 

 killed, several hurt. 



14. Collisions : on Pennsylvania Railway, 2 killed, 

 18 hurt; near Scott's Station, Ohio, 3 killed. Ex- 

 plosion : dynamite near Lima, Ohio, 2 killed. 



16. Railway collision near Elkton, Minn., 3 killed. 

 Fire: Luthersburg, Pa., nearly destroyed. 



17. Railway bridge breaks near Kansas City, 9 

 killed, several hurt, Skating accident: Elk Lake, 

 Wis 3 drowned. Boiler bursts at Mertztown, Pa., 3 

 killed, 7 hurt. Shipwreck off Dalmatia, 38 lives lost. 



18. Building falls at Lima, Ohio, 2 killed. 



21. Railway accident near Meriden, Conn., 3 killed. 



22. Fire : raterson, N. J., silk mill and other build- 

 ings burned, estimated loss, $100,000. 



23. Fires : at New Alton, 111., glass works burned, 

 estimated loss, $100,000 ; and Beflaire, Ohio, estimat- 

 ed loss $100,000. 



24. Explosion : dynamite in New York, 2 killed, 2 

 hurt. Collision at sea : British steamer Calypso and 

 & Spanish steamer, both sunk, but all hands saved. 



25. Fire: Cheboygan, Mich., lumber burned, value, 

 $200,000. Boiler bursts : South Bay, N. B., 6 killed. 



26. Fires : Bayonne, N. J., tenement houses burned, 

 86 families homeless. Portland, Me., damage, $20,- 

 000 ; and Hebron, Ind., damage, $40,000. 



27. Boiler bursts : Scotland, Ga., 3 killed, 4 hurt. 

 Fires: St. Paul, Minn., damage $150,000; Green 

 Bay, Wis., damage, $75,000 ; steamboat L. P. Leath- 

 ers, near I?ort Adams, Miss., 5 killed, loss, $30,000. 

 Faulty construction : scaffold falls at Yale-Princeton 

 foot- ball game, Brooklyn, about 50 hurt, several seri- 

 ously. 



28. Fire : Newtown, Conn., estimated loss, $100,000. 



29. Fires : Queens Co., New York Oil Works, loss, 

 $75,000 ; factory, East St. Louis, loss, $75,000. 



30. Runaway train near Haysted, Ore., 4 killed. 

 Summary of railway accidents in November: 111 



collisions, 90 derailments, 3 miscellaneous ; total, 204. 

 Killed: 44 employes, 10 passengers, 12 trespassers; 

 total, 66. Hurt: 125 employe?, 138 passengers, 2 

 trespassers ; total, 265. 



December 1. Drowning: Evansville, Ind., 5 lives 

 lost. Fires : Philadelphia, Campbell Manufacturing 

 Company, damage, $300,000; New Albany, Miss., 

 10 business houses burned. 



2. Railway accidents : 2 persons run over and killed 

 near Swickley, Pa.; two tramps killed near Dayton, 

 Ohio. 



3. Fires: Detroit, 2 killed ; Oxford, Ala., hotel and 

 stores burned. 



4. Furnace falls, Joliet, 111., 5 killed, 3 hurt. Fire: 

 Pittsburg, 2 killed. Tank bursts : Cincinnati, 3 

 killed, 2 hurt. Railroad accidents: near Reading, 

 Pa., 3 killed, several hurt; Jacksonville, Mo., 2 

 killed. 



5. Terrible storms in the north Atlantic. 13 lives 

 lost. Fire : Pittsburg, Pa., damage, $350,000. 



7. Fires : Vandalia, 111., $20,000 damage; Washing- 

 ton, D. C., $2,500. 



8. Fire: Scranton, Pa., church burned. 



9. High wind : Monroe, Ala., 2 killed, several hurt. 



10. Fire: San Francisco, Linseed Oil Works, loss, 

 $200,000. Defective construction: Bangor. Me., an 

 ice staering gives way, 2 killed, 3 hurt. Railway acci- 

 dent, Minneapolis, 3 killed. 



11. Fires : Elmira, N. Y., pork-packing house, loss 

 $80,000 ; at Sandusky, Ohio, elevator, loss, $40,000 ; 

 and box factory, loss, $50,000. 



12. Fire : Akron, Ohio, inflammable costumes at a 

 birthday party, 8 girls badly burned, 2, at least, fa- 

 tally. 



13. Fire : Greenville, Miss., 4 lives lost. Railway : 

 grade-crossing accident near Bristol, Pa., 4 killed, 2 

 hurt, perhaps fatally^. 



15. Railway collision near Pittsburg, Pa., 2 killed, 

 2 hurt. 



16. Explosion: powder works, Youngstown, Ohio, 

 1 killed, several hurt. Fire : Darlington, S. C., 

 nearly half of the business houses burned. 



17. Violent storm of wind: snow and rain in the 

 North and East, several lives lost. Defective con- 

 struction : a "cage" falls in a Belgian mine, 18 

 killed ; a building falls in Bombay, India, about 30 

 killed. 



18. Fires: steamer Lake Washington at New Or- 

 leans and the Grand Central Hotel and a brick block 

 at Waycross, Ga. 



19. Wind: near Montrose, N. Y., men blown from 

 the roof of a freight car, 2 killed. Railway accident 

 near Sommerville, Boston, 2 girls killed. 



21. Railway : grade-crossing accident near Middle 

 Village, N. Y., 2 killed. Fires: at Camden, N. J., 

 loss, $45,000 ; at Whitestone Landing, N. Y., railway 

 round house, loss, $30,000. Flood near Cordova, Ar- 

 gentine Republic, canal overflows, about 100 lives lost. 



23. Tornado near Barberton, Ohio, 2 killed, 6 hurt. 

 Train derailed near Watsonville, Pa., 20 hurt. Ship- 

 wreck : American schooner Mary Ellen, 5 lost. Fires : 

 Jesseville, Mich,, 2 killed ; Masonic Temple burned 

 at Baltimore, estimated loss, $350,000 ; dwelling house 

 near Holden, Mo., 2 killed. 



26. Fire at Rochester, N. Y., 3 killed. Shipwreck : 

 steamship Thanemore given up, 46 men and 430 cat- 

 tle lost, with ship and cargo ; also schooner A. H. 

 Halbert, 3 lives lost. Explosion: cartridge factory, 

 Lake Hopatcong, N. J., 2 killed ; boiler explosion 

 near Newport, Ark., 2 killed, several hurt. 



27. Boiler explosion: Cincinnati, 1 killed, 6 hurt, 

 7 dwellings wrecked. Fire : the Bijou Theatre, Min- 

 neapolis. British steamer Shanghai burned in the 

 China Sea, about 100 lives lost. 



28. Land-elide on Northern Pacific Railway, Wash- 

 ington. Fire : Keene Valley. N. Y., Mt. Porter Hotel 

 burned, loss, $40,000, partly insured ; also in Auburn 

 Prison, N. Y., loss, $18,000. 



29. Fire : Burlington, Iowa, loss, 200,000. 



30. Fires in London, estimated loss, $2,500.000. 

 Roof falls in New York, 2 killed, 10 hurt. Fire in 

 "San Augustine, Texas, many business houses burned. 



31. Fog: many accidents and much delay and dam- 

 age caused by an immense fog bank that covers the 

 Northern States. 



Summary of railway accidents for December: 155 

 collisions, 113 derailments, 14 miscellaneous; total, 

 282. Killed : 35 employes, 13 passengers, 5 trespass- 

 ers ; total, 53. Hurt : 104 employes, 78 passengers, 1 

 trespasser; total, 183. 



Summary for the year: Railway accidents of all 

 kinds, 2,221 ; persons killed, 819 ; persons hurt, 2,562. 



