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DISASTERS IN 1896. 



10. Cyclone in Paris, Mich., buildings damaged. 

 Trains wrecked, Wellington, 111., 4 tramps killed ; 

 oil tank explodes. 



13. Bridge breaks, Arcata, Cal., 3 killed, 8 hurt. 



16. Trains in collision, Fowlerville, Mich., 1 

 killed, 3 hurt. 



17. Trains wrecked, Mahoning, Pa., 1 killed, 12 

 hurt. 



18. Trains derailed, Longwood, Ind., 3 killed, 

 10 hurt. 



21. Train wrecked, Meadville, Pa., 2 killed. 



26. Train wrecked, Mooresburg, Pa., 3 killed. 



27. Fire : Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, 

 Mass., burned, loss, $200.000. 



28. Train wrecked, Brady's, Maryland, 2 killed. 



29. A hurricane and tidal wave nearly destroys 

 Cedar Keys, Fla. ; the same storm in its northward 

 course does a great amount of damage, ships and 

 buildings wrecked, many lives lost. 



30. Trains in collision, Batavia, N. Y., 1 killed, 1 

 hurt. 



Fires in September : San Francisco, Cal., nitro- 

 glycerin works, etc., loss, $200,000; Syracuse, N. Y., 

 opera house burned, $150,000 ; Elmira, N. Y., cloth- 

 ing, etc., $164,000; Norfolk, Va., agricultural im- 

 S'ements, $150,000; Ontario, forest fires, $350,000; 

 ontreal, sundry buildings, $200,000: Little Rock, 

 Ark., cotton, $300,000; Moncton, New Bruns- 

 wick, sugar, $200,000 ; South Hadley, Mass., college 

 buildings, $200,000; and 177 others; aggregate 

 loss, $8,200,650. 



Summary of train accidents in September : 45 

 collisions, 64 derailments, 7 others; total, 110. 

 Killed : 30 employees, 9 passengers, 15 others ; 

 total, 54. Hurt : 70 employees, 106 passengers, 3 

 others; total, 179. 



October 1. Reviewing stand falls, Burlington, 

 Iowa, several prominent persons hurt. Train 

 wrecked, Philson, Pa., 5 killed. Great forest fires 

 in Wisconsin and Minnesota. 



2. Forest fires of wide extent, Pasadena, Cal. 



4. Boiler explosion : locomotive bursts near 

 Osage City. Kan. Train wrecked, Patersen, Kan., 

 4 killed, 2 hurt, all tramps. 



6. Prairie fires in Manitoba, farmers lose crops 

 and buildings. Trains in collision, Donohoe, Pa., 4 

 killed : also at Emporia, Kan., 7 killed, 4 of them 

 tramps. Floods in Mexico, more than 100 drowned. 



7. Destructive storm along the southern coast 

 of England, many shipwrecks. 



8. Freight train and electric car in collision at 

 Alexandria, Va., motorman killed. 



9. Trains in collision, Greene, Ore., 2 killed, 2 hurt. 



10. Train wrecked, Pawpaw, W.Va.,1 tramp killed. 



11. Violent storms along the north Atlantic sea- 

 board, Admiral Bunco's squadron at sea during the 

 height of the gale, no serious mishap. Train 

 wrecked at Dickerson, Md., 1 killed. 



12. Shipwreck : British steamship Linlithgow 

 abandoned at sea off southern California. 



13. Ten oil cars derailed at Buffalo, N. Y., by 

 mischievous boys, 55,774 gallons spilled. 



14. Trains in collision, Swansea, S. C., 3 killed, 

 and at Mitchel, Miss., 2 killed ; wrecks took fire in 

 both cases. 



18. Trains wrecked near Orange, Texas.. 1 killed, 

 1 hurt; and Windsor Springs, Mo., 9 killed, 9 hurt. 



20. Shipwreck : steamer Arago runs upon the 

 coast of Oregon, ship a total loss, several lives lost. 



23. Bridge burned, Saprino Creek, Col., 1 killed. 



24. Trains in collision, Windsor station, Mo., 8 

 killed, 21 hurt. 



26. Fire : two grain elevators burned in Chicago, 

 loss, $1.200,000. 



27. Train derailed, Wallula, Wash., 2 killed, 1 hurt. 

 29. Explosion in a coal mine, Wilkesbarre, Pa., 



many killed. Train wrecked, Wapakoneta, Ohio, 2 



killed, 1 a tramp. Tornado, Tenesas Parish, La., 

 several killed. 



Fires in October : Sterling, N. J., shirt mills, loss, 

 $200,000; Holland, "Mich., furniture, $125,000; 

 Wilmington, Del., morocco factory, $,210,000 ; Corn- 

 ing, Iowa, sundry buildings, $300,000; Great Bar- 

 rington, Mass., sundry buildings, $300,000 ; Akron, 

 Ohio, stove works, $200,000 ; Brooklyn, N. Y., iron 

 works, $200,000; Lawrence, Mass., mills, $200,000; 

 Chicago, grain elevators, $1,200,000 ; and 147 others ; 

 aggregate loss, $8,993,000. 



Summary of train accidents in October : 72 col- 

 lisions. 62 derailments, 7 others ; total, 141. Killed : 

 27 employees, 9 passengers, 13 others ; total, 49. 

 Hurt: 55 employees. 26 passengers, 8 others; total, 89. 



November 1. Destructive rains in Ireland, also 

 in Sicily and southern France, much damage to 

 crops. Destructive floods in the Azore Islands. 



2. Waterspout : St. Michael's, Azore Islands, many 

 lives lost, much damage. 



4. Fire : Globe Theater burned, St. Louis, loss, 

 $35,000. 



6. Earthquake in Iceland. 



8. The United States battle ship Texas sinks at 

 her wharf at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, cause a de- 

 fective valve. 



15. Destructive floods in Bosnia, 13 drowned. 



16-17. Severe storms on the north Pacific coast, 

 Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, all rail- 

 roads blocked by snow, many bridges washed away. 



17. Fire : buildings burned at Mercer, Pa., loss, 

 $100,000. 



18. Shipwreck: British steamer Memphis cast 

 away on Brow-head, 12 lives lost. Fire : St. George's 

 Church, in London, partly burned. 



21. Fire : Cripple Creek, Col., loss, $100,000 (two 

 other disastrous fires in April). 



26. Destructive blizzards in several of the North- 

 western States. 



27. Tornadoes in Texas and Mississippi. Floods 

 in Greece, 70 persons drowned near Athens. 



29. Panic at Baroda, India, a crowd of sight- 

 seers became jammed in a narrow gateway, 29 

 killed, 35 hurt. ' 



Fires in November : Cambridgeport, Mass., bridge 

 works, loss, $160,000; Spencer, W. Va., business 

 block, $250,000; Long Island City, N. Y., fertilizer 

 works, $200,000; Mercer, Pa., sundry buildings, 

 $100,000; Elberton. Ga., $100,000 ; Richmond, prov- 

 ince of Quebec. $100,000; St. Paul, Minn., grain 

 elevator, $100,000; Portland, Ore., shingle mills, 

 $100,000; Nelsonville, Ohio, $100,000; and 128 

 others; aggregate loss, $5,211,800. 



Summary of train accidents in November: 49 

 collisions, 54 derailments, 4 others ; total, 107. 

 Killed, 10 employees, 1 passenger, 3 others; total, 

 14. Hurt, 41 employees, 11 passengers, 3 others; 

 total, 55. 



December 1. Floods and ice gorges cause much 

 hardship and destruction of property in Wisconsin. 

 Earthquake in southern Illinois. 



2. Heavy snows in Virginia, North Carolina, and 

 Georgia. 



3. Floods reported in the island of Montserrat, 75 

 drowned. 



4. Plague : a disease known as the bubonic plague, 

 hitherto confined to natives, has spread to Europeans 

 in Bombay. 



7. Shipwreck : North German Lloyd steamer 

 Sailer off the coast of Spain, 275 lives lost. 



8. Explosion : boiler bursts, Seville, Ga., 6 killed. 



9. Shipwreck : German steamer Rajah capsized 

 in Bristol Channel, 19 drowned. 



10. Explosion : boiler bursts on French steamer 

 Sagharien off Hong-Kong, several of the crew killed. 

 Mining disaster. San Diego, Cal., 4 killed, 5 hurt. 



11. Building falls, Jerez, Spain, about 100 killed. 



