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DISASTERS 



1885. 



16. Explosion ; powder-magazine at Gibraltar ; 17 

 killed. Shipwreck ; collision ; British steamer Holm- 

 hurst cut in two and sunk by Belgian steamer West- 

 ernland; the latter, with 800 passengers, was but slight- 

 ly injured ; 4 lives lost. 



17. Explosion in coal-mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa. ; 

 13 injured, 1 killed. 



19. Eire ; warehouses in Philadelphia : 2 killed. 



20. Kail way collision near Washington; 8 injured, 

 5 killed. 



21. Eailway collision near Canajoharie, N. Y. ; 5 

 injured, 2 killed. Eailway collision near Delhi, O. ; 

 15 injured. Eailway collision near Toll Gate. West 

 Va. ; 5 killed. Fire ; dwelling-houses in Philadel- 

 phia ; 5 killed. Explosion ; natural gas, at Wells- 

 burg, West Va. ; Skilled. Eire; tenement-houses in 

 New York ; 6 lives lost. 



27. Explosion in School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, 

 England ; 17 killed. 



March 3. Explosion ; Unsworth Colliery, Sunclcr- 

 land, England ; 36 killed. Eailway accident near 

 Pittsburg; Skilled. Explosion; steamboat near Wil- 

 mington, N. C. ; 3 killed. 



6. Eailway collision near Grenada, Miss. ; 3 killed. 

 Explosion; colliery at' Har wan, Austrian Silesia ; 147 

 killed. 



9. Explosion ; powder-mills near Newburg, N. Y. ; 

 2 killed. 



18. Explosion in mines at Camphausen, Prussia; 

 150 killed. 



22. Fire ; Langham Hotel, Chicago; 4 injured, 

 5 killed. 



27. Explosion of coal-dust at McAllister, Indian 

 Territory ; 11 killed. Explosion in mines, Chili, 

 South America : 35 killed, 



30. Shipwreck ; British steamer Orestes sunk by 

 collision ; 70 lives lost. 



April 3. Explosion at Martinello, France ; 18 killed. 



4. Shipwreck ; Eussian steamer Marinopol in Sea 

 of Azof; 30 lives lost. 



13. Fall of buildings ; eight unfinished houses in 

 New York ; 12 injured. 



14. Fire ; piano-factory, New York ; 9 firemen in- 

 jured. 



19. Fire ; farm-houses near Eeading, Pa. ; 4 lives 

 lost. 



22. Volcanic eruption in eastern Java ; about 100 

 lives lost. Fire in vicksburg, Miss. ; 20 lives lost. 



26. Snow-slide, near Eagle Eiver, Col. ; 11 lives 

 lost. 



. Avalanche in Iceland ; 24 lives lost (date not 

 given). 



May 3. Fire ; tenement-house in New York ; 11 

 lives lost. 



5. Fall of building and fire ; factory in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. ; 10 lives lost. 



8. Avalanche ; near Lake Vau, Armenia ; 68 lives 

 lost. 



13. Colliery disaster near Pottstown, Pa. ; 3 lives 

 lost. 



15. Fire; Cleveland, 0. ; 2 lives lost. Fire; Owa- 

 tonna, Minn. ; 5 lives lost. 



20. 'Explosion ; gas at St. Louis ; 2 killed. 



21. Fire ; Cincinnati, 0. ; 15 lives lost (14 women, 

 1 man). 



25. Shipwreck ; French bark Georges Jeanne run 

 down by British steamer City of Eome; 22 lives 

 lost. 



27. Fall of building ; tenement-house, Jersey City ; 

 4 killed, 29 injured. 



28. Fall of buildings in Jersey City ; 10 injured, 

 4 k 1 1 ! f *u . 



31. Earthquake ; in the Vale of Cashmere ; esti- 

 mated losses, 70,000 houses, 33,000 animals, 3,000 hu- 

 man lives. 



June 3. Explosion in mine near Durham, England ; 

 13 lives lost. Lightning, Chicago, 111. ; 5 killed. 



6. Fire at Barrie, Ontario ; 3 killed. 



8. Water-spout ; the town of Paso de Cuarenta, 

 Mexico, destroyed ; 170 lives lost. 



10. Fall of building; staircase of court-house at 

 Thiers.France ; about 100 injured. 



11. Fall of rail way -tunnel, near Chattanooga, 

 Tenn. ; 6 lives lost. Explosion ; giant powder near 

 Galveston, Texas; 10 injured, 10 killed. 



14. Shipwreck ; British steamer Speke Hall sinks 

 in Gulf of Aden ; 1 survivor ; number of lives lost 

 uncertain. French gunboat Eeynard foundered at 

 the same time ; 127 lives lost. 



18. Explosion ; Pendlebury colliery, near Manches- 

 ter, England - } estimated loss, 200 lives. 



20. Explosion ; colliery near Apedale, North Staf- 

 fordshire, England ; 10 lives lost. 



23. Shipwreck ; Italian steamer Italia ; 65 livea 

 lost. 



24. Explosion; Powder-mill, Lucca, Italy ; 12 lives 

 lost. Floods in China ; estimated loss. 10,000 lives. 



26. Explosion ; steam-boiler at Bardstown JKy. ; 3 

 killed. 



27. Explosion ; colliery at Dudweiler, near Suar- 

 brucken, Prussia ; 27 lives lost. 



July 11. Shipwreck; steam-yacht sunk by hurri- 

 cane on Lake Minnetonka, Minn. ; 10 lives lost. 



21. Shipwreck; collision at sea; British steamers 

 Cheerful and Hecla ; 11 lives lost. 



24. Thunder-storm at Cajetani, Italy; 13 persons 

 killed by lightning many injured. 



25. Fall of buildings at Cologne, Germany ; 45 

 lives lost; many injured. Earthquake near Tash- 

 kend, Asiatic Russia; 64 injured, 54 killed. Ship- 

 wreck ; American whaler Napoleon, in Arctic Ocean ; 

 22 lives lost. 



August 8. Tornado ; St. Lawrence County, N. Y. ; 

 village of Norwood nearly destroyed. Fire ; hotel at 

 Las Vegas. New Mexico ; 8 lives lost. 



11. Explosion ; colliery near Wilkesbarre, Pa. ; 12 

 lives lost. 



17. Explosion ; probably dynamite on board steam- 

 er Felton, in Delaware river, at Philadelphia; 500 

 lives endangered ; 7 injured. 



19. Shipwreck ; British ship Huntingdonshire, on 

 Californian coast ; 18 lives lost. Shipwreck by a cy- 

 clone in Eed Sea ; German corvette Augusta ; 238 

 lives lost. 



25. Shipwreck; ship-load of Mohammedan pilgrims 

 in Gulf of Aden ; about 100 lives lost. 



September 8. Shipwreck ; collision in North Sea be- 

 tween British steamers Drenda and Dolphin ; 17 lives 

 lost. 



10. Shipwreck: collision at sea between British 

 steamer Auckland and German gunboat Blitz ; 15 lives 

 lost. Floods in the Presidency of Bengal, India; 

 many lives lost. 



October 11. Storm off the coast of Labrador ; 80 

 vessels wrecked ; 43 lives lost. 



13. Explosion in mine at Silver Cliff, Colorado; 10 

 lives lost. 



15. Earthquake at Palermo ; 8 lives lost. 



18. Eailway collision near Jersey City, N. J. ; 9 

 killed, many injured. Eailway accident near ^Vest 

 Andover, N. H. : 3 killed. 



19. Fire in Chicago ; 4 lives lost. 



20. Explosion in a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa. ; 

 4 lives lost. 



26. Caving in of quarries in Dordogne, France; 

 many lives lost. 



November 2. Dredging-boat in Long Island Sound ; 

 total loss with all hands, 6 in number. Storm, wind, 

 and rain on New England coast ; a large number of 

 vessels wrecked. 



5. Tornado near Dangerfield, Texas ; 6 lives lost. 



6. Shipwreck ; New York pilot-boat No. 6 run down 

 at sea by unknown steamer ; crew escape in boats ; 1 

 life lost. Tornado, Brownsville, Miss. ; no lives lost, 

 but many persons injured and much property de- 

 stroyed. Tornado in the vicinity of Selma, Ala., and 

 passing across Dallas, Perry, and Bibb counties; 





