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18. False alarm of fire in a London theatre, 17 

 killed in the panic. 



20. Collision at sea : British emigrant ship Kapun- 

 da sunk by bark Ada Melmore off Brazilian coast, 300 

 lives lost. 



21. Shipwreck : British steamer Brentford, 23 lives 

 lost. Fire : hotel in New Westminster, B. C., 3 lives 

 lost. 



22. Shipwreck : Chinese transport, 100 lives lost. 



24. Floods in Queensland, many lives lost. Ship- 

 wreck : American schooner C. Graham, on Shad Bay 

 Shoals, all hands lost. 



25. Railway : collision at Allandale, Ontario, 5 in- 

 jured. Explosion: powder-car near Fort Scott, Kan- 

 sas, many buildings demolished and several lives lost. 



31. Explosion : dynamite on American steamer 

 Guvandotte. 



February 2. Railway : train derailed by snow near 

 Garrison, Mont., 1 killed, 10 injured. 



5. Train derailed near White River Junction, Vt., 

 cars took fire, 30 killed, 37 injured. 



7. Train derailed through malice, near Charlotte, 

 N. C., 2 killed. 



8. Collision near Dubois, Ga., 2 killed, 2 injured. 

 12. Collision near Port Huron, Mich., a brakeman 



was killed while trying to prevent the collision. 



18. Fire : 30,000 bales or cotton at Tompkinsville, 

 Staten Island, N. Y. Railway : broken bridge near 

 Mud Lake, 111., 1 killed, 1 injured. 



22. Train derailed near Bloomer, Wis., 4 injured ; 

 train derailed by snow near Tamarack, Cal., 1 killed; 

 car-heater exploded near Sidney Station, 111., fire fol- 

 lowed, several passengers injured. 



23. Earthquake in Southern Europe, much damage 

 in the Riviera, nearly 400 lives lost. Railway : col- 

 lision near Red Oak, Iowa, 1 killed, 2 injured. 



26. Earthquake in Italy. Railway : collision near 

 Seymour,. Iowa, 1 killed, 1 injured. 



27. Broken bridge near The Needles, Cal., 3 killed, 

 4 injured. 



28. Collision near Grafton, West Va., 1 killed, 2 

 injured. 



March 1. Explosion in the Beaubrun mines, St. 

 Etiennc, France, 86 killed. Fire: steamer W. H. 

 Gardner burned on Tombigbee river near Gainsville, 

 20 lives lost. Shipwreck : Chinese junk between 

 Hainan and Siam, 600 lives lost. Railway : train 

 buried in snow near Selkirk, Canada, 7 killed.. Fire : 

 American steamer Lone Star burned at her wharf in 

 New York city. 



5. Explosion : fire-damp in coal-mines near Mpns, 

 Belgium, 144 lives lost. Railway : broken bridge 

 near Victoria, Mo., 2 drowned, 2 injured. 



8. Railway : train derailed near Hightstown, N. J., 

 1 killed, 5 injured. 



10. Explosion of melinite in the French arsenal at 

 Belfort, 6 killed, 11 injured. 



12. Railway: collision near Wheatland, Dakota, 1 

 killed, 2 injured. 



13. Earthquake in Southern Europe. Train de- 

 railed near Hunt's Station, Ohio, several injured. 



14. Railway : bridge breaks near Boston, Mass., 24 

 killed, 115 injured. 



16. Railway : collision in Rochester, N. Y., 4 in- 

 jured ; broken bridge near Dunbar. Ohio, 3 killed ; 

 train derailed near Park's Station, N. Y., 15 injured, 

 wreck took fire. 



18. Fire : Richmond Hotel burned in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 10 lives lost, many injured. 



19. Railway : collision near Toledo, Ohio, 5 in- 

 jured. 



23. Fire: 12 lives lost at Bessemer, Mich. Explo- 

 sion in colliery near Sidney, New South Wales, 70 

 killed. 



24. Fire : temple burned, China, 260 lives lost (sup- 

 posed incendiary.) 



'2;>. Railway :'collision near Leetonia, Ohio, 1 killed, 

 7 injured. 



26. Collision near Rockport, Pa., 1 killed, 2 in- 

 jured. 



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31. Explosion : shells fired in target-practice by 

 U. S. S. Omaha, found by Japanese peasants and 

 accidentally exploded, 4 killed. 



April h Railway : collision near Middleton, Miss., 

 2 killed, wreck caught fire. 



2. Collision near Springfield, Ont., 2 killed. 



3. Fall of a church at Linguaglossa, Sicily, 40 killed. 

 Explosion in mine near Venita, Ind. Ter., 18 killed. 



6. Fire : 60 horses burned at Buchel, Switzer- 

 land. 



7. Land-slide at Monte Carlo. 



8. Train derailed near Bismarck, Dakota, 2 killed, 

 8 injured. 



12. Collision near Lancaster, Ohio, 1 killed, 6 in- 

 jured. Fire in St. Augustine, Fla., several historic 

 buildings and two hotels burned. 



13. Train derailed near Ravenswood, West Va. ? 3 

 killed, 6 injured. Shipwreck : British steamer Vic- 

 toria, at Dieppe, 12 lives lost. 



16. Shipwreck: French steamer Dieu Merci cap- 

 sized and sank almost instantaneously off Cape Nas- 

 sau, 3 drowned. 



17. Railway: collision near Palatine, Ind., 5 killed. 



18. Railway: land-slide near tit. Johnsville. N. Y., 

 1 killed, 1 injured. Collision near Diamond Bluff, 

 Wis., 1 killed. 3 injured. Shipwreck: steamers Tas- 

 mania and Voita, in the Mediterranean, about 30 lives 

 lost. 



20. Train derailed near Taswell, Ind., 3 killed, 2 

 injured. 



21. Tornado in Missouri and Arkansas, 15 lives 

 lost. Shipwreck : schooner Active, off the coast of 

 Oregon, 33 lives lost. Railway : collision near Che- 

 lum, Washington Ter., 6 killed, 18 injured. Earth- 

 quake in the island of Jersey. 



22. Hurricane off the Australian coast. Pearl-fish- 

 ing fleet wrecked, 550 lives said to be lost. 



23. Railway : broken bridge near Winslow, Ari- 

 zona, 3 killed. Another broken bridge, near Hoff- 

 man, Ind., 3 injured. 



24. Fire at Arnaut-Keire, Asia Minor, 500 houses 

 burned, many lives lost. 



25. Explosion : an old artillery shell, near Harper's 

 Ferry, Va., burst in the midst of a picnic-party, 6 

 injured. 



27. Railway: train derailed near Timberville, Va., 

 1 killed, 1 injured. Train derailed by running over 

 two tramps lying on track, both killed. 



28. Shipwreck : Schooner Flying Scud, in Shelikoff 

 strait, 17 lives lost. Mining accident at Pottsville, 

 Pa. , 5 lives lost. 



29. Shipwreck : British steamer Benton foundered 

 off Formosa, 150 lives lost ; steamer John Knox lost, 

 with all hands, off Cape Ray. Steamer Benhope 

 burned off Tybee island, Georgia. 



30. Railway : train derailed near Driscoll, Dakota, 

 1 killed, 7 injured. Collision near Tamaqua, Pa., 1 

 killed, 2 injured. 



May 1-7. Hot sirocco in Hungary with fires, many 

 lives lost, property destroyed to the value of $2,500,- 

 000. 



3. Earthquakes in Arizona and Mexico, towns de- 

 stroyed, and 150 to 200 lives lost. Explosion in a mine 

 near Nanaimo, British Columbia, 125 lives lost. 



4. Explosion in Coosa tunnel, Georgia, 12 killed. 



7. Explosion: powder-mill near Pittston, Pa., 1 

 killed, 2 injured. 



8. Collision at sea : 10 Italian emigrants lost from 

 steamer La Champagne off the French coast. 



19. Collision at sea between British steamers Bri- 

 tannic and Celtic, 5 killed, 6 injured cause, fog. 



25. Fire : the Opera Comiquc, in Paris estimated 

 loss of life nearly 200. 



27. Fire : stables of Belt Line Horse-Car Co., New 

 York city, 1,200 horses suffocated. 



28. Explosion in a mine, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 75 

 killed. Explosion in a colliery near Glasgow ; Scot- 

 land, 75 killed. Shipwreck: British steamer Sir John 

 Lawrence, in a typhoon in the Indian Ocean, 750 lives 

 lost. 



