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DISASTERS IN 1891. 



Sherman. Explosion: 2 men killed by a cartridge, 

 Amherst, Mass. Lancaster, Pa. : 2 men killed by a 

 fall from a scaffold. 



9. Severe weather in Europe. Snow as far south as 

 Algiers. 



11. Fire : a lumber mill burned, Norfolk, Va., loss, 

 $100,000. Steamers in collision on the Firth of Forth, 

 13 drowned. Locomotive falls from elevated railroad, 

 New York city, engineer hurt, signals misunderstood. 



12. Damage from ice gorges in the New England 

 rivers and disastrously high tides on the poast. 

 Steamer City of Washington damaged by a hurricane, 

 2 lives lost. Fires : Cambridgeport, Mass., loss, $50,- 

 000; Chicago, 111., stables burned, loss, $40,000. 

 Avalanche in Bosnia, 17 killed. 



13. Shipwreck : schooner Otter on the Long Island 

 coast, 2 drowned. Locomotive boiler bursts near 

 Ashland, Pa., 2 killed. France : ice breaks in the 

 Seine river, 9 drowned. 



14. Eunaway car near Westport, N. Y., 4 killed. 

 Grade-crossing accident near Clyde, Ohio : sleighing 

 party run over, 4 killed. Fire : Richmond, Va., loco- 

 motive works burned, loss, $25,000. 



15. Siberia : a pestilence prevails, said to be " the 

 black death," thousands die. 



16. Earthquake : a shock of considerable violence in 

 New Hampshire. Snow storm in southern Italy. 



peasantry 

 in many parts of Europe. 



18. Explosion: natural gas at Findlay,- Ohio, a hotel 

 wrecked, 3 killed, 6 hurt. Fire: tin warehouse in 

 Pittsburg, loss, $45,000. 



19. Severe weather in Europe, many deaths and 

 widespread suffering. Train derailed by robbers near 

 Brownsville, Texas, 2 hurt, passengers locked in 

 freight car, express robbed. 



20. Fires : Electric works in Chicago, loss, $142,- 

 000. Earthquake in Switzerland. 



21. Fires: Hillsborough, N. Dak., loss, $70,000; 

 opera house burned, Winona, Minn. Explosion : 

 fire-damp in a Bussian mine, about 100 killed. 



22. Heavy rains cause much damage in the Middle 

 and New England States. 



23. An aged man and his wife run over and killed 

 by a train near "Washington. Fire : in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 loss, $250,000, 1 firemankilled, 4 hurt. 



24. Fires : in Jersey City, 3 killed, 6 hurt, most of 

 them firemen ; fire engine run down by a railway 

 train, its driver killed. Germany : explosion in a 

 mine, 40 killed. 



25. Disastrous storm on the north Atlantic coast : at 

 Birmingham, Conn., damage to the amount of $1,000,- 

 000 has been done within a few days. Fires : paper 

 mill burned, Appleton, Wis., loss, $175,000 ; Spokane 

 Falls, Wash., loss, $61,000. Train wrecked near Butte, 

 Mont, 1 killed, 8 hurt. 



26. Explosion : lire-damp in coke works, Mount 

 Pleasant, Pa., 110 killed. Army transport train 

 wrecked by collision near Florence, Kan., 3 soldiers 

 killed, 10 hurt, many cavalry horses killed and hurt. 



29. Three foot passengers killed by a railway train 

 iear Gallitzin, Pa. Blizzard in the Northwest, traffic 

 generally stopped. Faulty construction: Omaha, 

 Western Art Association building falls, many valu- 

 able works ruined. Landslide in Greece, 25 killed. 



30. Fire: Cygnet, Ohio, 6 blocks of buildings 

 burned, 2 lives lost. 



31. Faulty construction : hoisting gear gives way, 

 Harrisbiirg, Pa., 2 killed. 



Summary of train accidents in January : 106 col- 

 lisions, 93, derailments, 12 miscellaneous ; total, 211. 

 Killed: 38 employes, 8 passengers; total, 46. Hurt: 

 118 employes, 90 passengers, 2 trespassers ; total, 210. - 



February 1. Ftre: jail burned at Friar's Point, 

 Miss., 3 lives lost. \Train wrecked near Dillon, Mont., 

 2 killed, several inj tired. 



2. Blizzard in the, Northwest, many fishermen 

 adrift on Lake Huron. Train wrecked near Griifen, 

 Ga., 14 hurt. 



3. Train wrecked near Cory, Pa., 2 killed, 3 hurt. 



4. Mines flooded at Jeansville, Pa., 18 drowned, 

 and Wilkesbarre, Pa., 3 drowned. Fires : Board of 

 Trade building burned, Dubuque, Iowa, loss, $20,000; 

 W innebago, 111., loss, $50,000 ; railroad warehouse 

 burned, Findlay, Ohio. 



5. Fire : poorhouse burned, Waterville, Me., 1 life 

 lost. Train wrecked near Shelby, Ala., 3 killed. 



6. Explosion : giant powder near Kokomo, Col., 2 

 killed, 3 hurt. Landslide, Switzerland, 22 wood-cut- 

 ters buried. 



7. Explosions : giant powder near Wyoming, Pa., 2 

 killed, 1 hurt ; steam boiler, Eiedsville, Ga., 6 killed. 

 Blizzard in the Northwest. Fire: Ellisville, 111., 

 almost wholly destroyed. 



8. Blizzard in North and West, wires down, traffic 

 blockaded. Shipwrecks : supposed loss of steamer 

 Simon Dumois ; steamer Chiswick aground off Scilly 

 Isles, 11 lives lost. 



9. Violent wind at Helena, Mont., much damage. 

 Train derailed, Eandalia, Iowa, 19 hurt, wreck 

 burned. 



11. Train wrecked near Ingleside, Mo., 2 killed, 4 

 hurt. 



12. Explosions : natural gas at Marietta, Incl., 2 

 hurt ; steam boiler at Quebec, 20 killed. 



14. Fire in the general post-office, New York, 1 

 killed, $25,000 damage. Train wrecked near Sus- 

 quehanna, Pa., 2 killed, 10 hurt. 



15. Fire : carpet factory burned, Philadelphia, loss, 

 $150,000, cause, an electric wire. 



16. Explosion in a mine, Scottsdale, Pa., 4 killed. 

 A rock tails upon a passenger train near Duquesne 

 Heights, Pa., 1 woman killed, 3 men hurt. Fires : St. 

 Mary's hospital burned, Eochester, N'. Y. ; oil cars 

 burned, Philadelphia, 1 explodes, 4 hurt ; build- 

 ings burned, New Westminster, British Columbia, 

 loss, about $500,000, 1 killed. 



17-20. Destructive floods in the Ohio watershed, 

 all industries suspended, 2,500 houses flooded in 

 Wheeling alone. 



17. Fire : steamer burned at Wuhu, China, about 

 200 lives lost. 



18. Shipwreck : Italian bark Mascotta, sunk in New 

 York harbor, 4 lives lost. Fire : tenement house 

 burned, Brooklyn, N. Y., a mother and 4 children 

 perish. 



19. Fires: a keg of powder explodes in burning 

 building, Watseka, 111., several hurt; opera house 

 burned, Eochester, N. Y. ; roundhouse burned, Kan- 

 sas City, with 18 locomotives. 



20-28. Floods in Arizona. Yuma nearly destroyed. 



20. Train wrecked, New York city, 6 killed, 9 hurt, 

 wreck fired. 



21. Fire : tenement house burned, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 

 6 lives lost. Shipwreck : British Steamer Iowa, sunk 

 by ice, all hands saved by steamer Chester, 422 cattle 

 lost. 



22. Shipwreck : ship Elizabeth, off San Francis^, 

 18 lives lost. Fires: buildings burned, Kansas City, 

 estimated loss, $240,000 ; opera house burned, Evans- 

 ville, Ind. 



25. Tornado : many buildings destroyed in In- 

 diana. 



26. Fires : Minneapolis, loss, $75,000 ; grain eleva- 

 tor and warehouse burned, Chicago, estimated loss, 



28 Tram cable breaks in the Marion County mines, 

 Tennessee, 2 killed, 11 hurt. 



Summary of train accidents in February : 93 col- 

 lisions, 93 derailments, 10 miscellaneous; total, 196. 

 Killed : 52 employes, 7 passengers, 2 trespassers ; 

 total, 61. Hurt: 161 employe's, 108 passengers, f> 

 trespassers, total, 275. 



March. 1. Lightning strikes 4 churches and many 

 dwellings in Massachusetts. Fire : 20 buildings 

 burned, Hermon, N. Y., loss, $75,000. 



2. Explosion : steam boiler, Charleston, Mo., 3 killed. 

 Floods continue in Arizona. Gale on the James river, 

 Virginia, 20 lives lost. 



3. Pontoon bridge, St. Charles, Mo., wrecked by 



