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DISASTERS IN 1891. 



10. Trains in collision near Cloverdale, Va., 2 killed, 



1 hurt, and near Shepherd, Mich., 3 killed, 13 hurt. 

 Train cut off, wrecked and burned by forest fires near 

 Moore's Eun, Fa., several lives lost. Fire : Salem, 

 S. Dak., elevators burned, loss, $50,000 ; opera house 

 and other buildings, Piano, 111. 



11. Fires: factory burned, New York city, loss, 

 $140,000; planing mill and dwellings, Slatington, 

 Pa., loss, $90,000. Explosion: petroleum gas. on 

 steamer Tancarville, at Newport, England, 8 killed, 

 25 hurt. 



12. Forest fires destroy several towns in Wiscon- 

 sin, and damage farm and oil property in Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



13. Floods sweep away several villages on the Eio 

 Grande. Explosion : boiler bursts at Germania, W. 

 Va., 4 killed, 2 hurt. 



14. Fires: elevators burned, Bozeman, Mont., loss, 

 $75,000 ; oil refinery burned, Philadelphia, loss, $100,- 

 000 ; stores in Hardy, Neb., loss. $50,000. 



15. Mining accident, Plymouth, Pa., 3 killed. 



16. Fire : about 300 buildings burned, Muskegon, 

 Mich., estimated loss, $500,000 (insured $300,000); 

 Linesville, Pa., loss, $75,000 ; Princeton, Mo., loss, 

 $25,000 ; many other fires of less importance. 



17. Volcanic eruption in Armenia, several villages 

 destroyed and many lives lost. Train wrecked on 

 Long Island, N. Y., 2 killed, 3 hurt. 



18. Train wrecked near Phelan ; Ala., 2 killed, 1 

 hurt. Fires : factory burned, Joliet, 111. ; Seattle, 

 Wash., loss, $40,000 ; Lamonte, Mo., incendiary, loss, 

 $20,000. 



19. Explosion: on construction train, 'near Tarry- 

 town, N. Y., 13 killed, 22 hurt, cause, careless hand- 

 ling of high explosives. Sewer breaks at Provi- 

 dence, B. I., 11 men buried, 4 killed. Fires : business 

 blocks burned, Jacksonville, Fla., estimated loss, 

 $500,000 ; hotel and cottages, Hancock, N. H., loss, 

 $20,000. 



20. Destructive hail storms in Texas. Fire : linseed- 

 oil works, Sioux City, Neb., loss, $150,000. 



21. Train wrecked near Borden, Texas, 1 soldier 

 killed, 4 hurt. Tornadoes in Missouri, Kansas, and 

 Illinois. Fires in Minneapolis, West Albany, N. Y., 

 Houston, Texas, and Logansport, Ind. 



22. Explosion : 6 miners killed near Birmingham, 

 Ala. 



23. Tornadoes in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Ne- 

 braska. Fires: prison buildings, Jefferson City, Mo., 

 loss, $170,000 ; Detroit, Mich., loss, $250,000 ; hotels 

 in Kichmond, Ky., loss, $80,000. 



25. Grade-crossing accident, Latrobe, Pa., 2 killed, 



2 hurt. 



29. Explosion : Frankfort, Ind., steam boiler bursts, 

 2 killed, 6 hurt. 



30 Explosion : dynamite in a mine, near Silver 

 Plume, Col., 4 killed. Fires : business houses burned, 

 Wahpeton, N. Dak., loss, $100,000; Eice Lake, Wis., 

 stores and dwellings burned, loss, $37,000. 



31. Hurricane : Lake Ilman, Eussia, many lumber 

 vessels lost with their crews. 



Summary of train accidents in May : 67 collisions, 

 80 derailments, 19 miscellaneous; total, 166. Killed: 

 54 employe's, 2 passengers, 7 trespassers; total, 63. 

 Hurt : 98 employes, 50 passengers, 8 trespassers ; total, 

 156. 



June 1. Explosion : Milford, Va., boiler bursts, 3 

 killed. Fires : a church and business block burned 

 111 Los Angeles, Cal. ; theatre burned in Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



2. Tornado near Watertown, S. Dak., 3 killed. 

 Heavy damage by storms in the Western States. 



3. Explosion : Bedford, Ind., boiler bursts, 5 killed. 



6. Fire : factory burned, Cleveland, Ohio, loss, $150,- 



000 (insured $100,000). 



7. Explosion : dynamite blast, Chattanooga, 3 killed," 



1 hurt. Earthquake shocks m Italy and New Jersey, 

 in Italy 3 killed, many hurt. \ 



8. Train collision near Savannah, Ga., wreck burned, 



2 killed, 6 hurt. Floods in the Eed river region, 

 Texas, many cattle drowned. 



9. Train collision near Frink, Kan., 3 killed, 6 

 hurt. 



10. Fires: opera house, Baltimore ; hotel, Birming- 

 ham, Ala. ; court house, Fort Pierre, S. Dak., all rec- 

 ords burned. 



11. Train wrecked near Eoots Station, Pa., 3 killed, 

 3 hurt. 



15. Train wrecked near Port Costa, Cal., 2 killed, 

 several hurt. Train derailed near Chiltori, Wis., 10 

 hurt. 



16. Train derailed near Coon Eapids, Iowa, 3 

 killed, 20 hurt, obstacle maliciously placed on track. 

 Train accident : Switzerland, 130 killed, many injured. 

 Cloud-burst: Newmansville, Texas, several buil'dniifs 

 destroyed. Fires : Buffalo, loss, $40,000 ; Mondovi, 

 Wis., loss, $35,000 ; Seabright, N. J., loss, $300,000. 



19. Train wrecked near Sauve, La., 6 killed, 4 

 hurt. Four men from revenue cutter Bear drowned 

 in Icy Bay, Alaska. 



20. Escaping gas : 3 girls killed in New York. 

 Five men and 2 women drowned near Baltimore. 

 Fires : factory in St. Louis, loss, $70,000 ; Marquette, 

 Mich., and Milford, Me., heavy losses. 



21. Train derailed near Dover, Ohio, 1 killed, 30 hurt. 

 Fire : Naval workshops burned, Pola, Austria. Train 

 accident near Londonderry, Ireland, several killed, 

 and many hurt. 



22. Fires: Fall Eiver, Mass., loss, $60,000; Jeffer- 

 son, Texas, loss, $75,000. 



23. Train wrecked, White Plains, N. Y., 11 hurt. 

 Earthquake, (slight), Charleston, S. C. Train accident 

 near Mellion, Ky., 4 killed. 



24. Cloud-burst : Cherokee Co., N. C., 2 killed, 

 much damage done. Disastrous storms in western 

 Iowa. 



25. Train derailed near Van Buren, Ark., 1 killed, 21 

 hurt. Fires : Elmira, N. Y., loss, $75,000 ; New Lon- 

 don, Conn., loss, $75,000 ; Birmingham, Ala., loss, 

 $20,000. 



26. Tornado : Mount Carmel, Pa., 7 killed. Grade- 

 crossing accident, Grafton, Neb., 2 women killed. 

 Train derailed by washout near Eosebud, Mont., 14 

 hurt. 



27. Fires : Seventy-first Eegiment Armory, New 

 York, destroyed ; Elwood, Ind., glass works burned, 

 loss, $60,000 : Newburyport, Mass., loss, $75,000 ; 

 Cleveland, Ohio, loss, $50,000. 



28. Fire : coffee mill, Baltimore, loss, $100,000. 



29. Falling wall, Milwaukee, 3 killed. Fires : store- 

 house burned, St. Louis, Mo., loss, $250,000 ; furni- 

 ture warehouse burned, Eockford, 111., loss, $100,000. 



30. Forty-three persons poisoned by eating ice- 

 cream, at Brushton, N. Y. 



Summary of train accidents in June : 50 collisions, 

 109 derailments, 8 miscellaneous ; total, 167. Killed : 

 50 employe's, 5 passengers, 5 trespassers ; total, 60. 

 Hurt : 130 employe's, 107 passengers ; total, 237. 



July 2. Tornadoes in Iowa, Missouri, and in Ehen- 

 ish Prussia, many buildings wrecked. A tourist 

 fell into the crater of Vesuvius and perished. 



3. Trains in collision, Eavenna, Ohio, 21 killed, 27 

 hurt, wreck burned. 



4. Train derailed near Charleston, West Va., 17 

 killed, 48 hurt. Obstruction wired to rail near Lans- 

 ing, Iowa, train thrown into Mississippi river. Many 

 fatal accidents from fireworks and the like. A church 

 and 4 dwellings burned in San Francisco, value, $100,- 

 000, cause, fireworks. Lightning : 3 students killed 

 and several hurt at St. Inigoes Villa, Maryland. 



5. Train wrecked near Aspen Junction, Col., 9 

 killed, 6 hurt. Hurricane at Galveston, Texas, much 

 damage to shipping. Fire : theatre burned, St. Paul, 

 Minn. Drowned: 18 soldiers in the Aar river, 

 Switzerland. 



6. Tornado in Louisiana and Mississippi, 10 killed, 

 about 50 hurt, some fatally. Explosion : powder 

 mill at Jermyn, Pa., 2 killed.' Fires at Portland, Ore., 

 Duluth, Minn., and Jeffersonville, Ind. 



8. Fires : hat factory in Cincinnati, estimated loss 

 nearly $1.000,000 ; tobacco warehouse, Clarksville, 

 Tenn., loss, $160,000. 



