I) IS. \STKKS IX 1891. 



IN 



-aw mill burned, .lennin..", Mich., 1<.~ 



:ires near Marqiiette, Midi. 

 .oti-l ininied, Duluth. Minn, 

 wrecked near lie Pas,, Colorado, brakes 

 to work. 11 ore and bullion cars ran away 

 ami were wrecked, -J killed. Fires: 



^hawmilt. Me., l..ss, *'_'oo. ; i,.,. 



iusk\. Ohio, lor.-, * 1 7" ',000; busi- 

 in Altoomi, f'a. 



. .-st Superior, Wis., 4o men buried 

 lildiiiLT, many killed. 



L\nn. Mass., $200, > damage; business 



is burned. Glasgow , Ky. 



Train wrecked near Manchester, England, 11 

 men drowned in Tennessee river near 

 HV. Tiv-tlc falls near Pitt.sburg, I'a., "> m n 

 Lightning: Clinton, Wis., ^ killed. De- 

 rm e tires in Roundhead, Ohio, and (iosport, Ind. 

 iff! -J killed in North Carolina. 



Fire: the village of Sawverville, Mich., de- 

 ted, loss. m-arU *.:oo,000. 



-ion : steam boiler at Lake View, Mich., 

 nil hurt. Shipwreck : steamer Circe, off 

 land. 



Train wrecked near Glenbrook, Nev., 3 killed, 

 jjtt L \plosion : thrashing machine, in Kdmond- 

 ,nty, Ky.. r, killed. :> badly hurt. Destructive 

 hail storm's in '.Minnesota and South Dakota. 

 J 1 . Train collision : Carlisle, Col., ;"> killed, 4 hurt. 

 textile mills burned in Philadelphia, loss, 

 about $!,< MM ),000. 



\cursion train wrecked neiir Middletown, Ohio, 



7 killed, many hurt. Landslide at Idaho Springs. 



'sets at Seven Islands, St. Lawrence river, 7 



drowned. Fires: hotel and buildings burned at 



Newport News. Va., 4 lives lost; warehouses, etc., at 



-. $300,000. 



: arthquake (slight), Evansville, Ind. At a pic- 

 nic near Wheeling, W. Va., a lady was killed, an- 

 " er wounded, and a man hurt by the discharge of 

 in aimed in jest 



7. Grade-crossing accident at Elmira, N. Y., 6 

 led. "> of them women. Fires in Blair, Wis., loss, 



$::..< .and Little Kock. Ark., loss. $60.000. Train 



I at St. -Mamie, France, 43 killed, about 100 

 hurt. Lightning: 3 killed at Aylesbury, England. 

 18. Destructhe hail at Elm Creek, Neb. Fire 

 ;. liary ) at New Brunswick, N. J., factory burned, 

 . ..i n H i. 



Summary of train accidents in July: 73 collisions, 



: ailments, ;"> miscellaneous; total, 169. Killed: 



i'l"\cs. :>l passengers, 9 trespassers; total, 92. 



Hurt : '.'1 'employes, l-_'o passengers, 1 trespasser; total, 



August 5. Train wrecked near Champlain, N. Y., 2 

 killed, l-j hurt. Train derailed near Kalamazoo, 

 Midi.. f,n hurt. 



1". Train collision near Branford, Conn., 10 hurt. 



l-j. Faulty construction: deck of an excursion harirc 



'ves way 'near Oyster Bay, N. Y., 14 killed, about 

 hurt. 



!>;. Train wrecked near Brighton, Col., 2 killed, 

 1 hurt. 



17. Trains wrecked near Berne, Switzerland. 14 

 killed, many hurt. Flood in Hayti, bridge gives 

 way, 1 i lives lost. 



K Hurricane at Martinique, all the shippim/ in 



J>rt wrecked, man\ buildings destroyed, about :', lo 

 >t. the official estimate places dama<_ r es at $!<',- 

 '. Giant i>wdcr explodes ne.ir Bourke, Idaho, 

 ii killed. 



21. Severe storms in the West and South with 



earthquake shocks and disastrous floods. Fires: 



Winthrop, Mass., -1 men and 1" horses suffocated ; 



'i leans. La., loss. $40o,iMN; Hillsborough, Texas, 



- .."i.ooo. Violent storm in the English Channel. 



-"_'. Uuildings fall in Park Place. NV\\ York, dl 



killed, cause, overloaded floors. Many fatal accidents 



rdividuals. 

 Fire: tov burned in New York, los- 



Kxti-rn-ive fortiitnr. . and Idaho. 



A duiid-bii! |>ni|M-rtv in Pottville, IV 



_'l. Destructive tllxnl in tfie >dlll\ Ikill Vulley. 



Three children I'H-ked ill a du-t by pluymatctt, and 



i. all perish i Iroiiton, ( Miioi. 

 ::.". Fin - : storet* in lirooklyn, N. V., !<, f 100,000; 



court house and other building* burned, Charlc-toii. 

 Ark., Ir.ss, ^.VMHMI. Shipwreck*: UM Italian steamer 

 and -J c'utters at >c-n.-jal. Africa. 1^ lives lodt. 



_'li. Severe Morin on tin- e.. : jid. 



'_'7. Train derailed near States \ ille. N. ( ., -jj killed, 

 17 hurt, l.iirlitniiitr : Kcveral i-en)im killed in Trie-te. 

 Austria. KiiL'land, crop-, in the midland and wiutli- 

 ern counties ruined by rain. 



_"-. Newark, N. . I., a tornado .li-tro\ s many build- 

 1 ollisioii at sea: st.-amers Kiuby and Ciaiid>ier 

 near Sydney, -_''i lives lost 



2'.. HallixMi accident. Detroit, aeronaut killed. 

 Prairie tire in South Dakota, standing erops burned. 



80. Severe storm ami much damage <>i. th> 

 Jersey ,-.>ast. Fire; Natroiia, Pa., salt works burned, 

 loss. IIMI.OOO; Quanah, Texas, business b|i M -ks burm-d, 

 loss, ijiiid.iMhi. Explosion in a church at liiMirlxm, 

 Ind., building wrecked. 



81. Trains wrecked: near Webster, Cal., a killed, 10 

 hurt; Tell City, Ind., 4 killed, 20 hurt; and m-ar 

 Louisville, 13 killed, 18 hurt. Fire: \Yimicmucca, 

 Nev.. estimated loss, f 190,000. Explosion in a Somer- 

 setshire colliery, England, 10 killed, 12 hurt. Ty- 

 phoon in Japan, about L'50 lives lost. 



Summary of train accidents in August: 111 collis- 

 ions, 110 derailments, 2 miscellaneous; total, _'_':'.. 

 Killed: ;!ii employds, 42 passengers. ]:; IIVM 

 total, HI. Hurt : 1 .">_' employes. I*--; passengers, 3 tres- 

 passers ; total, 341. 



September 1. Fire at I'd la. Iowa, estimated loss, 

 !*:',o,ooo. Shipwreck: British steamer Dumurray 



capsi/ed, S lives lost. 



i. Prairie fire near Grand Forks, N. Dak., 5 t OOO 

 acres of hay land burned over, cause, a locomotive. 

 Ireland, destructive flood in the River Barrow. 



8. Shipwreck: schooner Pannonia, near Hawaii, 

 11 lives lost. Lightning strikes near Magnolia, Ark., 



4 killed. 



4. Fire: business block bunied, Attalla, 111., esti- 

 mated loss, $75,000. 



5. Dynamite exploded (presumably by malice) in a 

 thrashing machine near Findlay, Ohio, 1 killed, 4 hurt. 

 Forest fires in the Cascade Range, Wash., much valu- 

 able timber burned. 



6. Many persons poisoned by impure water from a 

 well near Dundee, Mich., 5 died, i"i sickened. < 'ollis- 

 ion at sea, steamship Arizona sinks an unknown 

 sailing reneL 



7. Train derailed on bridge near Clay City, Ky., 

 2 killed. 



9. Locomotive explosion. Oyster Hay. N. Y., 8 

 killed, 1 hurt. Earthquake. San Salvador; about 40 

 killed. 60 hurt. 



10. Train derailed, near Montezuina, Iowa, cause, a 

 broken rail, 14 hurt. 



11. Shipwrecks: steamers Tounnania (Italian) and 

 Thessalht ((ireck i ill collision ot! the coast of Greece, 

 Tounnania sinks. iM lives lost; schooner (ieorgiana 

 capsi/ed near Halifax, N. S., Id lives lo>t : 

 launch sunk in collision near Dublin, Ireland. !."> 

 lives lost. Warren. Ohio, :' |-rsons run over and 

 killed by a railwav train. 



12. Sa'ultsburg, Va.. a seatfold tails, 4 killed. Fire : 

 iron works burned, Newcastle. Del., estimated loaa, 

 $800,000, 80o hands out of work. 



18. Train derailed near Beaver Brok. Col., 700 

 pa-eii'_'er> on board. 4 killed. _':'. hurt. 



14. Fires : saw mill destroyed. Condon River. Mich., 

 estimated loss, $2<X>,()0<>; several manufactories, Me- 

 nasha. Wi>.. estimated loss. i(ts.l.<NNi. 



!.". Floods in the Spanish provinces of Toledo 

 and Almeria drown alnnit 8,000 penona and damage 

 ro|erty to the amount of *I,IMMI.IMHI. Fire: New 



ork city, buililinif of the "Commercial Advertiser" 

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