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DISASTERS IN 1891. 



16. Fire : Portland, Me., tannery^ burned, estimated 

 loss, $25,000. Slight earthquake in Oregon. Ship- 

 wreck : 3 schooners lost off Labrador, 13 lives lost. 



17. Mining accident near Virginia city, Nev., 5 

 killed. Fires: Memphis, Tenn., theatre burned; 

 Hastings, Minn., factories burned. 



18. Boiler explosion near Chardon, Ohio, 5 killed. 

 Train collision near Pont Neuf, Idaho, 5 killed, 4 

 hurt (with one exception the casualties were tres- 

 passers). Fire : Belair, Md., factories burned. 



19. Fires : a tenement house in Chicago, 6 lives lost ; 

 Lancaster, Pa., paper mill, loss, $25,000 ; Needles, Cal., 

 business houses burned, estimated loss, $37,000. Col- 

 liery disaster in Belgium, 29 lives lost. Collision near 

 Idaho, 5 killed, 7 hurt. 



20. Train wrecked near Greensburg, Pa., 3 killed, 

 1 hurt. Fires : paper mill burned, Lions, Iowa, esti- 

 mated loss, $75,000 ($30,000 insurance) ; hotel and 

 stores burned, Sheffield, Ala., estimated loss, $110,000. 



21. Boat upset near Newburgh, N. Y., 5 drowned. 

 Severe storm in Great Britain, many wrecks by land 

 and sea. 



22. Tornado in South Dakota and Minnesota, 

 buildings and crops destroyed. Fires: hotel and 

 buildings burned. Fort Worth, Texas, estimated loss, 

 $150,000 ($22,000 insurance). Destructive prairie 

 fires, North Dakota, crops burned. 



23. Fires : basket factory and other buildings 

 burned, Ellsworth, Wis., loss, $72,000; knitting mills, 

 Sand Lake, N. Y., loss, $40,000 ; chemical works, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., loss, $25,000. Train derailed near 

 Plantersville, Texas, 1 killed, 5 hurt. 



24. Train collision near Burgos, Spain, 14 killed, 24 

 hurt. Fire : Minneapolis, factory and grain elevator 

 burned, loss, $167,000 (insured $117,700). Train col- 

 lision near Zelinople, Pa., 8 killed, 5 hurt. 



25. Explosion : Newark, N. J., a mortar bursts 

 while firing a salute, 11 killed, 30 hurt. Fire : Savan- 

 nah, Ga., store burned, loss, about $400,000 ($240,000 

 insurance). 



26. Fires at Greenville, 111., Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 and Dallas, Texas. Forest fires in Chippewa Co., Wis. 



27. Prairie fire, Minnesota, a family of 5 persons 

 perish. Fire : factory burned, St. Louis, Mo., loss, 

 $50,000. Violent wind, Minnesota, numerous build- 

 ings wrecked in Beltrami and Itasca Counties. Trains 

 in collision near Cumberland, Md., 2 killed, 1 hurt. 

 Earthquakes of considerable violence in the North 

 Middle States. 



28. Fire : fruit works burned, Bouckville, N. Y., loss, 

 about $30,000. Forest fire: Eldorado County, Cal., 

 500 square miles burned over. 



30. Train wrecked near Kent, Ohio, 4 killed, 24 

 hurt. Fires : lumber yards burned, Wausemon, 

 Wis., loss. $100,000 (insured $50,000) ; cement factory, 

 Chicago, loss, about $50,000 ; Morris, Minn., grain 

 elevator burned, with 30,000 bushels of wheat ; Cin- 

 cinnati, factory burned, loss, $30,000. 



Summary of train accidents in September : 139 col- 

 lisions, 92 derailments, 6 miscellaneous; total, 237. 

 Killed : 54 employe's, 6 passengers, 5 trespassers ; 

 total, 65. Hurt : 95 employes, 95 passengers, 8 tres- 

 passers ; total, 198. 



October 1. Prairie fire in North Dakota, several 

 thousand square miles burned over. Fire : woolen mill 

 burned, Oxford, Me., loss, about $140,000; factories 

 burned, Chicago, loss, about $50,000. 



2. Fire : Halifax, N. S., estimated damage, $400,000. 



3. Colliery explosion, Glen Carbon, Pa., 7 men 

 buried, 4 probably killed. Explosion: dynamite, 

 Butte, Mont., 2 killed, several hurt. 



4. Explosion: steam tug boat, Chicago, 7 killed, 

 many injured. Fire : grain elevator burned, Balti- 

 more, $500.000 damage, 35,000 bushels of grain burned ; 

 Indianapolis, packing works burned, loss, $200,000. 



5. Fire : tenement house burned, New York, 4 lives" 

 lost, several injured ; East Cambridge, Mass., packing 

 house burned, loss, $200,000. 



6. Fire : Indianapolis, a wall falls from the iar of a 

 passing train, 5 firemen buried, 3 killed ; Ya\e Uni- 

 versity, a dormitory partly burned, loss, $50,000. Bun- 



over at grade crossing, Staten Island, N. Y., 3 killed. 

 Severe gale in the Irish Sea, much damage to ships. 



7. Fires: 2 blocks of business houses, Columbus 

 Junction, Iowa, loss about $150,000; Lima, Ohio, 

 " Times" building and others, loss, $100,000 (insured 

 $65,000). 



8. Fire : house of August Belmont, New York, loss 

 about $100,000. 



9. Shipwreck : United States steamer Despatch 

 ashore oft Assateague, Md., total loss, all hands 



10. Eailway collision near Hyde Park, N. Y., 3 

 killed. Fires in Nashville, Tenn., Pittsburg, Pa., 

 Boston, and Cincinnati. 



11. A wheat-laden barge sunk by collision in the 

 Sault St.-Marie Canal, all traffic blocked for two weeks. 

 Fires : Lynchburg, Va., bark and sugar mills burned, 

 loss, about $100,000 ; Burleysville, Me., oil-cloth fac- 

 tory, loss, about $100,000. 



12. Earthquake in Napa, Sonoma, and elsewhere, 

 many buildings damaged. 



13. Mining accident near Niagara, hoisting gear 

 gives way, 3 killed, 2 hurt. Violent storm on north 

 Atlantic coast of America arid on the British Isles. 



14. Explosion on United States steamer Atlanta, 

 6 hurt. Eain ruins several million bushels of wheat 

 in Minnesota and Dakota. Earthquake in San Fran- 

 cisco. Machinery breaks in a factory at Manchester, 

 N. H., 3 killed, several hurt. Eailway accident near 

 Crete, 111., 4 killed. Fires : paint works, Springfield, 

 Mass., loss, about $60,000 ; viroqua, Wis., business 

 houses burned, loss, about $50,000. 



15-20. Continued and terribly destructive gales in 

 Great Britain. 



17. Fires : Binnswater, N. Y., factories and stores, 

 )ss, $300,000 ; also in Frederick, Del., and Paoli, Ind. 



18. Fire : coal houses burned, Norwich, Conn., loss, 



19. Locomotive boiler bursts near Pottsville, Pa., 3 

 killed, 1 hurt. 



20. Fire : brewery burned by tramps, New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., loss, $80,000. 



21. Eailroad accident, Chicago, Burlington and 

 Quincy Eailroad, 4 killed, many hurt. Fires in Minne- 

 apolis, Amesbury, Brooklyn, St. Paul, Charleston, 111., 

 Louisville, Cincinnati, and New York, total losses, 

 fully $500,000. 



22. Boiler of a thrashing machine bursts near May- 

 ville, N. Dak., 4 killed. Fires : Greenville, Texas, 

 Glendale, Mass., Castle Eock, Minn., Childress, Texas, 

 and Natural Bridge, Va., losses, about $500,000. Dam- 

 age by floods in Great Britain, France, and Spain. 



23. Violent storm of snow and wind along the New 

 England coast. Fires at Mount Vernon, N. Y., Lan- 

 caster, Ky., Hot Springs, S. Dak., losses, about $100,000. 



24. Shipwreck : schooner Eed Wing, off the coast of 

 Delaware, 14 lives lost. Fires at Bowling Green, 

 Ky., Bird's Point, Mo., and Chicago, losses, about 



25. Fire : Meiringen, Switzerland, almost wholly 

 destroyed. 



26. Boiler bursts, Louisville, Ky., several killed, 

 damage, $60,000. Fire : Pine Grove, Ky., almost 

 wholly destroyed. Collision at sea: British bark 

 Charlwood sunk by steamer Boston off' Eddystone 

 Light, 16 drowned. Train wrecked near Moirans, 

 France, 15 killed, about 50 hurt. 



27. Earthquake shocks in South Carolina. Eail- 

 way collision near Thomas Station, Minn., 5 killed, 7 

 hurt. Defective machinery, Greenville, Pa., 2 killed, 

 3 hurt. Cyclone, Conneaut, Ohio, 30 buildings de- 

 stroyed. Fires at Evansville, Ind., Newman, Ga., 

 Springfield, Mass., Marshalltown, Iowa, and Forsyth, 

 Ga., losses, about $200,000. 



28. Earthquake in Japan, estimated loss of life, 7,000 

 to 10,000 persons. Explosion : powder works near 

 Youngstown, Ohio, 2 killed. Fires : Newman, Ga., 

 loss, $200,000 ; Muncie, Ind., loss, $52,000 ; Virden, 

 Manitoba, loss, $50,000. 



29. Train collision near Taopi, Minn., 3 killed. 

 Fires : Steamboat, Oliver Bierne, near Milliken's 



