DISASTKRS IN 1891. 



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.i* lost; destructive prairie lin-s in s..inh- 

 > l.iiry. liul.,aliii"M wholly .1, - 



'isilles* house liimicd, io. If 



:. I.. Martinsvillc, VH., 'j kilKd. Fires: 

 ! . 1!' l>uildini.'s. loss, *lix>,ooo ; Cleveland, 



I.IIMI1CSS and dwcllillir houses, |o:vS, f 100,.NMI ; 



, Uh, elevator, loss, $90,000 ; I.oda, III., l>u>in. -- 

 *7i"),MMi; I'itt.-l'Urir, I'H.. fact. Tic... l"-s. 

 il. Ind., factory, los, $40,000 ; Nashville, 

 til ollicc, l,.ss, $35,000. 

 v D|' train accidents in October: 120 col- 

 'dcrailmcnt.s, l:i miscellaneous; total, 224. 

 ' jnployes, 13 passengers, 8 trespassers; 

 1,68. Hurt: 100 employed, 74 passengers, 5 tres- 



t.'tnl, 179. 



Horember 1. Fires: Sandringham Hull, Kngland, 

 i In 1 I'rince <>t' Wall's, loss, $50,000; Bcv- 

 s.. freight houses, Vmnk, factories, ears, etc., 

 0,000 ; Ellwood City, Pa., post office and 

 . houses, Ions, $60,000 ; Newark, N. J., hat t'ae- 

 8, $40,000; Ciirsonvillt'. .Mich., nearly de- 

 Ludinsrton. Mich., luiiiln-r mill and ware- 

 rned ; North Baltimore, Ohio, business houses, 

 0,000. 



M in Macon and Albany, Oiu. Martin's Ferry, 

 io, Jersey ( "ity, N J., St Louis, Mo., and Portland, 

 Train wrecked near Danville, Va., 1 killed, 3 



4. Moisting gear breaks, Anaconda mine, Nevada, 

 * killed, t ires in Indianapolis, Pittaburg, and New- 

 k, total loss, $150,000. Train w recked near Waco, 

 ;., 4 killed. 1 hurt 



Fires in New York, Arthur's Bay, Mich., Browns- 

 :. |nd.. lo>ses, about $184,000. 

 Fires: Luray, Va., hotel burned, Ashley junc- 



s, about $170,000. 

 7. Kxplosions : giant powder at Clipper Gap, Cal., 

 illed ; blasting caps at Last Chance mine, Idaho, 3 

 SI. Fire : Orange, Mass., loss, $200,000. 

 . Kxploaion of gas in a mine, Nanticoke, Pa.. 12 

 led, l hurt, Lightning : Louisville, Ky., Boaru of 

 adc building struck, loss, $50,000. Fire: Canton, 

 s, $75,000. 



Bftv of Bentml : mi ^ r 



the Andaman 



now houses, Paragould, Ark.; oil mill*. 

 Trim.. los*. 

 24. Tornado in Mississippi, destruction of property. 



Explosion: powder mills. Sumncu.,n. I'u.. 1 killod. 

 Fires: hlioe I'uctory, MUuMCpolia.hNM.m8JS 

 Beverly, Ma**.. \<**, $W,IHH;; j.ul.lie lil.rurv. M 

 Hall, and ston-s. I lion, N. V., \,mit, $00,000. Train 

 wrecked near Albert. m, lu,, 1 killed, :, hurt. 



L'.'.. Landslide near ('aiiton, Wa.-<h., railroad track 



uied, Sfi or more lives aaid to have bi i :re- 



. i \ done in the Bay of Bengal: many shipwrecks 

 Culeutta, about 150 lives lost at 



lll.ls. 



1". Kxnlosion: dynamite at Hayward, Wis., 10 

 irt. 8 fatally. 



11. Fires: A uirusta. Ga., loss, $125,000, San Antonio, 

 i, loss, $47,000, Findlay, Ohio, loss, $40,000. De- 

 i\e storms in ilngland. Train wrecked near 

 rian. N. V.. 1 killed, 10 hurt 

 1-J. Fins: Warsaw, N. Y. ; Duluth, coal piles ; Sla- 

 r. Mo. ; Tampa, Fla., cigar factories ; London, Eng- 

 land ; total lo.>s, about $377,000. 

 1.".. Fires: Columbus. Ohio, 5 lives lost; Silver 

 v, Iowa; Pitteburg, Pa.; losses, about $175,000. 

 :>. Fire: ( 'leveland, Ohio ($200,000). 

 17. Destructive wind storm on the New Jersey 

 st. Fires: Minneapolis factories burned; Kear- 

 jr, N. J. ; Chattanooga/fenn. ; St. Louis, Mo., dam- 

 , nearly $1,350,000 ; Brooklyn, N. Y., 72 families 



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

 vs: warehouses. St Paul, estimated loss, $950,000; 

 |rx works, New York citv, loss, $75,000 ; two build- 

 :s. Pine I '.lull'. Ark., loss, $45,000. 



I ires: storehouse, Birmingham, Ala,, loss, $60,- 

 h,,tel and stor.^, Kdgarton, Mo., loss, $50,000; 

 canninir factory. Kansas, 111., loss, $40,000. 



20. Explosion : steam boiler, Mentoga, Teno., 2 

 killed. 



_'{. Water conduit breaks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 4 men 

 buried, \\at.-r famine threatened. 



^-'. shipwrecks: two barges on Lake Mich'uran. Is 

 li\. ^ l,t. 



Tornado in Washington. 1 killed, several in- 

 :iiid several buildiiiirs wreek<-d. I )e>truetive 

 - in Virginia and Maryland. Fires: hotel, 

 'nistown, N. Y., 4 lives lost; business blocks in 

 idleburg, Vt, and two bridges, loss, $150,000 ; busi- 

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factories in Fremont, Ohio, loag, $860,i*xi ; j.a.-n^ 

 houses, Dallas, Texas, loss $200,000; hotel, .Marsliall- 

 town, Iowa, loss, $75,000. 



26. Fire: church und business blocks, St All-ans, 

 Vt, loss, $100,000. 



L'S. Trains wrecked: Toledo, Ohio, 9 killed, 20 

 hurt; near Charleston, S. C. (caused nv malice). 

 Fire : factory burned, Newark, N J., loas, $75,000. 



2'.i. Shipwreck : brig lost at ea with 2"o iientona. 

 Fires: Lynn, Mass., loss, $80,000; churvn burned, 

 Columbus, Ga., loss, $40,000; Eseamtiia. Mich., heavy 

 loss in grain, flour, and coal. Earthquake (alight), 

 Seattle, Wash. 



80. Bridge breaks near Kalispell, Mont, 5 killed, 

 in hurt. Fires: fi blocks of buildimrs. Winnebago, 

 111. ; electric-light company, Chicago, loss, $300,000 ; 

 car sheds, St. Joseph, Mo., loss ? $70,000. 



Summary of train accidents in November: 112 col- 

 lisions, 110 derailments, 4 miscellaneous; total, 226. 

 Killed: 46 employe's, 17 passengers, 6 trespassers; 

 total, M. Hurt: 1*34 employe's, 64 passengers, 9 tres- 

 passers ; total, 207. 



December 1. Bridge breaks at North Fork, Colum- 

 bia river, Mont, 3 killed, 3 hurt Fires: pottery 

 works, North Cambridge, Mass., loss, $45,000; rolling 

 mills, Owatonna, Minn., loss, $40,000. 



2. Explosion: dynamite, Haverstraw, N. Y., 5 

 killed. Train accident near Harlem, N. Y., 2 killed, 

 several hurt. Fires: Detroit, 5 lives lost; Dewitt, 

 Ark., 3 lives lost; wagon works. Sterling, 111., loss, 

 $100,000; paint works, Lincoln, Neb., loss, $80.000. 



3. Train wrecked near Pennington, N. J., 4 killed, 

 15 hurt. Fire : Plaintield, N. J., loss, $150,000. 



4. Ten barges sunk off Haverstraw, N. J., several 

 lives lost A falling wall kills 10 men in St Paul. 

 Four trains wrecked near F^u-st Thompson, Conn., 7 

 killed. Blizzard in the Northwest, snow blockade. 

 Fires : cotton mills, Des Moines, Iowa, loss, $150,000; 

 mill at Coeur d'Ale'ne, Idaho, with 400,000 feet of 

 lumber; toy factory, Sheboygan, Wis.; bookbindery, 

 Buffalo, N.'Y., loss, $38,000. 



6. Explosion : flre-damp in a mine at St-Etienne, 

 France, about 70 killed. Fire : publishing house in 

 Philadelphia, loss, $200,000. 



7. Shipwreck : steamer Fountain City supposed to 

 be lost in a recent gale on the Lakes. Violent gale 

 in the English Channel, 24 lives lost Mining acci- 

 dent in Poland, killed. 180 (estimated). 



8. Explosion: Buffalo. 1 killed, several hurt. Train 

 wrecked near West 1'lains, Mo., 4 killed, 1H hurt 

 Scaffold falls, Leighton, Pa., 2 killed, 5 very badly 

 hurt 



9. Fires: Louisville, Ky., 12 lives lost loss, $600,000 ; 

 business houses, New Richmond, Wis., loss, about 

 $75,000; theatre burned, Cleveland, loss. *7"',000. 



in. Fires: business section of Anlmore, Indian Ter- 

 ritory, loss, $100,000 ; Pinos Altos, New Mexico, al- 

 moct burned up, only two buildings left, loss, $100,000 ; 

 building burned, F.-ankton, Ind., loss, $40,000; busi- 

 ness block, Williamsburir, Iowa i incendiary < ; hotel 

 and printii)!,' offices burned, Dodgeville. Wis. Disas- 

 trous gales on English waters, many small vessels 

 lost. Balloon burst at Bombay, aeronaut killed. 



11. Storm on the Politic coast, many lives lost 

 Fin-: factory burned, Seattle, Wash., loss, $140,- 

 000; business block, Hed Key, Ind., loss, $: . 



l:i. Violent and destructive ^ale in southern Cali- 

 fornia. Fires: mill burned, Attleborough, Ma**-, 

 loss, $40,000; rice mill. New Orleans, !<**. $\ 

 larire bam, Maynard, Mass., 103 cows and 5 honset- 

 burned. 



