IUS.\>TI-:I:S IN 



183 



8 killed. Fires: Roman Catholic Church and school, 



:ui., loss, $60,000; stove factory, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, loss, |40,000. 



business house, New York, Ins*, $.500,000. 

 Smvieul Institute, Indianapolis, Ind., 21 

 li\c> lost 20 or more hurt; roundhouse near .\.-w 

 Orleans, loss, $60,000; livery stable, New York, :i ( .) 

 killed, loss, $80,000; college buildings, Due- 

 west, N. c. F.xpioMon : New \oi-u, -2. killed, Mverml 

 liurt. IIu>sia: a church roof fulls ut Slobodski, 50 



killiil :ilnl \\oiinded. 



Roman Catholic Church, Connellsvillo, 



I'll., loss, frIoo.iiM. ; toy .-ton-, St. Louis, loss, $. r .:..ooo ; 



electric-light works, Boston, loss, $15,000. Earth- 

 i[ii:iki- iii Koine. 



I ires: tobacco warehouse, Pittsburg, loss, $40,- 

 lory, Kahway. N. .1., loss, *:'.'J,000. 



business hou.M-s, 1'iiic 1 Mull's, Ark., loss, 



$1. ,(!,( MKI; factory, Chicago, loss. j*ti. r >,ooo ; warehouse, 



Providence, U. 1., loss, $50,000; ice works, Danville, 



hotel and other buildings, Beverly, 



\\ . \'a.. loss, $30,000.. 



ji'i. riiv>: opera house and business block, Colum- 

 bia, Ohio, loss, $500,000; oil factory un<l \vhar\rs, 

 Elizabethport, N. J., loss, $300,000; cotton works, 

 Chester, N. C., loes, $220,000; business houses, Oak- 

 dale, I'n., loss, $30,000. 



warehouse and workhouse, Cincinnati, 

 loss, $250,000 ; railroad shops, Meridian, Miss., loss, 

 ifK.i'.ooo; Koinaii Catholic church, Albany, N. V. 



I Explosions : dynamite in a coal mine near Hazle- 

 ton^ Pa., 2 killed, 21 hurt ; locomotive boiler, near St. 

 Clair, I'll., 5 killed. 



j'.i. Explosions : dynamite, near Templeton, Ontario, 

 3 killed, several hurt; and near St. Louis, Mo., where 

 no casualties were reported. Fires : dwelling at Brain- 

 enl, .Minn., 4 lives lost ; business houses, Jewnette, 

 Pa., loss, $75,000; stores, Milan. Mo., loss, $60,000; 

 marble works, West Kutlund, Vt., loss, $50,000; wheel 

 shps. La Porte, Ind., loss, $50,000. 



Summary of train accident* in January : 120 collis- 

 .17 derailments, 12 miscellaneous; total, 249. 

 Killed : 46 employees, 8 passengers, 7 trespassers; to- 

 tal, til. Hurt: 111 employees, 147 passengers, 5 tres- 

 PMMTS; total, 211:1. 



February 1. Fire: Woodstock, 111., stores burned, 

 loss, $75,000. Shipwreck : steamer Eider, on the Isle 

 of Wight 



'-'. Fire : Courthouse, Appomattox, Va., records lost. 

 Explosion; Newark. N. J., 3 killed. 



::. Slight earthquake near Portland, Ore. Fire: 

 shoe t'aetorv, Hanvers. Muss. 



4. Scaffold falls at Birmingham, Ala,, 2 killed, 6 

 hurt. Earthquake at Omaha, Keb. 



;".. Shipwreck: American steamer Venezuela ashore 

 sit Brigantine Shoal, N.J. Slight earthquake, San Jos6, 

 Cal. Fires: tobacco warehouse, Louisville, Ky.,1 life 

 lost ; flour mills, Covington, Ky., loss, $75,000; paper 

 mills, Buttle < 'reek. Mich., loss, $50,000 ; tannery, Cin- 

 cinnati, loss, $55,000. 



<;. Shipwrecks: steamer Polynesian, ashore at Cape 

 Henry, Va. ; steamer Ernbricos, on the Scilly Islands, 

 In lives lost. Fire: packinghouse, Birmingham, Ala., 

 loes, $50,000. 



7. Fires: Hotel Royal, New York, about 70 lives 

 lost; business houses, IJoehc.-ter, N. Y., loss, $12">,- 

 000; houses burned, Manchester, N. 11., loss, $50,000. 



8. Fires: many buildinirs, Mem]>his. Teiin., loss, 

 about $l,000,()oo; iron works, Indianapolis, Ind., loss, 

 $150,000; business houses, Larned, Kan., loss, $125,- 

 000; paper mills, Sprimrticld, Ma-s., loss, $70,000. 

 Explosion: locomotive boiler, near Reading, Pa., 8 

 killed, 5 hurt. 



9. Fire : opera house, Wilbur, Neb., loss, $50,000. 



10. Fires : several houses in Cincinnati, loss, $290,- 

 000 ; factory, Sterling, 111., loss, $75,000; opera house, 

 Deo Moines, Iowa, loss, $50,000. 



11. Fire: hotel burned, El Paso, Texas, loss, $100,- 

 000. 



12. Fires: opera house block, Monmouth, 111. 

 $150,000; warehouses, Kingston, N. Y., loss, $75,000. 



13. Fires: Murta, Ark., nearly destroyed: 

 phone exchange, New York citv, burned, loss, $100,- 

 000; stable*, Norfolk. Va., HI bOMM Umt; biuimaw 

 houses, Elizabethtown, IV, IOHH, $75,000; 1 

 Amchbury, Mass., losx, $. r o.tK)0. 



14. Fire : furniture factory, New York, low, $130,- 

 '. 



15. Mining accident, A.-p-n. Col., 3 killed. 



16. Fire: usylum for tlie insuiie burned, Jackson, 

 Miss., 1 lite lost, damage, $ao. 



17. <ircat liritain: violent storms on the coast, 

 many vrssflu lost. 



18. Shipw reek : bark Tamerlane asi ore off Puna, 

 Hawaiian Islands, IS lives lost. Fire: many build- 

 ings in New Orleans, los, about $1,000,000. 



ii, 1'lattsbuiy. N. Y., :! killed; steel converter 

 overturned, I'ittsbmv, I'a., :j killed. 



20. Fire : liquor store in Ironwood, Mich., 8 lives 

 lost ; another heavy snowstorm eauses much distress 

 in Great Britain. 



21. Shipwreck : steamer founders off the Cornish 

 coast, all nands lost. Fire: stores at Malvuru, Ark., 

 loss, $100,000. 



2.'5. Fires: dwelling at MeKeesport, Pa., 4 severely 

 injured ; stores, Chicago, 111., damage, $50,000. Dis- 

 astrous floods in Spain. 



24. Fires: clothing house, Baltimore, 1 killed, 1 

 hurt, loss, $5ti.t'i i ; business block, Spokane Falls, 

 \\ a>li., loss, $56,000j Haverhill, Mass., loss, $50,000. 

 Earthauake in California. Fall of factory chimney, 

 Cheekheuton, England, 8 girls killed. 



25. Fires: several buildings, San Antonio, Texas, 

 loss, 250,000 ; carriage factory, Cincinnati, low, $40,- 

 000. 



26. Fires: grain-lift, East Deerfleld, Mass., low, 

 $100,000; oilcloth factory, Elizabeth, N. J., lose, $40,- 

 000; buildings, Newark, N. J., loss, $40,000. Ship- 

 wreck : steamers in collision in the North Sea, 1 sunK, 

 23 lives lost 



27. Shipwreck : ship Albano, on Hog Island, Va.. 

 crew rescued by life-saving sen-ice. Explosion of 

 gus at East Liverpool, Ohio, 3 killed. Mine caves in, 

 Butte, Mont, 3 killed. 



28. Fire: Little Rock, Ark., ex.-Gov. (Vnwav 

 killed ; business houses and elevated railway boned, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., loss, $500,000. Marble works. New 

 York, loss, $140,000; business houses, Hot Springs, 

 S. Dak., loss, $75,000. 



29. Explosions: steam boiler, Savannah, Ga., 2 

 killed, 1 hurt. Fire: Hillsville. Va., town half de- 

 stroyed. Anarchists explode bombs in Paris, build- 

 ing wrecked. Thirteen seal hunters drowned, North 

 Pacific Coast, 100 missing. 



Summary of train accidents in February: 8"> col- 

 lisions, 115 derailments, 12 miscellaneous ; total, 212. 

 Killed: 37 employees, 7 passengers; total, 44. Hurt: 

 :>:> employees, 40 passengers, 8 trespassers; total, !"">. 



March 1. Train wrecked near Itilwaakee. Wis., 7 

 killed. Fires: goods store, Milwaukee. Wis., loss, 

 $100,000; female reformatory, Indianapolis, loss, 

 $100,000. 



2. Train wrecked near Bridgeport, W. Va., 15 hurt. 

 Fires: mill at Chcstcrtowii. Md., loss, $170,000; foun- 

 dry, New York city, loss, $.'.0,000. Many deaths 

 from alleged famine in llun<:ar\. 



8. Fires: business houses, Detroit, loss, $200,000; 

 business bouses. Kast Liverpool, Ohio. lOM, $1< 



oil works, Kansas City. Mo.. IOK*, $7. r >,<NMi; shoe fac- 

 tory, Campbells, Mass.,'loss. *7".' : buildings bunuil, 



I'hitte Center, Neb., loss. $.",0,000; buildings burned, 

 Philadelphia. (5 hurt, loss, $lWt,oHi. 



4. Fires: foundrv. House's Point, N. Y.. loss. $75,- 

 000; brewery. West St. Paul. Minn., l.->s. $:.O, ( HHI. 



vs: 'business houses and railroad station. 

 Dexter, Mo.. 1,,-s. $70,000; bush:. Sioux 



City, Iowa, loss, $50,000. 



ti. Fires: apartment ho':--. \\ , ~t Sujn-rior. Wi-..; 

 mills. Rock Hill, S. C. ; hotels, Tybve Beach, Ga. 



9. Blizzard in the Northwest: loss of life and de- 

 struction of projK-rtv. Explosion in a mine near 

 Wilkesbarre, Pa., 3 killed, 5 hurt. Fire*: glassworks, 



