DISASTERS IN 1892. 



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88. Unusually severe "bli//ard" in Manitoba. 

 York city, _' lives lost; Hudson, Ohio, 

 loas, $hO,(Mio. Aiiarehi.-t l>oml,> exploded in FIHD06, 

 mi, and Italy. 



-MI-III MI, Lake Michigan, 1-J or more lives lout. 



I.) >OIP acres of forest in New ,lc,-,e\ ; i'.:; build- 



i Chase, Mich., lo>x, xloo.ooii; business Mocks, 



Mount Sterling, 111., loss, $40,000 ; hotels, Naiitaskct 



Beach. Ma., l"-s, $75,000; husincs.-, houses. Brown- 



IM._'. Mo., loss, $:{(.< MM); business houses and dwell- 

 i:.-c.l Cit\. Mi-,., loss not stated; biiildintrs 

 burned. Full liivcr, Kan., loss, $50,000. Earthquake 

 in California. Hurricane in Mauritius, about 1,000 

 lives lost, great destruction of property. 



::<'. Train wrecked near Bonncr's 'Kerry, Wash., :; 



killed, :',(> hurt. Fires: Cort'eyville, Kan., business 



burned; Pittsburg, Pa., stores and factories, 



loss, *:;oo,ooo ; Con-y, 1'a., dwelling house Ininied, -J 



lives lost 



Summary of train accidents in April : 47 collisions, 

 M derailments, ID miscellaneous; total, 148. Killed: 

 :>o employees, 4 passengers, 5 trespassers; total, 39. 

 Hurt: Ii7 employees, -ji passengers, 7 trespassers; 

 total, 138. 



May 1. Fires: theatre and buildings, Leadville, 

 Col., damage, $40,000, 2 jives lost. 



_'. Fires : Mount Sterling, Ky., loss, $75,000 ; Fair- 

 law n stables, Lexington, Ky., loss, $35,000, including 

 vul uahle horses; several buildings in Ottawa, Kan. 



8. severe storms, with loss of life and property, in 

 Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Michigan. Fires: 

 cotton warehouse. Norfolk, Va., loss, $75,000 ; ware- 

 housc, Oshkosh, Wis., loss, $75,000; incendiary lire, 

 llill.shorough, Ky., loss, $50,000. 



1. Destructive floods in the Illinois, Fox, and Kan- 

 kakee risers. Tornado: DeKalb County, Mo., several 

 killed, much damage done. Fires: photograph gal- 

 ler\. Ottawa, Ontano, $40,000 damage; factory, Au- 

 rora, 111., loss, $40,000. Lightning strikes a detach- 

 ment of 18 soldiers at Bourges, France, all prostrated, 

 1 killed 



>. Trains wrecked near Revere, Mo., 7 killed, many 

 hurt. Fires: factories and mills, Kushville, Ind., 

 Ions, $150,000 ; Roman Catholic church, New York, 

 damage, $50,000. 



'i. Violent and destructive gale in Pennsylvania, 

 Delaware, and District of Columbia. Fire: packing 

 house, New York, loss, $200,000. 



s. Fires: salt works and lumber yard, Ludington, 

 Mich., loss, about $500,000; sash and blind factory, 

 Ne\\ York; car works, Robinsdale, Minn., loss, 

 $'.'00,000. 



9. " Cyclone-cave" falls in, Anthony, Kan., 5 killed. 

 Fire : electrical works and other buildings, llay- 

 v.ard, Cal., loss, $100,000. 



10. Explosion: gas in a conl mine near Roslyn, 

 Wash., 43 killed, 250 children fi therless. 



I-.'. Fires: pottery, Trenton, N. .J., loss, $175,000; 

 foundry, O.uincy, Mass., loss, $70,000. 



l:;. Fires: dwelling house, Spades, Intl., 2 lives 

 lost; Territorial Capitol, Santa re. New Mexico, loss. 

 "0; dwellings, Savannah, Ga., loss, $100,000; oil 

 storage, San Antonio, Texas, loss, $70,000; ware- 

 house, Jetterson, Texas, loss, $70,000. 



1 1. Mine caves in, Butte, Mont., 8 killed. Fires: 

 Ha/.letoii, 1'a., loss, $100,000; shoe factory, Rochester, 

 N. II., loss, $100,000; knitting mill, Cohoes, N. Y., 



.",000. 



1"). Trains wrecked. Cloves, Ohio, 7 killed, 15 hurt. 

 Boat upset in Delaware river, 3 drowned. Crevasses 

 along the Mississippi river. 



16. Fire: buildin>;s burned, Brooklyn, N. Y., dam 

 age, $150,000, 2 lives lost. Hurricane in New /. -a 

 land, many lives lost. 



17. Cvclone: Greer County, Texas, all buildings 

 demolished in its course. Shipwreck : steamer Ale\ 

 under Wolcow, in the, Caspian Sea, about 2.V> lives 



lost. 



Is Floods cause \\ idespread destruction of property 

 and loss of life in the Mississippi and Missouri val- 

 leys. Fires: Fort MuKinney, \V y., damaged; stove 



works, Lonir Mand city, N. Y., loss, $50,000; Cotton 



block, Charleston. \V. Va., low., $:!4),ixx). 



lit. Tornado: Hamilton County, Ohio. 



21. Train wrecked. C..UOM Bell Kail road, 7 killed. 

 Kxi/lo.sion : fireworks, Hartford. < onn.. .", killed, sev- 

 eral hurt, building wrecked. Fire : ojn-ra house and 

 buildings. I.anst'ord, J'a. ; cotton wareliouw, Alex- 

 andria. Kgynt, loss, *-j,500,000. Church roof falls, 

 1'ittsburir, 7 liurt, "2 probably killed. 



'2. Shipwn-ck: Brazilian man-of-war of the La 

 Plata river, 120 lives lout. Firu : Bapti.-t church, 

 Meridian, .Nliss. 



_' ::. Fires: stores, London, Ontar'n . lo-w, $30,000; 

 stores, Bingham, Utah, loss, $100,000 ; Chcholx, \V ush.. 

 loss, $110,000; mills and factories, Spokane, Wah., 

 ;o,ooo. 



J'>. Fire: business houses, Wichita Falls, Texan, 

 loss, $100,000; dwellings and stores, Bellefonte, Pa, 



26. Dam breaks, Kiiiirsman, Ohio, i; or more drowned, 

 buildings swept away. Fires : factory, Louisville, K v., 

 loss, $100,000; flre-brick works, Mexico, Mo., lew, 

 $50,000. Tornado : Wellington, Kan., about 20 killed. 

 Drowned at \Voodville. Pa., 4 boys. Lightning: de- 

 stroys Baptist church, Bordentown, N. J.; kills -i men 

 in Indiana. 



29. Fire : tobacco warehouse, Lancaster, Pa., loss, 

 $1(50,000. 



30. Fire : carriage factory, Brooklyn, N. Y., low, 

 $150,000. Destructive Hoods and tornadoes in Mis- 

 souri, Kansas, Arkansas, and other Western States. 



Summary of train accidents in May: 61 collisions, 

 72 derailments, 8 miscellaneous: total, 141. Killed: 

 :;i! employees, 20 passengers, 10 trespassers; total, 66. 

 Hurt: 109 employees, 111 passengers, 3 trespassers; 

 total, 223. 



June 1. Damage from storms in Indiana. A cloud- 

 burst wrecks buildings, including several churches, in 

 Rushville, Mo. Fire: business houses in Coquillo 

 City, Ore. ; Bohemia, fire in a silver mine, about 400 

 lives lost. 



2. Cyclone in northern Texas, loss of life and prop- 

 erty. 



4. Heavy snow in Wyoming. Fire: carriage fac- 

 tory. New 'Haven, Conn., loss, $100,000. Tornado: the 

 town of McCook, Neb., nearly destroyed, many hurt. 



5. Floods and fire in the Pennsylvania oil regions, 

 many lives lost, heavy damage to property. Severe 

 snowstorm in South " Dakota. Tornado: Cleborne, 

 Texas, 42 houses demolished, -J killed. 



6. Train wrecked at South Carrolton, Ky., 4 killed, 

 4:} hurt. 



7. Destruction of Sanguir, an island in the Malay 

 Archipelago, by volcanic eruption, several thousand 

 lives lost. Drowned at Forest City, Mo., 4 per- 

 sons. Fire: pipe works, Akron, Ohio, loss, $100,000. 



9. Dangerously high floods in the Danube. 



10. Fires: planiiiif mill, Cleveland, Ohio, loss,alx>ut 

 $250,000 ; hat factory, Newark, N. J., loss, $88,000 ; 

 several houses. Las Vegas, New Mexico, loss, $35,000 ; 

 hotel, Lake Mohican, N. Y., loss, $:io.ooo. 



11. Electric-car accidents at . \ndover. Mass., Ben- 

 wood, W. Va., and Atlanta, Ga., G killed, 1*0 hurt. 

 Fires: opera house and neighboring buildings. Grand 

 llapids, Mich., loss, sfcr.0,000; stores and dwelling 

 houses, Cttllinan. Ala., loss, $60,000 ; store. Cleveland, 

 Ohio, loss $50,000; mills and factories, Orono, Maine, 



',000. 



l: >. Kxplosion : powder iti Mare Island Navy Yard, 

 California. !_' killed. ". hurt. Violent s: -m in Chi- 

 cago, 1 killed. Liirhtnmi: : 2 churches struck in 

 Spain, !."> killed, many hurt. 



14. Storms in the. Western States, s killed, many 

 hurt. Train wrecked. Lonesome Hollow, Ky.. 7 

 killed, 6 hurt. Fire: warehouses, Hal timorv. Ions, 

 $1,000,000. Lightninir: steamer Pctmlia struck at 

 Blayc. France, i:> killed. Trains wrecked, London, 

 England. \ killed, manv hurt, 



i:.. Bridge falls, Ueking river, Ky., about 40 

 killed. Lightning doea much damage in New 



land. Fires: ice houses. Fast Humpdcn, Me., loBB, 

 $75,000; car shops, Do llodia. Mo. 



