DISASTERS IN 1893. 



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'. -ml, hail, ami rain cause heavy dam.: 

 Dakota, Mmm ~ota, and Wisconsin. Fires: furniture 

 . aiiil adjacent buildings, Baltimore, loss, (js-joo,- 

 it's \\archousc, New York, loss, $100,000. 

 Filial fin- at Kinl. Oklahoma, - li\c> lo.M. 



at upset mar ( 'harleston, S. ( '., 8 drowned. 

 carriage \\orks, Ka-t Buffalo, N. Y., loss, $7V 



OOH; business hoii-o, McKillllcN, Texas, 1".--, XCo.ooo. 



\<>. F.v-r-sivc heat, fatal casc> of sunstroke, and 

 mans destructive local thunderstorms, Fires: chom- 



>rks, Lam-aster, 1'a., lo>.s, about *i;.~>,ooo ; factory, 

 Thomson villc. Conn., loss, $40,000; factory, Kutluud, 

 Vt., !(..-.>. *7.\' 



11. Fires: planing mill, Hamilton, Ohio, loss, $80,- 

 oi'o; foundry, Chicago, loss, $4.~>."",i. 



1-J. Lightning kills -J women at Buzzard's Bay, 

 .-> buildings at Jamaica, Long Island, 

 and I-!.-M-\\ In !-. Shipwreck: British men-of-war 

 A]>oiloand Naiad, damaged by collision. Fires: Iloici 

 Stratford, Wa.-hington, D. C., loss, about $2.">."D"; 

 grain lift. Ne\\ York, loss, $150,000; factory, Farming- 

 ton, Me., loss, $35,000. 



13. Train wrecked near Clinton, Iowa, 14 hurt. 

 Hand i-ar wrecked near Schreiber, Ontario.:! killed, 4 

 badly hurt. Fires: 17 buildings burned in Detroit, 

 ;",000. 



It. Fires: cooperage works. New Orleans, loss, 



*:.:,. I; wan-). on.,.. Norfolk, Va., loss, $30,000: the 



mining town of Red Mountain, Col., nearly destroyed, 

 !75,000; tin-tones, Iluntington, Pa., loss, $40,- 



l.'i. Shipwreck: British ship Thracian ott the Isle 

 of Man, 23 lives lost. 



1C. Train wrecked near Cochocton, Ohio. 6 killed, 

 1 :> badly hurt. Fires : Delmar, Del., nearly destroyed, 

 1 life [oat; chair factory. Traverse City, Mich., loss, 

 *.".." .01 >o; dwelling, St. Paul, Minn., loss, $47,000. 



17. Fires: lumber yards, Maclndoe's Falls, Vt., 



loss, xr,o.ooo. Several' shipwrecks on the coast of 



Nc\\ Brunswick. 



I-'. Fires: stores, etc., Kendrick, Ida., loss, $60,- 

 000; tannery burned at Winn, Me., loss, $75,000; 

 stoics and dwellings, South Charleston, Ohio, loss, 

 1*0.000. 



19. Fires: stores, etc., Geneva, Ohio, loss, $175,- 

 000 ; Delta, Ohio, loss, $200,000 ; refinery, Jenneretta, 

 l.a.. loss, $40,000. 



20. Fires : pickling works, Sioux City, Iowa, loss, 

 $75,000 ; mills and factories, South Royalston, Mass., 

 loss, about $80,000; the town of Rock River, Mich., 



nearly destroyed. 



H. Fins: pickling works, Somerville, Mass., loss. 

 $45,000. Many deaths from sunstroke reported from 

 Kurope. Train wrecked in France, 5 killed, 18 hurt. 

 Train wrecked in England, 50 hurt. 



:.'.'. Fin-s: furniture warehouse, Omaha, loss, $100,- 

 OUO ; auction rooms, etc., St. Louis, loss, $35,000 ; car- 

 riage factory, Norfolk, Va., loss, $35,000. 



I >cstructive rain, Roanoke, Va., 1 man drowned, 

 loss, $100,000. Fires: railroad shops, Portsmouth, 

 < thio. loss, $40,000 ; stores, St. Paul, Minn., loss, $100,- 

 000. Severe storms damage crops in Ireland. 



_'l. Tornado: houses destroyed and crops damaged 

 at Canatidaigua, N. Y. Fires: buildings burned, 

 Chenoa, 111., loss, $40,000. Loss of life and damage 

 to crops in Europe from excessive heat. 



25. A woman aeronaut killed at Detroit. Fires: 

 hotel at West Asheville, N. C. ; stables, Columbia, 

 Teiin.. with a number of racing ho- 



Jii. Shipwreck : steam yacht Wapiti, on Lake Hu- 

 ron, 7 lives lost. Colliery accident in South Wales, 



111) lives lost. 



_'7. Train wrecked near Parrott, Minn., 4 killed. 

 Fires; Metropolitan Opera House, New York, dam- 

 age, $200,000 ; several factories burned in New Vm-k ; 

 lumber yards, IVtoskey, Midi., loss, $500,000 ; many 

 buildings, Augusta, Ga., loss, $^50,000; stables and 

 business houses, Kansas City, loss, $50,000; nail 

 works, Muncie, Ind., loss, $50,000. 



29. Panic results from a tire in a Roman Catholic 

 church at Forreslville, Mich., many hurt 



80. Shipwreck : uti-i-l steamer Western Reserve 

 breaks in two on Lake Su|*.-rinr, -j'i li\-j. lwt: 

 lake craft lot with all on i 



Milwaukee, Win., loss, $260.' I and work- 



shop*, (ircimville, N. Y., IOM, $4". 



Summary of train accident.* in August: 94 col- 

 lisions, ll'j derailments, miscelluiieonr. ; total, 2i'l. 

 Killed: ''>'> employees, s pas-enj.'er>. 7 tn -j>uiMera; 

 total, .".". Hurt: 104 employeeH, 99 panengi 

 trespassers; total, '21 :i. 



September 1. Train wrecked near New Hamburg, 

 N. ^ .,:; killed, 7 hurt. Fires : iron works, Mum-ie, 

 Ind., loss, $175,000; tram-car stable, Vunhington. 16 

 horses killed. K.xploMon : tire damp in a Belgian 

 mine, "it; lives lost. 



:i. Fires: factory, Detroit, loss, $75,000; factories, 

 New Orleans, loss, $60.000. Explosion : W tons of 

 powder on a vessel at Greenoek, Scotland. 



4. Fires: !i buildings. Potoka, Ind., loss, $40,000; 

 town of Rocky Bar, Idaho, destroyed. Naples, Italy, 

 fall of an old palace, several persons hurt. 



5. Cloud-burst, Alpine, Texas, live stock drowned, 

 property destroyed. Fire : many buildings, Portland, 

 Ore., loss, $100,000. 



6. Fires: dwelling house, Port Deposit, Md., loss, 

 $100,000; factory, Reading, I'a., loss, $65,000. Ex- 

 plosion : Sweeney's Creek, W.Va., -i killed, 6 hurt. 



7. Trains in collision at Eckenrode's Mills, Pa., 14 

 killed, many hurt. Fires : nearly 8,000,000 feet of 

 lumber burned at New Boston, Ohio, also 13 loaded 

 cars : factories burned in Philadelphia, loss, $250,000 ; 

 and in Burlington, N. J., loss, $150,000. 



9. Fires : many houses burned at Visalia, Cal. ; 

 dwelling house, Augusta, Me., loss, $50,000; factories 

 and store-houses, Cincinnati, loss, $150,000; several 

 miles of snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad 

 burned, also the tire train sent to extinguish the 

 flames. 



11. Train wrecked near West Cambridge, Mass., 6 

 killed. 40 hurt. 



12. Fire: building in Albany, N. Y., loss, $250,000. 



13. Fire : hominy mills, St. Lou'u, Mo., loss, $1 10,000. 



14. Fire : Indianapolis storage warehouse burned, 

 loss, $200,000. 



17. Fire : machine shop, Brooklyn Navy Yard, es- 

 timated damage, $500,000. 



18. Trains wrecked near Kent, Ohio, 8 hurt. Ex- 

 plosion on United States steamship Philadelphia, 

 several hurt. 



19. Extended forest fire in western Colorado. 



20. Fire : many buildings burned at Rockaway 

 Beach, N. Y., loss, near $500,000. 



21. Trains in collision in Ohio, 13 killed, 20 hurt. 

 Train wrecked by brigands in Kansas, 4 killed, -j."> 

 hurt. Fires : saw mills. North Salem, N. Y., loss, 

 $50,000; manv houses, Marengo. 111., loss, $40,000. 



22. Fires: Redfield, Ark., loss, $50,000; Buctoui-hc. 

 New Brunswick, loss. $100.000. 



23. Panic in a Hebrew synagogue, New York. 4 

 killed, many hurt. Fires :' factory. Hattle C'n ek. 

 Mich., loss, $250,000; great prairie nre in North Da- 

 kota. Typhoon in Japan, 5,000 houses wrecked. 

 Trains in collision, mar New Hampshire Iowa, 7 

 killod.2 hurt, 



24. Fire: shoe factory, South Braintree, Mara., 

 loss, $60,000. 



26. Wind : 6 houses blown down in Br<x)kl vn 

 7 killed, manv hurt. .Mining accident: 15.- 

 Mieli., 4 killed. Fins: hotel, i \.tta-;f City. Man*., 

 loss, $80,000; stables and houses. Kiehmond. Mo., loss, 

 $80,000; sundry buildinirs in Wells Khcr, Vt. 



27. Fire : buifdings burned, Howard, s. l>ak..-_' wom- 

 en killed, loss, $l(H),(MHi. Shi]. wreck : st.-uuu-rs 11. M. 

 Whitney (sunk) and Ottoman in collision ort Boston ; 

 steamer Watertown burned oft Boston, 1 lift- lot-t. 

 Lightning strikes a house at Touloup, Kan., 2 kill-d. 

 Train wrecked near (Irvcnvillo. 111., 8 killed. 3 hurt, 

 Fires: at Columbus, Ohio. Warren. Mass,, Elizabeth- 

 port, N. J. ; total loss about $i'.oO,000. 



80. Freight cars and contents burned at Chicago, 

 loss, $100,000. 



