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DISASTERS IN 1892. 



DISCIPLES OP CHRIST. 



Summary of train accidents in September: 113 col- 

 lisions, 84 derailments, 6 miscellaneous ; total, 203. 

 Killed: 68 employees, 21 passengers, 4 trespassers; 

 total, 93. Hurt : 110 employees, 119 passengers, tres- 

 passers ; total, 235. 



October 1. Hailstorm, St. Paul, Minn. : 20 runaway 

 accidents. Fires : Waco, Tex. ; Austin, Minn. ; losses, 

 about $235,000. 



2. Fires : Pensacola, Fla. ; Pine Bluff, Ark. ; losses, 

 about $135,000. 



3. Fires: Chicago (a varnish factory) and Port- 

 land, Ore., losses about $210,000. 



5. Shipwreck : loss of steamer Nashua in Lake 

 Huron, 12 lives lost. Fire : paper mills at Kich- 

 mond, Ind., loss, about $100.000. 



6. Fires: Mapleton, N. Y., 2 lives lost; cigarette 

 factory, New York city; foundry and lumber yard, 

 Jersey City ; opera house and other buildings, Para- 

 gould, Ark. ; Johnstown, Ohio, business houses ; ag- 



fregate loss, about $675,000. Destructive storms in 

 ranee and Italy. 



7. Cleveland, Ohio : passenger lift breaks down, 6 

 hurt. Fires : Culpeper, Va., church and stores ; 

 Ballston, N. Y., factory, aggregate loss, $90,000. 



8. Shipwreck : steamers Premier and Willamette 

 in collision off Port Townscnd, Puget Sound, 4 killed, 

 17 hurt. Fire: jail and other buildings at Clinton, 

 N. C., loss, about $75,000. 



9. Fires : factory, Clarke County, Ga. ; store, New 

 Orleans, La., losses, $180,000. 



10. Prairie fire, South Dakota, 200 square miles 

 burned over, many buildings consumed. 



12. Cable car and freight train in collision near 

 Kansas City, 4 killed. Fire : flour mills at Lock- 

 port, N. Y., loss. $150,000. Disastrous storm at the 

 West, thousands of cattle perish ; all railroads blocked 

 in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. 



13. Explosion : colliery, Shamokin, Pa., 5 killed, 



6 hurt. Fire : hotel at Massapequa, N. Y., loss, $60,- 

 000. 



14. Fire : grain works, Greenock, Pa., loss, $150,000. 

 Trains in collision near Harrison's Landing, Va., 5 

 killed. Shipwrecks on the English coast. Earth- 

 quake in the Balkan mountains. Explosion of fire- 

 works at St. Louis, 14 hurt. Disastrous storm in 

 Great Britain. 



16. Shipwrecks : steamer Bokhara in the China seas, 

 more than 100 lives lost ; steamer Stranger capsized 

 in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 lives lost. 



20. Fire: dwelling house, Claremont, S. C., 4 chil- 

 dren locked in, parents at a religious meeting, the 

 children perished. Shipwrecks off the coast of Spain, 

 many lives lost. 



21. Disastrous floods in Sardinia, buildings under- 

 mined, hundreds of lives lost. 



22. Explosion : gas-pipe bomb, Los Angeles, Cal. 



7 killed, many hurt. , 



24. Trains wrecked by collision near West Mana- 

 yunk, Pa., 7 killed, 35 hurt. 



25. Trains wrecked near Phillipsburg, Mo., 6 killed, 

 14 hurt. 



26. Fire : dwelling houses burned in Jersey City, 35 

 families homeless, loss, about $500,000. Destructive 

 gale on the British coast, several lives lost. 



27. Fire : many buildings burned in Milwaukee, 

 Wis., loss, about $5,000,000. Shipwreck : steamer 

 Kournania on Portuguese coast, 113 lost. 



28. Fire : opera house, Cleveland, Ohio, loss, $50,- 

 000. Disastrous gale on the Great Lakes. 



30. Mexico : floods, 50 lives lost. 



Summary of train accidents in October : 96 col- 

 lisions, 94 derailments, 6 miscellaneous ; total, 196. 

 Killed : 47 employees, 11 passengers, 4 trespassers ; 

 total, 62. Hurt: 83 employees. 79 passengers; total, 

 162. 



November 1. Violent gales on the Great Lakes, marine 

 losses, about $450,000, 25 lives lost. 



2. England : trains wrecked in Yorkshire, and near 

 Liverpool, 13 killed, about 75 hurt. Shipwreck : 

 British man-of-war Howe ashore off Ferrol, Spain. 



10. Train wrecked in Iowa, 4 killed, many hurt. 



11. Fire: Camden, Me., loss, $350,000. 



12. Explosion : dynamite in Niagara Falls tunnel, 

 1 killed, several hurt, much damage done. 



13. Earthquake : a severe shock felt throughout 

 California. 



14. Locomotive boiler bursts, Heading, Pa., 5 killed, 

 1 hurt. 



16. Spain : fall of a building at Bejar, 9 killed. 



17. Explosion of powder in Arkansas, 4 killed, 

 15 hurt. Tornado at Red Bud, 111., 2 killed, many 

 hurt ; nearly 50 buildings were wrecked, including 

 churches, schoolhouses, and other public buildings. 



18. Tornadoes in different States and a blizzard in 

 the Northwest. 



19. Colliery disaster, Hazel Dell, Pa., 8 men bur- 

 ied,! killed, the rest rescued more or less hurt. 



20. Fire : steamer Kosa Lee, burned at Memphis, 

 Tenn., several lives lost. Shipwreck: two steamers 

 ashore on Long Point, Lake Erie. 



21. Explosion : blasting powder in a colliery near 

 Steubenville, Pa., 2 killed, 10 hurt. 



22. Trains wrecked near Grand Island, Neb., 7 

 killed. 10 hurt. 



23. Floods in the Northwest cause much suffering. 

 26. Earthquake in San Salvador, the town of La 



Union destroyed, many lives lost. 



30. Shipwreck : Japanese man-of-war sunl> by col- 

 lision. 



Summary of train accidents in November : 106 col- 

 lisions, 84 derailments, 9 miscellaneous ; total, 199. 

 Killed : 44 employees, 11 passengers, 6 trespassers ; 

 total, 61. Hurt : 103 employees, 92 passengers, 4 tres- 

 passers ; total, 199. 



December 2. Shipwreck : steamer Greystone sunk 

 by collision in the Elbe river, about 20 lives lost. 



7. Tornado in Texas. Severe snowstorm in the 

 Northwest, several lives lost. 



8. Train wrecked near Greenville, N. J., 14 hurt. 

 12. Fire from a broken oil tank causes much loss 



of property on Miller's Eun, Pa. 



14. Colliery explosion, Wigan, England, many lives 

 lost. 



17. Shipwreck : an American ship runs into and 

 sinks a Spanish steamer in Manilla Bay. 



18. Train wrecked near Nelson, Minn., 8 killed, 

 several hurt. 



21. Steamer Noordland breaks her shaft at sea 

 (towed into Queenstown). 



23. Steamer Umbria breaks her shaft at sea (re- 

 pairs damages and reaches New York, Dec. 31). 



26. Shipwreck : yacht capsized off Sydney, Aus- 

 tralia, 10 drowned ; several vessels lost on the north 

 Atlantic coast. 



27. Fire : tanneries, Milwaukee, Wis., 2 killed, loss 

 $250,000. 



28. Explosion of dynamite at Long Island City, 

 N. Y., 5 killed. 



29. Tram car wrecked by a locomotive in Chicago, 

 5 killed, 7 hurt. 



Summary of train accidents in December: 199 col- 

 lisions, 98 derailments, 10 miscellaneous ; total, 307. 

 Killed: 37 employees, 4 passengers; total, 41. Hurt: 

 110 employees, 115 passengers, 4 trespassers; total, 



Summary of train accidents for 1892: 1,062 collis- 

 ions, 1,165 derailments, 100 miscellaneous ; total, 2,327. 

 Killed ; 490 employees, 116 passengers, 66 trespassers ; 

 total, 672. Hurt: 1,205 employees, 1,128 passengers, 

 774 trespassers ; total, 2,407. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. The General 

 Conventions of the Disciples of Christ, includ- 

 ing the conventions of the General, Foreign, and 

 Woman's Missionary Societies, met in Nashville, 

 Tenn., beginning Oct. 15. The first meeting was 

 that of the Woman's Christian Board of Mis- 

 sions, Mrs. O. A. Burgess, President. Its receipts 

 for the year ending Sept. 30, 1892, had been 

 $52,307. It was assisted in thirty States by 

 1,133 auxiliary societies, with 54,276 members. 



