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DISASTERS IN 1893. 



24. Earthquake : Colombia, several lives lost, many 

 houses wrecked. 



29. Fire: Kaernten, Germany, 2 churches and 65 

 houses burned, 15 lives lost, many hurt. 



Summary of train accidents in March : 72 collisions, 

 102 derailments, 12 miscellaneous ; total, 186. Killed : 

 36 employees, 4 passengers ; total, 40. Hurt: 71 em- 

 ployees, 113 passengers, 1 trespasser; total, 185. 



April 1. Fire : Bradford, Pa., many killed and hurt. 

 Mine explosion: Shamokin, Pa., 10 killed. Train 

 derailed : Denver, Col., about 20 hurt. Fire in Ma- 

 nilla, 4,000 houses burned, many lives lost. 



2. Boiler explosion : Indianola, Iowa, 4 killed. 



3. Sailboat upsets on Lake Poutchartrain, La., 4 

 drowned. Fire : May wood, N. J., 5 lives lost. Min- 

 ing accident : Hazleton, Pa., 5 drowned. 



4. Fire at sea: ship King James burned oft San 

 Francisco, nearly half the crew lost. 



5. Shipwreck : steam yacht of the Sultan sinks near 

 Constantinople, 60 lives lost. 



7. Severe wind storms in the Western States, and a 

 destructive tidal' wave in Lake Michigan near Chi- 

 cago; some of the World's Fuir buildings damaged, 

 other buildings blown down. Extensive prairie fires 

 rage in Nebraska. Building falls at Komeo, 111., 9 

 killed, 6 hurt. 



8. Widespread damage by prairie fires in several 

 Western States ; tornado in western New York, dev- 

 astating a wide tract of country. 



9. Earthquake in Servia, several lives lost, many 

 buildings wrecked. An aerolite breaks the arm of a 

 bronze statue to John Brown, of Ossnwattomie, in 

 Kansas City. 



11. Cyclone in southern Kansas: towns of Everest, 

 Willis, and Powhatan nearly destroyed, several 

 killed, and many hurt. Many earthquake shocks re- 

 ported in the San Fernando mountains, Cal. Colliery 

 explosion in Wales, 53 killed. 



12. Destructive storms in the West, 64 killed, hun- 

 dreds hurt. Fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., 3 lives lost. 



17. Trains in collision near Farwell, Mich., 2 killed, 

 several hurt. More earthquakes in Zante, additional 

 lives lost. 



18. Explosions : nitroglycerin at Lima, Ohio, sev- 

 eral killed ; in the Rusk-Ivanhoe tunnel, near Lead- 

 ville, Col., 4 killed, several hurt. Destructive torna- 

 does in several Western States ; 7 killed, many hurt, at 

 Boies, Ark. 



19. Cyclone at Osage City, Kan., many buildings 

 destroyed, several persons killed. Earthquakes con- 

 tinue in the Island of Zante ; scarcely any houses re- 

 main habitable. 



20. A terrific storm rages over a wide tract of coun- 

 try from the Rocky mountains to the Lakes; the city 

 of Milwaukee badly damaged, and a score of lives 

 lost ; the World's Fair buildings at Chicago suffered 

 considerably. 



21. Mining accident at Butte, Mont., 9 killed. 



20. Fire at Wardner, Ida., business houses burned, 

 estimated loss, $650,000. 



.23. Fire at Hull, England, supposed to be incen- 

 diary, loss, about $2,500,000. 



25. Trains in collision near Somerset, Pa., 5 killed, 

 many hurt. Fire in a Chicago armory, 2 lives lost. 



26. Tornado : Oklahoma Territory, about 90 killed, 

 250 hurt, some fatally, and much damage done, all 

 within a few minutes.' 



29. Tornado in Texas, the town of Cisco destroyed, 

 many killed and hurt ; another tornado near Ponca 

 Agency, Indian Territory, 5 killed. 



30. Fire in Burlington, Iowa, 6 lives lost. 

 Summary of train accidents in April : 72 collisions, 



92 derailments, 9 miscellaneous; total, 173. Killed: 

 33 employees, 2 passengers ; total, 35. Hurt : 93 em- 

 ployees, 23 passengers, 6 trespassers; total, 122. 



May 1. Disastrous floods in the Mississippi river. 

 Shipwreck : an Arab dhow capsizes off the coast of 

 Africa, 120 negro slaves drowned. 



3. Explosion : dynamite, Eel River Station, Ind., 3 

 killed. Fire : Louisville, Ky., several buildings 

 burned, estimated loss, $300,000. 



4. Severe gale along the Atlantic coast, several ves- 

 sels lost and seamen drowned. Fire at sea : British 

 steamer Khiva burned off the coast of Arabia, all 

 hands lost. 



6. Train wrecked near Lafayette, Ind., 10 killed, 

 many hurt. Destructive storms all over the Northern 

 States. 



7. Train wrecked at Lafayette, Ind., 10 killed, many 

 hurt; cause, failure of the air brake. Explosion: 

 steam boiler on the Mississippi river, 12 killed, many 

 hurt. Tornado near Gainesville, Texas, a railroad 

 train blown from the track and wrecked. 



8. Destructive gale in Arkansas. 



13. Explosion: locomotive boiler at Lebanon, Pa., 

 2 killed, several hurt. 



14. Mining accident : Calumet and Hecla mine, 

 Michigan, 10 killed. Collision at sea: ship Countess 

 Evelyn sunk by steamer City of Hamburg off Corn- 

 wall, 25 lives lost. 



16. Floods in the /Mississippi: levees give way in 

 several places in Arkansas and Louisiana. 



17. A storm of great violence on Lake Erie, more 

 than 20 lives lost, including a United States life-sav- 

 ing crew, drowned in attempting to rescue ship- 

 wrecked sailors. Explosion in a factory at Geneva, 

 111., 6 killed. Two more crevasses reported in the 

 Mississippi. 



18. Heavy rains in western Pennsylvania and 

 eastern Ohio cause great damage to railroads, esti- 

 mated at $1,000,000. 



20. Faulty construction : a floor gives way in a 

 building at the World's Fair, 9 women very badly 

 hurt, many injured. Fire : Saginaw, Mich., more than 

 200 houses burned, loss, $1,000,000. 



21. Extended forest fires in Michigan, 12 lives lost. 



22. Shipwreck : Brazilian man-of-war Almirante 

 Barossa. 



23. Tornadoes : Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Ken- 

 tucky, much damage to property ; 3 killed and sev- 

 eral hurt at Cleveland. Landslides in Norway, more 

 than 100 people killed. 



28. Fire : Baltimore, Md., .sugar refinery burned, 

 estimated loss, $1,000,000. 



Summary of train accidents in May : 123 collisions, 

 106 derailments, 5 miscellaneous ; total, 235. Killed : 

 39 employees, 6 passengers, 21 trespassers ; total, 66. 

 Hurt: 94 employees, 67 passengers, 14 trespassers; 

 total, 175. 



June 1. Fire : New York city, 5 lives lost ; colliery 

 fire, Fuente, Mexico, 60 lives lost. 



5. Lightning: 3 killed near Frankfort, Ky. Ship- 

 wreck : German steamer Kaiser Wilhelin II sinks at 

 her wharf at Genoa. 



7. Fire : Fargo, N. Dak., estimated loss, $3,000,000. 

 Floods in Austria, 50 villages destroyed. Collision 

 at sea: steamer Servia sinks ship A. McCullum, 1 life 

 lost. 



9. Faulty construction : Ford's Theater falls in 

 Washington, D. C., 21 killed, 68 hurt. 



13. Fire : New York city, 4 killed, many hurt. 



14. Severe thunderstorm in western Missouri, many 

 buildings struck by lightning^, 4 killed, 4 hurt. 



17. Numerous breaks occur in the Mississippi levees 

 near New Orleans. 



18. Fire : Mesaba Range, Minn., several thousand 

 people homeless, estimated damage, $1,000,000. 



20. Fire : Tillamook, Ore., business houses burned. 

 Train wrecked near New York city, 7 killed, many 

 hurt. Earthquake in parts of Georgia and the Caro 

 linas ; very severe heat. 



21. Fire: Duluth, Minn., 4 lives lost. Lightning: 

 a circus tent struck at River Falls, Wis., 7 killed, 

 many hurt. Train wrecked near Prospect, Ohio, 3 

 killed, several hurt. Explosion : benzine, Odessa, 

 Russia, 16 killed. 



22. Tornado: eastern Kansas, 16 killed, many 

 hurt ; violent storms in other neighboring States. 



23. Collision at sea: British battle ship Victoria 

 sunk by the Camperdown while maneuvering in the 

 Mediterranean, 400 lives lost. 



24. Train wrecked near Paterson, N. J., 5 killed. 



