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24. Steam tug sinks off New York city, 20 lives 

 lost. Boat capsizes near Brooklyn, 5 drowned. 



28. Wind storms in Minnesota and South Dakota, 

 10 killed, 30 hurt, much property destroyed. 



Summary of train accidents in June : 39 collisions, 

 67 derailments, 4 others ; total, 110. Killed : 22 em- 

 ployees, 14 others ; total, 36. Hurt : 74 employees, 14 

 passengers, 6 others ; total, 94. 



July 1. Train wrecked near Lewisville, Ark., 2 

 killed, 1 hurt. 



2. Train wrecked near Moosehead, Me., 5 killed, 8 

 hurt; another on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 5 

 killed. 



3. Marble mill burned in Procter, Vt., loss, 100,000. 



4. Fire in Hudson, Mass., loss, $350,000. 



5. Six more World's Fair buildings burned in Chi- 

 cago. Lord Dunraven's yacht Valkyrie sinks in col- 

 lision with the Satanita. 



6. Train wrecked near Sedalia, Mo., 3 killed. 



8. Hong-Kong, China, deaths from the plague esti- 

 mated at nearly 25,000. 



11. Train wrecked near Sacramento, Cal., probably 

 by the malice of strikers, 4 soldiers killed, 4 hurt. 

 Train wrecked near Griffith, Ohio, 3 killed, 10 hurt. 

 Severe earthquake shocks in and near Constanti- 

 nople. 



12. Trains in collision near Chicago, 2 killed, 3 

 hurt. Train wrecked near Fontanet, Ind., probably 

 through malice, 2 killed, 2 hurt. Fire in fertilizer 

 works, Rah way, N. J., loss, $500,000. 



13. Train wrecked near Grays, Col., 1 killed, 3 

 hurt ; also near Pounds Pond, "Oklahoma Territory, 

 dynamite exploded, probably by malicious intent, 3 

 killed, several hurt. 



14. Train wrecked near MacElheney, Mo., 2 killed. 

 16. Explosion of an artillery caisson in Chicago, 4 



soldiers killed, 8 hurt. Train wrecked near Battle 

 Creek, Mich., 1 killed, 9 hurt. Destructive cyclone 

 in Bavaria, 200 houses ruined. 



18. Train wrecked by a water spout near Glen 

 Keck, Wyo., engine fire extinguished and train dam-; 

 aged. 



19. Most of the business portion of El Paso, 111., 

 burned, loss, $250,000. 



20. Central Market Block, Minneapolis, burned, 

 loss, $500,000. Fire destroys 200 mail sacks of pa- 

 pers and 20 pouches of letters near Timpus, Col. 

 Property burned in Birmingham, Ala-., loss, $500,000. 

 Tram wrecked near Copley, Pa., 3 hurt. 



23. Destructive storms and floods in western India. 



25. Warehouses and stables burned in Washing- 

 ton, estimated loss, $700,000. Great damage by for- 

 est fires in northern Wisconsin. 



27. Train wrecked near Weir, Ind., 2 killed. 



28. Town of Phillips, Wis., destroyed by forest 

 fire, 3,000 people houseless, estimated loss more than 

 $1,000,000; manv lives lost. Trains wrecked near 

 South Prairie, Wash., and Columbus, Neb., 3 killed. 

 Fire in Belleplain, Iowa, loss, $450,000. 



30. Fire in Minneapolis, 25,000,000 feet of lumber 

 destroyed, loss, $300,000. College buildings in Cooper, 

 Texas, burned, loss, $1,000,000. Earthquake in the 

 vicinity of Los Angeles, Cal. 



31. Severe earthquake shocks in Constantinople. 



Train accidents in July : 61 collisions, 75 derail- 

 ments, 12 others ; total, 148. Killed : 43 employees, 

 7 passengers, 14 others; total, 64. Hurt: 95 'em- 

 ployees, 42 passengers, 13 others; total, 150. 



August 1. Lumber burned in Chicago, estimated 

 loss, $2,000,000. Warehouse in Hamburg burned, 

 loss, 1,000,000 marks. 



3. Train wrecked near Bucyrus, Ohio, 5 killed, ac- 

 cident caused by tramps. Fire in Lamore, N. Dak., 

 loss, $200,000; also in Lakeview, Mich., loss, $100,- 

 000. 



6. Train wrecked hear Peru, Iowa, 1 killed, 5 hurt. 



9. Train wrecked near Lincoln, Neb., 10 killed, 10 

 hurt, malice suspected. 



10. Train wrecked near Woodland, 111., 1 killed, 1 

 hurt; also near McMullen, Wash., 2 killed. Earth- 

 quake near Memphis, Tenn. 



11. Train wrecked near Herdland, Mo., 2 killed 

 several hurt. 



12. Train wrecked near Whitehouse, Pa., 1 killed. 

 Mining accident in Poland, explosion of gas, several 

 hundred lives lost. 



13. Cyclone in Spain, more than 100 killed, and 

 great damage to property. 



14. Warehouses burned in Fiume, Austria, loss 

 $1,500,000. 



18. Train wrecked near Buffalo, N. Y., naphtha tank 

 explodes, 20 cars burned. Mills burned in Port Jer- 

 vis, N. Y., loss, $500,000. 



19. Train wrecked near Jonesboro, Mo., 4 killed, 8 

 hurt. 



20. Fire in Memphis, Tenn., loss, $400,000 ; also in 

 Cincinnati, loss, $285,000, mainly parlor cars. 



24. Mine explosion near Ashland, Pa., 2 killed, 11 

 hurt. Mine fire near Creede, Col., 4 killed. 



25. Tornado on the Sea of Azof, villages destroyed, 

 vessels wrecked, nearly a thousand lives lost. 



27. Hurricane in Belgium and Germany, much de- 

 struction of property. 



31. Fire among houseboats moored in Canton river, 

 China, several hundred lives lost. 



Summary of train accidents in August : 52 collisions, 

 88 derailments, 9 others; total, 150. Killed: 25 em- 

 ployees, 10 passengers, others, 15 ; total, 50. Hurt : 94 

 employees, 23 passengers, 19 others; total, 136. 



September 1. Train wrecked near Hinckley, Minn., 

 by forest fires, several lives lost. 



*2. Several towns in northern Minnesota and Michi- 

 gan destroyed by forest fires ; hundreds of lives and 

 a vast amount of property lost ; navigation and travel 

 by land obstructed by dense smoke. Floods in south- 

 western Texas, manf lives lost. Train wrecked near 

 Camden, N. J., 2 killed, 2 hurt. 



3. Pottery works in Trenton, N. J., burned. 



5. Forest"fires still raging in the Northwest. 



8. Train wrecked in the Hoosac Tunnel, 2 killed, 3 

 hurt ; another at Lock Haven, Pa., 2 killed, 2 hurt. 

 Forest fires in Wisconsin and Michigan checked by 

 heavy rains. 



9. Train wrecked near Barrington, 111., 1 killed, 6 

 hurt ; also near Florisant, La., 2 killed, several hurt. 



10. Train wrecked ne^ar Springfield, Ohio, 1 killed. 



12. Flood in the neighborhood of Lucknow, India, 

 the highest on record; a large part of the city sub- 

 merged. 



13. Train wrecked by a tornado in Missouri, 2 

 killed. 



15. Fire in Scranton, Pa., loss, $250,000. Train 

 wrecked near Hammond, Wis., oil takes fire, 14 hurt ; 

 another, near Mineola, Texas, 1 killed, 5 hurt. 



17. Factory burned in Washington, D. C., several 

 lives lost. 

 19. Extensive prairie fires in northern Minnesota. 



22. Tornado in central Iowa and southern Minne- 

 sota, 75 killed, many hurt, great destruction of prop- 

 erty. 



23. College buildings burned in Oakland, Cal.. loss, 

 $200,000. 



26. 27. Destructive hurricane sweeps the whole At- 

 lantic coast of the United States, causing much dam- 

 age on land and sea. 



30. Train wrecked near Woodstock, 111., 5 boys 

 killed while stealing a ride, 2 hurt ; also at Maumee, 

 Ohio, 2 killed, 2 hurt. 



Estimated loss of life by forest-fires during Septem- 

 ber in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota about 

 1,000. 



Summary of train accidents in September : 47 col- 

 lisions, 91 derailments, 8 others ; total, 146. Killed : 30 

 employees, 5 passengers, 15 others; total, 50. Hurt: 

 34 employees, 32 passengers, 10 others ; total, 126. 



October 1. Train wrecked near Sunbury, Pa., 10 

 hurt ; also at Mansfield, Ohio, 1 hurt. 



2. Trains wrecked near Geneva, Pa., 3 killed; 

 and Oakland, 2 killed, 16 hurt. 



3. Convict train wrecked near Harriman, Tenn., 33 

 hurt. Train wrecked by a tornado near Little Rock, 

 Ark., 4 killed, many hurt. 



