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DISASTERS IN 1894. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 



4. Train wrecked near Sraithfield, Mo., 4 killed, 

 2 hurt. 



5. Fire in Detroit, 6 killed, 12 hurt. 



7. Train wrecked by malice in Tennessee, 1 killed, 

 10 hurt. 



9. Train wrecked near Sedalia, S. C., 3 killed, 1 

 hurt. Fire near Shamokin, Pa.. 5 lives lost. 



10. Fall of a building in New York city, 9 killed, 

 14 hurt. 



11. Explosion of boilers at Shamokin, Pa., 5 killed. 

 16. Fire in Houston, Texas, St. Joseph's Infirmary 



and business houses burned, loss, $500,000. 



21. Train wrecked near Eutland, 111., 2 killed, 1 

 hurt. 



22. Trains wrecked near Scott Haven, Pa., and 

 Atchison, Kan., the latter derailed by wind. 



23. Train wrecked near Walker, Tenn., 2 killed, 

 4 hurt. 



25. Extensive prairie fires in Nebraska. Earth- 

 quakes in Japan, several hundred lives lost, thou- 

 sands of houses destroyed. 



27. Fire in Seattle, Wash., 16 lives lost. 



28. Train wrecked near Croydon, Pa., 2 killed, 22 

 hurt. 



29. Train wrecked near Peale, Pa., 3 killed. Fire 

 in East St. Louis, 111,, loss, $400,000. 



31. Train wrecked near Foster, Pa., 3 killed. 



Summary of train accidents in October : 92 colli- 

 sions, 81 derailments, 9 others ; total, 182. Killed : 35 

 employees, 4 passengers, 15 others; total, 44. Hurt: 

 107 employees, 95 passengers, 7 others; total. 209. 



November 1. Steamer Wairarata wrecked on the 

 coast of New Zealand, 79 lives lost. 



3. Medical College and Scottish Kite building, In- 

 dianapolis, burned, loss, $175,000. Severe earthquake 

 in the city of Mexico, many killed and hurt. Mill 

 burned in Lachute, Quebec/loss, $250.000. 



4. Fire in San Francisco, loss, $300,000. 



7. Fire in St. Louis, loss, $250,000. Train wrecked 

 near Pittsburg, Pa., 6 killed. Forest fires in western 

 Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, and northern Missis- 

 sippi, much property destroyed, and the smoke im- 

 peded navigation on the Mississippi. 



14. Cotton burned in New Orleans, loss, $750,000. 



16. Forest fires near Boulder, Col. Destructive 

 earthquakes in Sicily. 



18. Fire in the lace-making district of Nottingham, 

 England, loss, $150,000. 



19. Destructive floods in England. 



20. Phosphate works in Macon, Ga., burned, loss, 

 $125,000. 



24. Very destructive storm on the coast of New- 

 foundland. 



28. Slight earthquake in Quebec. 



Summary of train accidents in November : 59 colli- 

 sions, 84 derailments, 3 others; total, 146. Killed: 

 17 employees, passengers, 5 others ; total, 22. Hurt : 

 47 employees, 14 passengers, 5 others ; total, 66. 



December 2. Train wrecked near Locksport, Pa., 

 3 killed. Earthquakes in Ecuador several days. 



7. Prairie fires in Texas, 25,000 square miles of 

 grass lands burned over. 



9. Molten metal spilled in Carnegie Works, Pitts- 

 burg, I'u., 8 badly burned. 



13. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in the New 

 Hebrides Islands, many lives lost, and houses thrown 

 down 



22. Western Europe and the British Isles swept by 

 a violent storm, hundreds of lives lost, 79 shipwrecks. 



23. Train wrecked near Chelmsford, England, 15 

 killed. 



25. Trains wrecked near Waxahachie, Texas, 2 

 killed, 15 hurt. 



27. Excessive cold in the Southern United States ; 

 the Florida fruit crop almost totally destroyed. 



30. Fire : grain elevator burned in Toledo, Ohio, 

 loss, $525,000. 



31. Fire: the Delavan IJouse Hotel burned in Al- 

 bany, N. Y., ]< lives lost, damage, $250,000. Violent 

 storms of several days' duration in western Europe. 

 Earthquakes in Italy. 



Summary of train accidents in December: 66 colli- 

 sions, 69 derailments, 7 others; total, 142. Killed : 24 

 employees, 2 passengers, 3 others; total, 29. Hurt: 

 58 employees, 30 passengers, 2 others; total, 90. 



Summary of train accidents in 1894: 613 collisions, 

 873 derailments, 74 others ; total, 1,560. Killed : 410 

 employees, 58 'passengers ; total, 468. Hurt: 845 em- 

 ployees, 410 passengers; total, 1,255. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. The meetings 

 of the missionary and other societies of the Dis- 

 ciples of Christ, comprised under the title of the 

 General Christian Convention, were held in 

 Richmond, Va., Oct. 18 to 25. The year had 

 been one of general prosperity. Increase of re- 

 sources and advance in work was reported in the 

 aggregate not only of the national societies, but 

 also of the several State associations. Among 

 the new measures adopted were the appointment 

 of a general board of education and the institu- 

 tion of a general Sunday-school superintendent 

 and of a committee to promote organization in 

 Sunday-school work. A committee was appoint- 

 ed to consider means of systematically enlisting 

 business men in the support of the work of the 

 convention. Provision was made for the dis- 

 patch of a representative of the convention 

 around the world to visit the missionary stations. 



The Board of Managers of the General Chris- 

 tian Missionary Convention reported that their 

 receipts had been $21,639, divided as follow: 

 For the Evangelizing fund, $19,363; for the Salt 

 Lake City Church Building fund, $1,839; for 

 the Boston debt fund, $432 ; for the destitute in 

 South Dakota, $5. Fifty missionaries had been 

 in service, who reported 14 new churches organ- 

 ized, 57 new points visited and helped, 1.777 bap- 

 tisms, 2,854 additions in all, and $66,956 raised 

 for salaries, building and repairs, and other pur- 

 poses. Reports were made of evangelistic work 

 in 19 States, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Indian, and 

 Utah Territories, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 and Ontario, and of the work of 6 general evan- 

 gelists. A committee appointed at the previous 

 convention to study the subject of city evangeli- 

 zation and report "upon it, represented that it 

 had called a conference at St. Louis, Mo., in 

 February. Blanks intended to elicit informa- 

 tion concerning the condition of city work of 

 the Disciples had been sent to suitable persons 

 in all cities having more than 2 churches; from 

 the answers to which it appeared that in 12 

 cities, having an aggregate population of 2.6:>S,- 

 000, there were 80 congregations having 20.325 

 members, 42 clmrch houses, and church property 

 valued at $1,193,000. There had been an aggre- 

 gate increase in ten years of 37 church houses 

 and $455,000 in value. Seven church houses 

 had been built during the year. The year was 

 represented to have been the most fruitful in 

 conversions of any in the history of the society. 

 It was also remarkable for the number of points 

 which had become self-sustaining. Besides the 

 work of the general convention a still larger one 

 is done by the State conventions severally. 



The Board of Negro Evangelization arid Edu- 

 cation reported an increase of $1,200 in cash 

 collections. Its work had been enlarged. It 

 had 5 teachers at the Southern Christian In- 

 stitute. An assistant teacher had been employed 

 in the Louisville Bible School. Appropriations 

 for evangelization had been made in 3 States. 





