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Summary of train accidents in July: 96 col- 

 lisions, 116 derailments, 5 others; total, 217. 

 Killed: 31 employees, 9 passengers, 5 others; 

 total, 45. Hurt: 100 employees, 94 passengers, 

 7 others; total, 201. 



Fires in July: Brooklyn, 3 fires, loss, $765,000; 

 Toledo, Ohio, grain, $845,000; Phoenix City, Ala., 

 sundry buildings, $200,000 ; Coulterville, Cal., sun- 

 dry buildings, $200,000; Memphis, Tenn., paper 

 mills, $250,000. Total fires in July, 204; loss, 

 $11,426,400. 



August 3. First report of a notable storm, 

 which began far to the eastward of the American 

 coast and lasted until Sept. 12, during which time 

 it moved first through the West India Islands, 

 and then northward along the coast of the United 

 States, causing almost unprecedented destruction 

 of shipping and loss of life; no accurate returns 

 are obtainable of the number of lives lost or of 

 the number and names of 'all the vessels de- 

 stroyed. Estimates place the number of lives 

 at several thousand. 



5. Trains in collision, Manassas, Va., 2 killed. 



6. By the breaking of a gangplank at Bar Har- 

 bor, Me., 20 persons were drowned. Trolley acci- 

 dent, Bridgeport, Conn., 29 killed. 



7. Trains in collision, Offut, Tenn., 1 killed, 2 

 hurt. 



8. The hurricane referred to under date of Aug. 

 3 swept over Puerto Rico ; 2,000 lives supposed to 

 have been lost and the island almost desolated. 

 The same is true of neighboring islands in the 

 same latitude. Train wrecked, Los Palos, Cal., 

 2 killed, 5 hurt. 



10. Fire: Dallas, Texas, buildings burned; loss, 

 $250,000. 



12. Fire: Yokohama, Japan, about one square 

 inile of buildings burned, 16 lives lost. 



17. Train wrecked at Juvisy, France, 17 killed, 

 73 hurt. 



21. Fire: Victor, Col., business houses burned; 

 loss, $2,000,000. 



28. Fall of the Chicago Coliseum, 9 killed, many 

 hurt; cause, faulty construction of framework. 

 Train wrecked, Barracksville, W. Va., 5 killed. 



30. Train wrecked, Montclair, N. J., 3 killed, 14 

 hurt. 



Summary of train accidents in August: 89 col- 

 lisions, 100 derailments, 4 others; total, 193. 

 Killed: 30 employees, 4 passengers, 5 others; 

 total, 39. Hurt: 95 employees, 43 passengers, 16 

 others; total, 154. 



Fires in August: Newark, N. J., car houses, 

 $300,000; Glens Falls, N. Y., cement works, $250,- 

 000; Chicago, paint works, etc., $300,000; Placer- 

 ville, Idaho, nearly the whole town, $250,000; 

 Curwensville, Pa., $400,000; Lockport, N. Y., 

 $250,000. Total fires in August, 146; total losses, 

 $9,703,700. 



September 1. Mine flooded, island of Chikoku, 

 Japan, 600 lives supposed to be lost. 



2. Fire: Kansas City, Kan.; loss, $250,000. 

 Train wrecked, Denton, Ky., 2 killed, 2 hurt. 



3. Hurricane in the Azores, many wrecks and 

 much loss of life. Carriage wrecked by a rail- 

 way train, Cedar Grove, Wis., 3 killed. 



6. Severe electrical storm in London: the city 

 was flooded by a violent downpour of rain, and 

 for a time a frightful darkness prevailed. Trains 

 wrecked at Narrows, Va., 2 killed and 28 hurt; 

 Millers, Pa., 4 killed; Williamson, Pa., 7 killed. 



9. Train wrecked, Columbia, S. C., 4 killed. 



10. Trains wrecked, Tiona, Pa., and Richmond, 

 Ind., 2 killed, 9 hurt. 



11. Train wrecked, Nayang, Pa., 2 killed, 2 

 hurt. 



12. Explosion on board German war shipWacht, 



4 killed, 4 hurt. Train wrecked, Oxford, Iowa, 

 4 killed, 6 hurt. 



13. Hurricane in Bermuda, dockyards damaged 

 and much other destruction of property. Trains 

 wrecked at Baird, Pa., and Famoso, Cal., 6 killed, 

 6 hurt. 



15. Destructive electrical storm in central Eng- 

 land. Floods in the Danube river, bridge carried 

 away at Vienna, 20 or more lives lost. Hurri- 

 cane: Newfoundland, 400 fishing vessels believed 

 to have been lost. Train wrecked, Sterling Run, 

 Pa., 1 killed, 2 hurt. 



17. Fire: Promised Land, N. Y., factory burned; 

 loss, $500,000. 



18. Fire: Farnham, N. Y., business section 

 burned; loss, $250,000. Trains wrecked, Rhine- 

 land, Mo., and Talbot, Tenn., 2 killed, 5 hurt. 



19. Fire: Lowville, N. Y., mill burned, also 

 lumber yard; loss, $250,000. 



20. Trains wrecked, Swope Park, Mo., Wind- 

 ham, Minn., 8 killed, 4 hurt. Earthquake in Asia 

 Minor, great mortality. 



21. Shipwreck: steamer Scotsman, off Belle Isle, 

 15 women and children drowned. Earthquake: 

 island of Ceram, East Indies, thousands perish. 



23. Trains wrecked, Florence, Col., and Reno, 

 Col., 11 killed, 6 hurt. 



25. Earthquake in Alaska. Shipwreck : steamer 

 Adula, coast of Jamaica, 5 lives lost. 



26. Earthquake, rain, and landslides in Dar- 

 jeeling, India, great destruction of life and prop- 

 erty. Trains wrecked, Auburn, N. Y., and Oska- 

 loosa, Iowa, 10 killed, 7 hurt. 



27. Trains in collision, Paisley, Mont., 4 killed, 

 2 hurt. 



28. Train wrecked, Stroudsburg, Pa., 1 killed, 



1 hurt; cause, fog. 



Summary of train accidents in September: 116 

 collisions, 110 derailments, 5 others; total, 231. 

 Killed: 65 employees, 13 passengers, 15 others; 

 total, 93. Hurt: 135 employees, 80 passengers, 

 11 others; total, 226. 



Fires in September: Kansas City, Mo., pork- 

 packing works, $400,000; Chicago, 111., sundry 

 buildings, $300,000; Castorland, N. Y., lumber, 

 $225,000; Cincinnati, Ohio, sundry buildings, $500,- 

 000; Pumers Point, Va., stores, etc., $330,000. 

 Total fires in September, 179; aggregate loss, $12,- 

 778,800. 



October 2. Trains wrecked, Wilton, Ark., and 

 Penn Haven Junction, Pa., 3 killed, 4 hurt. 



6. Train wrecked, Thorpe, Wis., 1 killed, 15 hurt. 



7. Typhoon in eastern Japan, 50 lives lost. 



8. Floods and tempest in Italy, 40 lives lost in 

 province of Salerno alone. 



11. Train wrecked, Short Creek, W. Va., 8 hurt. 



12. Earthquake in Java, several thousand lives 

 believed to have been lost. 



16. Trains in collision, Granite Canon, Wyo., 



2 killed, 3 hurt. 



19. Train derailed, Stoneville, N. C., 3 killed. 



20. A violent storm in southern Italy, 3 killed 

 and 20 hurt by lightning. 



21. Fire at Faires, Ala., 14 lives lost. Train 

 wrecked by collision, Neeleysville, Mo., 1 killed, 

 several hurt. 



23. Trains in collision, Wabash, Ind., 2 killed, 

 2 hurt. 



26. Shipwreck: British steamer Zurich founders 

 off the coast of Norway, 17 lives lost. 



27. Train wrecked, Langtry, Texas, 2 killed, 3 

 hurt. 



28. Train wrecked, Laramie, Wyo., 1 killed, 2 

 hurt. 



30. Disastrous storm on the island of Jamaica, 

 several lives lost and houses swept away by flood. 



31. Steam ferryboat Chicago sunk in collision 



