The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-01

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JULY
July o.-New York Central Railroad depot, West
July f.-Beckertons railroad machine establish
ment Philadelphia. Loss $4,000.
July ls.-Indlana State Prison; no convicts e.
July ls.-Disastrous 1res at Mnlville, N. J.;
strong wind prevailed; Loss $4,000 Oils ana nj, TO-
July 2o.-Paning mills, lumber pies ana OIL re-
nnery destroyed Loss $780, oo ,..
July 20.-Qunn 4 Co.'s boiler establishment,
July 2o-Walker's planning MILL Corning, N. Y.
July @.-Znc works ON Passaic River, near New
July 2s.-Tweive cars containing Oil burned at
Elmira IN. " station OF Erie Railroad. Loss
August 3.-Dean Academy Franklin MASS; en-
tire chemical and philosophical apparatus destroyed.
August 3.-Pottery works, Trenton. NJ. Loss
$4,000.
August T. Continental Sugar Refinery, South
August s.-stables and blacksmith shops, Clncin-
natl. Loss $4,000.
September niagara Paper Mills, Middletown,
Ohio Loss $42, 900.
September 4.-Reed House, Erie, Pa. Loss
buildings At ifis6awaEa Y md. Loss si5S,55o.
September 12.-BOiler building on new bridge OF
New Jersey Railroad, Newark. Loss $4,000.
September 16.-Large block OF tenement houses
In Manchester, N H., caused by explosion Of kero-
September 2o.-Condit 4 sons paper mill, Shaw
angunk, NJ Y. Loss s2Oo,00o
September So.-Ten buildings. Bridgeport, Conn.
OCTOBER .f".i.. 80
.. October st o Louis GdoI rope and baggins
October o:z-Eig6t stores, Planneld, NJ. Loss
October 1o.-Rxtensive business buildings, Ban
gor Ne. TnIs was the most disastrous fire that
occurred since June !, 1869, in the city. Losf
October l2.-Fan River (dass) Coal company's
stores. Loss 100000.
October lswRo,Iins mills buildings d%n Cambria
October 16.-Cowper's rolling mills Trenton, N.
J. partially consumed. Loss $4,000 CO..
dnsky, Ohio. over one hundred men thrown out
October 2O.-Prarie fires near Omaha, Neb
Soldiers at barracks called out to check spread
ana save government property.
NOVEMBER.
November est. James Hotel, COoperstOwn, N.
Y. Loss 600.
November 0.-Great FIRE in Boston.
November 15.-KcystOne Saw Works, Philadel-
phia; one OF the largest OF the kind in America.
Loss $l60, 900.
November lo.-United States Court House, Post
once and other buildings ~ Fort Smith, Ark. Loss
November 27-Mincr's carriage and agricultu-
$4,000.
DECEMBER.
December 9.-COmstOck's furniture establish
December l4-Peterson's saw and planning min,
Jamaica, L. J. Loss, $4,000.
December 17.-Deckcr's planning MILL Baltimore;
troops were sent from Fort McHenry TO preserve
property. Loss 100000.
December lS.-Lamp and grocery store, Flush
ing L. J. The VILLAGE at one time was In imminent
danger OF being destroyed. Loss $4,000.
December 2o.-liaf the business portion Of OAR
December 22.-Conier's rolling mill, Paterson, N.
December 22.-uood mandatory. Durgin's
block Boston, Loss 100000
December 23.--seven buildings, Washington
street. Boston. Loss 81 1000
December 23.-DisastrOus fire In Helena, Ark.
Loss $67.000
December 23.-General confagratiOn in Portland,
Oregon; fire originated In Chinese wash house.
Loss $350,000.
December 27.-Car shops, Adrian, Mich. Loss
December GA large nsmoer of business houses,
December 2s--Clark's marble buildings, Men,
DecemDer 2s.-Burke's steam tannery, Spring.
vile, Ky. Loss $685.
December 29.-SkOwhegan Hotel ana other build
fngs Augusta, Ne. LOSS $4,000.
Street Railroad Accidents In 1874.
January Q.-Henry Jane, milkman, killed. corner
Essex and Grand streets, by car of avenue g line.
January 9.-Christian hatcher, killed by street
car, corner Sixth avenue and Twenty-eighth street.
January 26.-isaiah Lawrence, colored man,
run over and killed on Thompson street, by car
April John w. Whitaker. run over and killed
by Grand street line Of cars.
May 2e.-John Klein. killed corner Houston and
Suffolk streets by Grand street line car.
July "A man run over and killed instantly,
corner twenty third street, by q Second avenue
July 4-Kate winesOn. aged eleven, Killed cor
ner Eldridge street by car OF Grand street line.
injuries received at corner OF twenty sixth street
by being run over by car orSeventh avenue line,
June Is.
Railroad Accidents in the United States
In Iss2.
The following IL o list OF the principal railroad
accidents that occurred in tile United States In
1871
JANUARY.
January 24.-Thc Newark train ran down a double
team at West End, killing J. Van Vert, the driver,
January "A passenger train on North Missouri
Railroad, fourteen miles from St. Louis, thrown
down an embankmcnt Several severely injured.
January 2G-Wam II. Whitney fatally injured,
near Springfield, by Boston AMI Albany Railroad
January 2a.-Couplings Of passenger train on
Louisville Short Lane KailrOad broke at Eagle sta
ton, fifty miles from Cincinnati, and swept over
passengers, severely injuring large number.
January 2e:-Four engines coming down hin at
Red Buttes, Wyoming Territory, on line OF Union
Pacific Railroad, ran into train OF SIX cars all OF
which were wrecked.
January 90.--Charlcs y. Marshall, run over and
killed at West Springfield by a train Of the Boston
and Albany Railroad.
January GA smash-up on the New Jersey Rail-
road, at Newark. Two trains cOllided. The es-
cape from a frighthnl catastrophe considered the
most mrac ulous on record.
FEBRUARY.
February 1.-The train from PittstOD to Phila-
delphia, while near LOckpOrt, made a sudden jump
over chasm forty feet deep into Lehigh River
The took fire. Seven passengers were In
stantly killed and four subsequently died.
February 1.-TWO trains, going at high speed
February l2.-An unknown man found on cow
catcher on train from New York to Philadelphia, at
Trenton
February 1.-two freight trains came In COLI
sion on the Grand Trunk Railroad ut Strat1OrU, N.
II. Locomotives badly injured.
March s.-Passenger train from Springfield to
New York thrown Off track. number OF passen-
gers seriously injured, including Admiral de Rohan,
Of the French Navy.
March S.-Serious accident on the New York
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