Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
CASUALTIES.

INVOLVING LOSS OF FOUR OR MORE LIVES
Jan. 5-Steamer Paris G. Brown sunk neal
Bayou Sara, La, and II persons drowned.
Five men killed by boiler explosion in grist mil
at Newhope, W. Va.
Jan. l4-Eight persons killed and many other.
injured in railway collision at Tallmadge, O.
Jan. 19-Lieutenant Governor Macdonald
Michigan, and two other men killed and many
others injured in railroad accident near Elwood
Mich. -Four men killed and several others in
1ured by falling bridge at Spottsville, Ky.
Jan 25-Two men killed and two others fatal
ly injured by saw-min boiler explosion near
Chillicothe, o.
Feb. 16-Four children perish in burning
house near Ashland, Ga.
Feb. 1S-Several persons killed by cyclone in
Banks County, Ga, and Bib County Ala
Park Central Hotel, Hartford Conn, destroyed
by boiler explosion, twenty-five persons perish
ing in ruins, which speedily took fire.
Feb. 25-Eleven girls burned to death and
many others seriously injured by explosion in q
squib factory at Plymouth, Pa.
Feb. 26-FiVe men killed by premature mine
explosion near Helena, n. T.
Mar. Mrs. Hudson and her seven children
drowned while fording a creek near New Earl
Tenn. Mrs. Ledbetter and her two sons
drowned while crossing stream near Repub
lie. Mo.
Mar. S.-Entire family of Joseph Stewart. near
Carlisle, KY, persisted in burning dwelling.
Mar. l4-Four men killed and many others in
Jured by boiler explosion in Pittsburgh Pa)
boiler works.
Mar william Flowers, his wife and two
children persisted in burning dwelling at Hollow
Mar 81-Margaret Kunslais and her three
children persisted in their burning house in
Milwaukee
Apr. 1O--Four persons killed and others in
iured in railroad wreck near Joliet Ill
Apr. 1l-Mrs. Wood and five children per
ished in burning house in Robin County. Ga.
Apr. IA Mrs. Wiae and her three children
felled by her husband
May 3-Four children at Abingdon. Nd. three
al Ashtabula, o., and one at Springfield, Mo-,
persisted in burning dwellings.
May S-Street car struck by engine at Kali
amaZoo, Mich. six women killed and four other
persons injured. e.. Fireman killed and four
other employees fatally injured in railroad col
Hsion at Glen Mary, Tenn.
May e-Ten miners killed near Middleport
Pa. by crushing of cage in which they were as
Cending mine shaft.
May Flour workmen killed by ire-damp ex-
ploslon IN mine near CHARTERS, Pa. Mrs. Will
lam McNally and three children killed by light
ming at Ridgeway, Pa.
May 13-Twelve men killed by falling timbers
OF building wrecked by wind at Tacoma, Wash
May 2l-Three men fatally hurt by boiler ex-
plOSion at Charleston, W. Va. -. Thomas Veach
his wife and four children struck by lightning
and instantly killed while in a wagon near
May 22-Five men fatally burned by gas ex
plOsion in Van Ness Hotel, Boston.
May 2fSix men killed by falling bucket in
nine near Kingston, Pa....A similar accident
caused the death Of one and fatal injuries to
five others in mining shaft at Wilkesbarre. Pa
May S0-Three men killed by caving in of
mine at Humboldt, Mich. Five men killed
and many others injured in downtown factory
1t DanVille, Va.
May 3l-Mrs. Rafael and her four children
killed by falling tree in De Sofa Parish, La -.
city OF Johnstown, Pa, and many smaller
towns were swept away. Many thousands of
lives lost and immense destruction Of property
June S-Schooner Houston and seventeen
June 10-Six men killed by fall Of coal in
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Several fatal cases
Of sun-stroke in New York and Brooklyn
June 26-Twelve men killed and several 9TH
crs injured in collision Of freight trains at
Latrobe Pa.
July Cover twenty persons killed and MANY
others seriously injured in railroad wreck near
July tMany persons killed or fatally injured
by collapse OF grand stand at race track in
Oklahoma. Ind. T.
into at railroad crossing near Long Branch, n.
J., and inmates killed.
July Eight persons Killed and many others
injured IN railroad collision near Frankfort, Wv
July H-Four men persisted in a Lincoln
ENeb) cesSpool. overcome by gas and foul air
Two men killed and four others fata in
iured in railroad accident near Shamokin Pa
July lS-Three men killed and five others in
1ureo by explosion in saw mill in Chicago.
July 27-Four train employees killed in rail
way accident at Brighton. Tenn
July S1-A stick OF dynamite fed into a
threshing machine near Anderson, Ind, caused
the total destruction Of the machine and the
death OF three men and four horses. Five per
sons killed and many others injured in railroad
accident near Oxford o.
Aug 1.-TWO men and three boys blown To
atoms by giant powder explosion in mine at
sarQuette, Mich. Two men killed and two
others fatally hurt by premature blast explo-
Ion In q Clarksburg CIV. Va) mine.
Aug. 3-Three men and two boys blown to
pieces by dynamite explosion in mine near
lshpemiEg Al,ch.
Aug. 5-Wagon ccntdining family of five per
sons blown into creek at Mitchell Ind and
esther, mother ana thrse children drowned.