Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-09
CASUALTIES.

Involving LOSS OF FOUR OR MORE IIvEsl
Jan. 5-Steamer Paris G. Brown sunk near
Bayou Sara. La, and II persons drowned. =.
Five men killed by boiler explosion in grist mill
at Newhope. w. Va.
Jan. 14-Eight persons killed and many others
injured in railway collision at TallmaGge, 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
IUzed by falling bridge at SpottSville, Ky.
Jan. 25-Two men killed and two others fatal
ly injured by saw-mill boiler explosion near
EhilhcCthe, ..
Feb. 16-Four children perish in burning
house near Ashland Ga.
Feb. 1S-Several persons killed by cyclone in
Banks County, Ga. and Bibb County, Ala
By boiler explosion, twenty-five persons perish
lng in ruins, which speedily took fire.
Feb. 25-Eleven girls burned to death and
many others seriously injured by explosion in a
.squib factory at Plymouth, Pa
Feb. 26-Ffve men killed by premature mine
explosion near Helena. NJ I.
Mar. Mrs. Hudson and her seven children
drowned while fording creek near New Earl.
Tenn. Mrs. Ledbetter and her two sons
drowned while crossing stream near Repub-
lie, Mo.
Mar 3-Entire family of Joseph Stewart, near
Carlisle. Ky. persisted in burning dwelling.
Mar. flour men killed and many others in
jured by boiler explosion in Pittsburgh (Pa)
Mar 15-William Flowers his wife and two
children persisted in burning dwelling at Hollow
Mar 31-Margaret Kunslais and her three
children persisted in their burning house in
milwaukee.
Apr. l0-Four persons killed and others in
lured in railroad wreck near Joliet. Ill.
Apr. 11-Mrs. Wood and five children per-
ished in burning house in Robin County. Ga
Apr. ia Mrs. Wine and her three children
in Brockton County, w. Va, killed by a tree
seled by her husband.
May 3-Four children at Abingdon, Md, three
at AShtabula o., and one at Springfield, Mo-
persisted in burning dwellings.
May S-Street car struck by engine at Kal-
-amazoo Mich. six women killed and four other
persons injured Fireman killed and four
other employees fatally injured in railroad col
isiOn at Glen Mary, Tenn.
May 9-Ten miners killed near Middleport,
Pa, by crushing of cage in which they were as
cending a mine shaft.
May Flour workmen killed by fire-damp ex-
plosion in mine near CHARTERS, Pa Mrs. Will
lam Mentally and three children killed by light
ming ut Ridgeway, Pa.
MAY 13-Twelve men killed by falling timbers
of a 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 wagon near
Mey 22-Five men fatally burned by gas ex-
ploSion in Van Ness Hotel. Boston
May 2tSix men killed by falling bucket in
mine near Kingston. Pa.-..A similar accident
caused the death of one and fatal injuries to
i've others in mining shaft at Willlesbarre, Pa.
May 30-Three men killed by cavlng in of
mine at Humboldt, Mich Five men killed
and many others injured in blown-down factory
May 3l-Mrs Rafael and her four children
killed by falling tree in De Sofa Parish La.
BY the giving way OF y large reservoir the
city of Johnstown, Pa, and many smaller
towns Were swept away. Many thousands OF
lives lost and immense destruction of property.
June 8 Schooner Houston and seventeen
lives lost OF Milwaukee Wis.
June I0-Six men killed by fall of coal in
mine at WillSeSbarre. Pa Several fatal cases
Of sun stroke in New York and Brooklyn
June 26-rwelve men killed and several 9th
ers injured in collision OF freight trains AT
I.atrobe, Pa.
July a-Over twenty persons killed and many
Others seriously injured IN railroad wreck near
ThaXtOn'S. Va.
July MANY persons killed or fatally injured
by collapse OF grand stand ut race track in
Oklahoma Ind. T
July 5-Carriagc containing four persons run
INTO at railroad crossing near Long Branch, y.
j and inmates killed.
Jriv Plight persons killed and many others
init ed in railroad collision uear + Frankfort. ky
July I.-Four men persisted IN = Lincoln
TNebN cpS~VOol. overcome hy -aS and lou: al
Two men killed AND tSCE others fatally III
iurcd in 2 IA lrCaC accident nei.r >hai-HNti "a
IuIy IS-'Thrco men killed and I've others IN
5,Ir,,i l,v explosion in saw -iuIll in Chicago.
July 2.-FUur train employees Nl!itG IN ran
v-ay accident ~ Brighton. Tenn
IuIv H-A stick 81 dynamite fed into Z
threShiur machine near Anderson mo- cause
the total dcSt rlICtiop a. the machine .E' iil'
death of three men ana four horses, :. + we Per
SONS killed and many others injured IL I"-t''''
accident near Oxford. u - 49,,
aug 1.-Two men and three boys hiowh /,
atoms ny giant powder explosion IA . INIT d
Marquette, Mich Two men kLA' 80 o'1C -, ~
Others fatally hurt by premature o-aS' eApi'
sion in i ClarlIsbuTg wv Va mine -,
AuC 3-'Three men and two boys dow 4,
nIec,.S by dynamite explosion IN a h!'he "e"
lShpemng, Mich. ,, - .,-.,,,,.
sons blown into a creek at Mitchell inu-, u;
Gather, mother and three children o.o"-'So'