The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
CASUALTIES,

INVOLVING LOSS OF FOUR OR MORE LIVES.
Jan. 5-Steamer Paris G. Brown sunk near
Bayou Sara, La, and IL persons drowned.
Five men killed by boiler explosion in grist mill
Jan I4-Eight persons killed and many others
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. e.. -Four men killed and several others in
jured by falling bridge at Spottsville. Ky.
Jan. 25-Two men killed and two others fatal
ly injured by saw-mill boiler explosion near
Chillicothe o.
Feb. 16-Four children perish in burning
house near Ashland, Ga.
Feb. 1S-Seyeral persons killed by cyclone in
Banks County, Ga, and Bibb County, Ala. -.
Park Central Hotel, Hartford, Conn, destroyed
by boiler explosion, twenty-five persons perish
ing in ruins, which speedily took fire.
Feb. G-Eleven girls burned to death and
many others seriously injured by explosion in a
sQuib factory at Plymouth, Pa.
Feb. 26-Five men killed by premature mine
explosion near Helena, NJ T.
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 S-Entire family OF Joseph Stewart, near
Carlisle, KY, persisted in burning dwelling.
Mar. l4-Four men killed and many others in
iured by boiler explosion in Pittsburgh Pa)
Mar. l5-William Flowers, his wife and two
children persisted in burning dwelling at Hollow
Mar 3l-Margaret Kunslais and her three
children persisted in their burning house in
Milwaukee.
Apr. Io-Four persons killed and others in
jured in railroad wreck near Joliet Ill.
Apr. 1i-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 tree
felled by her husband.
May $-Four children at Abingdon, Nd. three
at 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. -. Fireman killed and four
other employees fatally injured in railroad col
nsion at Glen Mary, Tenn.
May s-Ten miners killed near Middleport,
Pa, by crushing of cage in which they were as
cending mine shaft.
May 11-Four workmen killed by fire-damp ex-
plosion in mine near CHARTERS, Pa. -. Mrs Will
lam McNally and three children killed by light
ming at Ridgeway, Pa.
Nav 13tTwelve men killed by falling timbers
of building wrecked by wind at Tacoma, W ash.
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
May e2-Five men fatally burned by gas ex-
piosion in Van Ness Hotel Boston.
May 2tSix men killed by falling bucket in
mine near Kingston, Pax similar accident
caused the death of one and fatal injuries to
five others in mining shaft at Wilkesbarre Pa
May so-Three men killed by caving in Of
mine at Humboldt, Mich Five men killed
and many others injured in blown down factory
May si-Mrs Rafael and her four children
killed by falling tree in De Sofa Parish, La.
BY the giving way OF 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 S-Schooner Houston and seventeen
lives lost of Milwaukee, Wis
June 10-Six men killed by fall OF coal in
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa: Several fatal cases
of sun-strolze in New York and Brooklyn.
June 26-Twelve men killed and several 9TH
ers injured in collision Of freight trains at
Latrobe. Pa
July 2-over twenty persons killed and many
Others seriously injured in railroad wreck near
ThaNton's. Va.
July 4-Many persons killed or fatally injured
by collapse Of grand stand al race track in
July 5-Caruage containing four persons run
INTO at railroad crossing near Long Branch, n.
j., and inmates killed.
injured in railroad collision near Frankfort, Yy.
July 11-Four men persisted in a Lincoln
SNeoS cesspool. overcome by gas and foul air
-. Two men killed and four others fata in
lured in a railroad accident near Shamokin. Pa
July 1S-Three men killed and FIVE others in
Iured by explosion in saw-mill in Chicago
July 27-Four train employees killed in rail-
way accident at Brighton Tenn.
July 3l-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 q mine at
Marquette, Mich. Two men killed and two
others fatally hurt by premature blast explo-
Ion in a Clarksburg CIV. Va.) mine.
Aug. 3-Three men and two boys blown to
pieces by dynamite explosion in a mine near
Ishpeming Mich.
Aug. Wagon Containing family OF five per-
sons blown into acreek at cSitchell.. ind, and
tsther, mother anG three Children drowned.