The Sunday morning news., 1891-12-27

/ county, Pa. by being thrown into pile of
burning logs.
| l0 Fire at Muskegon, Mich, destroyed 20
| blocks and S500,0O0 Of property.
| 49, Fatal dynamite explosion at 7arr,town,
N y: ID killed, - injured.
! o. Fire destroyed National Linseed OH mills
| in Sioux City, Ia. loss, Sl50ID.
| Destruction of Sullivan Saddle Tree factory
in jefferson City, Mo-: loss. $4,000.
$25U,0O0 worth of property destroyed in De-
troit.
q $4,000 fire in Brooklyn; cooperage build
ings of the sugar trust destroyed.
s. Sl5O00O fire in Cleveland Hardware COM
pany's building.
IA. Railroad accident at Basle. Switzerland; a
train falls through bridge, killing $50 and
injuring 800.
49, Great fire in Seabright, n. j.; loss, S3O0,0O0
%. persons killed by the blowing down of q
coal breaker at Mount Carmel. Pa.
JULY.
8. Railroad collision at Ravenna, O.; q killed.
A. ID killed. az injured in railroad disaster
by the giving way of a trestle near Charles
ton, W. Va.
7. Sl66OO0 fire in Clarksville. Tenn: Banner
tobacco warehouse burned.
g. Fire in A. T.. Burkhardt IL Co.'S fur fac
tory in Cincinnati destroyed 100000 worth
of property.
II. Railway collision at Jennings, Mich; per-
sons killed.
i3 Circus GymnaSt William HanlOn killed by
a fall while exhibiting in Clinton, la.
steamers collided off Japan coast; 260
drowned.
a. $4,000 fire in business portion OF Pittsfeld,
Mass.
Is. Shawmut (N1eD Fiber company's mill
burned; loss, $250,oOO.
II. S2,0oO00O fire in Santiago, Chilli.
Railroad wreck near Kenton, o., kills labor
S3O0,0O0 worth of property burned in Lynn
Mass.
IS. Sawyerville, Mich, destroyed by fire; loss
over S250,O00
49, IL laborers killed at the Manchester Eng
land ship canal by train going over an
embankment.
"a persons killed in railroad collision near
Carlisle, Colo.
Campbell & Elliott textile mills in Philadel-
phia burned; loss, S,5000O.
Dallas had S30o,0O0 fire.
26. In railroad collision at st. Manie, France,
43 excursionists killed.
AUGUST.
6. Is persons killed in railroad collision near
Montezuma, n. Y.
IL. squall unroofcd the excursion barge Re-
public at Cold Spring Cove, L. L.; IA per-
sons killed, 80 injured
IA. Bridge accident at Port-au-Prince, Hayti;
so people drowned.
II. 55 buildings and s5,oooOO0 in property de-
stroyed by fire in Jacksonville, Fla.
90 S2OO,o0O fire in New York city; Mace's re-
frigerator factory burned.
81 C3 deaths caused by the collapse Of an un-
safe building in Park place, New York.
25 Complete destruction of tho town of
Charleston, Ark; court house and records
burned.
27. q killed and IS injured by fall of a train
from a bridge near Statcsville, n. G.
SEPTEMBER
g SGCO,000 fire destroyed the business portion
of The Dalles, Or
4. 16 workmen killed by explosion of dyna-
mite factory in White Pigeon, Mich.
IA. 100000 fire at Conden River, Mich, de-
stroyed Hollister & Jewels lumber plant.
IS. persons killed in a railway collision near
Port Neuf, Ida.
10. 20 miners killed in an explosion in Belgian
colliery
%. Sl5O,G00 fire in Fort Worth, Tex.
"a. laborers killed by railroad collision on the
Pittshurg and Western railroad.
7persons killed by the EXPULSION of a bomb
at an italian merrymaking in Newark, NJ J.
II firemen injured and Sl91 600 destroyed by
fire in Minneapolis.
25. S4000OO fire in Savannah.
27. $500 fire in st. Louis; Plant Milling COM
pany's building burned.
Mansur-Tibbetts Agricultural Implement
company's warehouse in st. Louis burned;
loss, $225,0OC.
%. A Philadelphia warehouse burned loss,
80. Bird q Wells lumber factory in Wau-
saumie, Wis, burned; loss, 100000.
OCTOBER.
4. killed, many injured, by explosion of tug
boiler ON Chicago river.
Grain elevator burned in Baltimore; loss,
S500,G00.
Fire in Indianapolis; loss, S20O,0O0
8. Fire in East Cambridge, Mass; loss, $780,
600.
Z. Fire in Columbus Junction, Ia: loss, $780,
900.
SIo0OOO worth of property burned at Lima, o.
s. Fire in August Belmont's residence in New
York; loss, S75,000
O. Total loss of United States steamer Dis
patch on Assateague shoals, Virginia coast.
II. $l50,000 fire at McKeesport, Pa; planning
mill burned.
Fire in Burleyesville, Me-; loss, 100000.
Is. Explosion on the United States cruiser At
lanta Injuries sailors
Is. people injured and killed by the burst
ing of fywheel in Manchester, N. II.
q. An engine on the Mayville farm in Dakota
exploded and killed men.
Bark Charlwood sunk off Eddystone light:
l6 drowned.
26. Fire destroyed the village of Pine Grove,
Ky.
$16O,o00 worth of property destroyed by the
wrecking OF an electric light plant in LOU
isville.
27. Railroad collision at Thomson's Station,
Mimi; killed s. injured Z.
Fatal fywheel explosion in Greenville, Pa.
28. Fire at Newman, Ga, destroyed S200,0oO
worth of cotton.
20. The steamer Oliver Beirne burned at Mil
lken's Bend, La; Is lives lost
Fire destroyed the town of Newberry, Ind.
NOVEMBER.
!. Fire in Beverly, Mass; loss, 100000.
Sandringham, the country seat of the Prince
of Wales, damaged by fire.
6. Fire destroyed the famous Luray (Va) Inn;
loss, 100000.
8. Gas explosion in Nanticoke, Pa, killed 10
miners.
o Fire in Denver; lives lost and "a horses
burned.
49, Entire family of persons suffocated by
natural gas at Troy, o.
81 Cavein Of the principal main of Brooklyn's
water supply and consequent temporary
water famine; killed.
23 Carlisle, Pa, school house unroofed; % pu-
pills injured.
2s Railroad collision near Toledo; lives lost.
90 $500" elevator at Gladstone, Mich, burned;
loss, $200,000.
30 Explosion in Blackburn, England 10 lives
lost
Electric wires caused a $4,000 fire at Chi
cago.
2 Entire family of people burned to death
in Detroit.
Dynamite factory exploded in Haverstraw,
NY; men killed.
g. Sl50,0Oo fire in Plainheld, M
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