Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1891-01-01
FIRES AND DISASTERS.

tense cold in the southwest.
o. 16 drowned in a sinking caisson at Louisville.
Ky
1s A storm at St. Louis killed 3, injured many
and did enormous damage to property; SINH
lar storms, moving eastward, did great
havoc in other states
Stables of Macy Bros, at Versailles, KY.
burned with forty blooded horses, among
them Bell Boy; loss, S350,O00
13 An elevator in Baltimore burned; loss, $500,
900; also the British steamship Sacrobasco
lying alongside; killed; loss, S150OOO.
Tornado at Clinton KY, killed 10 and injured
GO; damage by storms in Syracuse, Roches
ter, Oswego, Buffalo and other New York
state cities; heavy snow in Kansas,
a. Clafiin, Coburn & Co.'S building in Boston
burned loss, S900,00O
81 Reported that storm in Washington killed
10 people and thousands of cattle
q Terrible storms on American. French and En-
glish coasts
Natural gas explosion at Columbus, o., killed
10 and injured many; several buildings
wrecked
"a Accident on the Louisville. New Albany and
Chicago railroad near Indianapolis killed .
and injured many
FEBRUARY.
/ Explosion at Plymouth. Pa; killed six and
injured others
Tenement house fire in Boston, eleven killed;
lCSo IltO,UOO
Fire in Danbury, Conn; loss $500, 600
s. A fire in the Washington house of Benjamin
F. Tracy, secretary of the United States
navy, resulted in the death of Mrs. Tracy,
daughter aud a woman servant. Mr. and
Mrs Wilmerding daughter and grand
daughter of the secretary, jumped from a
window and were severely injured The
secretary was unconscious when removed,
and was with difficulty restored
4 A railroad accident at The Dalles Ore hii1ad
10 and injured l6
B. Floods in Oregon.
l3 Fire in the dry goods house of j. v. Farwell &
Co., Chicago; loss $780, 900
a. University of Toronto burned
% storage reservoir dam gave way in Hasa
yampa, Ariz-; so killed and s1.0oO.OOO dam
age done to property
/. Floods along the Ohio river.
g. Mine fire at Wilkesbarre. Pa; killed.
2 Accident on the Lake Shore railroad at Ham
burg, near Buffalo. N Y; killed, Is in
jured
6 Alarming rise Of rivers in the Mississippi val
ley; this was the beginning of a series of
disastrous floods lasting fully two months;
nearly every day levees were swept away;
at one time New Orleans was in danger;
March % the Yazoo delta was overiowed:
March so but one house was left unharmed
at Skipwith Miss; April 13 Sims Port, La,
was overdowed; April % the river reached
the highest point on record at vicksburg.
II. The clothing house Of Stern, Meyer 6 Co..
Cincinnati. burned; loss $500, 900
16. Fire at Kirksville Mo-; loss 500, 900
II Fall OF burning walls at Indianapolis; l0kled,
Is injured; March 10 more walls of same
building fell; killed
IS. Fire at Peoria, Ills; loss, S250,O00
19 Mine fire at Hurley Wis; killed
% Floods along the Monongahela and Allegheny
rivers in Pennsylvania
q Explosion in Chicago sugar refinery; Q
killed
Tornadoes did enormous damage in parts of
Kentucky Illinois and Indiana; at Louis
vile 800 buildings were demolished and be
tween rs and 100 lives lost; Bowling Green,
KY, was practically wiped out of existence,
with many fatalities; total loss Of life about
200
APRIL
: Mine explosion at Nanticoke. PA killed,
hurt
6 20 buildings burned at Theresa, N. Y; loss
$4,000
O. Tornado in Ohio Illinois, Pennsylvania and
Virginia; 12 killed; enormous damage
g. $500 people thrown out of employment by
fire in the Singer sewing machine works at
Elizabeth, n j.; loss more than 81 coo, ,0o0
Salt Creek. Tex. wrecked by tornado; many
killed
Insane asylum burned at Tongue Point, Que
bee; 81 killed; loss $4,000.
8 Chenango county poorhouse burned at Pres
ton, n Y; 10 killed
H. 10 dwelling houses destroyed by storm at
Akron. O.
Farm houses wrecked and killed by Kan
sas tornado.
Government storehouses at Willett's Point, N
Y, burned; loss, $4,000
Is. Mine accident at Ashley Pa; 81 killed
30. Fall Of a train through drawbridge at Oak
land, CAL; 90 killed
& Tornado at Bradshaw Neb.; Is killed; great
damage to property.
10 Explosion in Farm Hill coal mine at Dunbar
Pa; 80 killed
10 Cloudburst and tornado in Potter county, S.
D.; 12 killed; enormous damage to property;
disastrous storms in Kentucky and Maine
30 Allen-Bradley Distillery company's works at
Louisville, KY, burned; loss, $3.50, 900; also
Standard Oil company.s refinery, same
city: several employees fatally hurt
JULY
z Storm at Fargo. N d.; killed; much prop
erty destroyed
II. Explosion Of steamboat Tioga's boiler at Chi
cago; 80 killed
Collapse of ferry landing at Dartmouth, N
s.; 12 killed
Lake Pepin, Mimi; ii7 drowned; great dam
age TO property in st. Paul
Wall paper factory of Carey Bros, with q lun-
Der yard and planning mill. burned at Phila
delphia; loss, $80O,o0a
a. Collision on the Monon railroad, near Spring
VILE Ills; 10 killed
Fire started in the Gould block at Galveston
Tex; loss. 81 100000
IS. Security company's warehouse at Minneapolis
burned; loss, 81, 600 0O0
Explosion Of Kings powder mills, 20 miles
from Cincinnati; 10 killed 200 injured. 30
seriously
10. Brockton, Mass, almost completely burned
ls Fire In the Western Union building New York
city; loss, S1,000c00
e. Incendiary fire at Spokane Falls Wash; loss.
SiS0,0o0.
e6- Tornado at South Lawrence, Mass; killed,
10 seriously injured, 81 slightly injured. 500
rendered homeless; loss, 100000
q. Wallace, Idaho, burned; loss. s4i2.ooo: 100
homeless.
q Excursion steamer Louisa collided with the
Bay Line steamer Virginia near ToIchester,
Va; 14killed, 20 injured
30. Business part of Seneca Falls, n Y, burned;
loss, $4,000.
Docks, lumber yards and railroad property
burned in Chicago; loss, 100000
AUGUST.
g. Storm In Minnesota; damage at New Rich
mond, Si50oO at Sioux Falls, $4,000.
II. Explosion Of natural gas tore up ten acres Of
land near Waldron, Shelby county, Ind;
pieces Of the river fat rock thrown half a
mile.
H. Kentucky distillery at Louisville, KY, burned;
loss, s., 100000.
q business houses burned at Austin, Potter
county. Pa; loss, $4,000.
Is. Storm at Colorado Springs; Q killed; loss.
$4,000
10. Express train wrecked on the Old Colony rail
road, near Quincy, Mass; 90 killed, 8 IA
tally, and 25 seriously injured.
Atornado odestroyeli200 houses at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, and vicinity; 10 killed, II fatally in
jured and many badly hurt; loss, 81 900 600
q. High winds at Philadelphia; killed; great
damage at Baltimore. Washington and
other places.
Fire at Thousand Island park. N. Y; killed;
loss, SlS0e00.
q. Accident on Mount Penn Gravity railroad, at