The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-27
FIRES AND DISASTERS.
JANUARY.

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B. Saybrook. Ills. destroyed by fire; loss.
$4,000.
g. A collision on the Wabash railroad in ILL.,
nois killed persons.
7. A boiler explosion at Boiling. Ala, caused
deaths.
8. Fire damp explosion at Krebs, i. T., killed
65 and injured lis.
I. Derailed train at Crawfordsville, Ind, cost
8 lives.
3. Brass factory destroyed by fire at Water
bury. Conn: 1000 loss.
g. Wausau, Wis, Grand opera house de-
stroyed: loss. $4,000.
s. Ph9nix Powder mills at Central City. w.
Va, blew up; q deaths.
q. A hospital fre in Indianapolis caused 10
deaths and injured 81.
$4,000 worth of books and jewelry destroyed
by fire in Union square. New York.
z. Collision on the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road I'm New Mexico killed 5.
Dynamite explosion in New York caused
8. Fire at Beverly, W. Va, made 800 persons
homeless.
b. Fire at Columbus, o.. caused $4,000 loss.
Elizabeth. n. j.. had a 100000 fire.
Is. Near ST. Clair, Pa, persons were killed
by locomotive explosion.
Exploding dynamite killed 2 and injured l3
at Honey Brook, Pa.
FEBRUARY.
& At Newark, N. j.. alcohol explosion killed
3men.
& A falling scaffold at Birmingham, Ala,
killed and injured @.
l. Fire at Rochester. Ills, caused a loss of
sl25.0CO.
I. 30 lives lost by burning Of Hotel Royal
New York city.
8. Sl,0O0,000 fire at Memphis
BY the explosion of n Reading railroad loco
motive persons killed at Nicetown. Pa.
4. Fire destroyed the irand Central hotel ut
FL Paso. Tex.
l2. Monmouth, Ills. suffered sl5oOoo loss by
fire.
l3. Murta. Ark. swept by fire; loss, sl25.OO0.
10. Mississippi asylum for the insane burned
at Jackson.
II. New Orleans visited by fire; loss, 100000.
At Plattsburg. n. Y, 3 men killed by fall of
stone in mine.
S Cincinnati lost $500. 900 by fire.
At Pittsburg 3 workmen were fatally burned
In steel works
10. Fire in Cleveand: loss, 100000.
b. Decatur. Ills, lost $4,000 by fire.
A fire at Malvern, Ark. caused $4,000 loss
q. Large fire at Deerield, Mass; elevator and
grain mills destroyed; loss, $4,000
6. san Antonio, Tex, swept by flames; loss,
S250,0O0.
q. Gas explosion at East Liverpool, o., killed
workmen.
At Butte. Mon. miners killed by falling
earth.
20 lst CiOtillnE thlaDllsuintut DuTucu III
Brooklyn: loss, S50O,000
D. Fifteen stores burned at Hot Springs, Ark;
loss, S15OOO.
l. Fire destroyed the state female reformatory
at Indianapolis; no lives lost.
Railroad collision at Milwaukee caused
deaths.
l. At Mahanoy City. Pa, miners were fatal
ly burned by fire damp explosion.
Electrotype foundry burned at Rouse's Point,
n. Y: loss, $4,000
D. Fire in Pttsburg caused loss OF s2J0,000.
D. Over zoo lives lost in coal mine in Bel
GUM by explosion OF fire damp.
Bloomfield, Ia. had n big blaze; loss. $4,000.
a. BY the fall OF a loaded elevator at st. Louis
Q lives were lost.
Is. At Kittann,ng. Pa, fire destroyed $4,000
worth OF property.
Danbury, Conn, had fire that cost $4,000.
Is. Tobacco factory burned in st. Louis; loss,
s345,0O0.
h. At East Jordan. Mich, a boiler explosion
killed 10 persons.
An exploding boiler killed = at Cheltenham.
Mo.
At Springfield. Mimi. persons perished in
burning house.
3. 100000 loss caused by burning Of glass
works at Braddock, Pa.
sawmill boiler exploded at Fidelity, o..
killing persons.
D. suffocation ended lives In Louisiana sui
phuT mine.
APRIL.
l. Building blown down In Chicago; lives
lost.
g Erie, Pa, suffered loss Of 100000 by fire.
}. fires M New Orleans: total loss, s2JOO,000.
Fire swept the town II Milton. Ala.
b At Fort Madison. Ia. lives were lost by
fire.
Piqua. o.. had n slJO,O0O fire.
2. $4,000 loss caused by fire at Portland, o.
:. Butte, Mon, visited by fire; loss, $4,000.
u. An explosion Of gunpowder at Moosic. Pa,
caused deaths.
u. Clarke university, Atlanta, damaged by
fire: loss. sl00,0OO.
Paper mill burned at Coltsville. Mass; $685.
90 loss.
%. lncendiary fires at San Antonio. Tex. re-
suited In $1,000 loss.
IS Powder explosion at Lake Hoptacong. n.
j.. killed persons.
~ StO0-DD Gre at Kenoshn. wis.
~ Great damage wrought by incendiary fires
at Louisville.
At Minersvillc, Pa. le.nen were drowned In
flooded mipe.
q. Fire blotted out the town Of Sights, Mich.
VI. Gainesville. Tex. had n $4,000 inccndiary
fire.
". Large FIRE in Philadelphia; II killed and
many injured; loss. sl.0oooOo