The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-01-06
FIRES AND DISASTERS.
JANUARY,


e Nashville had S475, 600 fire; lives lost.
g. Saybrook. Ills. destroyed by fire: loss.
$4,000.
9. collision on the Wabash railroad In nli-
nOis killed persons.
:. y boiler explosion at Boiling, Ala, caused
deaths.
damp explosion at Krebs, l. T., killed
ID injured lis.
" aided train at Charlottesville. Ind, cost
NieS
rs. i;iaas factory destroyed by fire at Water
lury, Conn; $3.50 200 loss.
al. Wausau, Wis, Grand opera house de-
strOycd; loss, 100000.
Is. Phoenix Powder mills at Central City, w.
Va, blew up; deaths.
n. A hospital fire in Indianapolis caused 10
deaths and injured 81
$4,000 worth Of books and jewelry destroyed
by fire in Union square, New York.
=. Collision on the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road in New Mexico killed 5.
Dynamite explosion in New York caused
deaths.
.. Fire at Beverly, w. Va, made 500 persons
homeless.
%. Fire at Columbus, O., caused $4,000 loss.
Elizabeth. N. j., had 100000 fire.
q. Near st. Clair, Pa, persons were killed
by locomotive explosion.
Exploding dynamite killed and injured ID
at Honey Brook, Pa.
FEBRUARY.
,. At Newark, N. j.. alcohol explosion killed
8men.
g. A falling scaffold at Birmingham. Ala.
killed and injured 6.
{. Fire at Rochester, Ills, caused loss of
$I25.0O
I. 90 lives lost by burning of Hotel Royal
New York city.
8. ST. 900 fire at Memphis.
BY the explosion of a Reading railroad loco
motive persons killed at Nicetown, Pa.
IL. Fire destroyed the Grand Central hotel at
FL Paso, Tex.
~. Monmouth. Ills. suffered $4,000 loss by
fire.
ID. Afurta, Ark, swept by fire; loss, $125, 900.
l6. Mississippi asylum for the insane burned
at Jackson.
". New Orleans visited by fire; loss, 100000
: At Plattsburg, n. Y. 8 men killed by fall of
stone in mine
u. Cincinnati lost $3OOOO by fire.
At Pittsburg workmen were fatally burned
in steel works.
10. Fire in Cleveland; loss, 100000.
q. Decatur, Ills, lost 100000 by fire.
A fire at Malvern, Ark, caused 500, ZOO loss.
q. Large fire at Deerfield, Mass; elevator and
grain mills destroyed; loss, 100000.
rs. San Antonio, Tex, swept by flames; loss,
$250,0O0.
"a. Gas explosion at East Liverpool, O., killed
workmen.
At Butte, Ron, miners killed by falling
earth.
% Large clothing establishment burned in
Brooklyn; loss, $4,000.
%. Fifteen stores burned at Hot Springs, Ark;
loss. $4,000.
]. Fire destroyed the state female reformatory
at indianapolis; no lives lost.
Railroad collision at Milwaukee caused
deaths.
4 At Mahanoy City, Pa, I miners were fatal
~ burned by fire damp explosion.
Electrotype foundry burned at Rouse's Point.
N. Y; loss, $4,000.
9. Fire in Pittsburg caused loss of $250000.
ii. Over 200 lives lost in coal mine in Bel
GUM by explosion of fire damp.
, daln To had hiph laZa
~ By the fall of loaded elevator at St. Louis
8 lives were lost.
Is. At Kittanning, Pa, fire destroyed $4,000
worth Of property.
Is. Tobacco factory burned in st. Louis; loss.
$345, 900.
81. At East Jordan. Mich, boiler explosion
killed 10 persons.
An exploding boiler killed at Chettenham.
At Springfield. Mimi. 5 persons persisted in a
burning house.
Is. 100000 loss caused by burning Of glass
works at Braddock, Pa.
A sawmin boiler exploded at Fidelity, o.,
killing persons.
90. Sutfocation ended lives in a Louisiana sui
pnur mine April.
!. Building blown down in Chicago; lives
lost.
3. Erie, Pa, suffered loss of 100000 by fire.
8. fires at New Orleans; total loss, $2So0,O COO
& At Fort Madison, Ia, Q lives were lost by
IRE.
Piqua, o., had $4,000 fire.
Z. slOQO 600 loss caused by fire at Portland, o.
a. Bate, Mon, visited by fire; loss, $e500O0.
Is. An explosion Of gunpowder at Moosic, Pa,
caused 9 deaths.
IL Clarke university. Atlanta, damaged by
FIRE; loss, 100000.
Paper mill burned at Coltsville, Mass.' $lSos-
600 loss.
be. Ineendiary fires at San Antonio, Tex, re-
suited In 100000 loss.
Is. Powder explosion at Lake HOptacOng. N.
j. killed persons.
~ 100000 fire at .-enosha, Wis
ea Great damage wrought by incendiary fires
at Louisville.
At Ainersville. Pa, ls men were drowned in
q flooded mine.
e. Fire blotted out the town of Sights, Mich.
2a Gainesville. Tex. had a $4,000 incendiary
n. Large nre In Philadelphia; IL killed and
many injured; loss, $l.oco.ooO.