Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-30
DISASTERS ON LAND.

A Startling Chapter of Deaths by Railroad Accidents, Explosions, Fires. Etc.
 JANUARY. 10 ; miners killed by gas explosion at Como. lS A freight train dashed into sleigh loaded with people at Lonsdale, R. l., killing & maiming :. 2l. An oil tank exploded on a wrecked freight train near Alton, Ills, killing 2l people, in turing nearly 100.
 FEBRUARY. o. A lives lost by the burning of Q lunatic asylum at Dover, N. II. Il. 10 men crushed to death by falling rocks at marble quarry in West Rutland, Vt. S persons killed by the falling walls of a burned out store in Chicago.
 APRIL l. Fatal hotel Ere at Bradford, Pa; deaths. 10 deaths by fire damp explosion in the Nel- son shaft at Shamokin, Pa '. Omen killed by the crushing of a building at Romeo, Ills. 90 In a gale tho intake end of the Milwaukee tunnel, under LaAo Michigan. was wrecked and Il men drowned.
 MAY. G 10 killed and many injured in a wreck on the Big Four' road. [. l2 killed, injured by a boiler explosion on steamer Ohio, Mississippi river. IA. 10 miners killed by falling down a shaft at the Calumet and Hecla mine, Michigan. T.. deaths by the explosion of a generator in glucose factory at Geneva, Ills.
 JUNE Q. The floors of Ford's old opera house, Wash ington, where Lincoln was Assassinated, fell, carrying down hundreds of govern ment clerks who worked in the building: - killed, injured over 60 IA A stroke of lightning killed four brothers named Wright, who were standing under . tree at Adrian, Mo. %. { deaths at fire in Duluth. Gkmed and 100 injured by the derAilment of train op the Long Island railroad at Park. ville, N. Y,
 2l. Lightning struck circus tent at River Falls, Wis, and killed ISople.
 JULY. 8 killed and over eO injured in a collision on the West Shore road at NewburG, N. Y. 10. IS persons killed and le injured during the burning of a cold storage warehouse in the Worlds fair grounds. lT. A locomotive crashed into a crowded street car in Chicago, killing passengers. 5l. men killed and badly Injured by the ex. plosion of farm engine boiler near New. ark. O. & sseamen killed by the explosion of gren- ade on the German armor clad steamer Ba. den at Kiel, Germany. G The reservoir of the Portland (AIe.) Water company burst; houses crushed, people killed.
 Q pleasure excursionists drowned by the swamping of a rowboat in Swansea bay, Port Talbot, Wales. lA 6killed and l4 Injured in the burning of the Senate hotel, Chicago. l6. passengers killed in a railroad accident al Milton. Va young ladies while driving to church al Leroy, N. r.. werc instantly killed by an express train at Q railway crossing. g. le killed and le injured in . collision on the Long Island railroad at Newtown. Sl. 90 Killed and many injured by the collapse of bridge on the Boston and Albany road near Chester, Mass SEPTEMBER. A A ala rf, f,T i opeople; 60 injured. !. ls killed and 10 injured in head end colli- sion at Colehour, near Chicago. 10. killed and 90 Injured in a rear end colli. sion at Manteno, Ills e. An express wrecked by an open switch or the Wabash at Kingsbury, Ind; ls killed. e8. B miners drowned in the Mansfield mine Michigan. by . break in the bed of the Michigamme river. OCTOBER. Ia Terrible rear end collision of Worlds faiI excursion trains on the Michigan Central al Jackson; F killed, % injured. lT. killed and Injured by a dynamite explo- sion ct Emington, Ills. eo A head end collision on the Grand Trunk al Battle Greek, Mich-. slaughtered 8 people. NovEMBER- A Boiler exploded in . street car stable in New York city; people killed. lS injured. Cargo of dynamite exploded at the quay in sAntandsr. Spain; nearly 1000 people killed and injured. ( 10 workmen drowned from an overloaded sailboat in New York harbor. !. Anarchists threw bombs into the opera house at BarcelonRs 30 killed, so injured. ls killed by rear end collision on the Rock Island and Pacific in the streets of Chicago, sl. men burned to death and badly injured in hotel fire at Beaver, Pa. DECEMBER. 2. 5 men killed at slate quarry at weleh- town. Pa. by the breaking of cable.