The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-28
The Crstly Record Of Death by
Storm, Flood and Wreck.
HUMAN LIFE At A DISCOUNT.
How Lie 10 Lost when There IL No
War and when All Is Done That
Science and Money Can Suggest to
Preserve IL,


phe on the Long Island road which counts
it's death roll a5 nearly score and its in
jured at twice that number. the last week
has been one fraught with awful hazard
10 human LIE and in wreck and fire, on
land and In the great cyclonic storm that
passed up tho Atlantic coast from the
West Indies during August -, % and "a
Seldom has IL happened that so maay
disasters filed with fatalities have been
recorded In a. single week. They have
been reported from all PARTS of the
country, and no section seems to have
entirely escaped the visitation of some
accident TO the lives or property of its
people.
In this section the week opened up
with the visitation Of an electrical storm
of unusual severity shat swept over this
city and vicinity on Sunday night last,
carrying death and material damage In
II $ attendant foods aud FIRE. Persons In
williamsburg, PAINTED, n. j. and At
lantic Highlands, N. j., were killed by
lightning, drowned, aud in the fall OF a
house, two others were seriously
injured.
Water came down In sheets flooding
street . here and elsewhere. filing cellars
and washing away everything movable
not well up out OF reach of the torrents.
The Deadly Grade Crossing.
In a grade crossing accident five per-
sons who were driving TO church at
Leroy, N. T., we're killed. A
Vsy,.v asy express sa!5 on nDro.th;, the Lehign
while Lorenzo j. Bovee, with his family
and two guests. was driving up to the
crossing. He either did not near the
danger whistles or did not heed them, as
he continued on toward he tracks and
tried to get over them. All five were in
.f- III l.I L. -
heavy train struck their carriage and
hurled them into the air.
There was respite on Monday, and but
minor accidents with little loss OF life
came TO light. Pennsylvanis, however,
on Tuesday furbished Z trac edy In which
three men were sIaushtered and five
movsi Of rails on the sciuykili Traction
compaay's road. at Gliberton. Citizens
OF that place, beaded by mein-
bers OF the common council, tried to re-
move rails said to bave been laid without
permission OF the borough officials. EN-
ployes OF the company resisted them and
fyht with rifles aud pistols resulted.
The steam tug Dorcas with the barge
Eta Stewart IN tow, WAS lost toe same
day. forty miles from Halifax, and eigh-
teen lives were lost. The accident oc-
cured during the prevalence Of the worst
gale experienced on Ahst coast for thirty
yodIh MANY Bl8lk veSttlS were AhOOre
while 1t ragged. and several other lives were
lost before it subsided.
The Terrible Cyclone.
With Thursday came the first intima-
tion that the terrible cyclonic distur-
baucs that stirred up this city and voin-
ity on Wednesday night had swept
stanch boats from the bosom of the At
lantic, carrying with them scores of men
In their crews and causing more loss of
life and money than any similar distur-
bsnce in generations. 1t was hatched in
the West indies aud came up the coast
at an ghty-mile-an-hour sped, over
whelminv In it's path fishiug smacks,
pilot boats aud pleasure yachts.
THESE was mourning in many cities
along the Atlantic coast from hatteras
north. aAs
1t is known that nearly fifty men lost
their lives at sea, and the missing still
nlmber fifty more, most of whom are
believed to have porished. Wrecks Of
vessels were cast up on many beaches and
their crews were saved.
or seven men on the Mary and Lizzie
one was only picked up after she found
cred off Nantucket Seventeen went
Southampton, l., l.. on Wednesday mig hi.
The captain aud three of the crew OF the
Merry II. Kelley wera lost when shs was
driven HaLore at Asbnry Park
The hurricane swept over this vic Unity
after midnight, tearing trees up by the
roots, unrootiug houses and flooding
cellars with the rain That was driven he
fure ils blasts. Damage was done to the
yachts in tho bay, hsrbors and all along
the coast. hM
Chicago Gets scorchod.
While the East. was battling with
these awful elements Chicago had on
hand Tue worst fire that has visited that
city In many years. Thousands were
made h omeless by the burning OF their
homes, and great coal docks were de-
stroyed. The fire occurred in that part
Of The city known az South Chicago AT 3
o'clock .. m. and swept over blocN after
block OF small frame dwellings uutil the
flames reached the lake, five blocks away.
Several panic-stricken residents we're Sc
yereiy inJared jumping from the win
The papers OF Fridoy and Saturday were
filled with further details of the hurri-
cane at sea, aud the stories Of survivors
from wrecks OF vessel. who brought TO
port narrowing tales OF the loss oil their
comrades. swelling with every hour the
total loss of life.
Then. added to this horror, C me yes
terday morning news Of two wrecks OH
land In rhich travellers on railroad trans
were The victims. -Four lost their lives
aud six we're injured la collision on
the Harlem brxuch of the New York
Central at Brswster's, Saturday alter
no n.
With tho disaster at Bushwick juno
tion, In which eighteen persons were
killed, tho eek ended with loss of lite
OF moro tnan l50 abovs the nominal NOR