The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-01-07
DEMONS OF DESTRUCTION.
Property and Lives Sacrificed During the
Year Through Fires, Explosions, Etc.

DEWONo VI DEO hOC lON.
Property and Lives Sacrificed During the
Year Through Fires, Explosions, Etc.
JANUARY.
9. Fire in Nashville loss, Sl750OO; deaths.
3. Town OF Saybrook, Ills, destroyed by fire;
loss, Sl0O,0OO.
o. killed in collision on the Wabash r. r.
in Illinois.
s. 6j deaths from fire damp explosion at
Krebs, 1. r.; injured, llj.
10. Fire destroyed brass factory in Water
bury, Conn; loss, S26O,0OO.
10. A s2OO,00O grain warehouse fire in New
York city; ! death
Grand opera house block burned in Wan
sau, Wis; loss, S20O,OOO.
10 buildings burned at Au Sable Mich.
Is. killed by explosion at Phoenix Powder
mills, Central City, W. Va.
2l. 10 patients killed and 81 injured in a hos
pital fire at Indianapolis.
"a. Pine Bluffs. Ark. lost S15O,OOO BY fire.
%. 500 people made homeless by fire at Bev-
erly, w. Va.
26. A block of buildings burned in Columbus.
o.. loss, SJOO000.
a 100000 fire at Elizabethport, Nj
Cotton factory burned at Chester, s. c..
loss, S220,OOO.
%. Railway shops burned at Meridian, Miss.
loss, Sl5O,OOO.
FEBRUARY
9. The AppomattoX (Nal court house building
destroyed by fire.
3. Shoe factory burned at Danvers Mass;
loss, 100000.
@. business blocks burned in Rochester Ills;
loss, Sl2j,OO0.
7. Hotel Royal burned in New York city; 30
deaths.
s. Large fire in business portion Of Memphis;
loss, nearly 100000.
IL. Grand Central hotel burned at El Paso.
Tex; loss, $4,000.
IL. The opera house block burned at Mon
mouth, Ills; loss $4,000.
10. Town Of Murta, Ark, nearly destroyed by
fire. loss, Sl2j00O.
l6. State insane asylum burned At jackson
Miss; loss, S2OO,OOO
II. A million dollar blaze in New Orleans.
p. Library block burned in Decatur, Ills; loss,
100000.
A 100000 fire at Malvern, Ark
%, acres Of business properties burned in
San Antonio, Tex; loss, S2iOOO0.
MARCH.
l. Tho state female reformatory burned at
indianapolis; 80 inmates escaped.
Seven workmen killed in railroad colli-
sion in Milwaukee
Q. Detroit lost SsO00OO by fire.
East Liverpool, o., lost $4,000 by fire.
6. The Eden Musee at Omaha burned.
Z. The Allouz block burned in W t Superior,
Wis; loss, Sl20OO).
II. Fire damp exploded in the Anderllno coal
mine near Charleroi, Belgium destroy
ing over @UU lives.
Opera house and stores burned at Bloom
field, Ia; loss, Sl65,OOO.
Is. Gun store burned at Fort Worth, Tex;
loss, sl3OOO0.
Kittannins, Pa, lost $4,000 by fire.
sl4o0m blaze in Danburv. Conn.
loss, S300OJ0,
q. 10 killed by the explosion OF mill boiler
at East Jordan, Mich
p. A Sl45OOO fire at Cambridge Mass.
p. Alto, Tex, lost over $4,000 by fire.
25. Glass works burned near BraddOck, Pa;
27 Hardware company burned out at Omaha;
loss, S900,000.
30. A $4,000 factory FIRE in Cincinnati
APRIL
/ 2, A 100000 fire in Erie, Pa.
GreenVille, Miss, lost $4,000 by fire.
/ g. New Orleans lost nearly s., 10000 in fires.
/ O. deaths by an explosion and fire at Fort
Madison, la.
Furniture factory burned at Piqua, o.; loss,
/ SljO.O0J
G. Lead works burned at west St. Paul; lass,
= Distiliery burned at Portland, Or.i loss,
Il, Factory burned q. Manitowoc, Wis; loss,
S2OO,OO0.
l3 deaths by gunpowder explosion at Moo
sic, Pa
H. The main building OF Clarke university,
near Atlanta, burned; loss, Sl0O,O1O,
I 10, SlOOO0O lost by incendiary fires at SAN An
tonic, Tex
IS. killed by a powder mill explosion near
Lake Hoptacong, n. j.
blocks burned at Kenosha, Wis; loss over
S6OO0OO.
90. 10 buildings destroyed by incendiary fires
at Louisville.
Il miners drowned in flooded mine near
Alinersville, Pa.
%, The town Of Sights, Mich, destroyed by
fire
2i A s2O0Ooo inccudiary fire at Gainesville
Tex.
g. The Central theater and The Times ofilee
burned ia Philadelphia loss, SlOOOOO; ].
deaths aud nearly 100 people injured.
29 G3 buildings burned at Chase Mich; loss
slOu,OOO.
3u PittsbuFg lost $4,000 by hrs.
MAY.
D. Furniture factory burned az Rushynle
Ind; loss. sljO,O0.
killed and 2i injured by a train crashing
hrough "a treste near Revere. No.
s. saltworks burned at 1.udington, Mieh.;los
S5OOO0
Car factory bnrned at Robinsdale, Alinn
loss, 22O0un
5cbildren buried under the falling roof
acyclone cnve 40 Anthony. Kan.
~ Gas exploded in 20 coal mine at Roslyl
Wash, killing a miners.
l2. A pottery burned az Trenton, y. j.; los
sl7500l
10 The capitol buildiusuf New Mexico Lurng
at Santa Fe loss $4,000
a. II miners killed hy a cavein NJ tho AM
conda mine, Butte, Mon.
A loss OF sln,Ol by blaze at Ilnzlston, r
Shoe factory burned at Rochester, y, d
loss, slU0.0l0
d. Is deaths ia a collision on the big Foul
az C.evcs, %,
a. killed vi Is injured ia a railroad wret
at Crooked bayou. Arkansas
- bingham, U. H.. damaged sl0lOo0 By fire.
2l A sll0u0l blaze al Chehols. Wash.
-untnug properties burneu s7.7sa,
Falls, Wash. loss, szl900l
&C. Wellington, Kan, swept by destructii
oyclone' SO deaths: Gre followed; dan
age. Sio0,000
2o $1,000 loss In a tuhacco warehouse fire
Lancaster, Pa
81. deaths by explosion in the AIooauauq,
cnli'cry, lvw WilEcsharre, Pa
JUNE
4. Coqulue City, Or, lost sl0O.0l0 by fire
4o deaths by fire in O. silver mine uei
PrziIram, Bohcmin.
s. Dia-tcr by Hood and ere al on City az
litusylle. Pa.i loss over sl,in0o' death
1856.
TO- Planning mHl burned at Cleveland, DO
over s.jUuU.
n. Peoples theater al Denver and Power
opera house az Grand Rapids, Micl
burned
%. 100 building burned at Chicora, IA,
Explosion at the Mare lslaud navy yar
Cal; 70 wnrkmen killed.
"a. Eirn on Union dock. Baltimore, Caused
loss OF si00000.
A train Zen from a tfesile at lonesau
hollow. Kculuekyi deaths,
li- a tmoo00 hrs az Elizabeth. ~. Na.
bridge over Liokiug river an CoTinsio
ky. ran and killed 81 paoplcF
ia ehaWolks hune4 ~ 4iagsiee ind' pa