Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-02
FIRES AND DISASTERS.


2. Nashville had $475,O 600 fire; lives lost.
8. Saybrook. Ills, destroyed by fire; loss
100000.
8. collision on the Wabash railroad in ILL
nois killed s persons.
z. A boiler explosion at Boiling, Ala, caused
deaths.
8. Fire damp explosion at Krebs, l. T., killed
65 and injured ll5.
IL. Derailed train at Charlottesville. Ind. cost
lives.
l3. Brass factory destroyed by fire at Water
bury, Conn; $26O,OOO loss.
10. Wausau, Wis, Grand opera house de.
stroyed; loss, S20O0OO.
lS Phoenix Powder mills at Central City, w
Va, blew up; 8 deaths.
81. A hospital fire in indianapolis caused IL
deaths and injured 81.
s5OO,OOO worth of books and iewelry DESTROYED
by hre In Union square, New York.
u. Collision on the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road in New Mexico killed s.
Dynamite explosion in New York caused 2
deaths.
s5. Fire at Beverly, W. Va, made 500 persons
homeless.
%. Fire at Columbus, o., caused s500,0O0 loss
Elizabeth, n. j., had a 100000 fire.
Se' Near st. Clair, Pa, persons were killed
by locomotive explosion.
Exploding dynamite killed and injured 1S
at Honey Brook, Pa.
Il.
z. AT Newark, n. j., alcohol explosion killed
3men.
B. falling scaffold at Birmingham, Ala
killed and injured O.
4. Fire at Rochester, Ills, caused loss of
S125, 200.
Z. 80 lives lost by burning of Hotel Royal
New York city.
g. S1,OOO,OOO fire at Memphis.
By the explosion of a Reading railroad loco-
motive persons killed at Nicetown, Pa.
II. Fire destroyed the Grand Central hotel at
Ell Paso, Tex.
IL. Monmouth, Ills, suffered Sl5OOOO loss by
fire.
10. Murta, Ark, swept by fire; loss, sl25,OoO.
TO- mississippi asylum for the insane burned
at Jackson.
II. New Orleans visited by fire; loss, 81 100000.
AT Plattsburg, n. Y, 8 men killed by fall of
stone in mine.
Is. Cincinnati lost 100000 by fire.
AT Flttsburg workmen were fatally burned
Il in steel works.
lSh Fire in Cleveland; loss, S3OOOOO
Il. Decatur, Ills, lost 100000 by fire.
A hVe at Malvern, Ark, caused 100000 loss.
%. Larse fire at Deerfeld, Mass; elevator and
grainFnills destroyed; loss, S1O0,OOO
IS' san Antonio, Tex, swept by flames; loss
81. Gas exl llosion at East Liverpool, O.. killed
workmSn.
earth.
2S arge clothing establishment burned in
Brooklyn; loss s5OO,OOO
3D. Fifteen stores burned at Hot Springs, Ark;
loss, $4,000.
MARCH
l. Fire destroyed the state female reformatorv
at Indianapolis; no lives lost.
Railroad collision at Milwaukee caused Z
deaths.
4. At Mahanoy City, Pa, miners were fatal
ly burned by fire damp explosion.
E!ectrotype foundry burned at Rouse's Point,
n. Y; loss, $4,000
Q. Fire in Pittsburg caused loss of s25OOOO.
II. Over 200 lives lost in a coal mine in Bel
GUM by explosion Of fire damp.
Bloomfield, Ia, had a big blaze; loss, Sl05,0O0.
H. BY the fall of a loaded elevator at st. Louis
0 lives were lost.
10. At Kttanning, Pa, fire destroyed 100000
worth of property
Danbury, Conn, had a fire that cost 100000.
IL. Tobacco factory burned in st. Louis; loss,
S345, 600.
Il. At East Jordan, Mich, boiler explosion
killed 10 persons.
An exploding boiler killed at Cheltenham,
Mo.
At Springfield, Mimi, persons perished in
burning house.
70. 100000 loss caused by burning of glass.
works at Braddock, Pa.
A sawmill boiler exploded at Fidelity, o.,
killing persons.
y. Suffocation ended lives In Louisiana sui
phur mine.
l. Building blown down in Chicago; lives
lost.
q Erie, Pa, suffered loss of s2OO,OOO by fire.
g. 2 fires at New Orleans; total loss, 81 10000.
Fire swept the town Of Milton, Ala.
D. At Fort Madison, Ia, o lives were lost by |
fire.
Piqua, o., had Sl5O,0OO fire.
7. 100000 loss caused by fire at Portland, 0. |
z. Butte, Mon, visited by fire. loss, S2JOOOO
3. An explosion of gunpowder at Moosc, Pa,
caused deaths.
4. Clarke university, Atlanta, damaged by
fire; loss, 100000.
Paper mill burned at Coltsville, Mass; Sl25,-
600 loss.
@. Incendiary fires at San Antonio, Tex, re-
suited in 100000 loss.
g. Powder explosion at Lake Hoptacong, n.
j., killed persons.
o. 100000 fire at Kenosha, Wis.
.. Great damage wrought by incendiary fires
at Louisville.
AT Minersville, Pa, IL men were drowned In |
flooded mine.
2. Fire blotted out the town of Sights, Mich, |
.. Gainesville, Tex, had a 500, 600 incendiary
fire.
n. Large fire in Philadelphia; IL killed and |
many injured; loss. s., 100000. l