Connecticut western news., 1894-01-18
THE ANNALS OF 1893.
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE EVENTS
 OF THE YEAR.
1t Is Sad Record of Accidents on Sea and Land, of Cyclones and Storms. of Enormous Fire Losses and
 of Commercial Troubles.
DISASTERS ON LAND.

A Startling Chapter of Deaths by Railroad Accidents, Explosions, Fires, Etc.
 JANUARY. 10. p miners killed by gas explosion at Como, Colo.
 IS. A freight train dashed into a sleigh loaded with people at Lonsdale, R. l., killing 8, maimiag :. 21. An oil tank exploded on a wrecked freight train near Alton. Ills, killing 2l people. in- turing nearly 100.
 FEBRUARY. 9. A lives lost by the burning of lunatic asylum at Dover, N. H. Il. 10 men crushed to death by falling rocks at marble quarry in West Rutland, Vt. 2s. persons killed by the falling walls of burned out store in Chicago.
 APRIL. l. Fatal hotel fire at Bradford, Pa; deaths. 10 deaths by fire damp explosion in the Nel- son shaft at Shamokin, Pa. '. 9 men killed by the crushing of a building at Romeo, Ills. 20. In a gale the intake end of the Milwaukee tunnel, under Lake Michigan. was wrecked and Il men drowned.
 MAY. 6. 10 killed and many injured in wreck on the Big Four" road. '. l2 killed, injured by boiler explosion on steamer Ohio, Mississippi river. If. 10 miners killed by falling down 8 shaft at the Calumet and Hecla mine, Michigan. l7. deaths by the explosion of Q generator in glucose factory at Geneva, Ills.
 JUNE. 9. The floors of Fords old opera house. Wash- ington, where Lincoln was assassinated, fell, carrying down hundreds of govern ment clerks who worked in the building; 22 killed, injured over 90 H. A stroke of lightning killed four brothers named Wright, who were standing under tree at Adrian, Mo. co. 4 deaths at a fire in Duluth.  Killed and 100 injured by the derailment of a train on the Long Island railroad at Park vile. N. Y. g1. Lightning struck a circus tent at River Falls, Wis, and killed people.
 JULY. 3. killed and over 20 injured in collision on the West Shore road at Newburg, N. Y. 10. IS persons killed and l9 injured during the burning of cold storage warehouse in the Worlds fair grounds. F. A locomotive crashed into a crowded street car in Chicago, killing passengers. N. men killed and badly injured by the ex- plosion of g farm engine boiler near New ark, O.
 3. seamen killed by the explosion of gren- ade on the German armor clad steamer Ba- den at Kiel. Germany. 6. The reservoir of the Portland CMe) Water company burst; houses crushed, people killed.
 2 pleasure excursonists drowned by the swamping of a rowboat in Swansea bay, Port Talbot, Wales. H. killed and 14 injured in the burning of the Senate hotel, Chicago. 1s. passengers killed in railroad accident at Milton, Va. 20. MT. L. J. Bovee. his wife and daughter and young ladies while driving to church at Leroy, N. Y.. were instantly killed by an express train at 8 railway crossing. q. l6 killed and l6 injured Tn a collision on the Hf- 31. 20 killed and many injured by the collapse of a bridge on the Boston and Albany road near Chester, Mass
 SEPTEMBER g. A runaway electric car in Cincinnati killed 6people; 40 injured. :. F killed and 10 injured in head end colli- sion at Colehour, near Chicago. l9. killed and 20 injured in a rear end colli- sion st Manteno, Ills. 22- An express wrecked by an open switch on the Wabash at Kingsbury, Ind: 12 killed. 28. 28 miners drowned in the Mansfield mine, Michigan, by break in the bed of the Michigamme river. 13. Terrible rear end collision of Worlds fair excursion trains on the Michigan Central at Jackson: F killed, 40 injured II. killed and injured by a dynamite explo- sion at Emington, Ills. 20. A head end collision on the Grand Trunk at Battle Greek, Mich., slaughtered 28 people.
 NOVEMBER Z. Boiler exploded in q street car stable in New York city; people killed. 13 injured. 3. Cargo of dynamite exploded at the quay in Santander. Spain; nearly 1000 people killed and injured. f. 10 workmen drowned from an overloaded sailboat in New York harbor. '. Anarchists threw bombs into the opera house at Barcelona; 30 killed, 30 injured. $. F Killed by rear end collision on the Rock Island and Pacific in the streets of Chicago. 2. men burned to death and badly Injured in hotel fire at Beaver, Pa.
 DECEMBER. 7. men killed at slate quarry at Welch- town, Pa, by the breaking of a cable.