The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-29
DISASTERS.
JANUARY.

5-Petropolis and other Brazilian
towns inundated with large loss OF
life.
GA steamship boiler explosion in Rio
QUO .Janeiro bay causes 12o excursion
~ lists TO drown.
1o-Smallpox breaks out at the Roby,
Ind. race track.
13-The French steamer Naise foun-
ders near Marseilles; IS drowned:
hurricane sweeps over the Fill
islands, destroying many lives.
1.-THE schooner Maud and Alice sinks
In Deception Pass, Wash; Is
15-A powder explosion and fire at
Butte, Mont, kills 20 people.
ia Persian earthquake destroys 700
lives.
2o-Five miners near sturg1s. KY.
killed by a powder explosion.
23--Wreckage of the steamer Chicora
ro found In Lake Michigan; rs lives
lost.
25-Seven killed by a boiler explosion
at Mendoza, Ill.
26-Twenty-one lives lost in ship
wrecks on the New Jersey and New
England coasts.
so-The steamship Elbe sunk by a COL
lision near the Needles. England;
332 lives lost.
FEBRUARY.
in the Rainy Lake district.
"A mine explosion near Montceau,
France, destroys so lives.
5--John Books family of six at Omer,
Mich, burn to death.
S-The worst blizzard OF the winter
prevails all over the United States;
tidal waves on Nova Scotia and
New England coasts wash away
many houses: seven sailors drown
or freeze to death by the wreck OF
two schooners near Enstport, l.. /.
10-Eighteen lives lost In the wreck of
the Gloucester fishing schooner
Clara b. Friend, off the Nova Sco-
tia coast.
1e-A feet of 25 coasting vessels given
up at New York as lost.
1s-A mine explosion near Mahony
Plane. Pa, destroys 10 lives.
27-Twenty-sev miners killed by a
gas explosion near Cherillos, n. NJ.
2S-The Inter-Oceanic excursion train
plunges down a mountain in Mex
ico; 10i killed
-"- MARCH.
1.-Two New York buildings collapse;
nine lives lost.
S-The steamer Longfellow strikes a
bridge pier at Cincinnati and sinks;
six lives lost.
10-Fire breaks out in the Old Abe
mine. New Mexico: five lives lost.
11-Twenty men lose their lives in a
mine fire near Rat Portage. Man.
13-Wfeckage found in the Mediter-
ranean sea of the Spanish cruiser
Reina Regente. which carried 42O
men; jenkins hotel at Mackeyville.
w. Va, burns: five lives lost.
20-Ten lives lost and two ships de-
stroyed by dynamite at Oberwessel-
on the Rhine; gas explodes i'm a
mine at Red Canyon. Wyo.; 81 lives
lost.
27-The Plankinton hotel i'm Milwau-
kee burns; loss over sl.0O0,0OO.
30-A runaway trolley car dashes
.s., down a mountain near Janesville,
Pa: FIVE lives lost
APRIL.
J, j. A boiler explosion at Woburn.
Mass. kills FIVE men.
5-Five killed by a powder explosion
in n New Orleans grocery store
five killed i'm a freight wreck near
Alton.
S-Twenty-three men killed in a mine
explosion on Lake Whatcom, Wash.
9-Six men killed by the collapse OF
two buildings at Wheeling.
11-Several Hungarian villages washed
away by Danube floods.
15-Earthquakes in Italy and Austria
do great damage.
25-McDonald's tobacco factory. Mont
real. burns; several persons fatally
injured.
PA reservoir bursts near Epinal.
France; many villages inundated:
116 lives lost
irr MAY.
Twelve persons killed by a tornado
near Halstead. Kan.
"a tornado near Sioux Center. Ia.
demolishes five school 'houses.
among other buildings. inhicting a
great loss OF life; powder mill ex-
plosion at South Acton, Mass. kills
Ave men.
5-Five persons drowned In Carlsrude
lake, Col
12-Frost kills vegetation In the north
ern states.
ia gale on Lake Michigan causes
many wrecks.
IA sawmill boiler explosion at West
Bingham, Pa, destroys eight lives.
1.-THE Spanish steamer Gravina
wrecked off the coast of Manila
by a typhoon: 16S lives lost.
16-Fire wipes out the Polish town of
Brest-Litewskl; 30 lives lost.
1s-Florence. Italy. shaken by an
earthquake.
27-The steamship Colima founders of
rfsfthe Mexican coast: 1S3 are drown
ed: the Spanish steamer Don Pedro
wrecked; SO lives lost; a nitro
glycerine explosion at Pinole. Cal.
JUNE.
3-The Northern Pennsylvania forest
and petroleum regions swept by
fire.
5-AgcIoud- burst in the Black Forest
of Germany destroys many lives
10-Fire I'm a mine at Breslau destroys
many lives.
I4ESix lives lost by a mill boiler ex-
plosion at Fall River. Mass.
22-Fifty people killed by dynamite
explosion at Sac Paulo. Brazil
2gAFodr squares burn In San Francis
co; 100 families left homeless; loss.
Si,125,0 900: six Minneapolis firemen
killed by falling walls.
JULY.
l-Five Hungarian children killed by
. a caunon at Pittston, Pa
5-The steamer Lady Lee sinks near
Memphis; six dives lost.
s-Fifteen lives lost In a flood at Win
ona. Mo: a tornado at Baxter
Springs. Kas.. kills five persons.