The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-06
FEW AccIoeNTs,lN GOTHAM.
rhb City Enjoys Almost IN Immunity
From Serious Mishsps.


rhis City Enjoys Almost IN Immunity
From Serious Mishsp&
With 1000 fires In year, 8, 600 ships ar
irving In and going out % the port Of Now
York, with more than 40, 900 deaths In .
year-a, 900 Of them described ~ "acciden-
. tar'-and a population. permanent and
transient. always In excess Of .. 900. 900, 10
has been q matter Of surprise that the city
Of New York should have always enjoyed .
practical exemption from such serious 40
oidents a. arise from panios, in crowds. In
public places, from fires and from building
disastsra Isolated cases Of such accidents
arc known, Il 10 true, but whereas In other
cities. as, for instancs, the panic following
the cars coronation In Moscow, Con-
stantinople riots. the Milwaukee hotel
fire, the burning OF the storage house at
the Chicago Worlds fair. the St Louis
cyclone and the Front Street thsater FRO
In Baltimore, arewch known and by many
persons well remembered, there has not
been for s6 years In Now York any disaster
or calamity which cntailed hugo loss Of
life. All good New Workers. will be glad
TO believe that this condition of things may
remain permanent,' and 10 probably will
whom the fact 10 recalled that New York's
exemption IL due primarily to geographical
conditions which will certainly not change
and to legal methods Cor preserving good
order which are NOT likely to b altered In
the future
The most serious sccident In respect to
loss Of life entailed BY Il directly which
Now York has had In IS years occurred In
tho summer Of 1871, where tho butler Of
the ferryboat wcstheld exploded In tho slip
q The foot Of whitehall street. BY this
calamity 10 persons wsrs drowned, 81 were
scalded 10 death and 10 others met their
death through the explosion, total Of 80.
In the same year and about two weeks
before this the Orange riot took place on
July 10, 1871, and By 10 81 persons, Q
Of them soldiers Of the national guard
were killed. ~.
Following that, In 1875, 8 persons were
killed by the panic resulting from the
fall OF wall from the burned building on
the roof Of St. Andrews church on Duane
street. @a'',t gss -.
The falling Of portion Of the postoffice
roof In 1877 cost three lives. and the fall
ing Of one Of the walls Of the Madison
Square Garden three PEARS later, in 1880,
cost four livea
In 1881 the falling Of building at the
corner Of South Fifth avenue and Grand
street entailed thu sacrifice Of ten lives,
and the panic on tho Brooklyn bridge on
May 30, 1888 (the bridge was opened on
May 2D, entailed loss Of ls
The collapse Of fnuf buildings CD Park
place In the summer of 1891 entailed the
loss of OF lives--36 burned and 20 snffo-
cated-and the Hotel Royal fire entaiied a
loss Of life " sich has never been accurately
figured. ht' a.
The last serious accident Of the series
was the breakdown Of tho building at the
corner Of South Fifth avenue and Third
street, wherein several vorkmen lost their
lives, and prosecution of those rarponsihle
for the calamity il still pending
These instances Of loss OF ute -. VI ic
may b said TO DO the except, Que which,
prove the rule OF exemptson In New York,
though the city has been singulariy free
from serious panics OF any kind, especially
In theaters or political meeting places,
and, moreover, the enormous street crowds
which have gathered from various festivi
ties and celebrations, more numerous than
ever since 1889, have bcen handled In such
. way as to avoid ssSiops casualties. -
Now York Sun.