Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-30

Feb Near Pacific Junction. a..
Feb 13-Gouverneur, N. T., S by mine
Feb 21--Tazewell, KY, James Caldwell
Feb 2S-Near Murray. KY. by premature
explosion Of dynamite.
Feb M - Preston, 8; p. s by gas
Mar 4-Boston. 8 in explosion in fremont
street eaused by Escaping 81 81 gas
Carolina coast, only out Of 80 on board
known to have survived.
Mar 22-Henry county, Ala, drowned in
barni h residense NashViii er Tenn.
Mar % = Near Pensacola. Fla. 8 by
swamping of boat. .Nemeha county. Kan.
drowned trying to ford creek 3 kv
Apr Gin South Dakota, Iowa and Ne
braska floods at least 40 lives lost
Apr linear Helena. Ark. family OF
Apr 24-Beaver Creek, KY. family of s in
May lon White Oak creek. Tenn. 5 by
May smear Laurens, s. c., 4 children in
burning home. Near Pikeville, KY. by
May i SPINE @S'e Tenn by cav,ng of
mines.
May 19-White Oaks Creek. Tenn. in
fire.
May 27-American Falls, Ind. in rail-
way wreck.
Jun Near Alma, ILL.,, family of 8 by
train n at grade crossing Near keystone,
Jun 4Chicago, by explosion on mud
scow In river.
Jun Near Hudson. Wis. 6 in railway
collision.
Jun 26-Near Missouri City. Mo-. Z by rail-
way wreck.
Jun 2sa = s bathers in various
lision Of two Christian Endeavor trains.
Jun S0-Westtield, Ia, by lightning,
Jul 6-Near Hartsville. Tenn. by boiler
Jul bay City, Mich, by trolley car
plunging through open bridge
Jul 8-Near Pineville, KY. in burning
home.
Jul 13-Near Boone. Ia. s tramps in rail-
way wreck.
Jul 21-New Haven, Conn, by explosion
In armory Of Winchester Repeating Arms
Jul 28-Near Reno. New. Indians in rail-
way wreck
Aug 9-Near Cairo, ILL.,, 10 by explosion of
towboat.
Aug 1S-Near Dahlgren. ILL.,. by railroad
collision.
Aug 2S-Galloway county, KY. poisoned
by eating stolen melons.
Aug 9O-Gladstone. Mich. by capsizng
of boat.
by explosions in coal mine.
Sep 4-Broad Ripple. Ind, by explosion
Sep 7-Cygnet. O.. by explosion of nitro
Sep Smear Emporia, Kan. II in railway
collision.
Sep smear New Castle, Col. 80 in rail-
Sep Ivan Buren,. Ark. in railway
Sep 17-Near Chippewa Falls. Wis, in
Sep 2O-Belle Allen. Ala. by fire in coal
Sep 2i-Johnston City, ILL.,, by explosion
| in coal mines....O Taiya trail, in Alaska,
IS by snowslide.
Oct, 2--Near Schuyler, Neb.. poisoned ~
strychnine in coffee.
train on grade crossing.
Oct 6-Plankinton. S. D., in burning
oct I3 E,I Tex. by falling of build
Oct M~Near Garrisons, N. Y. 10 by
plunging of New York Central express into
Oct so-Near Scranton, Pa, in mine dis
Nov 3O-Maplesville, Ala, Z drank mix
ture of wood alcohol and whisky.
Dec 15-Near Portland, Me-, in wreck of
schooner Susan p. Thurlow.
Yellow Fever.
Several cases Of yellow fever were re-
ported from points In LOUISIANA In the
m rs fs n New
in Ocean Springs, Miss. In rapid success
sion came reports from Edwards, Miss,
ana BILOXI, MISS, anu OlHer SOUTHERN
points, until on Nov. 23 the fever was con-
sidered as practically stamped out. 1t has
been estimated that the Gulf states suf-
fered financial loss of fully s6O,OoO 600, the
chief factor in which account being the
loss in trade and traffic on account of the
strict quarantine regulations. On Nov. % a
report issued by the surgeon general of
the marine hospital service, giving the re-
turns up to recent date, showed there
had then appeared during the yellow fever
epidemic in the, south total Of ,2S9 cases,
Of which 446 had proved fatal. OF the total
number of cases 1,S47 were reported from
Alabama, So from Tennessee, i6 from Texas,
from Illinois, from Georgia and each
from Florida and Kentucky.