The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-07
CASUALTIES.
Disasters of Various Kinds which
Resulted In Five or More Deaths.

Jan. Jersey City, n. j., O in fire.
l2-Fort Smith, Ark, 46 during tornado
900 were injured.) },
Feb. l--Gloversville, N. Y, Q in burning no.
tel. !. On Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land coast, 40 drowned during storm.
6-Boston, fremen at a fire.
0-Pttsburgh, Pa, 20 in fire.
24-Fairfield county, S. c., in forest fires
26-Kalamazoo, Mich, 10 by chemical ex'
plosion. West Harvey, H., Z; train
crashed into bus.
Mar. 2-Near Brewton, Ala, by boiler ex-
ploson.
l3-New York, II by burning Of the Bowery
mission house.
l6-Chicago, 10 in burning Office building.
mine explosion.
26-Near Lehigh, /. T., 5 during tornado.
Kent, Mimi, in burning home.
Apr. 26-Santa Cruz, CAL, II in powder mill
explosion.
2s-Near Dover, N j., by powder explo-
sion.
29-St. Vincente, Mex, Is by explosion of
powder on pack train. In Dakota and
Iowa, 8 in tornado.
May Gin the Grand, Virdigris and Arkan.
sas bottoms, Tex, floods drown II fam
lilies.
l9-Near Springdale, Pa, Q swept off raft
In Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, ~
during cyclones.
26-Frazier lake, Alaska, 7 drowned while
Mich, in fire.
27--Pittsville, Pa, 6 drowned in a mine.
Jun. 4--Statts City, Mo-, in mine disas-
ter.
I5-Near Kansas City, by cloudburst. 4. !.
Near New York, 5 drowned in schooner
collision.
28-On the route from Seattle to Alaska, 81
by drowning, cold and hunger
Jul. 4-Near Beverly, Mass, O by capsizing
OF steamer. II by tornado at Hampton,
N. II.
e-South of Sable islands, sos drowned by
collision of French liner La Bourgogne
with English, Cromartyshire.
.sLSteeleville, Mo-, 10 by waterspout.
ll-Cleveland, O., II by explosion in tunnel.
plosions.
30-San Francisco, 5 in burning building. ..
Humansvile, Mo-, while fording river in
wagon.
Aug. S--Near Dover Point, N. H., by cap
sizing of boat.
Gin Kuskokwin river, Alaska, ls by sink.
ing of steamer.
l9-Near Pittsburgh, Pa, @ by drowning
caused by cloudburst.
PLAT Hot Springs, Ark, 9 in burning. ho-
tel. Sharon, Mass, in train collision:
22-Near Pittsburgh, Pa, by caving in of
earth tunnel. s. at Ooltewah Station,
Tenn, by powder plant explosion.
26-Steamer on way to Alaska sinks, AZ by
drowning.
Sep. AT Stinesvile, Ind, Z by premature
dynamite explosion.
Sin Mississippi river, near Fort st. Philip,
by steamboat explosion. 30 by heat IN
Sat Cohoes, N. Y, % by trolley car and
train collision.
ll-Jerome, A. T., over 30 by fire. Over
Is in Philadelphia by gasoline explosion.
26-Toledo, o., 10 in explosion OF dust in
elevator
23-At Milan, Mo-, 5 by scalding in sawmill
explosion. Near Brownsville, Pa, in
mine gas explosion.
Oct. 2-Over 100 persons missing in forest
fires in northern Wisconsin-Majority
dead.
AT least 100 lives lost by storms on
Georgia and Florida coasts. :. Schooner
Sarah L. Palmer lost near Charleston,
S. c., and drowned.
20-On torpedo boat Davis at Astoria, Ore,
by bursting of boiler tubes.
PIN Indian territory, in freight wreck. :.
24-In Alaska, prospectors by wrecking OF
sloop.
27-Near Canyon City, Ore, Indians and
and reds. Near Sodus, n. Y, schoon.
er St. Peter goes down in Lake Ontario,
with persons.
3l-At Bellaire, o., in boiler explosion.
Nov. During past season IA vessels OF
Gloucester, Mass, fishing feet lost and
50 men drowned. Property loss, $l70, 900.
....ln Alaska 7 gold seekers perish in
quicisand.
Sat West Pittston, Pa, 10 at Exeter col
liery.. In Detroit, Mich, ii by falling
roof Of theater.
lS-On Oregon coast, near Yaquina bay, 20
by wrecking Of British ship Atlanta....
Near Hackensack, N. j., IL by train.
23-At Ashburn, Mo-, 6 by explosion at pow
der works.
90 Near Stockton, CAL, by explosion Of
boiler in steamer.
27--In New York harbor, 8 in storm OFF
New England coast more than 20 during
terrific gale.
2S-OH Highland light, near Boston, all Of
the $50 on board the Portland in wreck.
Dec. Sin New York, 0 by scalding in
steamer.
Sat Pinole, CAL, by explosion in pow
der works. OF Portland, Me-, coal
barges lost with 81 on board.