Iron County register., 1899-01-05
CASUALTIES.
Disasters of Various Kinds Which
Resulted I'm Five or More Deaths.

Disasters of Various Kinds which
Resulted in Five or More Deaths.
Jan. Jersey City, n. j., 6 in fire.
l2-Fort Smith, Ark, 46 during tornado
go were injured.)
Feb. l-Gloversville, y. Y, in burning ho-
tel. On Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land coast, 20 drowned during storm
6-Boston, fremen at fire.
9-Pittsburgh, Pa, 20 in fire.
24-Fairfeld county, s. c., Z in forest fires.
26-Kalamazoo, Mich, 10 by chemical ex-
plosion- West Harvey, III, Z; train
crashed into bus.
Mar. 2-Near Brewton, Ala, by boiler ex-
plosion.
l3-New York, II by burning Of the Bowery
mission house.
l6-Chicago, 10 in burning Office building
l9-Pratt City, Ala, negro convicts- in a
mine explosion.
26-Near Lehigh, l. T., during tornado.
Kent, Mimi, 7 in burning home
Apr 26-Santa Cruz, Cal, II IN powder mill
explosion.
2s-Near Dover. n. j., by powder e1plo-
sion
29-St. Vincente, Mex, Is by explosion OF
powder on pack train In Dakota and
Iowa, 8 in tornado.
May Gin the Grand, Eirdigris and Arkan-
sas bottoms, Tex, floods drown IL fam
lies
l9-Near Springdale, Pa, s swept of raft
I'm Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, ~
during cyclones.
26-Frazier lake, Alaska, drowned while
crossing the ice. AT Iron Mountain,
Mich, IN FIRE
27-Pittsville, Pa, drowned in mine
Jun. l4-Statts City, No, in mine disas-
ter.
l5-Near Kansas City, by cloudburst
Near New York, 5 drowned in a schooner
collision.
2S-On the route from Seattle to Alaska, 81
by drowning, cold and hunger.
Jul. Near Beverly, Mass, by capsizinS
q. & sffaneF- +. Il by tornado at Hampton
6tSouth of Sable islands, 5e5 drowned by
collision of French liner La Bourgogne
with English; Cromartyshire.
sSteeleville, No, l3 by waterspout-
l1-6leveland, II Q, II BY explosion in tunnel
plosions.
3O-San Francisco, 5 in burning building.
Humansville, Mo-, while fording river In
Aug. SNear Dover Point, n. H, by cap
s-In Kuskokwin river, Alaska, Is by sink
ing OF steamer.
1e-Near Pittsburgh, Pa, by drowning
caused by cloudburst.
2l-At Hot Springs, Ark, in burning ho-
22-Near Pittsburgh, Pa, by caving in of
earth tunnel 81 at Ooltewah Station,
Tenn, by powder plant explosion.
26-Steamer on way to Alaska SINKS, 43 by
drowning.
Sep 2-At Stinesville, Ind, by premature
dynamite explosion.
3-In Mississippi river, near Fort St. Philip,
6 by steamboat explosion. so by heat IN
New York city.
Sat Cohoes, N Y, % by trolley car and
train collision.
ll-Jerome, A. T., over 80 by fire. Over
Is in Philadelphia by gasoline explosion
26-Toledo, o., 10 in explosion Of dust in
elevator
AT Milan, Mo-, 5 by scalding in sawmiu
explosion Near Brownsville, Pa, 8 in
mine gas explosion.
Oct. 2-0ver loo persons missing in forest
fires in northern Wisconsin-Majority
dead.
AT least 100 lives lost by storms on
Georgia and Florida coasts. Schooner
Sarah E. 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, 9 prospectors by wrecking Of
a sloop.
27-Near Canyon City, Ore, 5 Indians and
white man in battle between l9 whites
and 5 reds. Near Sodus, \. V. schoon-
er St. Peter goes down in Lake Ontario,
with 5 persons.
3l-At Bellaire, O., in boiler explosion.
NOV past ecdeOH II Vessels VI
Gloucester, Mass, fishing fleet lost and
50 men drowned. Property loss, Sl70, ,000
-..- In Alaska Z gold seekers perish in
quicksand.
5-At West Pittston, Pa, 10 at Exeter COL
hery-. In Detroit, Mich, IL by falling
roof of theater.
ls-On Oregon coast, near Yaquina bay, D
BY wrecking of British ship Atlanta.
Near Hackensack, n. J., u by train.
23-At Ashburn, No, 6 by explosion at pow
der works.
26-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
q terrific gale.
2s-Of Highland light, near Boston, all of
the 80 on board the Portland in wreck
Dec. Sin New York, 6 by scalding in
steamer.
5-At Pinole, Cal, by explosion in pow
der works. of Portland. Me, 8 coal
barges lost with q on board
13-Near Corfu, \. Y, 9 workmen run down
by train.
l5-On line of White Pass railway in Alaska,
20 men by avalanche. Near Madison,
Fla, in railway collision.