The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-13
DISASTERS OF THE YEAR.
Record Is Long. and the Member OF
Deaths Involved Excessive.

Jacksonville Fla, was the scene OF the
most disastrous fire Of the year In Amer
lea. Tho greater part OF the city was
laid in ashes May g. causing a total loss
Of about fllo900oo Another serious
fro was that iu Montreal, Jan o. The
loss was S250O.0J0 Twenty eight lives
wcrc lost by the burning of the Rochester
On. N) orphan asylum Jan s.: nineteen
persons were Killed In a furniture-house
lre in Philadelphia, oct %. and 100 or
more were lost In a great oil Gre at
Baku. Russia. Feb 5.
TornadoCs. cyclones and foods were
fortunately few in number compared TO
other years. The worst disaster Of this
sort was a storm and nood In the Elk
horn valley OF West Virginia June o.
Between nifty and sixty lives were lost
and property to the value OF about 81, Co.,
900 was DESTROYED.
The following rs n list of the most
prominent disasters 4. 1901:
In January 10 were KILLED by an expio-
sion at Lei-Tung, China; S by a fire at
Minneapolis; 6 by railroad accident at
Mikala Austria: 20 by a panic at Tokyo
Japan; 100 by blizzard I'm south Russia;
30 by the capsizing OF a barge of the
coast OF Madagascar; 400 by storm on
the coast Of Japan; 10 by an explosion
at Hang Chow, China: 10 by a boiler ex-
plosion at Recklinghauser. Bohemia; and
s5 by a hurricane at Trondjhem, Nor
way
In February 81 persons perished In a
mine accident at Durango. Mexico; se2
by storm on the coast OF China; 9 by
an explosion az Guilford. England: by
railroad accident I'm New South Wales;
90 by a mine accident I'm Cumberland B
c., and at lIermosllo. Mexico; q by
fire at Tokyo. Japan. 40 by storm at
odessa Russia 6 by fire AT birmingham
England; and 30 by a mine accident at
kommcrcr. Wyo.
I'm March 30 persons were killed by an
explosion in China: Z by explosion in
spain: 80 by a railroad accident at wa
loyo Russia: IL by mine accident at
Yahori. Japan; 10 hy mine accident at
GllscnlIircEc, Prussia; 5 by cyclone In
Texas; 'G by cyclone in Arkansas: 10
by hollcr explosion I'm Chicago: by an
avalanche at Lake Como 70 by noou in
BOLIVIA IS by bursting Of a dam at Bo-
logra, italy, o by q railroad accident In
New South Wales; rs by cyclone al Bir-
minFham, Ala. ana @ by a mine acci-
dent In Fayette Co, Ala.
In ApHl 20 lost their lives by a mine ac-
cidcnt IN the Transvaal; G by a hotel fire
al 81. Mary's. W. Va. - by cyclone In
the Canary Islands: 25 by an explosion AT
GrlCshelm, Germany. is by a mine acci-
dent at lIornu Belgium: 20 by a snow
| slide In Alaska; ] by a railroad ncci-
| dent In Pekin; 8 by fire at st. lean.
| France; by railroad accident at Gale.
| don. South Africa, ana 10 by the fall OF
church In Albania.
In May So perlshed by fire at Amreell.
| India: 100 by ferryboat disaster on the
| Duicper River; by fire in Chicago: G by
an avalanche in Alaska 1870 by a boilsr
explosion IN China; s by an avalanche in
| Switzerland; z by a mine accident in
| Fairmont, w. Va; Is by an avalanche AT
Avacenza, Italy; Is by fre at sohendorf.
Bohemia; IL by floods In Tennessee; 30
by an explosion at Cape Town: 70 by a
mine accident at Langhewydd Wales;
| p by a mine accident at Wolsenburg,
| Prussia; ISL by volcanic eruption In Java;
7 by a trolley car accident in Albany.
| N. Y. p by mine accident in Dayton.
Tenn; 20 by drowning at Manana Island,
and by drowning In schuylkill River.
| In June 70 lives were lost by fire on
the Tehuantepee Isthmus; by a mine
accident at Iron Mountain, Mich; 0 by
Q railroad accident In Pretoria; 0 by dy-