The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-21
DISASTERS OF THE YEAR.
Record Is Long. and the Number Of
Deaths Invoked Excessive.


Jacksonville, Fla. was the scene of the
most disastrous fire of the year in Amer
lea. The >S;reater part OF the city was
laid in ashes May 3, causing a total loss
fire was that in Montreal. Jan. %. The
loss was 81, 500 900. Twenty-eight lives
We're lost by the burning of the Rochester
IN. W orphan asylum Jan. s: nineteen
persons were killed in a furniture house
fire in Philadelphia, Oct 25, and 100 or
more were lost in a great oil fire at
Baku, Russia. Feb. 5.
TOrnadoeS, cyclones and floods were
fortunately few in number compared to
other years. The worst disaster of this
sort was a storm and flood in the Elk
horn valley of West Virginia June 2S.
Between fifty and sixty lives lost
and property to the value of about 81 OOO.-
GOO was destroyed
The following a list of the most
prominent disasters in 1901:
In January 10 were killed by an explo-
sion at Lei-Tung. China: by "A fire at
Minneapolis; by railroad accident at
Mikala Austria: 20 by a panic at Tokyo
Japan: 100 by blizzard in south Russia;
so by the capsizins of barge off the
coast of Madagascar; 400 by a storm on
a ah Hsnr c5 bf 3a chIno 20 so explosion
plosion at Rocklinghauser. Bohemia; and
IS by a hurricane at Trondjhem. Nor
way.
mine accident at Durango, Mexico; 1872
by storm the coast of China: by
an explosion at Guilford. England: : by
railroad accident in New South Wales:
60 by a mine accident in Cumberland B.
c., and at Hermosillo. Mexico: q by
fire at Tokyo, Japan; 40 by storm at
Odessa. Russia by fire at Birmingham
England: and 80 by a mine accident at
kemmerer. Wyo.
In March 50 persons were killed by an
explosion in China: by explosion in
Spain: 80 by railroad accident at Wa
lovo. Russia; Il by a mine accident at
fabori, Japan: 10 by mine accident at
Gilsenkirche. Prussia; by cyclone in
Teas: Is by cyclone in Arkansas; 10
by boiler explosion in Chicago: s by an
avalanche at Lake Como: 20 by flood in
Bolivia; Is by bursting of a dam at Bo-
logna, Italy; by a railroad accident in
New South Wales; IS by cyclone at Biz
mingham. Ala. and by a mine acct
dent in Fayette Co. Ala.
In April 26 lost their lives by mine ac-
cident in the Transvaal; by a hotel fire
al st. Mary's. w. Va; u by cyclone in
the Canary Islands; % by an explosion at
Griesheim. Germany: IS by a mine acct
dent at Hornu, Belgium; 20 by a snow
slide in Alaska: i by a railroad acct
dent in Pekin; by fire at st Jean
France; by a railroad accident at Gale
don, South Africa. and 10 by the fall of
a church in Albania.
In May S. persisted by fire at Amreei
India; 100 by ferryboat disaster on the
Dnieper River; Z by fire in Chicago; 6 by
an avalanche in Alaska; $50 by a boiler
explosion in China; by avalanche in
Switzerland: by mine accident in
Fairmont. w. Va: Is by an avalanche at
Avacenza, Italy; % by fire at Sohendorf
Bohemia: II by floods in Tennessee; 30
by an explosion at Cape Town; 70 by a
mine accident at Langhewydd. Wales;
II by a mine accident at Wolsenburg,
Prussia; Isl by volcanic eruption in Java;
by trolley accident in Albany,
n. Y; q by n mine accident in Dayton.
Tenn; % by drowning at Manana Island.
and by drowning in Schuylkill River.
In June 20 lives We're lost by fire on
the Tehuantepec Isthmus; 8 by a mine
accident at Iron Mountain, Mich: 9 by
a railroad accident in Pretoria; 9 by dy-
Mantle explosion at Bnghamton, N. Y;
by a cyclone in Oklahoma; IS by mine
accident at Jacobs Creek, Pa; IL by fire
at st. Petersburg; Is by explosion in cart
ridge factory. Paris; by cyclone at
Naper, Neb.; "a by explosion at Pater-
son, N. J.; and 10 by flood in Elkhorn
Valley, w. Va.
In July IL were killed by a lightning
stroke in Chicago; 1000 by a flood at
kiang So. China; 300 by earthquake at
Lung King, China; by drowning acct
dent in Baden; by a storm at Haiti;
by collapse of a bridge at Springfield
Pa; by drowning at Savannah, Ga;
700 by volcanic eruption in Java; 16 by
oil explosion at Stockholm; 26 by flood in
the Eanube River; 40 by oil explosion at
Batoum, and by fire at Louisville, KY.
In August II persisted by collapse of a
wharf at Tampico, Mexico; by a gaso-
line explosion I'm Philadelphia; 10000 by
food in China: 100 by fire at Witebsk
Russia; 10 by fire at Cleveland, O.. 6 by
foods in louisiana; by explosion, at
steel works, Youngstown, o.; by fire
in Philad eiphia, Pa; by dynamite
explosion in Herkimer, N. Y: by hur-
ricane at Vilarego-Jilota, Spain, and 6
by fire in Brooklyn. N. Y.
In September 10 were killed by a mine
explosion at Caerphilly, Wales: s by a
boiler explosion at Oakland, N. j.: II by
drowning of coast of Brittany; by
mine accident at Newcastle. Colo: q by
drowning In the Kulpa River, Croatia: