Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-09
DISASTERS OF THE YEAR.
Record Is Long, and the Number of
Deaths Involved Excessive.

Dcdthb IhNo4Veu Excessive.
Jacksonville, Fla, was the scene of the
most disastrous fire of the year in Amer
lea The greater part of the city was
laid in ashes May 3, causing a total loss
of about $11.000,OO0 Another serious
fire was that in Montreal, Jan. g. The
loss was $2,500, 900. Twenty-eight lives
were 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. %, 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 g.
Between fifty and sixty lives were lost
and property to the value of about 81 0O0,-
600 was destroyed.
The following is a list of the most
prominent disasters in 1901:
In January 10 were killed by an explo-
sion at Lei-Tung, China; 8 by fire at
Minneapolis; by a railroad accident at
Mikala, Austria; 20 by panic at Tokyo
Japan; 120 by a blizzard in south Russia !;
so by the capsizing of a barge off the
coast of Madagascar; 400 by a storm on
the coast of Japan; 20 by an explosion
at Hang Chow, China; 10 by a boiler ex-
plosion at Recklinghauser, Bohemia; and
80 by a hurricane at Trondjhem, Nor
way.
In February 81 persons persisted in a
mine accident at Durango, Mexico; 1872
by storm on the coast of China; 6 by
an explosion at Guilford, England: by
railroad accident in New South Wales;
so by 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 mine accident at
Kemmerer, Wyo.
m
explosion in China; by explosion in
Spain; 80 by a railroad accident at Wa
lovo, Russia: II by a mine accident at
Yabori, Japan; 10 by mine accident at
Gilsenkirche, Prussia; s by cyclone in
Texas; 16 by a cyclone in Arkansas; 10
by boiler explosion in Chicago; by an
avalanche at Lake Como; 20 by flood in
Bolivia; Is by bursting of a dam at Bo-
logna. Italy; by railroad accident in
New South Wales; IS by cyclone at Biz
mingham. Ala, and by mine acct
dent in Fayette Co, Ala.
In April 26 lost their lives by a mine az
cident in the Transvaal; by a hotel fire
at st. Mary's, w. Va; Il 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; l by a railroad ACCT
dent in Pekin: by fire at st. Jean.
France; by railroad accident at Gale
don, South Africa, and Is by the fall of
a church in Albania.
In May So persisted by fire at AmreeIi-
India; 100 by ferryboat disaster on the
Dnieper River; I. by fire in Chicago; by
an avalanche in Alaska; 100 by a boiler
explosion in China; 8 by an avalanche in
Switzerland; by a mine accident In
Fairmont. w. Va; Is by an avalanche at
Avacenza, Italy; Is by fire at Sohendorf,
Bohemia; IA by floods in Tennessee; 30
by an explosion at Cape Town; 70 by a
mine accident at Langhewydd, Wales;
q by a mine accident at Wolsenburg.
Prussia; ISL by volcanic eruption in Java;
Z by a trolley car accident in Albany.
N. Y; q by mine accident in Dayton
Tenn; 20 by drowning at Manana Island,
and Z by drowning in SchuYlkill River.
In June 20 lives were lost by fire on
the Tehuantepec Isthmus; by a mine
accident at Iron Mountain, Mich; 9 by
a railroad accident in Pretoria; by dy-
Mantle explosion at Binghamton, N. Y;
by a cyclone in Oklahoma; is by mine
accident at Jacobs Creek, Pa; II by fire
at st. Petersburg; Is by explosion in cart
ridge factory. Paris; by a cyclone at
Naper, Neb.; "a by explosion at Pater-
son, N. J.; and 10 by flood in Elkhorn
Valley, w. Va.
In July II were killed by a lightning
stroke in Chicago; 1900 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; rs by flood in
the Danube 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; s by a gaso-
line explosion in Philadelphia; 20, 900 by
flood in China; 100 by fire at Witebsk,
Russia; 10 by fire at Cleveland, O.; by
floods in louisiana; Z by explosion at
steel works, Youngstown, o.: by fire
in Philadelphia, Pa; by a dynamite
explosion in Herkimer. N. Y: by a hur-
ricane at Villarego-Jilota. Spain, and G
by fire in Brooklyn. n. Y
In September 10 were killed by a mine
explosion at Caerphilly, Wales; by a
boiler explosion at Oakland n. J.; IT by
drowning of coast of Brittany; 6 by
mine accident at Newcastle, Colo; o by
drowning in the Kulpa River, Croatia
II by powder explosion at RipauIt.
France; 81 by a railroad accident near
Bucharest; by fire at Naples; S by gas
explosion at Newark, n. j.; Is by a
cIoudburst in Preside County, Tex; Sc
and 10 by a mine accident at Nanaimo,
B. c.
In October "A were lost in a gale on
the Japan coast; 20 by a typhoon at
Manila; so by a tidal wave in the Sea
of Marmora. and II by flood in Sicily
In November 10 persisted by a storm
at Lake Baikal. Siberia; by fire al
Hurley. Wis; by an explosion al
Athens. Greece; by mine accident al
Pocahontas, W. Va: % by earthquake al
Erzeromi: g by mire accident at Tel.
Bluefelds. W. Va: by a mine accident
/ at Wilkesbarre Pa 90 nv hoiler axnio