Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-01-09
CASUALTIES.

Jan Near Hays, Miss, 7 in freight wreck
5-Just outside the Golden Gate, 30 by wreck
of steamer laqua, out bound from San
francisco. Smallpox reported in over
100 Missouri counties
7-Minneapoolis MINI, s in burning lodging
and family, persons in burning home
S-Rochester, n. Y, 81 in burning orphan
asylum. Anderson, w. Va, in railway
Feb 2-Mllwaukee, children in burning
home during parents absence
A-Ne tr BOrdentown, n, j., 10 in railway
disaster. Tokyo, b. c., p in burning
hospital.
22-steamer Rio de, Janeiro wrecked while
entering Golden Gate in fog; l2S lives lost,
including Consul Wildman, of Hong
Kong, and family.
D-Diamondville. Wyo, 2S by fire in mine.
Mar. 4-Center Valley, Mo, in zinc mine
disaster.
l1-Chicago, s by boiler explosion.
i6ILittle Cascapade, Quebec, in burning
1s-Weilston, O.. in burning cabin.
So-Gallup, n. NJ So in mine exlosion.
Apr: 9-Cripple Creek Col, 6 by landslide.
2S-Latrobe. Pa, in mine fire. Houston.
Tex in fire.. Sunrise City, Alaska, 20
by snOwSlide.
May S-Jacksonville, Fla. 6 in fire.
5-South Chicago, Ill, in fire.
10-Steamer Bon Voyage burns and of
Altman family of Laurlum, Mich, drown.
1S-Near Grand Tower, ILL.,, z by sinking
of steamer City of Paducah.
16-Fairmount, w. Va, miners by explo-
24-Near Au Sable. Mich, 70 by laundering
OF steamer Baltimore in Lake Huron.
&-Of Sheboygan, Mich, by sinking of
N--Dayton, Tenn, 21 by coal dust explo-
sion
2O-Near Philadelphia, picnickcrs swept
over dam In SChuylkill river.
Jun. l-On Charleston, S. c.. Is fishermen
drowned.
Iron Mountain, Mich, in mine explo-
10-Port Royal. Pa, 16 in burning mine.
2l-Paterson, n. j., ii by explosion of fire.
25-Cass Station. Ind, IA in railway wreck.
Jul; 1-Chicago, II by lightning striking
4-Reports from all over country show 19
dead and l,6l1 injured during celebration
1ONNorton. Mo, 10 in railway collision.
l1--,sprngheld, Pa, by train going
through bridge.
I3-savannah. Ca, plcnickers drowned.
collision.
Aug. I.-Chicago, s in collision between
trolley car and fast mail train.... Off
Douglass island, over 10 by collision of
steamer with iceberg.
i9-Near PaducaE, Ky, lG by capszing of
steamer City of Golcunda. Herkimer,
n. Y, y by dynamite explosion... .Phlla-
delphia, by lightning striking benzlne
2S-Near Torresdale, Pa, 81 by boiler ex-
plosion on steamer City of Trenton.
S0-Near Kalispell, Mont, IS in railway
wreck
Sep, 7-Jamestown, N. D.. in railway COL
1e-Near New Castle, Col, 6 by explosion
In Gulch mine.
26-Newark, n. j., by explosion in gas
works.
Oct I-Cleveland, mile waterworks tun-
mel under lake said to have caused 40
deaths to date.
1S-New York, by falling rock in rapid
transit tunnel.
Nov. 1.-St. Louis, II children of lockjaw
after treatment with anti-toXlu for diph-
iberia.
S-Hurley, Wis. 10 in fire following carousal
In dance hall.
lS-Blair, Mont. 10 in railway wreck ... In
Maine woods, accidentally killed by
hunters.
2O-Near Telluride, Col, 90 in burning mine
....Near Needles, Cal, in train wreck
H-Retroit, Mich, % by explosion. Near
Seneca, Mich, railway wreck on Wabash
road; number Of dead Variously estimated
at from y to 81.
Dec. 1-Gwynn Station, Pa, in burning
Astoria, Ore. 2s by wreck of British ship
Nelson.
9-Loss of life in navigation OF great lakes
during season reported at l32.
15-Near Rockford H., In railway col
lision Near Essex, Mont, in railway
wreck
19-Pttsburg Pa, 10 by gas explosion II
the Soho furnac ace.... Steamer KanaWEa
Bell bet Charleston, w. Va, and Mont
gOmery wrecked; lives lost.
20-Pttsburg, Pa, by explosion of boil
ers in Black Diamond steel works.
21-Summerville, Pa, in buEning home.
2-Allentown. Pa, in accident on Coop
ersburg branch of Lehigh Valley Traction
25-Memphis o., 4 in burning steamer Sun