Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-31


Five men were killed and thirty passen-
gers injured in a wreck on the Atlantic
Coast Line near Sumter, g.. c. n
,. The cp;s1 M h,na and Insa
ban sinking and drowning at least 100 per-
sons.
Five hundred. persons were drowned in a
cioudburst at Heppner, Ore, which also
caused 81 100000 damage.
During the month of July ten persons
were killed near Heron Lake, Mont, by a
tornado Fifteen lives were lost in floods
In southwestern Texas. A. hot wave pre-
vailed over the northern and eastern part
of the country; four deaths In Baltimore.
seven in Chicago ard three in Philadelphia
resulted from the heat.
seyenty-fve persons We're killed in
cloudburst at Jeanette, Pa the damage
amounting to $1,5O0.OOO.
street car fell from bridge in Gin
cinnat, killing three persons and injuring
many more.
Over forty deaths resulted from the hot
wave In New York city.
The Hammond Packing plant at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, was burned with a loss of
nearly $3,OOO,OOO.
OF them from Washington. and nine injured
in wreck on the Southern railroad at
Rockfish Va.
A tornado killed five persons, injured a
score of others and caused a property loss
of s2,OOO,0O0 at Streator, Ill.
Twenty-Five persons were killed, sixteen
fatally injured and fifty hurt by an ex-
plosion of two powder magazines at Lowell,
Mass
During the months Of August and Sep
TENDER floods in China caused great loss of
life, 300 Chinese being drowned in Chefoo
alone.
A terrific hurricane devastated Florida
causing the death of twenty-one persons,
the wreck of many vessels and a property
loss of many millions of dollars; sixteen
lives We're lost by the sinking Of the British
steamer Mexicana off the Florida coast
A storm struck the New Jersey coast.
causing the death of five men at the Della
ware breakwater. the loss of a yacht with
SIX men and several children Off Atlantic
City and much property loss.
Two schooners were wrecked by the storm
or the Maine coast and fifteen men were
drowned; over thirty persons were killed
by the storm in the vicinity Of New York
Later violent storm swept the Atlantic
coast causing especially heavy damage at
New York and Paterson, N. j. steamer
capsized on Lake Michigan near Marinette
WIS. and twelve persons were drowned
-Four men were killed in fire which de-
stroyed N.O0ocG0 worth of property in
Aberdeen. Wash
In October seventeen men were killed and
thirty-four injured in rear-end collision
N ].
The subway in New York city caved in
killing ten men and injuring seven
Mrs: Emma Booth-Tucker, consul in
V.
Commander Booth-Tucker, and Col Thomas
=. Holland, in charge of the army at
Amlty, Col, were killed, and twenty seven
other persons hurt, several fatally, in a
railroad wreck near Dean Lake Mo
collision occurred between the Rus
san 4ushen Kalsha Company's steamer
Progress and the Japanese Tokai-Maru
SIN king the latter and drowning forty-fve
OF the lob persons on board
President Diaz had a narrow escape from,
pe1ng shot by man discharging a gun
during festival at Guanajuanta Mexico
The first week of November was another
record breaker IN the matter of. disasters
SIX men were killed four seriously injured
and S5oOOO0 damage done by the explosion
OF Two magazines on the government reser-
walton on Iona Island in Hudson river
fre caused $4,000 damage at Coney
twenty-five persons we've burned to death
IN tenement house fire in New York city
winch lasted only twenty minutes and did
but $1,000 damage
Nine men We're burned to death in fro
Iii Senator Millards mine at Summit Mont
sixteen persons were killed and over
forty injured in collision between a spe-
clal passenger train and a freight on the
Big -Four railroad at indianapolis
Thirty one men were killed and fifteen
injured in a head-on collision on the Big
Four railroad near Mackinaw W, III
Forty,one negroes and one white man
We're killed i'll wreck on the Illinois Gem
trail railroad at Kentwood, Ina 5lR
Records showed that 1868 persons were
killed and 45,997 injured in railroad acct
dents during the last fiscal year.
During the month of December four fire.
men We're killed in fire in Omaha Neb
which did 100000 damage
thirteen miners were killed and great
damage was done by an explosion of gas
IN mine at Bonanza, Ark
Thirty Italians were burned to death and
four others fatally burned in a fire which
destroyed their living quarters at Lilly. Pa
Twelve miners were killed and three IA
tally injured by an explosion in the Fergu-
son mine at Dunbar Pa
Seven boilers in power house in ST.
l ouis exploded. killing three men and in
juring six others.
Fire in a factory building in New York
caused s250,GO3 damage and killed two fire
men. one of them being Battalion Chief
Nine students were killed and seventeen
injured in the fire that DESTROYED the Wo-
mans dormitory at Walden University for
Colored Women, in Nashville, Tenn.
The Duquesne limited train on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad was wrecked by an
obstruction on the track and s;xty-five per
sons were killed and a large number in
iureI.
The Meteor a ST Louis and San Fran
cisco fast train. was wrecked at Godfrey,
kans., and nine persons were killed and
thirtytwo injured.
NEUROLOGY.
An unusually large number of prominent
men and women have died during the year
just closing. Almost every avocaiion has
lost heavily of its leading spirits The
army, the navy, the various professions
have all given up members who have won
distinction in their various callngs. Lit
crature and art have also lost some of their
brightest geniuses, and altogether the grim
reaper has moved far and wide among
earth's distinguished people.
Among those who died during the month
Of January were: Mrs. Jessie Benton FIRE.
mont wife and widow of John c. Fremont;
eX Governor Daniel Hardman Hastings of
Praxides Mateo Sagasta, ex-
premier of Spain: Abram S. Hewitt, former
mayor of New York and democratic rep
fesentative; Julian Ralph, noted news
aper correspondent; Col Philip Deitsch
chief of police in Cincinnati; Mohammed
Jamalu Hiram, Sultan of Sulu; Henry de
Low f1,,, t1,4 D.,.i