The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-07-15
caiamities Of 1908.

Not month has passed since the
opening Of this year without record
OF some disaster in this country in
which human lives were lost and large
amounts Of property destroyed, The
list is an unusual one. Nearly a
thousand people have been killed in
this way since January, this number
only including the tragedies Of greater
moment, not counting those in which
the loss was less than half.dozen
lives. The worst record has been
made iu,the present month, for since
the first Of June nearly seven hun.
dred have been killed, the cloudburst
ct Hepner, Ore, in which five hun.
dred lives we're lost, more than doub-
ling the death roll as it stood before
last Sunday. The New York Tsibune
has compiled the record Of the yesr as
follows:
January 27-Near Westield, N. j.,
an express train dashed BY the block
signals on the New Jersey Central
railroad and crashed into q local train.
causing the loss Of 2s lives and, the
injury Of a far greater number Of per-
sons.
February 19--A heavily loaded
trolley car in Newark, Nj, got be-
yond the control Of the motorman and
ran down steep incline, coming in
oollision. With the engine Of q Della
ware9 Euckawanna and Western train,
causing the'' death Of nine persons,
nearly all Of them high.schooT girls.
March 20-A collision occurred on
Long Island Sound between the Fall
river freighter City Of Taunton and
the passenger steamer Plymouth off
Fishers leland in which sixs persons
we're killed and over 500. were in
peril.
April 9-Tornadoes wrought de-.
struction in Arkansas and Alabama,
nine, e,persons beipg killed, in the for
mer State and 12 ;n sshAe iisss.esT. issss..esT
May 80 and the following days foods
caused grest loss Of life and property
ON the Kansas, Missouri aud Des
Moines rivers. The loss OF life at
North Topeka and Manhattan, Kan,
was first reported at 15O,, but proved
tosbes about half this number. Twen-
ty-five, lives were-lost at Kansas City,
Kan, and dozen at Kansas City,
Mo-, while in these cities and in Des
Moines, as well as in many smaller
places, there were thousands Of people
made homeless. The property losses
in, Kansas were estimated at S17 900,
600. and. the damage to crops at s5,-
600, 900.
June IA tornado swept over
Gainesville, Ga, causing q loss OF
about ilO0lives and property damage
Estimated at $500, 900.
june 64-A oloudburst at Clifton,
8. G. ,scauBed loss Of SO lives and
property damage to manufacturing
villages Of $500, 600.
June S-Thirty-ave lives were Lost
|iby the rush Of 6aters when q levee
broke at Granite. City, Ill, ON the
tMissigsip Rjves, and great damage
I|Sgas asas az oshsS places in the vicini-
" Of ST. Louis. Thirty more lives
were lost the next day, when an en-
bankment broke, and East St. Louis,
Illl was two-thirds submerged.
June 1.-THE latest OF this series
e ee disasters befell HHeppnsr, Oregon,
ia the shape Of q cloudburst, which is
estimated caused the loss Of the lives
ofino less than 500 people, with great
property damage.
To the list Of disasters Of the year
must be added the property losses due
TO the forest fires which ragged early
this, month, In the Adirondaoks, White
lMopntains and tho Catskills, caused
largely By the excessive drouth that
prevailed for nearly two months.
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