The San Francisco call., 1903-01-04

can mine disaster
= Business section of Waterbury, Conn,
burns; loss. S2,50n,O00
4. Ten men perish IN she burning OF a st.
Louis awning factory.
>. Gas explosion in Chicago house
aills tiiir1een persons
9. over SSOOO.v0O worth OF property in the
business section of Paterson, ~. j..
burns. Eleven lives lost in the burn
ing of the Empire Hotel. st. Louis.
IL. ShamaAa. Trans-Caucasian town,
DESTROYED by earthquake; many hun
dreus perish.
%. Seventy V first Regiment Armory and
Park Avenue Hotel, New York. burn;
seventeen lives destroyed properly
loss 81 COZ 900.
IS. Avalanche buries miners bunk house
near Telluride, Colo, with seventy-nve
men.
:. Galveston, Houston and San Antonio
passenger train wrecked near Sander
son. Texas; fifteen lives lost.
l.. Steamer Providence CapsiZes in MIS-
sissippl River near Lake Palmyra;
twenty, persons Growl.ed.
l.. Seven life-saNers and i've seamen per-
Cape Cod.
81. Explosion in mine al Dayton, Tenn,
Kills twenty-five workmen.
APRIL.
:. Twelve hotels andla score of other
buildings at Atlantic City burn; loss,
$4,000.
5. Twenty-one persons killed and $50
wounded in an accident at a football
game in Glasgow, Scotland.
6. Steamer CamOrta lost in cyclone off
the coast Of India; 139 lives lost.
l6- Barracks at Managua. Nicaragua.
blow up. killing $50 soldiers
IS. Quezaltenango Guatemala, destroyed
by an earthquake.
20. Steamer City Of Pittsburg burns in
Ohio River above Cairo; sixtythree
lives lost.
IS. Tornado partly destroys Glenrose,
Tex. killing ten persons.
80. Tornado devastates Dacca and sur
rounding towns i'm India; 4i6 lives lost.
Ten young women killed In a Philadel-
phia tobacco factory in panic caused
by false alarm Of fire.
MAY.
2. Seventy-five lives lost in the burning
of Iakayenanche. Japan
4. About fifteen lives destroyed by a wa
terspout at FOss and Geary, Okla
Z. Eruption of La Soufriere volcano, st.
Vincent Island. kills 1000 persons.
s. st Pierre, Martinique Island. totally
destroyed by Mont Pelee volcanic
eruption about $1,000 lives destroyed
on the island.
IL Brazilian aeronaut Savro and his. as
sistant killed in France by the col
lapse of their balloon.
u. Explosion of oil tank cars at Shera-
den Pa. near Pittsburg, kills twenty
seven persons and Injuries $50 others.
II. Part of Lisbon destroyed by confia-
grafton.
IS. Goiiad. Tex, almost wiped out by a
tornado; 100 lives lost.
19. Gas explosion in Fraterville and This
tie coal mines, Tennessee, kills 217 per-
p. Explosion in a mine at Fernie, B. c.,
kills l50 men.
JUNE.
L Eruption of a Bolivian volcano de-
stroys two villages and seventy-five
lives
g. Burning of Chicago sanitarium wipes
out twelve lives.
Yang-tse River. killing $50 men.
JULY.
T. Trolley collision at Gloversville, N. Y,
To- Explosion Of firedamp in Cambria
Rolling mine, near Johnstown, Pa,
Il. campanile of ST. Marks Cathedral,
Venice, falls.
Is. Powder explosion in a mine near Park
City, Utah. kills thirty-five men.
Twenty -four blocks in Guayaquil, Ecu
adort burn; loss, $S00,0O0; many lives
destroyed
IL Capsizing of a sailboat off the New
Hampshire coast browns fourteen per-
sens.
&C. Twelve lives destroyed in and near
Baltimore by whirlwind.
2l Excursion steamer Primus wrecked
EIb, Germany; sixty lives lost.
81 One hundred and twenty lives Destroy
&c by mine gas explosion at Wal
AUGUST.
8. Fifteen workmen and trainmen killed
In a railroad collision near Marshall
town, Iowa.
g. Gas explosion in d mine near Trinidad,
1s Japanese japan stsi island Ian % Of Toroshima over
whelmed by volcanic eruptioni $50
persons perish.
Il Earthquake and landslide destroy
twenty villages and 200 lives in Trans.
Caucasia..
20 Ten workmen killed by explosion of
steel dgesters at Wilmington, Del
%. Earthquake at Tashkend, Turkestan,
destroys 1000 lives.
30 Eruption of Mont Pelee and tidal wave
destroy 1000 lives
SEPTEMBER.
l. Excursion train wrecked near Birm-
ingham. Ala: thirty killed.
Is Many persons perish in Northern Pa
cific Coast forest fires.
i. Seventeen lives lost i'm Algoma mine
explosion near Bluefield w Va
19. Panic in coiored church at Birming-
ham. Ala. where Booker T. Washing
ton was speaking, kills lis people.
%. Cyclone and tidal wave sweep Sicily
destroying $40 lives.
20 Typhoon and tidal wave near Yoko-
hama, Japan. destroy 900 lives.
OCTOBER.
2. Fourteen persons killed by an explo-
sion in the Lawson mines. Wash.
4. Circus elephant at Mini Novgorod.
killing IS persons.
l3. NM de Bradsky and MORN, French
aeronauts. dashed to death by the fall
If their aiTship.
II. Steamer &. y. Lockwood founders in
Lake Erie off Ashtabula; ten lives
lost.
Is. Bridge over the Golden Horn, Con-
stantinople. collapses: 100 lives lost
21 American Glucose annex factory, Chi.
cago, burns with y men,
EOVEMBER.
4. Fireworks explosion in New York
Kills u men and boys.
10. Earthquake al LiSk. south Russia, en-
1on1bs 30 persons. British steamer Ell
ingamite wrecked off the Australian
coast: 50 persons missing.
l5. Persian town of Resht burns; 200 lives
lost
"a Boiler explosion in Swift & Co.'S pack
ing house Chicago. kills 13 men.
Steamers Charles Hebard and Ban
nockburn dashed To pieces by a gale
in Lake Superior: 80 sailors lost.
DECEMBER.
3. Explosion on the s,Gamer Progreso in
San Francisco harbor kills II men.
l. Fourteen gu. SITS perish in Hotel Lin
coin fire. Chicago.
8. Explosion of gas in South WIlkesbarre
tPaJ mine de stroys n lives.
49, Fire in the American Sheet Steel Com
pany's Plant. Canal Dover. o.: de-