Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-01
ACCIDENTS ON LAND.
Loss of Life by Explosions, CoIIi-
sions and Fires.


JANUARY.
7. Many lives lost in a cavein at the
Negaunee mine, Negaunee, Mich.
u. II people killed and over 80 injured in
a rear end collision in the Central rail-
way tunnel, New York city.
13 10 miners killed by an explosion of fire
damp in mine No. 9 at Dow, l. It.
a. A miners drowned by the flooding of
the Jupiter coal mine. Brux district,
Bohemia.
49, 60 people killed and 100 injured by ex-
plosion in a spinning mill at Manresa,
Spain.
20. 10 people killed and so injured by the
collapse of floors in the Smithfield
mills at Belfast.
%. % miners killed and several injured by
a dust explosion in the Lost Creek
mines. near Oskaloosa, Ia.
FEBRUARY
l. 100 deaths in mine explosion at the
Hondo mines, Mexico.
5. Is killed by the explosion of a gas
main in Chicago.
%. Is killed and many injured in fire
which Quilted the Park Avenue hotel,
New York city
Is. IA killed and many injured by snow
slide on Smuggler mountain, near Tel
luride, Colo.
MARCH.
u
in a broken rail accident of the South
ern Pacific, near Maxon, Tex.
81 Is miners killed by explosion in the
Nelson coal mine at Dayton, Tenn.
APRIL.
s. q killed and $50 injured by the collapse
of stand at ball game in Glasgow.
16. $50 lives lost by an explosion in the
military barracks at Managua, Mica
ragua.
90 so deaths by the burning of the steam
er City of Pittsburg at Turner's Land
ing, ILL.,, on the Ohio river.
rs. 6 people killed and many injured in a
hurricane at Joplin, Mo.
30. 8 killed and many injured during a
fire alarm panic in the American To-
bacco Coz works in Philadelphia.
MAY.
49, 200 deaths by gas explosion in the
Fraterville NINE Coal Creek Tenn.
%. Over 100 miners persisted by gas explo-
sion in the Crows Nest coal mine at
Fernie, B. c.
Z. 10 killed and 80 injured in the burning
of the sanitarium of the st. Luke's So
ciety, Chicago.
20. deaths in a head-on collision on the
Northern Pacific at Staples, Mich.
JULY.
Sc FOuFIn OIL July CdSudIlleS. oil hulSUs
2649 injured, $250, 155 fire damage.
5. Trolley road collision near Glovers-
vile, N. Y; Is killed and more than 20
injured.
10. Explosion of firedamp in mine of Cam
bria Steel Co., near JohnstoWn, Pa;
more than lis miners killed.
II. IA drowned in boating accident off
the Isle of Shoals, Mass.
81. Explosion in coal mine near Sydney,
Australia; 120 lives lost.
AUGUST.
6. Collision on Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul r. R. near Rhodes. Ia; Is
killed, 40 injured.
Z. 16 lives lost in an explosion in coal
mine near Trinidad Colo.
20. Explosion in Delaware pulp mills at
Wilmington, Del; II killed.
"A. Railroad wreck near Princeton, Ind.
killed.
2s. killed in a fire disaster at Gehring,
Neb.
SEPTEMBER
g. men crushed to death in Brooklyn
by the collapse of the steel floor of a
huge tank.
Il. so drowned in a railroad disaster in
India.
Is. II lost in a mine explosion at North
Fork, w. Va.
Is. Postoffice at Mimic, N. D., collapsed;
10. lis negroes killed in panic in Biz
mingham, Ala.
OCTOBER.
g. 12 miners killed by firedamp explosion
in the Lawson mine, Black Diamond,
Wash.
T. II lives lost by fire which destroyed
40 derricks in the oilfields at Beaumont
Tex.
10. Baron de Bradsky, aeronaut, and his
engineer killed by falling from an air
ship at Paris.
49, Ii men killed in a race riot at Little
ton, Ala.
NOVEMBER.
a. Is persons killed and 70 injured by the
explosion of election fireworks in Mad
ison square, New York.
20. Is killed and many injured by a boiler
explosion in the plant of Swift & Co.
Chicago.
DECEMBER.
3. IA deaths in the burning of the Lin
coin hote, Chicago.