The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-08
SSsview VI Years Tragcdiie he he
seals '1'otalHc Startling AZ
lS Nlagnit,de. $$
OVER 1000 KILLED IN \ JUNE | J! 7:
Long List eliminates With the
AZ 4ts Sloc,,m Disaster and Sink III.
Wi ing Of tile Norge M

S5Bs When 1904 takes It's plnce iii hist DRY 1t
will figure not only az n year OF wa re-
and Instructions, IN the fnr East and
aSiin Thlbct. lii Southwest Africa ana the
balkans. In South America and the
" philippines nor only as n twelve month
8 Of great contlagrntt ions, sweeping across
stirf centers Of population MS hltlmore
II and ST. petersburg, Rochester and To-
& iOnto, 10 the tune of losses running high
into the millions. Rather han 4 cit nor
Of these IL will go dow, as a,Hear, or
q dark calamity, because Of Its long .ilst
az appalling disasters which have ied SO
freely upon human life. 4 (.
Taking no account of the carnage OF It's
wars Including no accidents, however
III tragic which have not brought at least
five denths each, the total rises to 6,442
Al average loss Of life Of $50 month!
y or 8123 a week Of more than seventeen
day! This is the record Of ls 1901
Thirteen Appalling Tragedies.
"A iii omen stood on tho very threshold Of
+ the yeah, for, on January 1st, q railroad
wreck at willard, Kan, brought ten ff-
.@tnllties TO form tho first Item in the
n roster OF such hideous happenings, which
were to total at 554-nore than u fifth
Of this coming from the accident rear
Eden, Cal. last August, when 116 lives
were lost. Yet5there wereSnnc disasters
more fatal than that OF Eden. Here is a
4 iistNof bakers dozen in each OF which
!. al lcas t one hundred persisted: 582 NJ II d
Burning and sinking Of the steamer
soeum . ess
4 Bursting dam at Tsinan Ju, China,.. SOS
Collapsed pier Azoff, Russia. 1888 200
4 Cloud burst near Manila, P.$I .....{S 81 200
Tornado over Central and Southern
stS Rus Sia.. 49,. 1b
Harwlok mine explosion Pennsyl-
9s$ na..... $3.50. .,........ IS
capsized ferryboat, Kerson, Russia, 100
Railroad wreck near Eden. Cal...... 1l6f
4 Hurricane. Cochin China. .......... S107S
I Steamer '.Aramac" sunk OFF Aus ira 3S4
As ~
Fire at Binang. p. ..l..,,.:...... 100
" Girond Schlaffino" collision ~. 100
y ssf,2S I otal ., 400
The slocum" disaster stands in unique
horror In all history a quarterRof a
century ago, in the English river, Thames,
near Nv oolwich, the |" Princess Alice" was
/ run into ana sunk b. the : BywellY Castle
with loss of life reaching nearly to 100.
THAT. until the appalling news Of the.
5"Slocum, s.. ending came out Of New
York last June, was the worst river a C.
$cident Of record. The other marine ira
= gedys5of six months ago--the sinking OF!
the Norge" In the North Atlantic came
very near&to SURPRISING all its fatal pre-
q HQueen& Char lotte.' however, 5s 1900 # re-
suited IN E673 fatalities, and so must rank
~ f,rst S ~ ct take u the two most famous
ocean disasters the !" Royal g George
Il u7s.) the loss OF life (62l) was less by
Twenty-Five than onathe Norge,,Whll 9
on the Bourgoyne, sunk I'D eoilisloh
Greatest Loss of Life on Water.
548 yyIth#its losses classified under general
headings, this II is the reading OF lto y $
aSdeath roll: ss S e. rs q III "a tg{{33 ! Z, Y
Wind, cold and floods. l,4lo
Il !, iIrnad accident : E 81 " =. y. 554
+ Mine accfdents.... ...... ......... -
A Explosions. ~!
q Collapsed buildings. .....S} ~ ~
lrira y. /. \. e. /. o42
Snow and landsides..,. lso
Volcanoes and earthqlak .....sS ~
1.-THE Glorious Fourth -. 81
Skating and swimming accldents..... 5f 40
& Elevator and trolley Eaccidcnts........ y
SBallooning.. 90. $3.50. "a .
Total.....,.. o,44S
u The final three items emphasize the
necessary Incompetence OF any such
re cord as this 1t can be approximately
accurate but conditions imposed BY IN
8suffcency of records In many cases where
the loss Of life has amounted to only
enc or two. necessitate that the me
be drawn somewhere. AS has been said
no items llavo been included where loss
than I'VE lives NAVE been lost though the
aggregate of.'the- ones and twos. threes
and tours. could they all be gathered,
would swell this total to double It's pres
ert s. 44o. An Instance, indicative OF the
large figures soon rolled UP by what,
comparatively speaking, are little dis
asters, is TO be found III the fact that IN /
the city OF Greater New York alone, and Z
only for the months Of July and August
last. eighteen lives were lost In trolley
accidents, III every case one at a time.
The years full list, giving tho exact
dates as well as the fatalities Of each
disaster, follows; IN 5l
January.
"a. Railroad wreck. near Willard, Kan. 10
3. Steamer "LaIsley'' turned turtle"
"a In the Upper Congo................ "A
& !. Boiler explosion pm II. NJ. S.''Wal-
E@aeea luTOO
Z. Dynamite explosion, Mexico City,. 70
10. Extreme cold through Michigan,
7,Gf Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, and MASSACHUSETTS,. ...,. IS