The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-27

hundred men were either killed outright
by the explosion and flames or died Of
through the dark shafts for a way of
escape. The explosions at Sconeld, Utah.
1900 Hanna, Wyo.. 1903, and Cheeswick
Pa, the following year, each claimed 200
victims.
In tho Red Ash. w. Va. disaster, 1900
one hundred corpscs were brought out OF
the galleries by the resculng parties
Somewhat over q year later news camo
from South Wales that In the Universal
collery eight miners had met death Last
June 500 were killed In mine explosion
at Khartsisk, Russia
In tho explosion which wrecked Togo's
flagship. after that vessel had come
through the war with Russia practically
unscathed 500 of Japans brave, jackies
tasted death That was last fall, and a
year and half previous big headlines In
The newspapers informed the country that
an explosion on our battleshp Missouri
had killed five men and Injured twenty
nine. A disaster somewhat similar be-
fell the battleship Kearsarge only few
weeks since.
But the greatest disaster that has come
TO our navy III these seven years was the
explosion or the Benningtons boilers. as
that ship lay at her wharf In San Fran
cisco E1fty-eight bluetackets were killed
and ono hundred more or less severely in
jurOd.
dramatic explosions One occurred In
tho subway, IN 1902. then building. The
dead numbered six and tho injured 10,
plosion OF November, 1904. happened, Mad
Icon square was packed with thousands
of cclcbrants watching tho gubernat9rial
lost their lives and ono hundred were In
jured somo severely,
Fffty-eight lives wcre lost when the
Mass, exploded. This was in March of
1906.
Tornadoes, Tidal Waves, Hurricanes.
The wrccking of the United States
cruiser Yosemite by n typhoon that hit
Guam In 1900 was the first OF the series
typhoon hit Yokohama and the list of the
dead contained five hundred names.
All told. wind and water singly or
Gus disasters on land, the greatest OF
them all being the Overwhelming OF Gal
seven thousand lives were lost. and the
propcrty damaged was figured out TO be
thirty million dollars.
A hurricane raging In Tennessee took
hams (AlnO citizens were killed by tor
nado and tho tornado that struck Sny-
der. Okla. killed ono hundred and In
1ured one hundred and forty-one. a West
indian hurricane wiped out scores OF lives
and SIS, O00.ooo in property, A cloudburst
ut Clifton. s. c.. and another at Hopp
ner Or coming within few days OF
each other. killed fifty and 500 persons
respectively. The combined property lose
was four and "A half millions. The tor
nado that swoped down upon Gainesville.
Ca also caused heavy losses In life and
property.
The last four disasters occurred in 1913.
That year was also marked by big
Wntcrs Tho Paterson flood caused a loss
of three millions TO that city. sorcly tried
of recent years by the clements. Two
hundred persons We're drowned, 800 made
homeless and 100000 OF damage wrought
by the deluge that swept into and about
Topeka At the same time Kansas City
fFnr hIes1,
water This was In late May and carly
June: In March the height OF tho Missis-
sIppi nt New Orleans was 1913 feet break
Ing all high water gssssaA- Tbs year