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

canoes have taken their tens of thou.
sands, victims by the hundreds OF thou
sands have been inundated on the altar
of the god OF war.
Both on land and sea, what war
fought whit modern weapons has beep
more disastrous to life and property than
tGry inherited the Bocr war There was
the Boxer war. with It's massacre of mis-
sionertes and, native Christians, and the
punitive armies that punished sorely.
Civil war ended IN Colombia late In 1902
after the country had become well-nigh
exhausted from the struggle; and in the
Same year 5000 dead and wounded were
left by the revolutionary army on a SIN
gle Venezuelan battlefield.
Our army undoubtedly slew thousands
In putting down the insurrection in the
Philippines. Revolution after revolution
has bloodled Santo Domingo. Fighting
has recently been going on in Ecuador.
T6i T6ihst f5pngnHsoanGs 5rngaSt expedition Into
haoitant OF the worlds tableland. The
English have fought the Mad Mullah In
somaliland, and have In turn been at
lost whole regiments in quelling re-
oellion In Yemen province. Arabia Vene-
Zuela repulsed Colombian invaders. and
Germany. after many months of bloody
and costly fighting, has not yet subdued
the black abori8ines Of German South
Africa.
1t is, said. without fear of contradic-
tion, that the disaster of war has been
present on some spot of the globe ever
since the century began. And a large
part of the time It has been exceedingly
bloody war.
A Long List Of Fires.
Including the San Francisco fire. there
nave been at least a score OF conflagra-
tons entailing great property loss or
heavy loss oil life. Most nt them have
smittcn various cities eirner IN this coun-
try or Canada
Biggest In the amount OF property de-
Stroycd, San Francisco excepted, was tho
BaI%timore aS % tre: largest from the number
OF lives lost was the Iroquos fire In Chit
caBo. In the one case S.000.0O0 worth
ol properly went up In smoke. In the
other 600 lives were taken by the smoke
and fame sheet, or the rush for the exits
that followed the outbreak OF the fire 1t
The Patterson FIRE of 1892 made 1000
age In the Hoboken docks fire Of
two years before not only docks, ocean
s,6 ssteamers a.I rs and merchandise to the value Of
hundred lives were lost, as Well. many
OF tho victims dying like rats In the burn
Ing hulls Of liners,
Tho same year nearly all of Hull and
eway by tho lro demon. Twelve thou
sand persons were made homeless, seven
lost thor lives. and tho property loss
suffered a $3.50. 600 fire. The same month
GJanuary) fire In the orphan asylum In
hochester. N. Y, took twenty-six young
ives Three months later a $1,000 900
tlre wiped out the business portion OF
JacksonNille, Fla. and three years
later the business section OF Rochester
81 coo, 600.
1t was on April 20. 1901, that Toronto
FOUND Itself in the grasp OF the fro demon.
and before 1t could be overcome the
greater part of the city had been de-
sItroyed 100000 In property going up
IN smoke. In January OF the same
year 10000 thousand persons were mado
homeless at Aalesund. Norway, and
year before that forty-two insane women
met death In "a blaze In the Solney Hatch
asylum, London.
-Four years ago occurred tho Atlantic
City beach hotels nre, sl,O0000O; the Wa
oUo.opo; and the Park Avenue hotel holo-
GSaaust, New York City. in which seventeen
nVeS were lost by suffocaton The Little
ltock, Ark, fire OF last year burned up
square mile of buildings, causing a loss
of 81. 100000.
Excluding the San Francisco fro. over
uisu uhSuIhalf the property loss fell io 1904,
.ne largest number of lives sacrificed to
the flames In eleven OF these great
nres the property loss totalcd $l3I. .0O0 60
over Sll.O0O000 more than the Govern
iInents expenditures on the army during
'"e hscal year enninS June 30. 1906,
Thousands Lost in Explosions.
Despite all the safeguards thrown
ABOUT the business OF mining by the State
aiiu tho mine owners, 900 miners lost
tue,r lives In just seven OF tho various
eoal mine explosions. Tho most disas-
Eous OF these explosions was that in
4 runce. at the Courriere mines, Twelve