Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-31

deaux-Paris express; about the same time
between forty and fifty passengers were
killed at Ponts-de-Ce, France, when 7
train plunged through bridge, ana o.
tobers Is sixteen were killed In a wreck
at, Shrewsbury, England.
January 10 an~explosion of powder on
a Big Four train at Sundford. Ind. killed
twenty-five. and February 16 an electric
Williamsbridge, New York city. killing
twenty, and injuring, $50. March, IS twen-
ty-six were killed on the Southern Pa
ci1c near Cotton, Cal: April IL fifteen
were killed on the Canadian Eac,fc near
Chapleau. Ont; exactly "A month later
thirty-one were killed on the Southern
Pacific at Honda. Cal. July 10 thirty
were killed and nearly seyeuty hurt IN
collision between freight and an sNcur-
sion train near Salem, Mich. September
Maine near Canaan, in which twenty were
killed and thirty hurt. September % flf-
teen were killed and many injured by a
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio at Bell
aire. Ohio.
January the military storehouses and
gun dock at Portsmouth. England. were
burned: loss. &1.2j0Oo0. A day later
Bangkok, capital Of Siam. suffered
s3.0oO.o On fire: McGill University: Toronto,
had a shOOOoOO fire April 5: 1000 were
rendered homeless by fire in Iloilo. Phil
ippine Islands. April 49, There was. a
81 500, 600 fire at Coney Island July %:
next day the big Long Beach Hotel on
LoHg Island was burned; many summer
hotels were destroyed by fire at Old
Orchard. Me.,~Auguste IS. On August is
100 lives were lost by the burning of the
japanese steamer Tafu on the Iangtse
KianE. August 20 300 lives were lost and
1900 buildings destroyed by fire at Ha-
kodate. Japan. November 8 there was
s.. rs 900 fire in the Great Northern ele-
vator at Superior. wis. r.,
T January 10 severe typhoon swept the
islands of Leyte and Samar. hundreds or
lives being lost: January 10 the Ohio
floods had driven 800 from their homes:
January 20. 100 lives were lost in a
typhodn at Hongkong; losses amounting
to millions were suffered from floods near
Pittsburg in mid March. 1t was esti-
mated that the damage done by the
cyclone at Kurrachi India, June 8
Announced to about s4,5o0OoO, and the
same day twenty-one persons We're killed
by cloudburst at Gradyvtlle, ky. The
last week in September floods did great
damage in southern France and in Spain.
At Herault alone in France the damage
was 81. CSC 600.
OF the worlds navies, the French suf-
fered the heaviest disasters. March II,
at Toulon. the warship jena was de-
stroyed by an explosion and III lives
were lost. The Jena Bart foundered
few days later but no lives were lost.
On July 15 occurred an explosion OF
powder in a turret of the United States
battleship Georgia. killing ten officers end
men and fnjuring many. September 10
there was an explosion on the japanese
battleship Kashima. which killed thirty
one and wounded eight.
January 70. 200 miners were killed
by an explosion of firedamo near Saar
Brucken, Rhenish Prussia; 400 Japanese
miners were killed in a colltery ex-
plosion in Hungo province July u:
October Is thirty we're killed and 100
hurt in powder mill explosion near
Fontanet. Ind: December l mine ex-
plosion. at Monongahela. Pa. entombed
between fifty and sixty men; and De-
cenrber 6. 800 were entombed by explo-
sions in two mines near Fairmont. w. Va.
One OF the most disastrous 'landsIides
Of modern time occurred October p,
Turkestan. 1t was the result Of an earth
quake. and the victims numbered about
14.OOO Three days later 100 were killed
and two towns destroyed by earthquakes
in southern Italy.
August 30 the great cantilever bridge
in course of construction over the ST.
Lawrence at Quebec fell and 81 persons
-
The cruise Of the' ba ttleship fleet to
the Pacific must rank as one of the i'm
portant events>of the year
Cruise OF When Secretary Metcalf
I'll. rlsst was in California IN July
- Investigating the troubles
with the Japanese he announced that
our Atlantic feet of-warships was to go
to Pacific waters by way of tho Horn,
kAi- yoooa oil No dooe ,f y>arar