Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
ACCIDENTS

JANUARY.
2. IS deaths in a wreck on Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific at Volland, Kan.
10. 16 deaths in a collision on the Big Four
at Fowler, Ind.
"a dead and q injured in a wreck caused
by powder explosion on the Big Four
system at Sanford. Ind.
e. 20 miners killed by explosion in a coal
mine near Primero. Colo.
26. Fire damp explosion in a coal mine at
Lievin, France, caused a heavy loss
of life.
IL deaths in q mine explosion at Lo-
rentz. w. Va.
%. las miners killed by fire damp explosion
at Johann-on-Saar. Prussia.
20. Explosion in the Stewart mine. Fa-
yette county, w. Va, killed rs miners.
1. 10 miners killed in an explosion in tho
Thomas mine at Elkins. Va.
g. 9 killed by explosion on tho French
torpado boat Spod at L'Orient, France.
lS. q killed ard over 100 injured in an
electric express train wreck on the
New York Central at New York city.
II. 80 coal miners killed in an explosion
at Coahuila. Mexico.
MARCH.
IL. 1903 French seamen killed by explosion
IN the battleship Lena at Toulon.
16. A cage cable accident at the Saarlouis
mines, Rhenish Prussia. killed % min
Fire damp killed 70 miners In the coal
mines near Forbach, Germany.
q. 26 killed and 100 injured in a wreck on
the Southern Pacific near Cotton. Cal.
April.
I. Z fremen. including a captain. killed
in a fire which destroyed the Metro
politan Street railway power house
and car barns in New York city.
26. 4 billed and IL hur, bv the COLLAPSE of
d. and o. pier at Baltimore.
/. IA killed by gas explosion in tho ship
pie mine at Scarboro. W. Va.
IL. SO dead In a wreck on the Southern
Pacific at Honda, Cal.
JUNE.
II. II men belonging to the battleship
Minnesota lost from a launch off Nor
folk. Va.
IL. 10 killed and II injured by n mysteri-
GUS explosion In the turret of the bat
tleship Georgia during target practice
at Boston.
IT, 8 persons killed and many injured by
the collapse of a building in London.
cent.
20. 80 killed and many injured in a wreck
on the Pere Marquette road near Sa-
lem. Mich.
80 u ~ OoN W lac AA''
steamer Frontenac on Cayusa lake.
AUGUST.
Is. 0 killed and so injured by explosion In
a dynamite factory at Doeinitz. Ger
many.
80. 27 persons killed and so injured in
head-on collision on the interurban
electric line at Charleston, III.
SEPTEMBER.
g. 6 killed and 20 injured in a wreck on
the Canadian Pacific near Caledon,
Ont.
6. II killed and many injured In a COL
lision on the Rock Island and Pacific
at Norris, la.
10. % killed and as many injured In q
head-on collision on the Boston and
Maine at West Canaan. n. II.
20. 81 persons killed and as many more
injured In q collision or the Mexican
Central at Encarnacion.
u. $ killed and 20 injured in n wreck on
the Baltimore and Ohio at Bellaire. q.
OCTOBER
=, 10 persons killed and 80 injured by the
derailment of a passenger train on the
London and Northwestern at Shrews-
bury. England.
by explosions in the Du Pont powder
mills at Fontanet, Ind.
DECEMBER.
2. A. deaths from gas explosion In the
Naomi mine near Pittsburg, Pa.
G. Explosion OF black damp In mines Mes.
and s Of the Fairmount Coal Co. at
Monongah W. Va, resulted In the
death of between 3oe and to miners.