Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Regarded from the viewpoint of the
mortality involved the ravages of the bu-
homie plague in India, Manchuria and
Russia during the earlier months of the
year furnish the climax of disaster to the
human race. Ia the month of March a
total of $1,000 deaths occurred in India
alone. The population of entire villages
was wiped out in Manchuria. where tens
of thousands were victims of the scourge
In Russia, in one month, the plague
claimed $3.50 victims.
The cholera ragged mercilessly in the
Levant and in southern Europe during
the late summer and autumn. More than
fifty thousand fell victims of the disease
in the Italian peninsula, and in Turkey
and its outlying dependencies whole vii
lagos were depopulated by the disease.
series of destructive earthquake
shocks in Mexico June resulted in the
death of 10 persons. In January an
earthquake at Vyerny, Asiatic Russia,
killed 100 Inhabitants of the town. In
the same month an eruption of Mount
Taal, on the Island Of Luzon, accom-
panied by a series of earthquakes, caused
the death of 200 persons. In February
fishing village of 2lO inhabitants estab-
ilshed on the ice near Heislngfors, Fin
land. was carried by a gale into the sea.
in July forest fires in the province of
Ontario caused the loss of upward of 100
lives
Wind Plays Havoc.
August % wind storm with a velocity
of eighty-fve miles an hour struck
Charleston. s. c., with loss of fifteen
lives and the destruction of 100000
worth OF property. In September 10000
persons were made homeless by the erup-
ton of Mount Etna, and great floods.
affecting 700 miles of the Yangste-kiang
valley, caused the death of thousands of
Chinese. In the same month many hun
dred lives were lost in q typhOon which
DESTROYED several towns in Formosa:
october a severe storm on the coast Of
Holland destroyed more than 15O vessels
and caused a loss Of many lives.
The bursting of large reservoir near
Huelva, Spain, caused the death of many
persons and the flooding of miles of ter
ritory. September so the bursting of
dam at Austin, Pa, releasing the water
OF a storage reservoir forty feet in depth.
practically destroyed the town and sew
eral smaller ones and caused the death
OF Seventy-four persons.
On the first day of February an ex-
plosion of many tons of dynamite and
the Central Railroad Of New Jersey. op-
posite New York city. killed thirty work
men, destroyed pier and damaged prop
erty for many miles. Fire in a moving
picture theater at Bologoe, Russia, de-
stroyed 40 persons March 5. Four days
later a powder explosion at the works of
the Latin Rand Powder Company at
Pleasant Prairie. Wis, destroyed the vii
lage and killed forty. A shirt waist fac
tory fire in New York city March % re-
suited in the death of AS persons, mostly
women, many of whom jumped from the
upper story windows. owing to made
the steamer Sechelt foundered off IAN
eouver and twenty-six were drowned.
Disastrous colliery Fire.
seventy-three men and boys lost their
lives April 1 in fire at the Pancoast
colliery. Scranton. Pa Next day 12S
coal miners. most Of them convicts, were
killed in an explosion in the Banner mine,
near Littleton, Ala April % the derail-
ment of school teachers excursion
train near Easton. Pa. resulted In the
death CT twelve persons: A boiler ex-
plosion on the City of st. Joseph, near
Memphis. Tenn, June "A. killed seven
teen persons.
July IL fourteen were killed and many
injured in the wreck Of the Federal ex-
press near Bridgeport, Conn. Twenty
one miners were killed in an explosion at
Sykesville, Pa, July 16. BY the founder
ing of the French steamer Emir in the
Mediterranean August eighty-six of
the passengers and crew were drowned.
August - twenty-eigh lost their lives
in the wreck of Lehigh Valley railroad
train which jumped the track on via
quot near manchester. N Y. false
alarm of fire at a moving picture show at
Canonsburg, Pa, August 20 caused a
stampede and twenty-six were suffo-
Gated September "A thirteen persons
were killed and eight seriously injured
when a train struck a hay wagon filled
with picnickers near Neenah, Wis The
French battleship Iiberte was blown to
pieces September % by series Of ex-
posions in her magazines, and 235 of her
crew lost their lives.
In January electric plantS of Min
neapolis, Mimi. and Santiago. Chile, were
destroyed. with a loss of 100000 and
S2.u0,OOo. respectively. a fire in Feb
ruary wiped out 30 buildings in the ma
tive quarter of Manila In March the
state capitol at Aroany. y. Y, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire. many Valuable
documents in the state library being
burned. The last day of April about
one-third or the city of Bangor, Me- was
burned. with a property loss of $500
600. May "a fire obliterated the amuse-
ment resort known as Dreamland at
Coney Island, y. Y, with a loss of sew
eral million dollars. In July fire de-
vastated two square miles of the SIAM
bou district of Constantinople, destroy
ing more than 1000 buildings.
In December 1J6 miners were entombed
two miles underground in a coal mine at
Briceville, Tenn, and only ten We're even
tually rescued.