Evening star., 1916-12-31
Disasters
Land and Sea

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pedoed by submarines or blown up
by mines. The greatest loss of life in
accidents or attacks of this kind oc-
CURED February 26. when the French
cruiser Province was sunk in the Medi-
terranean sea and $3.50 persons were
drowned. On April 20 more than
1000 lives were lost in a collision be-
tween a Chinese cruiser and a trans
port.
On January 5 the steamer Kanawha
sank in the Ohio river with a loss Of
forty lives. On January 8 the du Pont
powder mills at Carneys Point. N. j..
were blown up and six workmen were
killed. On January Is the United
States submarine E-2 was blown up
at the New York navy yard. Four
men were killed and fifteen were hurt
by the explosion. On January % six
the Great Northern railroad was
wrecked by an, avalanche near Corea,
Wash. On January rs the Otay val
ley dam. near San Diego. Cal. broke.
causing the loss of fifty lives.
On February the Japanese liner
Daijin was sunk in a collision and 100
lives were lost. February the Cana
dian parliament building at Ottawa
was destroyed by fire which was
started by bombs. with a loss of six
hNSS. Soi udIy LILO ITcUCH
Admiral Charnier was torpedoed and
sunk with loss of 374 lives. Feb
ruary 16 nine persons were killed when
the opera house at Mexia. Tex, was
destroyed by fre. February 16 great
storm swept Europe, causing heavy
land. February 20 great snowslides
in the Salzburg Alps killed nearly 100
persons February % ten persons
were killed in a triple collision on the
railroad near Bridgeport. Conn. Feb
ruary 90 an explosion in mine at
Kempton. w. Va, killed fifteen men.
On March the Spanish steamer
Principe de Asturias struck a rock and
sank of the coast Of Brazil. with a
were burned to death in the Jail at Ell
Paso, Tex. Disastrous fires occurred
simultaneously March % at Nashville,
Tenn. and Augusta. Ga. At Nashville
s15.000.0O0 and 5000 persons were made
homeless. At Augusta the loss amount
ed to s5.000.o00. March 26 six persons
were burned to death in a fire at the
San Antonio. Tex. Country Club.
On March 2S twenty-six persons were
killed and many were injured in a col
lision on the New York Central rail-
road near Cleveland. Ohio. Six were
killed and forty injured in a wreck on
the New Haven railroad at Bradford.
r. l.. April II.
On April 10 Kansas and Missouri were
swept by tornadoes which killed seven
teen persons. June tornadoes killed
ffty-seven persons in Arkansas and
states. May the steamer Kirby sank
in Lake Superior and twenty lives were
lost. May Is an explosion In the du
Pont powder plant at Gibbstown, N. j..
killed in train wreck at Packard.
Iowa, June 2.
Hundreds of fishermen were lost in
a monsoon off the Ceylon coast July 20.
forty were hurt by the explosion of a
bomb in San Francisco, while a pre-
paredness parade was in progress.
July "a twenty-five men were killed
mel at Cleveland. Ohio. A trolley wreck
at Johnstown. Pa. took a toll of twen-
ty-five lives August IL. August 29 the
United States cruiser Memphis was
wrecked by a storm in the harbor at
Santo Domingo and forty-one lives
Twenty-seven men were killed Sep
tember 12 when the central span of a
great bridge being built over the St.
and fell. september is a great dam
near Hannwald. Bohemia. burst and
800 persons were drowned. September
20 China appealed to the world for aid
f9o se2 RsaRe homes whs bad sS rea nssa
floods. A fire in the Christian Brothers
College atsSt Louis. NO.. killed nine
men october S. and nineteen persons
lost their lives in a fire which de-
stroyed a hospital at Farnham, Que
bee, October 26. November the steam
ers Connemara and Retriever were
sunk by collision in the Irish sea
and ninety-two were lost. On Novem-
Der fifty lives were lost when a Bos-
ton IL" car plunged off a bridge An
explosion at Bakaritza, Russia, No
vember 81 resulted in the death of BAL
persons.
The toll of well