The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-12-29
DISASTERS

jan 3.-Explosion on oil tanker Azte;,
at New York killed ten.
Jan 5.Steamer kanawha sank in Ohio
Jan g. -Du Pont powder mills at Car
ney's Point, N. j.. blown up; six killed.
Jan. 5.-U. S. submarine E-2 blown up
hurt.
Jan. I6-Ffre did $40 ooO, 900 damage in
Bergen. Norway. and sl.5O0OCO damage in
Jan l7.-Fire destroyed most of Writ.
.=5 dan 90 2l,-Fire at Molde. Norway. did
Jan 22.-Great Northern train wrecked
by avalanche near Corea. Wash; six
Jan 2S-Otay valley dam near San
Diego Cal. broke: 30 dead
Feb. 2.-Japanese liner Daijin sunk in
collision: 160 lives lost
FEB. 3--Canadian parliament building al
Ottawa destroyed by fire; seven lives lost
FeD. lb-Three British steamships. many
lighters and a pier burned at Brooklyn;
Feb. l6. -Holland suffered from great
storm and floods
Feb. 2O.-Great snowslides in Salzburg
Alps killed nearly 100 persons.
Haven road.
Feb. 29.-Fifteen men killed by explo-
sion in mine at Kempton w. Va.
March 5.-SpaniSh steamer Principe de
Asturias hit rock and sank off Brazil: 300
lost.
March Fifteen million dollar fire at
Nashville. Tenn. and $5.U0.OO0 fire at Au-
March 2s.-Twenty- killed and many
Injured in collision on New York Central
lines near Cleveland.
April S.-Bob Burman Of Detroit and
two others killed in Corona, CAL, auto
race.
April 17.-Six killed. 40 injured in wreck
on New Haven road at Bradford. r. l.
April 19.-Tornadoes in Kansas and Mis-
souri, killed II.
April 22.-More than 1000 lost in collision
between Chinese cruiser and transport
May SrSteamer Kirby sank in Lake Su-
perior: 20 lost.
May I3-Carl Limberg. driver, and R.
Pallotti mechanician. killed in road race
at Sheepshead Bay
May 15.-Explosion in Du Point powder
plant at Gibbstown. N. J., killed 49,
June 2.-Thirteen killed in train wreck at
Packard. Ia.
June 4-waterfront fire at San Francis
CO did $4,000 damage
June 5.-Tornadoes killed 81 in Arkansas
and 40 in other middle Western states
June 13-Four killed in two-million dol
lar fire at Baltimore.
July 4.-Eleven killed. S7S hurt in Fourth
of July celebrations. 3
July l-U s. navy collier Hector sunk
in storm off Charleston S. G.
July 0.-Hundreds of fishermen lost in
monsoon off Ceylon coast.
July 22-SiX killed and 40 hurt by bomb
during San Francisco preparedness pa
rade.
July 4.-Twenty-two men killed by gas
explosion in a Cleveland water tunnel
Aug. 9.-Cloudburst in West Virginia re-
suited in nearly 100 deaths.
Aug. 12.-Trolley wreck at Johnstown.
Pa. killed Is.
Aug. 29.-U. S. armored cruiser Mem
phis wrecked in Santo Domingo harbor: Al
dead.
Sept. 12-Central span of great bridge
over st. Lawrence at Quebec fell: q
killed.
Sept 1s.-Great dam near HannwaId.
Bohemia, burst; 300 dead.
~ Oct 26.-Nineteen killed in burning of
hospital at Farnham. Quebec.
Nov. 3-Steamers Connemara and Re
triever sunk by collision in Irish sea: 80
lost
Nov. Fifty lives lost when Boston L
car plunged off bridge.
Nov. 21.-Explosion at Bakaritza. Rus
STA. killed 341
Dec 1.-Sixty-six persons killed in
train collision in Austria.
Dec. 9.-Thousand killed by explosion in
Russian ammunition factory
Dec. 11.-Million dollar fire destroyed
Quaker Oats plant at Peterboro. Ont.
Dec. 13-Canadian torpedo boat Grilse
foundered: As lost