New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-12-29
DISASTERS

Jan. 3-Explosion on oil tanker Aztec
al. New York killed ten.
a 5-Steamer Kanawha sank in Ohio
river: 10 lost.
ney's Point, N. j.. blown up; six killed.
Jan. l5.-U. S. submarine E-2 blown up
a. New York navy yard; four killed. 1s
Jan. l6.-F1re did SO. 0OO. 900 damage In
bergen, Norway. and sl.5Oo.OOO damage in
Jan. H-Fire destroyed most Of Writ.
,zd Sa no H;mFire at Mode. Norway. did
Jan. % Great Northern train wrecked
by avalanche near Corea. Wash; six
Jan. 2s.-Otay valley dam near San
Diego. Cal. broke; so dead.
Feb. 2.-Japanese liner Daijin sunk In
collision; lO lives lost.
FEB. ~3.-Canadian parliament building at
Ottawa destroyed by fire; seven lives lost.
Feb. l6-Three British steamships. many
lighters n,a an nd a pier burned at Brooklyn:
Feb. 16-Holland suffered from great
storm and floods
Feb; @.-Great snowslides in salzburg
Alps Killed nearly 100 persons.
Feb. 2l.-Ten killed in wreck on New
Haven road.
Feb. 2s-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
gusta, Ga.
March 29.-Twenty-six 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 1L-six killed, 40 injured in wreck
on New Haven road at Bradford, r. |.
ADTll 9-lOrnadOeS in Kansas and Mis-
souri, killed II.
April 2-More than 1000 lost in collision
between Chinese cruiser and TRANSPORT.
May S-Stea mer Kirby sank in Lake Su-
perior, 20 lost.
May 13.-Carl Limberg. driver. and r.
Pallotti. mechanician, killed in road race
at Sheepshead Bay
May l5.-Explosion in Du Point powder
plant at Gibbstown, n. J., killed Is.
June 2;-Thirteen killed in train wreck at
June 4-Waterfront fire at San Francis
co did $500, 600 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 ELEVEN killed, 376 hurt in Fourth
Of July celebrations.
July f.-U. s.. navy collier Hector sunk
in storm off Charleston, S. c..
July m.-Hundreds of fishermen lost in
monsoon off Ceylon coast.
July 22,-Six killed and 40 hurt by bomb
I'M ooh preparedness pa
rade.
July 24.-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 25.
phis wrecked in Santo Domingo harbor: IL
dead.
Sept. 12.-Central span of great bridge
OYER st. Lawrence at Quebec fell; q
Sept. 1s.-Great dam near Hannwald.
Bohemia, burst; 800 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; 81
lost,
Nov. Fifty lives lost when Boston L
car plunged off bridge.
Nov. 2l-Explosion at Bakaritza. Rus
STA. killed 34l.
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.