Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-01-09
DISASTERS

Jan. 3-Explosion on oil tanker Aztec
at New York killed ten.
Jan 5.-Steamer Kanawha sank in Ohio
river: 40 lost.
Jan. s-Du Pont powder mills at Car
ney's Point, N. J.. blown up; six killed.
Jan. l5.-U. s. submarine E-2 blown up
at New York navy yard: four killed. Is
Jan 1s-Fire did 100000 damage in
Bergen. Norway. and $1.5OO,000 damage in
Jan 17.-Fire destroyed most of Writ.
Okla
Jan; 4--Fire at Molde. Norway. did
$500, coo damage
Jan 22-Great Northern train wrecked
by avalanche near Corea. Wash; six
Jan 2s-otay valley dam near San
Diego. Cal, broke: 90 dead
Feb. 2.-Japanese liner Daijin sunk in
collision; 100 lives lost.
Feb. 3.-Canadian parliament building at
ottawa DESTROYED by fire: seven lives lost
FEB. 16-Three British steamships. many
lighters and pier burned at Brooklyn;
Feb. 16.-Holland suffered from great
Feb. 20.-Great snowslides in Salzburg
Alps killed nearly 100 persons.
Feb. H.-Ten killed in wreck on New
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: 800
March 22.-Fifteen million dollar fire at
Nashville. Tenn. and $5,000.000 fire at Au-
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
April 17-Six killed, 20 injured in wreck
on New Haven road at Bradford, R. l.
April l9.-Tornadoes in Kansas and Mis-
April 22-More than 1000 lost in collision
between Chinese cruiser and transport
May S-Steamer 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 15.-Exploson in Du Pont powder
plant at Gibbstown. N. j., killed 49,
June Thirteen killed in train wreck at
Packard. Ia.
June Waterfront fire at San Francis
CO did $500, 900 damage
June 5.-Tornadoes killed 81 in Arkansas
and 40 in other middle Western states.
June 13.-Four killed in wo-million-dol-
lar fire at Baltimore.
July 4-Eleven killed. 376 hurt in Fourth
of July celebrations.
July 14.-U S. navy collier Hector sunk
in storm off Charleston. S. c.
July 20.-Hundreds of fishermen lost in
monsoon off Ceylon coast
July 22.-Six killed and 40 hurt by bvrnb
during San Francisco preparedness pa
rade.
July 24-Twenty-two men killed by gas
explosion in Cleveland water tunnel
Aug. 9.-Cloudburst in West Virginia re-
suited in nearly 100 deaths.
Aug. 12.-Trolley wreck at Johnstown.
Pa, killed %.
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 Hannwald,
Bohemia burst 300 dead.
Oct. 26.-Nineteen killed in burning of
hospital at Farnham, Quebec.
Nov S.-SteamerS Connemara and Re-
triever sunk by collision in Irish sea: go
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. S.-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