Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-01-10
DISASTERS

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Fires, railrond accidents ana expIo-
sions took n heavy toll OF human life
on land during the year 1913 while the
elements combined with the torpedOes
OF the German U-boats to send thou
sands o. innocent persons. including
women and children. to their death ut
sen.
Fifty-twO children met death In "A
fire which destroyed u convent Mt Mon
trenl. Canada, February Il. February
"a the liner FlorIzel. hound from ST
Johns. N. r., to New York, was
wrecked by n blizzard near Cape Rae,
and 02 lives were lost.
Seventy inmates OF nm Insnne asylur
Mt Norman. Okla. were killed In a H.
which destroyed that institution App
IL.
On May l the Savannah liner City
Athens was sunk In n collision with
French cruiser of the Delaware coa,
and 60 lives were lost. ON May
nearly n hundred persons were kllle
by explosions In the Aetna Chemlci
i'"HN H'ul III. n
Slxty-three persons. including well.
known circus performers. persisted
when n circus train was wrecked n
Gary Ind. June %. Fifty persons wer,
killed by the collapse Of n building a
Sioux City. Ia, June 20.
A small factory explosion In England
killed so persons July l and on the fol-
lowing day an explosion In n munitions
plant rear Syracuse. N. Y, killed 10.
Elghty-Hve merrymnkers persisted
when an excursion boat sank In the
Illinois river July O.. A hundred per-
sons were killed IN n collision between
two trains near Nashville, Tenn.
July q.
During the months Of September
and October hundreds OF persons lost
their lives at sen either by accident
or by the t%orpedoing of passenger
bonts by German submarines. On Sep
tember ~ the British steamer Galway
Castle was torpedoed and $50 persons.
Including ~ wOmen and children. were
lost. The American cargo boat IT.
conderogn was tOrpedoed September
30 and 213 persons were lost. a tor
pedo boat sank n Japanese liner on Oc-
tober 4 and 200 persons were drowned.
A tornado swept n part OF Minnesota
August 81, killing 30 persons at Tyler
and Connors.
On October O the United States trans
port OtrantO was sunk In collision on
the Irish coast and $50 persons lost
their lives. -Four hundred were lost
when the British mail bont Leinster
was torpedoed and sunk October 10.
A series of terrific explosions In a
shell-loadlng plant at Morgan. N. j.,
on October 3 killed ~ persons and de-
stroyed a vast amount OF property. A
severe earthquake which cnused the
death Of 100 persons was reported In
Porto Rico October II. Great forest
fires ragged IN northeastern Minnesota
during October. Many towns were de
stroyed and about 1000 lives we're lost.
On October % the steamship Princess
Sophia was wrecked on the Alaskan
coast and 3i3 were lost.
Nlnety-elght persons were killed No
vember ! IN a wreck on the brooklyn
Rapid Transit lines. On November 81,
about 1900 persons were reported
killed by the explosion Of German mu-
milton trains on route from Belgium Ia
Germany.
One Of the most unusunl cases IN
maritime history wns that Of the
ualted States navy collier Cyclups.
which disappeared NJ sen while hound
from the West indies 10 mn American
Atlantic port. Announcement was
made April II that the bout, with 29s
persons IN honrd, was n month over,
due. Not n single trace OF the boat
or us passengers and crew was eyci
found, aud the fnte Of the vessel Is q
complete mystery.
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