The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-12-31

l3-Colege of Pacific defeats Utah State
50 to 81 in Grape Bowl grid game.
:aasssI January
91 Five killed when Dos
WA transport crashes near
Charleston, S. G.
TRANSPORT plane falls near Carmel,
N. j., Killing 3, injuring 20
l2-Airliner crashes near Galax. Va.
killing ID of 10 aboard.
l3-Fifteen miners die in gas explosion
in coal mine in Nottingham, Pa.
3O-Tornado sweeping through Alabama,
Tennessee. Arkansas and Missouri
kills 20
February
l8-Twenty.one killed. l28 injured when
train plunges over 150-fOot embark
ment in Allegheny mountains near
Altoona, Pa
20-Explosion of tank in electroc,ating
factory in central Los Angeles Kills
Is. Injuries 1853, demolishes area hail
mile square.
March
25-Worst mine disaster since 1928
takes toll Of Ill lives in Centralia.
April
2-Exploslon In fireworks plant in Clin-
ton, Mo, kills 10.
handle and % Oklahoma. killing 1873.
hardest hit, with "a dead.
l6-Most of Texas City, Tex, destroyed
by enormous explosion when freight
er. loaded with nitrate fertilizer ex-
Lode horhnr and cnfC fro IN
docks, oil tanks and factories. Fire
RACES for three days. Toll: 400 kill
ed, $500 injured
2s-Tornado DESTROYS Worth. Mo. Kill.
ing IA. Another tWiSter kills In
rural northwest Arkansas
May
6-Outbreak OF infant dlarrhea in Phila.
delphia area causes deaths of q
babies
29-Forty-two killed when DC-4 airliner
crashes after take-off at La Guardia
field New York. Seven survive.
30-DC-4 airliner crashes near Ft. De-
post, Md, killing all SO on board.
Two crashes rank as worst air dis
asters in U. S. history.
31-Tornado strikes Leedy. Okla. wreck
ing town. killing 6.
June
Tornado kills IS in farming section
near Pine Bluff, Ark.
9-Mississippi river floods lowlands in
northern Missouri. southern Iowa
and Illinois. forcing $4,000 to aban.
don homes Seven drowned at OF.
tumWa, Iowa
l3-An so on board DC-4 airliner killed
when it strikes mountain near Lees
S Neb no0o oio"''s Ii oa''0f0se'
July
s-Tornado kills II near Grand Forks.
l3-Chartered DC-3 transport plane
crashes in swamp near Melbourne.
Fla, killing 81, injuring Is.
29-Explosion wrecks beauty shop, In
Harrisonburg. Va. Ten women killed.
30 persons injured.
August
8-Four die when chartered plane dives
into chimney of gas plant In Ever.
ett Mass. q
September
3-Labor day weekend takes death toll
of 456, compared with 457 in 1916.
1l-TWenty killed when exclusion boat
blows up at Pittsburgh dock.
Forda cr SwsepS Gulf Of Mexco
strikes Louisiana, Mississippi and
Arkansas. Toll: 100 killed, many in
jured, property loss of Is to 30 mil
hon UOlldIS.
21-Flood following hurricane browns
81 in New Orleans area.
29-Fire on New York City pier results
in injuries to IA fremen. five mil
lion dollar loss.
October
24-Fifty-tWo killed when transport plane
crashes in Bryce Canyon, Utah.
25-Forest fires in Maine kill II, destroy
many homes. Fires rage throughout
northeastern states.
26-Transport hits mountain in Alaska.
killing Is.
November
13-Army plane nits Mt. Spokane. WASH.
killing five men.
21-Nine naval personnel killed, two
saved in crash of bomber in Pacific,
100 miles southwest of San Diego.
Calf
December
9-Army plane crashes near Goose
al Nv