The Omaha guide., 1947-12-27

OF 1912
January

Charleston, S. c..
Transport plane falls near Carmel.
N. j., killing 3, injuring 20.
12-Airliner crashes near Galax. Va.
killing IS of 19 aboard.
13-Fifteen miners die in gas explosion
in coal mine in Nottingham, Pa.
30-Tornado sweeping through Alabama,
Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri
kills 20.
February
1~s-Twenty-one killed, 1913 injured when
train plunges over 150-foot embark
ment in Allegheny mountains near
Altoona, Pa.
20-Explosion of tank in electroplating
factory in central Los Angeles kills
Is. Injuries 1853. demolishes area half
mile square.
March
25-Worst mine disaster since 1923
takes toll of Ill lives in Centralia.
ILL.,. explosion.
April
2-Explosion in fireworks plant In Gin.
ton, Mo-, kills 10.
9LTornadoes rip through Texas Pan
handle and Oklahoma. killing 1873.
hardest hit, with "a dead.
16-Most of Texas City. Tex, destroyed
by enormous explosion when freight
er. loaded with nitrate fertilizer, eX-
plodes in harbor and sets fire to
docks, oil tanks and factories. Fire
RACES for three days. Toll; 400 kill
ed, $500 injured.
29-Tornado destroys Worth, Mo-, kill
ing IA. Another twister kills 9 in
rural northwest Arkansas.
May
6-Outbreak of infant diarrhea 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.
3O-DC-4 airliner crashes near FIT. 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-MlsSlSSippl river floods lowlands In
northern Missouri, southern Iowa
n Illinois. forcing %. 900 to aban-
tumwa, Iowa.
13-Al so on board DC-4 airliner killed
when 1t strikes mountain neal Lees
burg, Va.
22-Flash food browns IL in Cambridge,
Neb.
July
tornado kills II near Grand Forks.
13-Chartered Dos transport plane
crashes in swamp near Melbourne.
Fla, killing 81, injuring Is.
2s-Explosion wrecks beauty shop in
Harrisonburg. Va Ten women killed.
80 persons injured.
August
8-Four die when chartered plane dives
into chimney of gas plant in Ever
EFT. Mass.
September
S-Labor day weekend takes death toll
of 456. compared with Asst in 1916.
l1-Twenty killed when exclusion boat
blows up at Pittsburgh dock.
20-Hurricane sweeps in over southern
Florida. crosses Gulf of Mexico.
strikes Louisiana, Mississippi and
Arkansas. Toll: 100 killed, many in
jured, property loss of Is to 30 mill
lion dollars.
21-Flood following hurricane browns
81 in New Orleans area.
29-Fire on New York City pier results
in injuries to LA firemen, 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 ID.
November
13-Army plane hits Mt. Spokane. Wash.
killing five men.
21-Nine ava personnel killed, two
saved in crash of bomber in Pacific,
100 miles southwest of San Diego.
Calf.
December
e-Army plane crashes near Goose
Bay. Labrador; % die. six rescued.
1.-Two passenger trains collide head
on near New Braunfels. Tex, killing
two. injuring nine.
l2-Army plane burns and crashes neal
Memphis. Tenn. killing 20.
15-CAB tabulation shows 1947 toll of
274 fatalities in mishaps involving
scheduled a~irlines.