List of disasters in the United States by death toll

Columns: Year | Type | Fatalities | Article | Location | Comments
1943 | Military strike - bombing | 1,173 | HMT Rohna | Mediterranean Sea | Luftwaffe glide bomb hit troopship causing the largest loss of U.S. soldiers ( 1,050 ) at sea due to enemy action in a single incident | 1904 | Accident - shipwreck | 1,021 | PS General Slocum | East River near New York City | Steamship sank due to fire on board . Deadliest maritime disaster in New York City , and deadliest in city 's history until 2001 | 1893 | Tropical cyclone | 1,000-2,000 | 1893 Sea Islands hurricane | Georgia , South Carolina | Fatalities estimated | 1918 | Wildfire ( rural ) | 1,000 | 1918 Cloquet fire | Minnesota | 1978 | Mass murder - suicide | 918 | Jonestown | Jonestown , Guyana | Jim Jones , cult leader of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project , convinced most of the group to drink grape Flavor Aid poisoned with cyanide or to inject themselves and their children with cyanide , totaling 909 deaths of U.S. nationals . A family of four other Temple members committed murder/suicide by knife in Georgetown . Five others were shot and killed while trying to escape from Jonestown , including U.S . Congressman Leo Ryan | 1945 | Military strike - submarine | 879 | USS Indianapolis | Philippine Sea | Largest loss of life in the history of the U.S. Navy at sea

Example questions:
What was the type of disaster that occurred in the second largest state in the United States by area ? | How many fatalities occurred due to the preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States ? | What was the death toll of the worst maritime disaster in United States history ? | What was the type of disaster in the United States that left much of western Carlton County devastated ?

Answers:
Tropical cyclone | 2,467 | 1,700 | Wildfire