Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1907 — ACCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

ACCIDENTS

JANUARY. 4. 21 miners killed. by an explosion at Coaldale, W. Va. 9. 16 deaths tn a landslide which wrecked 8 houses at Haverstraw, N. Y. FEBRUARY. 8. 28 deaths by mine explosion in the Stewart collieries at Oak Hill, W. Va. MARCH. 11. A mine explosion disaster at Pas-de-Calals, France, caused the death of over 1,100 miners. 16. 32 killed and 20 injured In a head-on collision on the Denver and Rio Grande, near Adobe. Colo. 26. 10 trainmen killed and 17 Injured in a wreck on the Chicago and Northwestern, near Casper, Wyo. APRIL. 10. Sand and ashes from Vesuvius caused the collapse of a market in Naples, with heavy loss of life, 13. An officer and 5 men killed and. one officer mortally Injured by explosion in the turret of the United States battleship Kearsarge shortly after target practice in the Caribbean sea. 22. 22 miners killed by dust explosion near Trinidad, Colo. MAY. 28. 8 killed and 22 injured in a wreck on the Louisville and Nashville road at Louisville. JUNE. 1 11 killed and 40 hurt In a trolley accident in East Providence, R. I. 8. 8 miners killed and many Injured by “white damp’’ at Rocky Fork. Mont 9. 12 workmen killed by explosion at McAbee’s dynamite factory, Lancaster, Pa. JULY. 1. 27 deaths in the wreck of an American line special train at Salisbury, England; 23 Americans among the victims. 22. 9 killed in a wreck on the Great Northern, near Elk, Wash. 22 killed and 24 Injured on the Seaboard Air line, near Hamlet N. C. 23. Many deaths caused by the enllapse of a building under construction at South Framingham, Mass. SEPTEMBER. 10. 250 persons buried alive by a mountain slide at Kwarell, in the Caucasus. IL 7 trainmen killed in an accident oa the Western and Atlantic, at Ringgold, Ga. 12 killed in a wreck on the Canadian Pacific, at Chelmsford, Quebec. 18. Heavy loss of life in a wreck on the Rock Island, near Dover, Okla. 30. 10 killed and 16 injured in a wreck of the Scotch express on the Great Northern railway. 21. 12 persons killed and 50 injured by an explosion of dynamite at Jellico. Tenn. OCTOBER. 3. 18 deaths by explosion in the Pocahontas collieries at Bluefield, W. Va. 4. 5 killed and 25 injured in a collision on the Boston and Maine, at Lansingburg, N. Y. 5. 8 killed and 40 injured by gas explosion in the Philadelphia subway. 15. 25 miners killed in an explosion In the Wingate colliery, England. 24. 7 killed by explosion in the Cambria Steel company’s mine at Johnstown. Pa. 28. 70 lives lost in a wreck on tho Pennsylvania electric line at Atlantic City, N. J. NOVEMBER. 9. 15 workmen killed by ths collapse of a concrete building under construction at Long Beach. Cal. 12. 47 killed and 38 Injured In a head-on collision between an Immigrant tialn a freight on the B. and O. railroad, at Woodville, Ind. 27. 80 workmen killed and 242 Injured by explosion In a roburit factory at Dortmund, Germany. 29. In a collision on the Southern railway, near Lynchburg, Va„ 8 passengers were killed and 8 seriously Injured; Samuel Spencer, president of the railway. was killed. DECEMBER. 13. 60 lives lost and 8250,000 damage to property by a flood caused by the bursting of a dam at Clifton, Arlz.