Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1909 — ACCIDENTS ON LAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ACCIDENTS ON LAND

JANUARY. IL 16 children killed in a theater crush at Barnsley, England IX 173 deaths by the burning of the Rhoads Opera House at Boyerstown, Pa. FEBRUARY. 2D. 28 deaths by explosion at the Hercules Powder works at Pinole, Cal. MARCH. A 174 school children killed in a schoolhouse Are in North Collinwood, on the outskirts of Cleveland. 2X 70 lives lost by explosions in a coal mine at Hanna, Wyo. APRIL. A 40 deaths by the collapse of a tenement In London. 30. 41 killed and 60 injured in a railroad collision near Melbourne, Australia. 2X 9 killed and 30 injured in a trolley collision near Ypsilanti, Mich. MAY. X 15. killed and 30 seriously Injured by the burning of the Aveline hotel at Fort Wayne, Ind. IX 7 miners killed and many injured by explosion in the, Mount Lookout colliery at Wyoming, Pa. 2L 60 killed and 100 injured in a Belgian railroad collision near Antwerp. JUNE. X By the explosion of a boiler tube on the cruiser Tennessee, cruising near San Pedro, Cal., 6 of the crew were killed and several injured. AUGUST. 35. 18 workmen killed and many injured by the collapse of a brick block under construction in Chelsea square. Boaton. • 26. 30 miners suffocated in the Halley Ola mine at McAlester, Okla. SEPTEMBER 17. Orville Wright, the airship inventor.

injured and his companion. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, U. S. A., killed by the fall of aeroplane at Fort Myer. 22. 13 French sailors killed and many injured by an explosion of a gun on the cruiser La Touche at Toulon. 36. 20 killed and many injured in a headon collision on the Northern Pacific at Young's Point, Mont.

OCTOBER. 7. Explosion and Are In a grgin elevator at Richford, Vt., resulted in the death of 12 persons and a loss of 8490,000. IX Train Of refugees from the forest fires wrecked near Metz, Mich. Many lives lost. NOVEMBER. IL 9 killed In a wreck on the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad at Little Woods, La IX Over 800 miners killed by an explosion in the Radbod mine at Hamm, Germany. 20. A landslide following a gas explosion caused a loss of a score of lives in Brooklyn. 2X 138 miners killed by coal gas explosion at Marianna, Pa

Orville Wright.