Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — AMERICAN DISASTERS. [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN DISASTERS.

Chronology of Calamities Our Country Has Suffered. 1835, Dec. 16—Great fire at New York, in which 674 houses and many public edifices were burned; loss estimated at $20,000,000. 1870, Sept-Oct—Many lives lost and a vast amount of property destroyed by floods in Virginia and Maryland. 1871, Oct 7-11 —Chicago nearly destroyed by fire; about 250 persons burned, 98,500 rendered homeless; property loss, $290,000,000; flames consumed 25,000 builalngsp 1876, Dec. s—Brooklyn theatre burned and 295 lives lost 1881, Sept &—Forest fires in Michigan destroy 500 persons and render 10,000 homeless. 1884, Feb. 18—Tornadoes in Southern States kill 600. 1885, Nov. 13 —Fire ait 'Galveston, Tex.; 70 houses burned. 1886, Aug. 31—Earthquake wrecks Charleston, S. C., and kill 96 persons. 1888, Jam. and March —Snow storm and blizzard throughout counuy killed 700 persons,.", 1889, May 31—Johnstown (Pa.) flood; nearly 6,000 lives lost by the bursting of a dam. 1894—Forest fires in the Northwest kill 400. 1900, Sept. 12 —Flood at Galveston destroys 8,000 lives and causes $25,000,000 damage to property. • 1903, Dec. 30—Iroquois theatre, in Chicago, burned and 700 lives lost. 1904, Feb. 7 —Conflagration at Baltimore destroyed 2,500 buildings, entailing a loss of $65,000,000. 1904, June 15—Steamer Gen. Slocum burned in East River and 95? lives lost. 1906, April 18 —Earthquake in San j considerable loss of life and property.