Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 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 buildings. T 1876, Dec. s—Brooklyn theatre burn ed.ahd 295 lives lost _ . 1881, Sept s—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 at Galvegton, Tex.; 70 houses burned. 1886, Aug. 31 —Earthquake wrecks Charleston, S. C., and kill 96 persons. 1888, Jan. and March —Snow storm and blizzard throughout country killed 700 persons. , 1889, May 31—Johnstown (Pa) flood; 1 nearly 6,000 lives lost by the bursting of a dam. 1894—-Forest fires in the Northwest kill 400. 1900, Sept. s 12—Blood at Galveston destroys 8,000 lives and causes $25,000,000 damage to property. 1903, Dec. 30—Iroquois theatre, m 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 958 lives lost 1906, April 18—Earthquake in San Francisco, causing considerable loss of life and property.