Show A CHAPTER OF OP DISASTERS The rIte disasters continue tho latest Intent Int lt be liC being beIll lug ing Ill n ti raIlroad horror by b which ninny lives liven wert lost lIt As All A hoe has been observed before Ie tore the time post imst year ear was tas noted not ll for accidents In many lands bands mill and tho the retort record re to Ill Is III evidently not yet lIt et rom edit completed Among the III os torn mm tas that Hint tOil on nit the tho road mad In when u it train went through a 0 abridge bridge tho Instant tenth death of ot io An ts mid was sins tim the wreck meek on in the Parl by h i which per vr soils OIlA weme killed Another deplorable dell lorn hie I fatality wi that of oC the stud Ohio cM c n e In which GS CS persons were hurled Into All til Iho i Ito year of ot this kind hind havo hae oc 00 occurred tu Irell ami n mu stance glance at nt the re io reveals ollis the lie fact that over ovel GOO COO worn loro killed In ill Sil tI accidents That Is III n ii 1 record of ot over orri two titi disasters n it 1 month with whit lIh an nut average 1 of tit 60 bO victims The rime nr lire remit I is i equally grim Tim ruis year veal ent commenced by hy tIme the of ot u a uI 1 I of ot Urn tile Colney Hatch Asylum n near nr London white hero women were era burned to death dealt It ended I nIl 11 with lIh the iroquoIs horror In 11 Chicago by which sorrow narrow has stricken co to many mall families antIlles both hoth In iii thin thi country countr and a nd abroad Between these two to there aro ore numerous fires by which much property has hn been destroyed destro I no IS ISell teli ell in nil lives lost In Iii twelve Including tho the Chicago hunter fire over persons ner perished hll during durin the tho ho year n In fifteen of oC the largest tires fires 8 loss JOBS than fifteen million dol V i I lars lara worth orth of ot property was destroyed The heaviest loss Ions occurred In 10 when tho the naphtha fountains took lire fire The damage was estimated At nt There were no less lees than Sires In lit which property valued at atole ole million dollars or more was do de destroyed The Jime drought which oppressed the eastern part of ot the United States during April May Mil and part of ot June led to serious forest tires fires In the tho two lo latter months In New Ne wick anti millions of ot acres of or timber land IAna were werl burned over oer some Jollie smith small settlements wore ivere destroyed while many others narrowly escaped c caled or nut juC Buffered terell fored more or loss less serious loss In Jut the tho Adirondack region of or New Ne York there thero was also great groat destruction of or property Tho Tue loss of ot life bite In tho the fires firu luring during these theRe months was very small mall a i The heaviest loss Iou ios of oC life lite line bos been caused by ly Hoods and tuni storms In the beginning of ot the year a n six slit days hurri hurricane cane swept tho the ruu loU Inlands Islands In the tho Pacific causing the loss of lives Tim Tho Valley abie suffered severe I ly Ir from early in March until well Into June Juno At New Now Orleans the river reached Its record hovel loel there ther of ot on out Starch 20 0 During tho the last lost two days 11 A II of ot May Imd the first ten tem of ot Juno June heavy rain rainfall rainfall fall In the Missouri Valley swelled that river rhet to flood height along with tributaries and some of ot those of ot the tile river did much lluch damage In III Iowa but the greatest damage was In central and eastern Kaunas I and ona the two Kansas These were cut ort oft train from nil all communications for tor some Jomo days and sIth Topeka were the tho centers of ot tIme greatest loss Iou Over Ocr n it hundred people were drowned and the tito money loss lose was estimated at over Oer In time the month of oC Juno JUliO a flood hood In lit the volley valley of oC the tho Pacolet In South Mouth Carolina washed away several cotton mills nut and drowned persons tho the damage to was sas about Tho The same month most of ot the tho town toMi of ot Heppner Or wits 1118 destroyed by I y a n flood with the tho loss lOlls of ot about two hun bun hundred hundred dred tired lives In ln July n a hoot at Jeannotte PH Itt caused deaths At China persons persona were drowned In a 1000 In August J a IL hurri huril hurricane cano cane swept tho the Island Uland of ot Jamaica kill killing 1 lug lag nety persons and doing about 15 damage A very partial list of ot fatalities totalities and ond I I I estimates of ot loss Ions by floods shows that no lets less than persons were killed In III that manner mallner during tho the year and that property to the value of ot was destroyed Earthquakes and Bitt volcanoes added to the tho list lIt thought though thou b not hot as all much as In iii 1902 1002 The Tite most disastrous earthquake was that which In April destroyed the tite town of oC herll In II Asiatic Tut TUI key and alit at least twenty small villages In the vicinity About nine hundred persons were verc killed hilled Thero There were also earthquakes In iii south Carolina and Georgia In Iii 11 the tho middle counties ot of 0 In California and ana In Wales and ana Hungary At tho the end of ot October earthquakes nt cit In Persia killed 35 3 persons In November SOY sev several eral shoots ivere It rA a I largo large part of or the tho Mississippi valley Vesuvius showed considerable activity during tho the summer and In November Mt was active There Thero wai also a n violent eruption of oC Mr Collma In lit Mexico This continued for tor several days dAye damaging the tho surrounding lands lanele by b a heavy coat COI of ot ashes Tho The Ha lIa Hawaiian Hawaiian volcano Mauna Mauno Ix Lea 01 a was wall also allO active nethe Is J the long 1011 chapter of ot accidents and Dna disasters to 10 be bo continued during this tills year |