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Show LHi 32,069 LIVES DURING THE MONTHS OF 1905 ' TAln" NoAcct of War, Fr.tiul Carna,c anj InJuW Only tnc HLftfJtta Wllidl Have Brought at Ult FtTI Death, the Tfd SLoWl I I , Average Daily Fatalities of More Than Ninety-Five. Whn IV U.kes It. place i history Hn and Portsmouth -of war ftri'r' nof nnl - yar of Mo, Pof recorded fan twsuM ..f . - ' 'la,m ,"r" n ori Sf brought im.m ,..,, .nTT'nV ?' flS" had .we.v month- ju f.r 5 h" ,h j-o nl fmr on the with frightful totsl of Th Is Includes no rrf1(.nt hoanr , , deaths In Its tm.n ..U'X - h7U"" r' " I whb h dw.rf.d ,hra hundred Tnolool ' ' ,h"' f M'",'1'n nor ,.f -ho... Russia n nSSJThSflS lr,UU 'h"W .and- M-iv.h 'u.ual'- f. IThliln.n. sTS b h' hrt" EI :..-,r an a era,. U wSPKtlS iT7 hWn I eees a month. 4L h wrfk, nearly M a day. Dth at the Threshold. Ill ''''MI.wr,bflM4, 0n jMMry , lhr ,M(r. lt';: , i longest Jlal of Ino years lMntfr For I densely ponnla ed T.moB n.iT?rptmbr JyPhoon wM' h KCTOM th r flnlt-lv wori, earthquake which visited British India in April s In If cxg era ted n'gre Wr,t vl.it.Uon of the .ort .lace the mediaeval day. 27,OG in Sixteen Days I ..,,','";' I"!' r"".r,,K"b"t':1 mft,nly at fearful .U whlrh W. h. n bolld ui.. l.ut r.d thf nfteen iHrna which follow them on the dlter roater Human Hu-man llfn In. ndi-d. "of uncrtnln certainty " April enrthiuakea In nouthern British India m 4 September i typhoon over th Tonquln Delia china 9 June 2. wind and ralnntorm over Natal ,. tj July 2. cloudburat above Guanajuato, Mexico ... o 8e.t.-mh. t 7. earthquaJt In Calabria, Italy . B Auxuiit 27. hurricane off Ootto Isle, Korean ehnnH SS I J r" ' ''Xtjloelon at Khartslak. Ruaal agMfnber 11 dr.- and exploaloB on tlM Ulkaaa" S Ml hfl; " t the Fhlllpp'i.o Inland I VTl v rollapae, Madrid. Spain 1 v, jB Hit r 'ilapN l'.i,.-i,w n .val 1 rihii.K boat foundered off Bl Bervan 128 JVox.-in'.r i' wreck of the "Hilda off 01 Malo 123 f iertemlrfr 2 typhoon and tidal wave. Marshall Islands 120 I Peoruar) 20. m explosion BlrmlnfMO Ala ' in I May 11. Snyder kla ) deatroyed hy a tornado 14 K Jut l nrlcane ucroas the Marshall lolund ... ' ' VW 4fn'l I' rnor. il.hn Jut odd - thnt ttir torma ov.-r Natal and M-x.-n ahould ' aCri I 'l t ho same number Of vlrtlmn" AUn. thai tbei an'.uld 1 ' -nd -,f pne month, and tu- otir on ih. cam lab ef 'ho month r.iii .wlna? That Tlnetown's reservoir should have burst the day of Natal's typhoon was. or Bourse, result rather than colncldence-but It was not result which brought HA-cond storm to th- Marahall lalanda In September, to t.ike toll In exactly the sunn- flxurts June hud written, merely revernlns the two final digits Clftsslflcatlon by Kind. i Wllh lt losses rlHSHltled under general headings, this Is the reading of MPs roll I Earthquakes IS.0M Fire 2K Wind and nt'.rm .. W.'Kt The 'tlortous l'-jrth 1-. I Maritime 1.4M Collapsed buildings B I Floods 4T Iand and snowslldes . . . lJ4 I M . 1 167 Skating and swimming accidents 56 )l Bxploelona 35 Tmlley accidents 3 f Rnllrond urrldenls . . Ml Asphyxlatlona lo I Butreme heat and cold 2U The "Little Things" That Count ' 1 P lhr 1) 1 ' 1 final liep-s mphaslie the neessary Inrompl-teness of any BUCh rat ' .-ril .i thin It run be a jproxlmately acturnte, but conditions InaPOSSd hv the ln-( ln-( aufflclency of the record In many cit where the loss of life hna amounted to onl r 1 n or two, necessitates that the line be drawn somewhere An hn been ald. no ltepr have been Included where less than five lives have been lost, though tha age -utile of lho.se omitted, could they all be gathered, would swell the total far I iKvond Us present Slgi. Instances emphatically Indicative of the large figures soon : rolled up b) erba1 re cotaparatlvely speaking "little" disasters, are to be found In Mich facta ts that podestrlans are killed In New York City at the rate of one a dov; that the ffttalltlen among seagoing men are estimated at six a day. or that i the deHtl.s due to mountaineering amounted during 1W4 to VtL It doew not need the nineteen entries which IMf has written acrona her necrology agalri' the sport of foothill t.i shOW that even so dreadful a record an that which follows might read- be OO ins rnor terrible were .ill thene other flgiiren available at thin time p low ts the vear's full list, giving the esact dates of the mlshappentngs. as well an the number of fatalities accruing from each: JANUARY. . F 1- Berk Warpesla" blown up at sea U Fire MoitIs Run. Pennsylvania -. 11 urcm- cold In New York. N'ct Jersey and Pennsylvania 1J .'J 1 i!ii' ,piosi.n tow boat Defender." Ohio river T ' t old and wind along south nliore of the Baltic 54 I 13 Rallwav collision near R I port. New Mexico a I l.S Fire New York City I 15-lft Cold and elorm through England I l. Mlr.f explosion. SI Helen, plgland ls Avslanohe, Xbave Rergen. Norway la Rallwav collision near Rarnsley. Kngland I Jft-Drow ned while nkallng. Elle-mere. Kngland IB Drowsed while skuMng. tirlmsby. England 30 Earthquake In Thessaly i 21 Mine explosion. Uowerton. England ' 22 Rallwav collision. Shawnee, Tenn K-I7 Bxtrime , old through Connecticut. New ork. New Jersey and Fs 57 O Sinking of a Junk off the Mlao-To Islands I Total FEBRUARY. si 1 Blelgfa it ics bj train Hornellavllle. N I J 3 Wreck of oyal-r boat, Cambridge, Md " t-Trawlei wr..k..l off Iceland : V I 1:1'' on In Calumet. Mich., mine .... - I ,0 Halli I wrelk on M.xban National ro.,-1 - u.n.ros r lo Oi ika narboi I m 1 ....... ...Id in Oklahoma Indian Terntorv. Kansas and Missouri 1 15- Accidental asphyxiation. Cleveland. O. -,,"w"hawr.r I 16-J xpioalon on Brltlah submarine "A 6." Queenstown harbor 5 J lh-t-" 1 J ft I dWrl''- How. llf'.W I'l.iiil 1 1 lot Honlton M fl 'x ir-' Naphtha explosion. Baku 3ft Mine explosion. St. Clalrsvllle. o ? Mine explosion. Birmingham. Ala "M"" "," ... , -1 r. k If schooner "Charlea Wilbur, off Bermuda . . B Fire Hoi Bprlnaa .vrk t 2-Mlne explosion. Wllcoe. 1 , 2-C.nle off the Brltlah coast " , 27-Collui'se of . hoi. h r..-.r Brooklyn N 1 7 ' 'L 7ota . Jf MARCH j S-Av.Junche above guessarvlllgrafen. Swltierland I KoiludO t-Uf.on Ca , I g3smklni of tug Marathon In the Irish M .. 4 tSSSSS S' sh SSi. ;'vrx';T "... :::::::::::::::::::: " 1 1-Blnklng at se of schooner mi.. 24 , !Ks:KJ"-" "" - 1 1 ESS.? SS2 "V ,"ro0'"""- - I ...'. ... 1 ' ' - . j rtae of pleasure craft rear Ro. kledge Fla ... a r landslide at flenlln. Mungao Total 2T7 APRIL I Severe itnrm off the coaat of IeUnd li 1 Asphvx-lated New York city . .... a Cyclone across Madagascar .. 117 3 -Earthquake In PrltUb India Hhree main renterar 14 42 -Mine-gas explosion. Zlgler. Ill 44 " Railroad collision, near Harbin. Manchuria Reservoir colls par. Madrid Spain 17 Quarry explosion, near Allison la. Va 7 I ft Drowning in the Hids--,n river, near Poughkeepsie N Y U Collapse of crane. Putlloff mills. St Petersburg 11 IV Powder mills xploelon near Prato. Italy 6 14 Railway collision, near Genoa. Italy U 17 - Falc alarm ' stampede. Masonic temple. Indianapolis 5 1 -Residence fire. Ste Anne de Pocatlsre, Canada 7 1 -Sailing bot rapelfcd off Iv.negal coast 4 15 Low In mid-Atlantic of steamer "Mara ' . . a 3 Burning of Ste Qanevteve Convent, near Montreal. Canada 21- Powder explosion. Flat Gap, Ky. 5 23 Mine asphyxiation. Braddock. Pa S c.,i. 1 n if steamer 'Racine' and unknown schooner Bristol channel 10 -Falling mine caae. Wllkeabarre. Pa 10 35 Earthquake at Bender Abbas. Persia 4x 27 Mine explosion near Dubois. Pa 12 3t Tornsdo ..r Lstredo Bad New latredo Tex 34 30 Mine explosion, near Wllburton. Okla 13 Total 16,017 MAY 1 Renidence fire. Market Drayton. England 5 1 -Drowning In the River Mersey. Warrington, England b 3 Sinking of barge "Moonbeam, off Point Judith S i-8torm at Owl. Indian Territory 8 --Drowning at C.langow. Scotland 5 - Tornado. In and near Marquette. Kan 24 11 Collision and explosion on the P R R near Harrlsburg 23 11 Snyder. Oklahoma, demolished by tornado M 12 Sinking of Str Sobralena. . off Port Arthur I 13 Mine explosion. P.. - . 1,1 Hungary tt 13 Oaa explosion. Point Broexe. Philadelphia 6 1 Storm across Slleals 3 30 Mine fire, Ianarkshlre. England 4 21 Wind oni rainstorm, northern Texas 5 21 Drownlng accident, Rio Honda, near Roawell. N. M 7 22 Explosion In Bosruck tunnel. Llexen. Styria 17 23 Railroad wreck, near Eoauvaya. Russia 33 Foundering of French fishing schooner, near St Servan 123 26 Mine explosion, near Johannesburg. South Africa ... 6 27 Chilean cruiser foundered near Gulf of Anaud (Prealdenie Pintoi 13 3v Mine cave-In. near Montrose. Colo . B Total 432 JUNE. 1 Earthquake nt Scutari Albania M 2 Str. H M Carter collided with bridge pier. Alexandria, U 14 3 Bursting of reservoir at Plnetown. Natal 19 2 Earthquake In Hiroshima Province, Japan 6 2 W ind and rainstorm across Natal 47 3 Dynamlt- explosion, convict camp near OJua. Fla 5 3 Collision off Dungent-ss of bark Afghanistan and H M 8 Caesar 23 Electrical storm In the "thumb" district of Michigan 7 5- Sinking of British submarine AS In Plymouth sound 15 li--8lnklng of fete steamer. Iak Como 31 14 Explosion of six Inch shell aboard Eg M S Magnificent 61 15 Drowning accident off Barneto 1 Point. Eong Island sound 4 l-Coudburst. Province of 6tathmlr. Hungary 11 17 Railway collision near Patnpsro Maryland 23 17 Canoe upaet near Hnxleton, British Columbia 7 IS- Mine explosion, Khartslak. Russia 2$ft 21 Wreck of Lake Shore flyer near Msntor. 0 21 22 Boiler explosion. Attain. Ala 6 23 Dynamite explosion, near Emporium. Pa ! 24 Capsixed ferry. River Mlnho. Spain 2f Sch. Oeorg-Stag rammed hv Str Aneona. Copenhagen 22 3S Collision of train and trolley near Baltimore ( 2 Tornado over Phllllpsburg. Kan 4 30 Hurricane acroas the Marshall l?landa 102 Total 1,391 JULY 1 Capsizing of sailboat. Dublin bay 1 Tenement lire, Williamsburg. N. Y.. 5 1- Extreme het In southern Germany 43 2 Cloudburst. Guanajuato. Mexico 479 3 Naphtha explosion and fire. Rome, Italy 6 4- Steam pipe explosion on Str. Johannlshurg 4 4 Dead from celebration resulta 1(3 fi Windstorm. Mllsn Italy 6 t Tornado over Montague and Nacona. Tex V, 6 - Sinking of lifeboat Tropic near Constlturlan. Chile 17 i sinkinit of French submarine, Blserta bay , IS Mine explosion. Searlghts. Pa ( 7- Swamplng of batteau, Uttle P'alls Ham, Wis II 7 Mine explosion, Anderluea. Belgium 14 1 Powder explosion. P R R. vards. Harrlaburg Pa . $ Drowning accident. Blackpool. London. England it 10- Collision Str Orinoco and a barque, near Kazan. Russia 4 11- Mlne explosion Rondda Hill Wattstown, Walea .. . n 11 Mlne fire. Dorfmund. Germany 30 12 Lightning from clear -ky. Atzberg Styria 4 It Building collapse. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canada f If Freight collision, near 1'pton. Ind S 15- 19 Extreme heat. Iyindon and Paris . 24) 1 Collapse of chapel roof, Fermo. Italy 14 14 Mine cave-In. St. Helena, Wales 6 lH-l-Extrem heai. New York (Sty and vicinity 75 Is Explosion on H M. S Implacable 21- Explosion on I' S S Bennington. San Diego harbor 44 23 Sinking of naphtha launch nrar Ponds Creek. Md 5 23 Fire. Humble oil fields near Houston. Tex 11 24 Sinking of Yet. Nurkceta. near Delaware Breakwater 6 24 Residence fire. Woolaston. England 5 27 Railway collision. 1-ancashlre 4t Yorkshire road, England 23 30 Lightning storm over New York City .. . .. 31 Premature submarine mine explosion, Heislngfors. Finland 7 Total l.3T AUGUST. 1 Earthquake at Kalu and Mandl. British India ) t landslip at 8penceabrldge. Vancouver 15 4 Pittsburg My.r strikos trolley car near leveland 15 7 Railway collision, near Spermberg. Germany 21 5 Collapse of department store. Albany, N Y ... 1 1 Foundering at sea of bark Bldston Hill n 13 Railway collision, near Vermilion. O , " u 16 Dynamite explosion, near Durbln. W. Va t 14 Quarry wall slip. Armrod. Pa 12 17 Railway wreck, near Norfolk. Va Q .'" 1 !6llglon "f freixht train and trolley ear. near Butte , 22 Collision In Inland sea of Strs. Baralong and Klnjomaru 7 24 Cloudburst over Berwind and Tobaao. Colo 26 Dynamite explonlon at Manxanlllo. Mexico '.i 27 Hurricane off Goto Island. Korean channel jfg 3S Sinking of Str Peconlc. off Florida coast 30 30 Dynamite explosion, near Safe Harbor. Pa 4 Total 036 SEPTEMBER 1 Bursting flvwheel. MrKeenport. Ps j 1 Railway wreck, at Wltham. England , " 10 1 Capslslng of ferryboat, Morecambe bay, England g ?-Wreck of Sch Peart off Alaskan coast 54 2 Ty phoon over Tonquln delta. China a sj 1- 3 Storm over Lake Superior r Bt ' 4-5 2 Fire In foreign quarters of Adrlanople Turkey IS 4 Capaialng of pleasure boat Boulogne harbor ...,., 7 7-Landallde, Havre. France f, 7 Earthquake. Calabria Italy 40, K Explosion of Rand mills. Coanellavlll. Pa jj - Troliev -car collision, near York. Pa "!!!!! 6 r Collision of tug and pleasure boat. Budapeat. Hungary 7 11 Wreck of Str Nenexla. off coast of Jutland 11 , 1 11 Fire and explosion. Japanese flagship Mlkass. Toklo . . ll-VWeek on elevated road. New York t )tv 12 14- Lightning stroke. Warren Oo. fair. Ir.d'.aneU. la 14 Typhoon over Korei . . 43 14 Celluloid factory fire. Cgenetochow s. Rtiastr. .... I Cloudburst and wind. wetern Missouri end '.vrm Kansas !t 16 Explosion and fire In fuse works. Avon. Conn U 14 Boiler explosion. Plnconnlng. Mich 6 17 Wreck of trawlrr Lincoln off the Orkneys I 21 -Landslip on Mount San Paoino, Sicily Is 21 Railway collision. Mount Holly Springs. Pa 6 33 Mr. Jacksonville, Fla 6 if- Railway colllalon, Pacll station. P 36- Fireworks explosion. 0'"n rniet ,- y SB Windstorm, near Cap 1 Italv .... 24 Typhoon over the Philippine Island 2U 23 Typhoon and tidal wave. Marshall Is'ands 130 V Cyclone over Malmsbury. Capetown. Air'-a JO Sir ho strikes floating mine. nrr Shantung light 30 Colllalon of Strs Njord and Robert near Ilveeo, F.nlsnd 34) St Flrr In sailors tenement. New York City i Total ll.M OCTOBER. 6 Quarry cave-In. near Troy. N Y 4 Building rollapae. 8t Petersburg . 21 --Wreck of Sch Van Name and King, off Snjth Carolina e-Gale off the coast of Japsn ... 30 7 Rallwav wreck, near Rostoff-on-Don. Russia '-" 9- Pleasure boat capsixed. Garraneen bay. Ireland ( 11 Tidal wave striking Campania 11 Colllalon Strs Ruby and Prudhos Can tie. Firth of Forth 7 14 Explosion and cave-In. Frederl ktown Mine Pa fl 17 Tornado over Sorrento, Italy 10 3f Gale on the Great Lakea 23 21 Mine cave-In. Bingham. 1'tah I 23 Colllalon cf tug and cat boat off South Yonkera. N Y 6 22 Collision of tow-barge and launch off Beverly. N J 7 26 Str Zurls wrecked on South Rocks. Heligoland 9 29 Mine explosion, near Pittsburg. Pa I 3C Railway collision. Casey. Ia t 30 Railway wreck, near Eansas City... It 31 Cave-In In soapstone mine, near Bellalre. O t Total ". 27 NOVEMBER. 4 Mine explosion. Vlvlnn, W Va 7 4 Tornado over Mountain View, Okla 7 5 Railway collision. Hunlock's Creek. Pa 7 .13 Mine cave-In. Johannesburg. South Africa R 14 Wreck of Str Bavaria, Monongahela City. Pa I 14 Tenement fire. New York City 14 Powder explosion, Peoria. HI 7 17 Foundering Str Turbln. off ciark'a Harbor, N S 19 17 Collision of torpedo boat 8 126 and cruiser I'ndlne 33 19 Lodging-house fire. Glasgow. Scotlsnd 33 19-Wreck of 8tr. Hilda, off St Malo. France 113 26 Collision of Strs lkuta and Fukura, near Mateure 11 24 Railway colllalon and fire, near Baker s Bridge, Mass . II 26 Gale along northern coa.st of England 17 37 Powder explosion. Emporia, Kan V 27- 29 Gale on the Great Lakes 11 Total 404 DECEMBER. 4-Wreck of Str. Ira H Owen, laike Superior 10 4 Burning Of a "Pull-boat." Middle river. Ala . V 6 Mine explosion, Dtamondvllle, Wyo... IS 4 Loss at sea of sailing vessel St Donatlen 19 7 Rallwav collision, near Aranjuex. Spain .. 11 ft 8ch Luguna. lost In the Gulf of Mexico 12 6 Str Lunenberg. wrecked off Amherst Harbor. B C D 9 Rallwav wreck near Rock Springs, Wyo 10 9 Sinking of Sir Fram, ( 'hrUtlanla Fjord. Norway 11 11 Flathouse fire, New York City 6 13- -Res1dnce fire, near Punxsutawney. Pa 6 12 Wreck at aea of Sch. Florencla 6 14 Powder explosion, near Boylea, Ala 5 14 Wlndatorm over Venice. Italy 6 14 Mine explosion. Vancouver, B. C 13 14 Nitroglycerine explosion. Marquette. Mich 6 17-Resldence flre Red Loke Falls. Minn 6 22 Mlr.e ore-slip. Ironwood. Mich 8 23 Mine fire, Pachuca. Mexico 30 Total - 214 THE RECORD BY MONTHS AND DAYS It needed nothing beyond (he south Indian enrth.juakes to meke April by far the moel tela- of th months, even It fellow In Calabria and th-e storm which devastated th Tonquln Delta, and fh Philippine and Marshall groups, falling to raise Septen,l"-r I" within i of 'hat April totul .lone and July rSSpSCtlvelj trd and 4th on the list, differed one from the other by only one life The rest fall away from August's 405 to October's 207 The Iahore-Mvsore disaster, again, has made the third of the month the most fatal Of dufen, 14.S76 all told leading the 2nd of the month hy 3203. The 29th was least disastrous, seeing but 11 killed during Its eleven appearances In the number num-ber of sc. idents rather than In lives lost, the t hoe to show 1ft, against the ISth's 14 and the Srd s 13, the 2Sth and 31st witnessed otiiv two mlshappentngs The "hoodoo' on the 13th was not marked lust half of It" appearances were free from deaths. 129 falling during the nurses of the other nix. Also can almost anything be proved by the record of the Fridays Thlrtv-nlne accidents befell on this black week dy putting the period to 1277 lives but then, twenty -two Fridays passed unmarked by any untoward chances Of the holidays six were "bad" and fonr (food ' The sinking of the "Marpesla ' on New Year's day was followed by the sinking of the 1 Natorlgawa" 1 941 on Lincoln birthday; by an Iceland storm and a metropolitan asphyxiation tragedy -n April Fools dav 21; a Colorado mine cave-In on Decoration day (5); an exploalon as well as the usual mortality due to fireworks on Independence dny flM); and, "n Labor day the cnplxlng of a pleasure craft In Boulogne harbor (7i 324 lives In all on those half doxen days when the American world at least usually lays" by Its cares and labors WARWICK JAM FS PRU R |