| Show DISASTERS I 1 fires rall railroad road accidents and explosions took a heavy toll or of on land during the year 1918 willie while the elements combined with the torpedoes of the german V J bonts to send bend thousands I 1 of innocent persons per solis including women and children to their their death lit at sen sea t fifty two children met death in n a fire which destroyed a consent acmon at mon tre treal al canada february 14 F february 24 the liner Florl sel bound from broili st johns N P F to new york was waa wrecked by a near cape race and 0 02 1 lives were lost seventy inmates Ini nates of an insane asylum ns alum at norman okla were killed in a ore which destroyed that lint institution april 13 1 on may alay I 1 the savannah liner city of athens was sunk in iii a collision with a frener crl tile the delftware delaware coast and CO 40 ilves w on way may 18 nearly a hundred persons persona were killed by explosions in fix the aetna Che chemical plant near pittsburgh pa ila I 1 i sixty ahr three ee persons including well known circus performers perished per fibel when n circus train was wrecked at gary ind In dJune june 22 12 1 fifty persons killed by the collapse of a building at sioux city in June 29 i A small factory explosion in england killed 50 persons july 1 tind on therol lowing day nn an explosion in a induni bong plant near syracuse N Y kill killer gil 10 16 eighty five merry merrymakers makers per mershed qed shed when tin nn excursion boat sank 1 in the illinois river july 5 X A sons were killed kille d in a between two trains anear near nashville tenn july 0 9 v I 1 J A tornado swept sweat n part of minnesota ek ota august 21 killing 50 persons dt at y C and connors on october 0 0 alie b donled nl td states f tr transport 1 n j otranto was sunk in collIR collision 14 oft off tile the irish coast mid p r abst their lives four hundred bundred when tile tho british niall boat leinster was torpedoed and sunk october 10 A aermes aeries of terrific jerrine explosions plo in a I 1 shell loading lond ing plant plan t tit nt morgan nj N J on oil october 3 killed 94 persons and destroyed a vast amount of property I 1 A severe revere earthquake chich alch caused tho the 4 d death of persons wits was in porto rico october 11 great forest ires fires raged in northeastern astern manne fanta during october anny towns strayed and about 1000 lives jives on oil Oc koper 25 1 1 15 the t sophia was wrecked on the ml laskan A coast constand coa stand and 34 3 yere were lost i 4 I 1 nicety persons were killed NO bembe 1 hinr lin n wreck wreck on the liro brooklyn klyn rapid transit itice lines on oil november 21 about 1500 persons person a we were reported killed by the explosion of Germa germalm nm ll 11 netlon trains en ell route from belgium to 1 a germany erm a n y jl ld one of the most cases in marl maritime ilme history ans ivas that of tile tha united states navy collier cyclops which disappeared tit nt sea while iland from the west indies to nn an ah american i atlantic alc tlc port an noun made april 14 that the boat wah with I 1 persons on board was a month over C i due not a single trace of the h poat or its passengers and crew was ever found and the fate of the ves vessel Is i a complete mystery r 11 1141 I 1 I 1 7 1 |
