Show A RECORD OP DISASTER la reviewing the events of the year many writers ara commenting on the frightful record of disaster presented the shock of the iroquois theatre disaster which marked the last week of the year 1903 was paralleled on june 15 when the steamboat general burned to the waters edge at new york causing tho violent death of 1000 sunday school excursionists next to this la tho list of the years accidents stands the sinking of the danish liner norge which struck the root ott the coast of scotland juno 28 with a loss of lives other sea accidents were the sinking of the british cruiser wallaroo at sydney australia january 7 forty three lives tho sinking of the terry steamer clallam at jundef farco january 26 axy lives the wreck of the schooner augusta on long island january 33 seventeen lives and tho wreck of a british submarine boat at portsmouth eng march IS eleven lives the boist in a long list of mine ex j lo alons waa that at harwick pa jan uary 28 when miners were entombed others were the dropping of i a cage in tho a transvaal mine april 25 with a iwa of forty lives and at threlo col twenty lareo killed by an explosion the of the city of baltimore on february 13 heads lre record with a property loss estimated at the other cities which buffered extensive conflagrations were lowell mass january 12 knoxville tenn february 2 rochester N Y february 26 toronto canada april 18 yazoo miss may 23 winnipeg manitoba october 14 other big alre etere the Sli elby ohio steel works the N Y starch factory the wisconsin state capitol the peoria distillery and the boston and malna elevator |