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Show MM iiiM.ri I III wniiwumiiiii i IChronologyl 1 946 In as kills 29. injures in-jures hundreds, many homeless. 15 Explosion in coal mine near Welch, W. Va.. brings death to 14. Injuries to 22. IS All 17 persons aboard airliner die when plane catches fire and crashes near Cheshire, Conn. 27 Ten burn to death In apartment houst fire In Kansas City, Mo. 2& Main hangar at Oklahoma City, Okla.. airport burns, killing 10. injuring in-juring 38. 30 Airliner strikes Elk mountain In Wyoming. Wyo-ming. All 21 on board die. February t Thirteen elderly people burn to death in Cleveland home lor aged. i Liner Yukon breaks up in storm off Seward. Alaska. Two reported dead, 31 missing. March 3 Airliner hits La fun a mountain In California. Cal-ifornia. All 27 on board die. 10 Seven killed in crash of: B 29 near San Francisco. 17 Tornadoes sweep Alabama. Mississippi Missis-sippi and Georgia with death toll at seven. 19 Army transport explodes over Sierra Nevadas in California, killing 26 o board. April 7 Tornado kills four in Annlslon, Ala. 25 Forty-four killed, 100 injured whem train crashes rear of first section 1 Napervllle, ni. SO Destroyer escort blows up while ua- loading ammunition at Earle, N. ., killing 7, injuring 163,. May 10 Two navy bombers collide near Mun- son, Fla., 23 die. 15 Twenty-seven killed In air transport crash near Richmond. Va. 20 Army plane strikes New York City skyscraper, killing six army personnel. person-nel. June 5 LaSalle hotel fire In Chicago takes 61 lives, greatest disaster m U. S. hotel history. 9 Fire in Dubuque, Iowa, hotel causea 10 deaths. Electrical storm in Massachusetts kills 10. 12 B-29 crashes into peak near Gatlln-burg, Gatlln-burg, Tenn., killing 12 army personnel. person-nel. 17 Tornado along U. S.-Canadiaa border brings death to 14. July ' 8 Holiday weekend deaths total 231, mostly traffic casualties. v IS Natural gas explosion in Buzzard's Bay. Mass., kills 9, injures 60. 19 Army plane crashes in storm near Goodland, Kans.. killing 13. August 1 Navy bomber falla back after takeoff take-off killing 11 at San Diego. Calif. 1 B-25 bomber crashes in Long Beach, Calif., killing six. IS Flood In St. Louis drowns 2, leaves 2,000 homeless. IS Tornado rips through Minnesota, killing kill-ing 7 at Mankato. Injuring 50. September 22 Six crewmen die in explosion and fire on tanker Bennington outside Wilmington, Wil-mington, N. C, harbor. 28 Train wreck near Victorville, Calif., kills C, injures 50. October 2 Crash and explosion of B-29 bomber near Battle mountain. Nev., kills 11. J Overseas airliner strikes hill near Stephenvllle, Newfoundland, killing all 39 persons aboard, in worst disaster dis-aster in commercial aviation history. t Airliner crashes at Cheyenne, Wyo., killing 2. injuring 10. 17 Air Transport service plane crashes near Laramie, Wyo., killing 13. November flood waters of Neches river recede at Beaumont. Tex., after extensive damage to rice crop and 6,000 homes. 13 Boiler explodes In school In Baroda, Mich., killlne one. Injuring 19. Storm forces air liner down near Sunland, Calif., 11 die. Colorado blizzard causes U deaths, extensive livestock loss. December 7 Greatest hotel fire In history kills 120, Injures 100, in Atlanta. Ga. . 13 N. Y tenement collapses, with death toll of 37. Eighteen men. Including 14 soldiers, killed in train crash at -Mansfield, Ohio. |