Recent Disasters and Accidents
Disasters are becoming too numerous to mention. They seem to be almost the order of the day. Some of the more prominent since last report are: The burning of an English insane asylum, known as Colneyhatch Asylum, January 27, with the loss of fifty lives; a collision on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Graceland, in which thirty persons were killed and as many injured; a collision at Vail’s Station near Tucson, A. T., January 28, in which about thirty lives were lost and fifty or more burned and mangled. Loss of rolling stock estimated at $100,000. A snowslide at the Quincy Mine, Utah, on the same date, killed three men and injured four. A natural gas explosion at Fort Wayne, Ind., January 29, killed four men and dangerously injured four others, besides slightly wounding a dozen more. A million-dollar fire, January 31, burned the great house of Weinstock & Lubin, merchants, at Sacramento, Cal. One life lost.