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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 4, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 18.

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Accidents and Disasters

Accidents and Disasters.—Statistics show that the loss of life in this country, from the above causes, during 1903, was as follows: "Fires, 1,792; drowning, 2,471; explosions, 736; falling buildings, etc., 474; steam railways, 4,090; electric railways, 573; electricity, 156; mines, 788; cyclones and storms, 487; lightning, 139; total, 11,706." Those killed are sufficient in number to make a thriving city.