Accidents

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 11.

Accidents.—On February 11 the French Trans-Atlantic Company's steamer General Chanzy was driven on the reefs of the Island of Minorca, in the Mediterranean Sea, in the wildest storm which for forty years has swept that sea. Lives lost, 156; saved, one, and he a maniac.—January 29, in England, on the Brighton Railway, 7 killed and 30 injured; the first serious wreck on English railways since 1907. It was caused by a mid-train coach leaving the rails.—It is said that it will cost $7,000,000 to repair the damages caused by washouts on the Harriman lines alone west of Ogden.—Fifteen thousand pounds of powder exploded at the Trojan Powder Works, near San Leandro, Cal., February 17, killing 8 men, and fatally injuring one. Many others escaped with slight injury. Most of the buildings burned. Loss about $50,000.