A Year in Review 1906 Domes Fire and Earthquake Toll
A chronological survey recounts 1906 disasters and deaths worldwide. It lists Formosa earthquakes Vesuvius eruptions San Francisco quake Valparaiso typhoons Hongkong cyclones and West India hurricanes, plus floods landslides shipwrecks and fires. Obituaries include Carl Schurz Jefferson Davis Ibsen Field Wheeler Gorman and Langley among others.
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Ratic
Formosa
San Francisco
Chile
Valparaiso
Hongkong
Gulf
Mobile
Pensacola
West India
Venezuela
Honduras
Salvador
Cuba
Carl Schurz
Jefferson Davis
Henrik Ibsen
Joseph Wheeler
William R. Shafter
Arthur Pue Gorman
Christian TX
Denmark
Adelaide Ristort
John Lawrence Toole
Russell Sage
Marshall Field
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Francia Fessenden
Portland
United States
Canada
Harrison William Weir
Lewes
England
Coaldale
W. Va
Osaya
Nicaragua
Rodrigues
Santo Domingo
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Haver- S@iraw
WN. Y
William Rainey Harper
University of Chicago
Chicago
West Hotel
Minneapolis
Sir Mountstuart Duff
Booth
National Assembly of
France
Marshal Field
New York City
George Jacob Holyoake
Brighton
Rio de Jo
Valencia
Cape Reale
B. C
F. H. Marriott
Ormond Beach
Fla
Confederate States of America
Kiyn
N. Y
Copenhagen
Victor Demogot
Ormond
Pelee
Frederick Viit
Lord Masham
Samuel Cunliffe-Lister
Masham
East St. Louis
Opperegend
Boni de Castellene
Anna Gould
Beene
Paul Metternich
Prince Metternich
Napoleon
Woman's National Buffrage Association
Baltimore
Tahiti
Stewart
Oak Hill
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Darton
Duluth
Minn
Alice Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
White House
Clement Armand Pallleres
Budapest
Colombia
Intercolonial Railway
Moneton
N. B
David B. Henderson
House of Representatives
Dubuque
Samuel P. Langley
Smithsonian Institute
Aiken, & CC
Ebiel Frederick
Emperor William of Germany
Duchesse
Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg
Imperial
Berlin
Meridian
Mias
Lowe
John M. Schofield
St. Augustine
Pla
Sir William Forbes Gatacre
London
Philippines
Leonard Wood
Mount Dajo
Rouvier
Eugene Richter
Reichstag
Bismarck
Germany
Pas de Callas
Phenix
Sable Island
Manuel Quintana
Deat
Argentine Republic
Buenos Ayres
United States Supreme Court
Colne
Susan Brownell Anthony
Heer
Rochester
Battling Nelson
Terry McGovern
Philadelphia
National Assembly of the United Mine Workers of America
Indinapolia
Denver and
Rio Grande
Adobe
Colo
Silverton
A. D. T. Whitney
Milton
Maine
Charles
Francis
Troy
Bellamy Storer
Austria
Otis J. Humphrey
United States District Court
Robert Ogden Doremus
West Virginia
Ras Makonnen
Abyssinia
Jibutt
Magaton
Samar
Col
H. K. Shackelford
Bainbridge
Wrangel
Alaska
Chicago and Northwestern
Casper
Wyo
Norval E. Foard
W. H. McDonald
Springfield
Mass
Plymouth
Fall River
Newport
BR. I
Johnstown
International Conference
Morocco
Algeciras
Gen. Blanco
Madrid
Eastman Johnson
Mount Vesuvius
Naples
Alexander Kielland
Daudet
Norway
Bergen
Hungary
Victor Emmanuel
Helena
Rome
Russia
Sleptaoff
Tver
Bosco Tre-Case
Vesuvius
Maxim Gorky
Pieshkoff
Rived
New York
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Lawrence Scientific School
Harvard
Cambridge
Mans
Ageda
Castro
Kearsaree
Caribbean Sea
Kagland
Tho Sands
Mies Johnstone Bennett
Broomfield
N. J
Congress of
The
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Windsor
San Jose
Santa Rosa
Albany
Count de Smet de Noeyer
Bay of Blecay
Daniel Huntingdon
Louis Martin
Society of Jesus
Order of Jesuits
Funston
Department of California
Roosevelt
Curte
Paris
Martin T. McMahon
George FF
Slosson
Jacob Behacior
Tuscany
Trinidad
Coto
Athens
China
Tibet
Berrell
Charleston
United Confederate Veterans
New Orleans
Clay
Montagne
Chemistry Congress
Count Witte
Mount Carmel
Courrier
Sark
Channel Islands
Daughters of the Revolution
National Society
Sons of the American Revolution
Boston
Greece
Sir Huon
Louisville
Education
South
Lexington
Michael Davitt
Dublin
Goremykin
W. F. Owen
Grapple
Belmont
St. Petersburg
Lincoln
Gen. J. C. Tidball
Montclair
Presbyterian General Assembly
Des Moines
Senate
Fannie Herring
Mazeppa
Simsbury
Conn
Port Said
Egypt
Michigan
George McNeil
Barren Island
Diana Kearny
Phil Kearny
New Jersey
Cape May
Ogden
Utah
Tokalon
Brooklyn
Gravesend
Christiania
Edward Payson Weston
Fairbanks
Iowa
Louisville and Nashville
Santa Maria
Spearmint
Belmont Park
Come Merce
Alfonso
Ena
Spain
Morales
East Providence
Karl von Hann
Oliver Sumner Teall
Liberty
N.Y
Rocky Fork
Mont
McAbee’s
Lancaster
Hudson Valley
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Panama Canal
Bialystok
Haverford
Liverpool
R. B. Roosevelt
Bialysiok
Henry O. Houghton
Oklahoma
John M. Pattison
Ohio
Premont
King Haakon VII
Trondhjem
Duke of
Cornell
Poughkeepsie
Szisz
le Mans
Trarvard
New London
Congress
Wilfrid Lawson
Salisbury
H. A. Ward
Buffalo
Crown Prince Frederick William
Potsdam
Choukin
Dreyfus
Supreme Court of France
Capt
C. M. Daniels
Nottingham
South America
Gen. Regaldo
Guatemala
Platenar
Alfred Pett
Edmund Rice
U. 8
S. A
Wakefield
Seabord Airline
Hamlet
Great Northern
Elk, Wash
Lawrence Beach
Baron Kodama
Tokyo
Nicholas
Viborg
Finland
Rio de Janeiro
South Framingham
Baneun
Leyte
Prince Eugene Murat
Joachim Murat
Munich
Sveaborg
Gibraltar
Charles J. Train
United States Asiatic Fleet
Chefu
Sirio
John James Roberts Manners
Duke of Rutland
D' B. Wesson
Milwaukee State Bank of Chicago
Mary Pearl Teresa Crai
John Oliver Hobbes
Duray
de Dietrich
Ardennes Course
Belgium
Poland
Rthquake
Palma
Bandera
Pino Guerra
San Luis
Pinar del Rio
Guerra
San Juan de Martinez
Uhase
Gen. von Siartiarski
Warsaw
Real Estate Trust Company of
Frank W. Hipple
Geneva
American Bar Association
St. Paul
W. E. Marshall
Edward Rosewater
Omaha Bee
Omaha
Sporting
Electioneer
Sheepshead Bay
International Alliance of Woman Suffrage Associations
Joe Gans
Goldfield
Hermann Goetrichs
Pigo Guerra
Thames
Dan Patch
Denver
Legation 14
Elizabeth Blair Lee
Blair
Silver Spring
Taft
Havana
M. Daniels
St. Louis
Gen. Trepoff
Imperial Palace
Peterhof
Universal Peace Congress
Milan
Rock Island
Dover
Okla
Nicolauf
Great Northern Railway
Robert Hitt
Abraham Lincoln
Narragansett Pier
Jerico
Tenn
Martin Sheridan
Felix L. Oswald
Syracuse
Bloodgood Cutter
Mark Twain
Lariat
Prospect Hill
Porto Rico
Frank P. Lahm
English Channel
al Adams
Pocahontas
Bluefield
Boston and Maine
Lansingbureg
J. M. Ceballos & Co
Manuel Silviera
Wingate Colleries
Sigurd
Sweden
the Dickens
Twain
Northland
Stockholm
Sam Jones
Perry
Ark
American Bankers’ Association
Biserta
Tunis
Florida
George KE. Tyson
Altoona
Mac Fadyen & Co
India
P. Mac Fadyen
Warjagin
Vladivostok
Kansas City
Kan
National W. Co. T. UU
Hartford
Pennsylvania Electro
Atlantic City
Hermann
Joseph E. Gary
Cook County Superior Court
Harvest King Distilling Company
Panama
Long Beach
Cal
Samuel J. Kitson
Nathan Moore
Moscow
Esther Damon
Rutland
Woodville
American Federation of Labor
William Rufus Shafter
Santiago
Bakersfield
National Baptist Congress
Margaret Macdonald Bottome
King’s Daughters
President Roosevelt
Colon
Louisiana
St. Peter's
Dix
Jeanie
Askali Point
Wash
Georgia Cayvan
Flushing
Transmississippi Congress
Great Lakes
J. H. Jones
Georgian Bay
Yale
New Haven
Dortmund
Peoria
Ill
Salvation Army
Southern Railway
Lynchburg
Imuel Spencer
Gen
Phil'p Schuyler
Annapolis
West Point
Army and Navy
Black Patti
Flora Batson
Fiftyninth Congress
Interior
James R. Garfield
Commerce and Labor
Oscar S. Straus
Supreme Court
William H. Moody
Clifton
Ariz
Ferdinand F. Lee Boyle
Dickens
Edwin Forrest
Charlotte Cushman
Spainen
Weyler
Philipsines
Lynn
Lappont
Pius X
Leo XIII
Ithaca
Chi Psi
Fiske-Magraw
Joseph Fogler
Eddie Root
Madison Square Garden
American Association For the Advancement of Science
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