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Daily News
Year End Review - 1927
DISASTERS ON LAND & SEA
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The records were transcribed by JOHN BAIRD Formatted by GEORGE WHITE
While we have endeavored to be as
correct as humanly possible, there could be some typographical errors.
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January 01, 1927 | Heavy floods in Maylayan State of Perak. Villages over large area, swept, with tremendous loss of life. |
| January 08, 1927 | Seventy-eight children die in panic, which followed fire outbreak in Laurier Avenue Theatre, in Montreal. |
| January 10, 1927 | Five thousand homeless, following destructive fire at Manila. |
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| February 15, 1927 | Tornado sweeps California. Death toll 16. |
| February 17, 1927 | Tornado sweeps Louisiana. Death toll 10. |
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| March 01, 1927 | Coal mine explosion at Cwm.Monmouthahire, and flooding of new shaft at Bilsthorpe,
Nottinghamshire, results in loss of over 40 lives. |
| March 07, 1927 | Japanese towns, Kaetsu, Yamada, and Twataki, damaged by severe earthquake, killing 2,000. Worst quake for seventy years. |
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| April 25, 1927 | Mississippi overflows its Banks, resulting in unnumbered deaths and huge property damage |
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| May 03, 1927 | Mississippi floods spreading. Approximately 10,000 square miles of Mississippi and Arkansas Valley, now submerged. 50,000 people need relief. Flood victims totalling 223,387 under Red Cross care. |
| May 28, 1927 | Great earthquake in remote Province of Kansu, Chinatown, and cities levelled. 100,000 casualties and horrible suffering. |
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| June 01, 1927 | Forty killed and 150 injured, in cyclonic storm, which swept Holland and Belgium. |
| June 05, 1927 | Ten killed, two hundred seriously injured, in power magazine explosion at Tonie, Poland. |
| June 06, 1927 | The three masted French vessel “Alvina”, owned by La Morue Francaise, total wreck at Cripple Cove, near Cape Race. |
| June 15, 1927 | Many drowned, and thousands rendered homeless by storms and floods, which devastated 39 districts of the White Russian Republic, on Polish Border. |
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| July 10, 1927 | 168 drowned in torrential floods, following cloud bursts in Saxony. |
| July 11, 1927 | Earthquake in Holy Land, causes death of nearly 1,000 people. |
| July 26, 1927 | 150 drowned, when Chinese passenger Junk overturns, in Typhoon. |
| July 27, 1927 | 1,000 reported dead in Baroda, India, as result of bursting of reservoir. |
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| August 25, 1927 | Terrific gale sweeps South West Coast, causing great loss of life and property. Schooners “Vienna”, of Burnt Islands, with six men; “John C Loughlan“, of Red Harbor, P.B., with nine men; “Hilda Gertrude”, of Rushoon, P.B., with seven men; Ella May, of Roncontre West, with six men; and “Annie Healey”, Fox Harbor, with seven men. Annie Jane, of Isle au Morte, with four men, lost. |
| August 28, 1927 | More than 40 drowned when excursion boat capsizes on Lake Michigan. |
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| September 08, 1927 | Two hundred and eighty Koreans drowned, when ferry boat capsized off Kokaide Province. |
| September 10, 1927 | 5,000 perish, as Typhoon and Tidal Wave in Japan, takes many lives, and destroy much property. |
| September 29, 1927 | St, Louis Mo., swept by tornado. 74 dead, 5 000 houses destroyed, and damaged, loss $100,000,000. |
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| October 08, 1927 | Thousand of buildings destroyed by fire at Peshawar. Mafalda, founders, 250 miles South of Bahia, Brazil, with loss of 381 lives. |
| October 28, 1927 | British Isles, swept by Hurricane, with heavy loss of life and property. 51 Irish fishermen drowned. |
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| November 14, 1927 | Terrific explosion of Gas tank, in Pittsburgh. Seven dead, many injured. |
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