MARY GARDEN HURT IN STAGE SCENE  read more »

Three Burned To Death.

Fatal Fire in a Springfield (Ill.) Boarding House.  read more »

THIRTEEN WERE INJURED -- TWO SO SERIOUSLY THAT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE.

EXPLOSION ON A BIG LAKE STEAMER.  read more »

DISASTER ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

THE STEAMER EMMA NO. 3 SNAGGED AND BURNED -- SOME PARTICULARS OF THE CATASTROPHE -- MANY LIVES LOST.

From the Cincinnati Gazette, Feb. 22.  read more »

THE ILLINOIS TORNADOES.

GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY -- LOSS OF LIFE.

Correspondence of the St. Louis Republican.
Jacksonville, Ill., Friday, May 27, 1859.  read more »

THE SEA BIRD DISASTER.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY ON LAKE MICHIGAN.  read more »

FIRE COMPLETED THE RUIN.

A FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN ILLINOIS.

THE TRAIN STRIKES A BROKEN RAIL AND BECOMES A TOTAL WRECK -- A FIREMAN KILLED AND SEVERAL PASSENGERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.  read more »

ACCIDENT AT A SOCIETY CIRCUS.  read more »

FOUR DEAD IN CHICAGO WRECK.

EXPRESS CRASHES INTO TROLLEY PULLING THREE TRAILERS AT CROSSING.  read more »

TERRIFIC TORNADO -- THREE PERSONS KILLED -- A HOUSE CARRIED UP INTO THE AIR -- TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF THE WHIRLWIND.
From the Chicago Tribune, May 24.  read more »