New - Pennsylvania Disasters added to the database at
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Events That Touched Our Ancestors Lives:
Allentown, PA Fireman Killed at West End Hotel Fire, Feb 1909
Allentown, PA Purse Falls Into Fire, Aug 1909
Allentown, PA school fire, Aug 1904
Allentown, PA school fire, Mar 1909
Allentown, PA Train Accident, Jul 1909
Armstrong County, PA Sugar Creek Township Tornado, May 1860
Athens, PA Bridge Destroyed by Flood, Apr 1916
Athens, PA High School Fire, Feb 1917
Beaver Brook, PA Mine Accident, Mar 1916
Blacklick, PA Fatal Lightning Strike, Jun 1907
Blakely, PA Trolley Accident, Mar 1904
Butler, PA Steel Mill Explosion, Oct 1907
Cambridge Springs, PA Tornado, Oct 1908
Carlisle, PA Train Accident, Mar 1916
Chester, PA Boy Falls Under Train, Aug 1915
Connellsville, PA Elderly Boarding Home Fire, Apr 1979
Danville, PA Insane Asylum Burns, Mar 1881
Flourtown, PA Train - Auto Wreck, Apr 1916
Franklin, PA Oil Refinery Fire, Oct 1911
Gibsons Point, PA Fatal Sailboat Accident, May 1891
Harrisburg, PA Downtown Fire, Feb 1907
Harrisburg, PA miners killed by lightning, Aug 1908
Huntingdon, PA Train Wreck, Mar 1876
Huntingdon, PA Train Wreck, May 1947
Hyndman, PA Train Wreck, Sept 1908
Johnstown, PA Train Wreck, Jan 1909
Johnstown, PA Train Wreck, Nov 1858
Kane, PA Portion Of Town Burned, Mar 1906
Kelly Station, PA Train Wreck, Aug 1907
Knoxville, PA Easter Sunday Tornado, Mar 1902
Kobeen, PA Head-On Collision, Oct 1912
Laporte, PA Laporte Hotel Fire, Mar 1916
Laurel Run, PA Train Wreck, Dec 1903
Laurys, PA Train Wreck, Dec 1899
Lockport, PA Train Wreck, Mar 1907
Lost Creek, PA Train Wreck, Oct 1888
Lovett Station, PA Train Wreck, Aug 1904
Madley, PA Train Wreck, Jan 1902
Manayunk, PA Locomotive Boiler Explosion, Dec 1854
Manor Station, PA Train Wreck, Oct 1895
McKeesport, PA Trolley Wreck, Jun 1901
Meadville, PA Train Wreck, Dec 1887
Merkles Crossing, PA Train Wreck, Jan 1939
Milton, PA Trolley Wreck, Aug 1906
Minooka Junction, PA train wreck, Jun 1913
Montana, PA Pottsville Engine House Fire, Aug 1871
New Castle, PA Train Wreck, Jan 1912
New Florence, PA Train Station Wreck, Feb 1910
New Florence, PA Train Wreck, Nov 1890
Newton Hamilton, PA Train Wreck, Sept 1858
Norristown, PA Train Accident, Aug 1895
Oswayo, PA McGonigal Hotel Fire, Nov 1900
Oxford, PA Depot Fire, Apr 1905
Philadelphia, PA "Pennsylvania Hall" Burns, May 1838
Philadelphia, PA boarding house fire, Jan 1905
Philadelphia, PA Fairmount Park Dam Drowning Rescue, Apr 1916
Philadelphia, PA fire engine - trolley accident, Dec 1908
Philadelphia, PA Firemen Thrown From Firetruck on Way to Fire, Aug 1915
Philadelphia, PA flood, Jan 1905
Philadelphia, PA freight depot fire, Mar 1904
Philadelphia, PA Refinery Explosion, August 16, 1900
Philadelphia, PA Steel Plant Accident, Apr 1911
Pittsburg, PA Theatre Fire, June 1905
Pittsburgh, PA 6th Street Restaurant Fire, Sept 1909
Pittsburgh, PA Columbian Film Exchange Fire, Sept 1909
Pittsburgh, PA street car fire, Feb 1904
Priceburg, PA coal mine explosion, Jun 1907
Reading, PA Train - Auto Wreck, Sept 1909
Sarvers, PA Train Plunges Off Embankment, Aug 1889
Shamokin, PA mill fire, Oct 1908
Sinnemahoning, PA powder company explosion, Jun 1907
Somerset, PA Highland Inn Fire, Oct 1909
Sunbury, PA Hotel Fire, Jan 1914
Swoyersville, PA House Fire, Aug 1915
Towanda, PA Drowning, Dec 1913
Troy, PA Train Wreck, Oct 1907
Warren County, PA Flood, Apr 1916
Wyoming Valley, PA Susquehanna River Flood, Apr 1916
Various Locations, NC, SC, VA, PA, NY, NJ, DE, MD Hurricane HAZEL, Oct 1954
Various States, NC, PA, NY, CT, VA, RI, NJ, MA Hurricane DIANE, Aug 1955
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