1871  The
Great Chicago Fire |
1888
 The Blizzard
of 1888 |
1889
 The
Johnstown Flood - 1889 |
1900  Hurricane in Galveston, Texas
- On September 8, 1900 |
| 1903
A fire at the Iroquois Theater
in Chicago took 588 lives. |
| 1904
1,055 people died when a fire
swept through the steamship General Slocum in New York. |
| 1904
2,600 buildings over 80 blocks
of Baltimore were destroyed by fire. |
1905
 3,000 people were stricken
and 400 died from a yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans, traced to mosquitoes. |
1906
 The San
Francisco Earthquake |
1907
 Coal mine explosions in
Monongahela, West Virginia and Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania killed a total of 601 workers. |
| 1909
259
coal miners died in an explosion at Cherry, Illinois. |
| 1911
The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire kills
145 immigrant women. Modern fire regulations are established. |
1912
 The
Titanic - 1912 1,500 perished when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank
during its maiden voyage. |
| 1913
Over 400
died in The Dayton Flood along the Miami River in Ohio. |
1915
 A German sub sank the U.K.'s
passenger ship The Lusitania, killing 1,198 persons, including 114 Americans and
64 babies |