The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-14
A lE4R OF DISASTER.


On January 4, 1912, there were violent
thunder storms, with shock OF earthquake,
in England; 10th, the great earthquake al
Shemacha. Caucasus, occurred, killing Io'
people, woundng Il, and destroying me nc
city 10Th, there were reported teIIIo1e
floods in England which caused lLhihense i'I-
losses of prOpertv The next cay began
49,, loot md far1ous snow blockade on the
Northern Pacific Railroad. The latter part
of Jauuarv and the beginning Of February
1rare extremely cold and many persons in
the Northwest died from exposure. Feb
17Iarv s. three persons were Killed III Utah
Inv enarmous snow slides ,, 600 feet in height:
the 18th, fIightfui storm in the Northwest,
500 cars blocladed, ard mary persons Te-
ported as perishing from cold. March, so
suow-drifts were reported in Nova Scotia
thirty feet deep; Goth and following days,
several shocks of earthquake were IeIt III
California; 1000 miles of country we're
shaken, 40 people killed, and 100 Wouh'leu'
Oaxaca, Mexico, was YISited ny "h e.1i az u
make bv which :. 60 pers pms were Killed.
An eruption of Y NesuYloUS- he most IeIIlpie
81 +,rG cautIIries-Occuued on the 25th to
9th causiug the death OF 200 persons
I,,ra 3 y ureat tornado occurred III Ohio,
Nv with l6O houses were blown down and
% persons more or less injured. The sum
mer in the Northern States was character
lied bv the intense heat which occurred at
short intervals and continued long. The
first snow fell at BlandfOrd, Mass, on the
31st of August. September IS, Osceoa
Ark. was nearly destroyed by hurricane,
aud Ethe following day there were great
Gales and immense loss of property on the
Lakes October -, disastrous freshets ON
the river Po, in Italy, rendered G0,C0 fami-
lies homeless On November l3 and IA.
terrible gales in the Baltic and North seas;
eighty ships and,huudTCds Of lives reported
] st the damage between 81, 600, 600 and
$4,000, 600 Goth, great gales on the Eng
lish coast, causing great damage Decepl-
Ler 4, Po again flooded 9Th to 18th, hur-
licane in England and Ireland towns
Hooded and 449 lives reported lost in ten
days; 10TH the Seine overfiowed and Paris
was partly under water: 22d, the greatest
inundation of the Thames in twenty years
occurred at London; Goth, great snow storm
III New York; travel almost stopped. The
following days the storm continued in the
West.
January to 6, 40 persons died of small
Tox in Philadelphia small pox reported
r. spreading in all parts of England, Ire
laudg-aud Scotland. March %, small poX
in New York and vicinity. April ., 43per-
sons reported as dying in a week Of small
pox in Montreal. June II, cholera appears
in Southern Russia. Week ending July &,
1 l. 500 persons died from the effects of the
terrible heat in New \ ork; 10th, rindeTpest
attacks the herds Of England; Goth cholera
spreading in Central and Southern Russia.
August both, cholera in India and West
Russia. September17th, fatal cattle plague
appears in Nevada. October lst, the great
horse plague appears III Ontario, Canada,
and in the two months following is said to
have attack ed ), OOO, geo horses; 10th, 3, co.,
600 of persons said to have died of famine
and plague in Persia 25th, 10000 horses
sick of tire epizootic in New Nork-the fol
lowing days witnessed great mortality
among the sick ones; 3Oth, cholera appears
iu East Prussia, Hungary and Ireland
Novemver ,. the horse plague reaches Eng
land 3d. cholera in Vienna; Prague and
I;erlin, 18th, 50, coo Russians have died since
January /, Of cholera.