The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-28
JANUARY.

loss SSJOOOO. TO date, in one year. 10
vessels arriving at New York, had small
poX on board. a flood at Bogota has
caused loss of Slj00O0. In Boston. 1870
have died of small poX since oct. /.
II. BY ice jam steamers and 80 bar
gcs sunk ut Cincinnati steamer at
Wheeling / mt Madison , at GAINESVILLE
and Middleport at Rochester. Pa. To-
tal loss $500, 900.
Ito. Terrible overflow of Yellow Riy-
cr, China ; loss incalculable." Unparalleled
thunder storm all over Great Britain
g. Great storm caused q loss of 5000 coo
around New York
60 Forty-ninc fishermen Of Yarmouth.
England, drowned in terrible gales.
IS. The fearful Minnesota ice-blast
drifts % feet deep only the smokc-stacks
of engines visible thermometer 25o be-
low zero IN 10 counties 20 persons froze
to death. No such storm ever known
there.
Id. Coal famine and much suffering
in Scotland
II. Thermometer a27 below at Lebanon
\. II.
10. In Boston to-day there are 600 cases
small poX
IS. At Sparta, Wisconsin, mercury a. :
below.
1870. Terrible gale at Aspinwall: ;
vessels and all the wharvcs destroyed loss
$1,000, 900.
20 To date in year, Boston has had 1892
cases small poX.
%. The Northhect sunk by collision in
the British channel $50 human lives mis-
erably persisted.
90. Ice gorge at Port Deposit, Md. two
miles wide, eight miles long, and from ten
to fifty feet deep and high. The place in
undated loss 100000.
Small poX this month, ravaged fear
fully all over Chill in Lima and Lola they
died like sheep 239 died of this plague in
Boston it scourged Baltimore, Nova Seq
tia, etc. The epizootic.spread all over Col
orado and wyoming Cerebro spinal men
nights attacked the horses of Boston and
New York, and cattle plague killed thou
sands ut Shanghai, China, while anteopcs
on the western plains died of horse plague.
The suffering in Prussia from the storm
Of October was very great 5000, 600 thai
ers was needed to sustain life and prevent
starvation.
FEBRUARY.
/. The worst snow storm ever expert
cnced in England. Snow inches deep in
London all travel suspended business
stood still ; intensely cold 100 persons
trozc to death on land hundreds persisted
on the coasts.
3. Explosion of -four boilers at Pittsburgh
Pa, killing seven and wounding Thirty
persons. Explosion of boiler and 7 casual
ties at Syracuse, n. Y. AZ Philadelphia
more
6. During the past three months no less
ihan II English sea-gong steamers are lost
with every soul on hoard
y. Middletown, ROckmon, etc, on the
Nusquehanna inundated from Port Dcposit
loss SS0,000
-. a boat capSiled and % persons were
drowned at Yokohama. Japan.
10. Steamer Henry Jones burnt in the
Gulf of Mexico, and 81 persons persisted
thereby.
10. At Pittsburgh, Pa, there is $4,000
loss by flood.
IS Colllery explosion at StaiIordshire,
Eng, brings death to 20 miners
20. AT Smyrna II cafe, undermined by
the tide, was suddenly swallowed up in the
sea, and 1870 persons. mostly Greeks, We're
drowned.
81 Terrible rayagcs Of cerebro spinal
meningitis at Macon, Ga, Mercer College
suspends 10 students died.
% Ship Tcnnyson foundcrcd ut sea- loss
of property S43j, goo. Steamer Glasgow
sunk in Louisiana waters loss Sl00.0 600.
n From 30 to 20 die Of yellow fever AT
Rio Janeiro daily and equally fatal at Ba-
hla and Peruambuco. Cholera at Para.
2T The English steamer Grccan loss at
sea and 40 lives are lost. Ship Patrcan
toundercd at San Francisco, loss 800, 600.
The Hanover Street (Boston) catastrophe
and fire, it caused the death of men, and
IA others were injured.
% Ship Marias sunk in the harbur Of
Cadlz, and 80 lives were lost bark Boync
and 10 lives were lost on the English coast;
Il steamer foundered on the Mersey and
every soul on board persisted go or 3O)
49, Russia and Hungary were rayaged
with cholera of most yrulent type Ne
vada was oyerrun by the epizootic Sacra-
mento visited by it also and coal tam
inc in Great Britain, all this month coal
that had been So rose 10 $40 and $3.50
per ton. The want and suffering thereby
was great A shower of quicksilver fell in
San lquacia, in Mexico.
MARCH.
/. The ships Chacabuco and Torch COLI
ded in the Irish Channel both sunk and
"a lives were lost. Steamer George S.
Wright and 90 persons persisted near Cape
Caution.
2. New and fatal disease and 13 deaths
at Deer Creek, Arizona.
7. Cartridge mandatory explosion at
Paris, France, 100 injured, of whom ~ or
more died.
10-12. Small pox fearfully fatal in
Utah, and epizootic invades the City of
Mexico.
Id. Alarming and fatal prevalence of
cerebro spinal meningitis in parts of Cali
fornia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Georgia,
Kentucky and the whole Missippi Valley
hundreds die of it.
10. The steamship Petersburgh lost at
Bermuda with 1,466, 1889 pounds Of tea
loss of ship and cargo 100000.