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


- This month, in Peru, : A.. A houses
fell by reason of land slides. and 80 per
SONS thereby lost their lives.
MAY.
IL The dreaded cholera first appears
at Memphis and places on the lower Mis-
sissipri; to June 4th there were twenty
three deaths
II Forty-onc cases and IA deaths by
small pOX, this week. in Washington. y.
G.
. Railroad accident at Soiqantc, Canada,
and % persons badly injured.
80 Cerebro spinal meningitis DESTROYS
% lives this week in 10 large cities of Mas
sachusetts.
The lamcntable calamity at Dixon. ILL.,
An iron bridge upon which stood 300 men.
women and children, witnessing Il baptism
suddenly fell into the deep river; 1906 per
sons were taken out dead and the whole
city went into mourning.
10 Three boys roasted to death by
playing with oX-hydrogcn flames at San
Francisco.
} On the rail near Princeton, Ind, of -
souls in a wrecked train 30 were wounded
and some killed.
& Six cars wrecked near Pesth, 81 lives
lost and 40 other persons manned. Fifteen
persons killed or injured by n boiler cx-
plosion at Chicago. Severe tornado in
Louisiana.
The murders by the Bender family in
Labette county, Kansas, come to light II
COrpses discovered.
. Fourteen buildings demolished by tor
nado in Belle county, Ohio loss $50. 600
ID Tornado in Boston Barnum's men
ageric pavilion Frustrated, and panic.
EVn1n 70 Lat.
small poX in Washington, ID. G. BY ey-
plosion in the coal mine ut Pictou. Nova
Scotia, 80 miners were suffocated, leaving
30 widows and % orphans.
10 Bosnia is visited with a terrible and
vast inundotion scores of people drowned
and millions in property swept off and
ruined.
10 Extraordinary solar phenomena.
mock suns etc. seen in New York and
vicinity.
- Frightiul tornado in Iowa and Illinois
wind OF terrible power cattle and huge
timhcrs driven into the ground; 1900 sheep
carried off into the air, only 40 escaping
death in Lancaster only one house left
standing it raincd torrents and roar. like
the din Of battle, was heard ten miles away:
hail nnc inches in diameter property de-
stroyed by hundreds of thousands and -
persons Killed ana 40 wounded.
n Tornado at Lincoln. Kan, persons
killed and 10 manned, with general ruin
all about. Great overflow and immense
damage BY the Neosho river, in that state.
y Six persons burnt to death and more
wounded at "A fire in London, England.
% In Brussels. Belgium. boiler explo-
sion destroyed II lives, wounding a score
of others.
$50 The cpzootic rcappears ut Brook
lyn and eighty-iour horses are down with
81 Great frcshct in Blackwood valley.
Neb. 1t became a torrent u miles wide
and ! feet deep. Capt. A. Moore's cavalry
company was overwhelmed and men and
20 horses were drOWHcd.
There was drouth in the Northern
states all the month small pox smote our
cities and in llidalgo, Mexico, it ragged fear
fully. in one little village there were 100
dead, Yellow fever was very fatal in parts
Of Cuba. Floods destroyed property in
North Carolina estimated ut several hun
dlcd thousand dollars
Steamship George Cromwell, three
weeks out From New York, is lost at sea
value S275,0O and 81 souls on boarl.
~ Iish pllguc among the plckcrcl III
Lake Como, \. T., and thousands died.
ID Asialic cholera strikes West Prus-
sa Twenty-Five passengers injured on
the rail at Capetown, Ont.
10 Five persons drowend at Calais, VI
81 Asiatic cholera invades Italy, Aus
lria and Bulgaria. Destructive typhoon
at Amboy.
% Steamer Columbus ran ashore near
lloyhcad, England, and 10 persons were
drowned.
30 Terrific explosion of cans of nitro
glycerme and $50 pounds giant powder at
Virginia City, Nevada, that shook the place
as it were an earthquake, destroyed II
lives, wounded dozen others, and caused
$l5O,00O.loss. The city put on mourning.
-Four men blown TO atoms in the IIoosac
Tunnel
81 Tornado in Greenwood Co, Kansas;
killed.
Cholera appeared at Cincinnati, iWash-
ington, Paduca, Evansville, Wheeling, st
Louis, Vera Cruz, Galatn, Cedar Keys,
GAINESVILLE, etc, In Nashville from 90 to
60 died daily the deaths by it in Memphis
were from 10 to 30. San Francisco had
smallpox and Brooklyn yellow foyer this
last ragged fearfully in all the Gulf
towns of Mexico, Japan was oyerrun with
rinderpest, that destroyed thousands of
cattle. The severest drouth for many
years afflicted New England On the sea
the total losses in six months from January
to July were 80 steamers and 1866 sailing