National Republican., 1876-01-01
WIND, FIRE AND WATER
Disasters Of the Year 1879

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January l91The Bristol steamer Beaver foun
dered, and twenty lives were lost. -r,,,
January 20-The British steamer 1hornaoy,
from Cardiff for Bombay, was sunk anu twenty.
nine lives lost. -, +, =.
January 2O-By fearful snow storm in the
Sierra Nevadas six lives were lost.
January 2I-Six houses were blown down by a
hurricane in Brownsboro, ny. .,.,,,. ,,,,,,,--
February 25-The wall OF an aoJOFS JIM f St
fell upon and broke through the rooi oI St An
drews church, New York city, whlie II, religious
services were being held. By the falling bricks
and as result Of the panic T,Sn TSlpded dSO n'e
March 4-Telegram from @ @LonSOn aanoUieea IN a.,I ~
the wreck of the steamer GOtbe36uTg on Zone one o.
the Fourneaux Islands, in Basf Straltsl DetHeen
Van Dieman's Land and Australia. or Ito per.
March 2o-Destructiye Tornado IN Georgia.
Srnssx Dss 0i sFre f u a. 6saSa Japan. Twelve
hundred buildings destroyed and several lives
lost. ,,o, rA.
hundred houses destroyed.
March 24-ExpIosion in q coal mine near Char.
leroi, Belgium, causing the dtath anu INJURY Of
April as-Three steamers burned at the New
Orleans levee Fifty lives saerinced.
April 2e-Collision on the MaSY nu of 1bs
mae railroad, near Washington -u1hy vi the
employees and passengers inJured. ,,,,.
April 2s-Destruetive fire at oshhosn, Miseon-
sin. square mile Of the city laiG IL onaI ,;,.,
plosion of a powder magazine ans several lives
NAV 20-Fire at Osceola, Pennsy ylvania. Two
hundred and fifty houses destroyed hOss over
May Explosion at Bunker HIN oolliery,
North Staftordshire, England. Forty-one lives
MAY Wreck of the steamship Schiller, in o
fog, on the Retarriere Ledge, near Blshop's
Rock, Scilly Islands, of the CORNWALL cqasI She
belonged to the Eagle line, and was pound TO
Ham6Hry from New York. Three hundred and
eleven persons drowned, including the captain,
'gVa NAV HEHniosion IN n drug store in Boston,
Massachusetts. Several people killed and others
May 27SBurning of the Freneh Catholic church
at Holyoke, Massachusetts, during Ihe celebra-
tion of the feast Of Corpus C1risti. SeVenty-nVe
june ie-Exploson in a Banufactory of fire.
works in Boston, Massaehusete' ola Pefsohs
killed and three seriously injured. -
May ls-Earthquake in New Granada. Six
cities desOlated. The city Of Cucuta entlrely op-
liberated. Sixteen thousand lEes lost;
May 24-Intelligence in LONDON, Eng gland, OF
the sinking Of an Austrian IN the Iyrol,
| with Roman Catholic pilgrims on Ooaru' Seven
NAV S0-The steamer Ti:ksburg, bound for
| Liverpool, from Montreal, went down In neld OF
ice Eighty-threc lives reported lost
| June 3-Sixty persons drowned py the capslZlng
| of a lighter on the Tagus in PoTtugal.
| July 5-Near Far RockaWa;, Long Island; 1 col
lision between two trains on the south Slde Kali
| road Seven persons killed. SIX iatally ana twen-
| ty-two seriously injured. The steam:tug Lumber
| man, while returning from FGtress Monroe with
ddIrT bx he :teamsb7n isasc Bell off SewaIIs
Point and sunk in fifty feet q! water Nine oi the
company were drowned Inc steamer was not In
August e-Explosion in the arsenal at Brides
burg Pennsylvania. One person killed and nine
| teen wounded
August 5A water-spout bursting over the town
of Kirn, in Rhensh Prussia, inundated the place,
and thirteen persons were drOSned;
August 29-COllisiOn on the Mldland railroad,
in England. Five persons killed and forty in
jured.
near Point au Gable, Lake Alchlgan. twenty
six persons drowned
September lO-Loss of the steam-barge Mendoza
on Lake Michigan. Eight parsons drowned.
September l6-19-ViOent cyclone on the Gulf
of Mexico. In Galveston (0'er which the storm
was central at midday en- the lothD the water
was driven over the island alternately from gulf
and bay. Houses were renoyed, the railroad
dana ged, and numerous vsssels driven ashore.
In IndianOla, on MatagOrda bay, over one hun
dred lives were lost. The pace was flooded eight
feet deep, and houses, stCes wharyes and the
lighthouse were swept awR. Nine tenths Of the
houses in town were destrO ed.
September "a railway rain broke through
rotten bridge near Goshen en- route for Kingston,
Canada. Twenty-Five persns injured.
September ll-Loss OF elGen lives from poison
GUS gas in the bennington Wood COlliery, shrop-
September 2o-A dummy train near Phfladel-
phia was run into by an e.cursion train on the
Pennsylvania railroad. EiIe persons Killed and
September Ii-Adriees rom st. Thomas of
severe hurricane. The British ship Goldfish went
ashore on st. Vincent. AM twelve Of her crew
were drowned.
September 2e-The steamer Adler came in COL
lision with the Swedish steamer King Oscar II.
near Grimsby, England The latter sunk, and
fourteen persons on board we're drowned.
September 2s-At Sorel, IN Canada, train on
the Richmond, Drummond Ind Arthabaska rail
way ran of the track. Ele1n persons killed, and
twenty-four seriously injured,
October 4.-The Swedish steamer L. ]. Poager,
running between Lubeod and Copenhagen,
burned in the Baltic. Twety-four of the passen-
gers and eleven of the crew lerished.
October 2l-21Severe gles of the Scottish
coast. Five vessels lost viii their crews.
October 2o-Great fire n Virginia City, Ne
yada. The business poriOn Of the city COM
pletely destroyed. EstmaAd loss, u, ,ooo, 900.
November 4-The steamnip Pacific foundered
between San Francisco nd Portland. Nearly
two hundred lives lost.
November e-The steamship City of Waco
burned of Galveston Ban Nearly seventy lives
lost.
November Wreck ofthe British ship Cal
cutta, from Quebec to LInrpool, on Crosse Isle.
Twenty-three lives lost.
November 1l-Explosi0 Of fire-damp In a Bel
gian colliery. Over forty ives lost.
Observation-Disclosures in London of the wreck
of the British ship Astida, near Boulogne
France. Nine person drwned.
November 1s-Railway disaster between Stock
holm andMalmo, Denmak Sixty passengers
killed or severely injured.