The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-01
CASUALTIES.
A Record of the PRINCIPAL Disast


A Record of the Principal Disasters.
February 6-Fire at Osaka, Japan. Twelve
hundred bui ldings destroyed and several lives
lost.
February Fire at Yokohama, Japan.
Three hundred houses destroyed.
February 15-Extensive fire at Port au Prince
Five hundred houses burned
February 19--Burnipg of watch factory in
Sweden, fifty-one lives lost.
February 25-Roof of st. Andrews schurch,
New York, crushed by the wall of an adjacent
building; five persons killed and thirty wound
ed.
March 4-Wreck of the steamer sGothen-
burg on one of the Fourneaux Islands in Bass
Straits between Van Diem n's Land and Aus
trala. Only % of the ITO on board were saved.
March 20-Destructive tornado in Georgia,
with great loss of life and:property.
March 4-Exploson in coal mine near
Charleroi, Belgium, causing death and injury
to many persons.
April 23-Three steamers burned at the New
Orleans levees, and fifty lives lost.
April 26-Collision on the Baltimore & Poto-
mac Railroad, near Washington. Many of the
employees ana passengers lnJureu
April 2S-Destructive fire:at Oshkosh, Wis,
with the explosion of powder magazine, and
several lives lost Total loss over $2,OOO,0OO.
May 1-Explosion at Bunker Hill Colliery at
North Staffordshjre, England. Forty-one lives
lost.
May Wreck of the steamship Schiller on
Retarriere Ledge, near Bishops Rock, Scilly
Islands, and three hundred and eleven persons
drowned.
May N-Sinkipg of an Austrian ferry boat
in the Tyrol with Roman Cathlic church pill
grims on board. Seventy-fve lives lost
May 26-Exploson in Boston drug store.
Several persons killed.
May 27-Burning of the French Catholic
church at Holyolke, Mass, during the celebra.
ton of the feast of Corpus Christi. Seventy
five lives lost.
May 30-Sinkipg of the steamer Vicksburg,
on the voyage from Liverpool to Montreal, and
loss of eighty-three lives.
June Sixty persons drowned by the cap
sizing of lighter in the Tagus.
July 15-Near Far Rockaway, Long Island,
collision between two trains on the South Side
Railroad. The same day steam tag Lumber
man while returning irom Fortress Monroe
with pleasure party on board was run down
by steamship Isaac Bell, and nine persons were
drowned.
August 5-Kirn in Rhenish, Prussia, was
deluged by water spout and thirteen persons
drowned
August 29-Oollision on the; Midland Rail-
road, England. Five persons killed and forty
injured
September "A railway tsan broke through
"a rotten bridge near Goshen, Canada, and TWEEN
ty-fve lives were lost.
September Gloss of Republic Equinox near
Point au Sable, Lake Michigan. Twenty-six
persons drowned.
September 10-Loss of the steam barge Men
dota on Lake Michigan. Eight persons drown
ed
September 16 to 19-Violent cyclone on the
Gulf of Mexico; in Galveston the water was
driven over the island alternately from Gulf to
Bay. Houses were removed, railroads damag-
ed and numerous vessels driven ashore. In In
dianOla over two hundred lives were lost, and
nine tenths of the houses were destroyed.
September 11-Loss of eleven lives from
poisonous gas in the Donningtonwood Collery,
Shropshire, England.
September 17-Severe hurricane at ST. Thorn
as during which the British ship Goldfish went
ashore and twelve of her crew we're drowned.
September 26-Collison of trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Five persons were
killed. Same day the Swedish steamer King
Oscar II. was sunk by collision, and fourteen
persons were drowned.
Sapton1hpr 0S-A train IRON off no ooly
the Richmond, Drummond & Arthabaska rail-
road in Canada, and eleven persons were kill
ed.
October 4-Swedish steamer L. j. Poager
burned in the Baltic. Twenty-four passengers
and eleven of the crew persisted.
October 81 to 23-Severe gales off the Scot
fish coast. Five vessels lost with their crews
October 26-Great fire in Virginia City, Me-
vada. The business portion of the city was
completely destroyed. Estimated loss 50, O0O,-
900.
October 30-Hurricane in the Philippine Is
lands. Two hundred and fifty lives lost
November 4-Steamship Pacific foundered
between San Francisco and Portland. Nearly
two hundred lives lost.
November 9-Steamship City of Waco, burn
ed off Galveston Bar. Nearly seventy lives
lost.
November 1O-Wreck of the British ship Cal
cutta, from Quebec to Liverpool, on Crosse Isle,
Twenty-three lives lost.
November 11-Explosion of fire damp in a
Belgium colliery Over forty lives lost
November 15-Wreck of the British ship
Astrida, near Boulogne. Nine persons drown
ed
November 1S-Railway disaster between
Stockton and Malmo, Denmark Sixty pas
sengers killed OR severely injured.
December Sinking of the steamer Sunny
side on the Hudson. A number of lives were
lost.
December 6-Exposion in the Swaithe Main
coliery in West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Loss of two hundred lives.
December Wreck of the steamship Deut.
schland, in the North Sea. Loss of fifty-three
lives.
December 11-Exploson of dynamite on the
steamer Mosel at Bremerhayen. Fifty persons
killed and many injured.
December 15-Explosion in Belgium coal
mine. Over one hundred miners killed.
December 22-Explosion of gas main in
South Boston. Five persons killed.
December 20-Hurricane in the Manila Is
lands. Many lives lost
December 25-Fall of church floor at Hill
kon, Switzerland. Eighty lives lost
NEUROLOGY.
The Death Roll of 1875.
The death record of the year includes large
number of names distinguished 10 the various
departments of knowledge, politics and COM
merclal enterprise. The United States has lort