Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
Record of Disasters In 1850.

and terribly fatal character Vi I.s
The food at the island OF st. Kits, In the
British West Indies. on January lltn'
leads the list of calamities due 10 eohNu In =,
sions of nature alone. A loss oil over zOO u
lives and $3.50 900 was the result. On n
Anril 18th a tornado destroyed the town oil a
| Narshtield. Mo-. killed upward OF lOo Il
nersons, wounded $50, and caused damage
10 the extent of 81, 100000 at least.
week later Christian county Ill, ana
Macon, Miss, were visited by cyclones
Al Macon IL lives were lost, besides
LARGE amount of property. On June ZSth
beGan an eruption of the Guatemala VOL
lc,no Fuego. On July 18th there was Il
Terribly destructive earthquake at Man
IL, on the Island of Luzon. Not single
nnblic edifice was left standing In the
place. even a convent 800 years old being
lihrown down. On the 18th of August
Jamaica was swept by storm whlcn
lIeveled nearly every house and every acre
nf crops in the island. On November YIN
Southern Austria, and especially Agram'
in Croatia. were shaken by an earthquake
which cause damage to the amount Oh
I &. 900, 900 forms. Finally, at last accounts
the Hawaiian volcano was still continuing
an eruption of unusual extent and Vlgor'
e which began on November 9Th.
The disasters due in part to human IN
| fiuences were not less numerous, fatal ana
q destructive. On April 2lst the weak Walls
of Madison Square Garden, n. leii'
y killing four persons. On August ii'', wv
n sections of an excursion train on the west
= Jersev railroad came in collision at May
- LANDING, N. j. Twenty-six deaths re-
" .nlrpd besides AS many more serious in
he nres. similar collision occurred on
lie The PENNSYLVANIA railroad, at Pittsburg'
: October 9th, causing q deaths. :
A pecuiarty of the marine disasters OF
the wear was the large proportion when
'r occurred on inland waters. On january
sc 3Otb the English navy training snip
rs Atalanta sailed from Bermuda, with 3Oo
~ vonno sailors on board, and has since
III never been heard from. On March 18TH
he the Montana of the Williams Gulon
TO- Line. went ashore near Holyhead, and
was a total wreck, but no lives were lost.
low ON June l1th the Narraganset ana
10y Stonington, plying between New YORK
me and SIonington, Ct, on the route u
on BOSTON. came in colis n near Cornheid
m. light. and 80 deaths resulted. Besides
- the loss of life the Narraganset took hre
'N filled and sank On June 18th, 30 deaths
my were caused by the burning OF the oeawah
de kaka on its trip from New York to kosiyh
red This was caused by the burning OF nue.
"a On July I'D the yacht Mamie came II
-" collision with the steamer Garland, on III
th' Detroit river, near Grassy Island LiSh'
ism and IL OF the pleasure party were urowil
on ed The V I'll Cruz steamer Ionhoereu ,
a storm off Cape Canaveral, on the L lofia
my coast, on August 10Th. The lost i've
dc numbered 6S, including Gen. ioroer
rt's On November Oath the Ortlgia ana ohci
here $50 lives were lost. Treacheror
ore Lake Huron is chargeabIe here with thre
5ta's fatal wrecks. Eight lives were lost wit
cle, ,,e Altoona on August 10Th; an indefn
ing iarue number, probably SO, with Il
- Alpepa on October 18th, and IL with tt
0'' ,,mcoe on November oath. On Novemb
Set 9th the fine Sound steamer Rhode lslar
lazy was totally wrecked by going ashore
lone the entrance to Narraganset Bay.
,.,, The most noticeable fire OF the ye
WAS the burning of the St Peter (linn
ItCer [asylumn for the insane on November lot
)le5. A lunatic set the fire because his supp
mits was cold, and 80 lives were lost. In Ne
and York city he burning OF Turn Halle,
Fourth street, on January 4th, caus
'ofl- rlqht deaths. Manhattan Market at Ele
nj en1h avenae and Thirty fourth stree
his which cost $l.0O0,0O0, vas burned
had September Sth. Among other noticeat
large or fatal fires were the followin
'Vla' Seven hundred houses at Hull. Ontario,
the April 21st, loss $3,000,O00; AN equal il
turf bv the burning OF oil and machinery oN
h,d a territory near Bradford, Penn, 30 mi
81, long by 3 three miles wide, on May
WV" and succeeding days; 666 houses at Mllt
know Penn, on May l4th, loss 100000
sym Au,onia clock works, Brooklyn, lo
allow 81 600, 900. on October q; Il loss OF
IL, 100000 ut Pensacola, Florida, ON
'4 cemher 11th; and the loss OF 10 lives
ana S250,00 by the burning OF Iatts
, the paper factory at Buffalo, N. T., on
anteo Gember 1.th.
: ~ The mining disasters were especi'
shocking, even in this unusual list, ou
- is noteworthy that the most and wors
ham this class are foreign. On January 2
thai 70 deaths were caused by an explosion
H. :. the Fair Lady pit of the Lycett colliery
u" :" Newcastle-unde Tyne. England. Fo
e m two deaths were similarly caused
restef- Anderlues, Belgium, on March 31st.
, held july 10Th 120 men were killed by an ex
,,,.;o sion in the Risca (Wales) colliery; 100 Il
'"V'' at Seaham. near Durham, England, on
sep TENDER Sth 80 more at the Foord
ppres- Stellarton, Nova Scotia, on Noven
,lerov 18th; and sc more at the Penyggrig C
..ver, ery, Rhondcla Valley, Wales, on Decen
10Th, The worst mining disaster in
ecei'e United States was the killing of me
could a sheer fall of 800 feet in the Consolid
offices Imperial Mine ut Virginia city, New,
ch WIS TENDER 18th.
Roche, - a',t' IS r,;scel,.nnons char,
hat he AT their head stands the fall of the
ON be- racks in Constantnople on February
Tnnit,r nv which 200 men we're killed ane
Injured Twenty men were browne
the caving in of the jersey City en-
the Hudson river tunnel On July 2lst
s sena explosion Of giant powder at San
in the cisco on April 10th caused 20 deaths,
exclusion III the arsenal at Santiago,
on january 9th. caused a deaths.
0 made marching of troops across the WI
lrearv,' orldSe over 'he HoIo' he"' iaos
and 81 deaths resulted.
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nan ,re- THE OYSTER BUSINESs-THE CA
gnatpn. Nv p>Ir,ynpr -Tha rernnt exIrem,
1 States and Indictment weather says the Bait
esioncd sun, mas pronaoly alleclea no IL
will be llo'o .n'h 'n''' y, t9r On oa,
81 IS per bushel commanded only
!. branch ~ cents last season. II Is eSI,matc'
nary So n n,ogO nantoins \ 14s Ionos.mon AZ
Conn, men engaged in .scraping," are EN-
n tickets in Chesapeake bay in gathering o
.ailroadS The amount of capital invested in dr'
boats is 81 100000, and the amour
temper vested in other boats. namely, sci
ervice in runners and canoes, is nearly 81,
ing Mrs. Men who work at dredging probably
nm . TOM more than any other working men
llly been them to all kinds of weather, rem
the west. them liable to disease. Notwst