The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-06

ii. By train running off the track of the
Midland railroad, in England, about a dozen
persons are killed.
70. Twenty persons are killed by a collision
| between two excursion trains near Atlantic
| City, N. J.
I6. The town of Eureka, New, is q second
| time almost wiped out by fire.
II. Great parade of Knights Templar in
Chicago.
2. By the giving way of pontoon bridge
| over the river Ebro, in Spain, over 100 officers
| and men were thrown into the water, most of
them being drowned.
g. The steamer City of Vera Cruz founders
| off the coast of Florida, and only thirteen Of
| her passengers and crew of seventy-six are
| saved.
4. Gen. Roberts defeats the Afghans under
Ayoob Khan, near Candahar,
9. By an explosion of fire-damp in the Sea-
ham (England) colliery, 140 miners lost their
| lives.
IS. The steamer Aurora, from Oporto for
Southampton, founders at sea fifty persons
| are drowned.
%. BY land side in the Province of Bengal,
British Indi,, thirty-seven persons were killed,
most of them English officers and soldiers.
| OCTOBER.
8. Fifty miners suffocated in mine at Katto-
| WITT, Germany.
Q. Thirty persons killed and q great many
severely injured by railway collision at Pitts
burgh.
H. Baltimore celebrates her 15Oth birthday.
13. News is received of the starvation Of 500
of the 700 inhabitants of the island of St.
| Lawrence, Arctic ocean.
IA. Completion of the Cologne Cathedral,
| commenced six centuries ago, is celebrated.
! Is. By the explosion of cooker in Haas Il
Powcll's distillery, at Chicago, seven persons
are killed.
16. A storm of unexampled severity sweeps
| over the Northwest, accompanied by snow
many vessels and number Of lives lost ON the
lakes. The Goodrich Line steamer Apena
founders, with loss of about eighty lives,
none being saved. H.. t....f--..- .. .
Is. Victoria, the Apache chief, killed in Mex
leo and his band scattered.
2S. The coast Of England visited by a ter
rible gale, and many ships and lives lost.
NOVEMBER.
s. Sixty robbers, who plundered the Brazilian
town OF Jaunaria year before, are surprised
by soldiers and killed.
L. By the breaking of the hosting apparatus
| In Belgian mine sixteen miners are killed.
| B. typhoon passes over Japan which de-
mohshes 1000 residences in Toxic and browns
100 fishermen News received of the loss OF
the Jeanette and a number of whalers in the
Arctic sea by being crushed by the ice. Thirty
Kurdish marauders in Persia are crucifed by
their leaders for disobedience of orders.
8. The propeller Zealand goes down on Lake
Ontario with all on board, sixteen persons.
| 8. About twenty persons drowned by the loss
OF the steamer Thomas kingsford on Lake On
tario. -
II. Seven men burned to death in a petro
leum blaze near Bradford, Pa.
IL. Forty-seven miners killed by coal-mint
explosion in Nova Scotia.
16. The Minnesota State Insane Asylum al
st. Peter burned and q large number of tht
inmates lost their lives.
10. The Kurds sack Persian village and pu
200 people to the sword.
| 18. Twenty sailors and seven passengers los,
their lives by the wreck of the coaster Oilsa of
Wales. Twelve men suffocated in a coal mini
in Belgium.
20. The British steamer Mildred founders il
| mid-ocean with a crew of twenty-eight.
"a. By collision between the French steame
Oncle Joseph and the italian steamship Or
hgia the former is sunk and 232 persons g.
down.
rs. The Persians ornament the walls of til,
prison at Tabreez with the heads of 800 Kurd
| taken in battle.
26. Propeller Simcoe goes down with all OF
board in Georgian bay. Lake Huron.
,28. Lieut.. Gov. Robinson, of Colorado, il
killed by miners near Leadyille.
DECEMBER.
1. The Electoral Colleges meet in the variou
State capitals and cast the electoral votes fo
President and Vice President.
8. Flogging abolished in the British navy.
10. One hundred miners are killed by fire
damp explosion in Welsh colliery.
II. A shipwreck off Nova Scotia causes tn
death of a crew of twenty-five persons. -
IL. Jay Gould's conservatory at Irvington
on the Hudson. is destroyed by fire; loss
$15O,0OO.
1S. About twenty boys lose their lives b.
the burning of a wallpaper factory at But
falo.