Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-02-07

in Illinois, Kentucky, Canada, New
England, and heavy shocks in the is
land of Furmosa.
On the 18th, the boiler of the
steamer Josephine exploded, on the
Pacific coast, near Oregon, and eight
persons were killed, and five injured.
Also on the 18th, the village of
Marais, in Switzerland, was destroyed
by landslide.
On the 10Th, a gun-powder factory,
at Muiden, Holland, blew up, and
some twelve lives were lost. Nearly
all the houses in the village were ru-
ined.N
On the goth, train of cars at Te-
hacapa, California, rushed down
steep grade and jumped the track.
The cars took fire, and fourteen lives
were lost, most of whom were burned.
Also on the Goth occurred the ter
rible disaster on the North Sea, where
by the Atlantic steamer Cimbria was
sunk by collision with the steamer
Sultan, and 434 persons drowned
nearly all German immigrants.
On the ODD, a gun-powder factory
in California blew up, and 26 lives
were lost-mostly Chinese. All the
houses within radius of half mile
of the factory were completely shat
tered.
Also on the 22d, six men were lost
off Gloucester fishing schooner. The
ship Vorwarts sunk off Libau, in the
Baltic, and eight men drowned. Two
boilers exploded-one at Elkton, Md,
and the other at Portland, Ohio; three
persons killed and nine injured.
On the ODD, q large coal train, with
three locomotives attached, jumped an
embankment some eighty feet high,
near Cumberland, West Virginia, and
fifteen lives were lost. News received
of a disaster in an Australian gold
mine, where % miners persisted. AL
so sixteen lives lost by steamer New
England being wrecked at Sidney
and 100 persons injured by railway
accident.
On the oath, news received of the
wreck of a large schooner on the
New Guinea coast, Pacific Ocean, and
the crew, seventeen in number, had
been butchered by the natives. A
considerable portion of the city of
Wilkesbarre sunk several feet, caused
by removal Of props in a coal mine
underneath. Hundreds of houses
were ruined.
On the 9th, six men were drown
ed while trying to save the crew of a
German vessel ashore at Mumbles
Head, Wales, England. Twelve men
drowned by the wreck of the steamer
Agnes Jack, at Swansea, Wales.
On the Doth, 26 men lost off
steamer at Mumbles Head, Wales.
On the 30th, two men burned, and
80 injured by the burning of a saw
mill at Havana.
On the 31st, the Italian steamer
Ansonian was wrecked on the Tripoli
coast, Africa, and 20 lives lost. A
snow slide at Crested Butte, Colorado,
killed seven persons, and injured Is.
One man is said to be buried 100 feet
deep by the snow, and that the body
will not be recovered till spring.
January was also noted for an ex-
tensivo blizzard that visited large
section of this country, commencing
on the 2Sth, and lasting about five
days. Lowest temperature at Alpena
was % degrees below zero. AT one
place in the northwest, the spirit Their
indicated 81 degrees below
zero, and many places boosted of 26
degrees below zero. The month was
also remarkable for the fall of snow,
this locality receiving more than its
share.
Fierce and disastrous floods occur
red in Great Britain, commencing on
the 25th, and continuing the balance
of the month. Buildings blown down
and lands flooded. Terrific gales
swept the Severn valley.