The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-10-03
THE PRESENT YEAR.
A Fatefui One In the History Of
the World.
The Records OF Deaths from Ca
! lamities so Ear FOots up fff
, = %'rss Nearly 1S0, 900. +'~S

- .
: = Nearly I50, 900. HV'
4 The pressnt year, although it has jet
three months 70 in, has already taken
It's plEce In the an ais OF the world Al
the most disastrous, perhaps, Of any
recorded Ia histofy and the loss OF
life, CONSIDERING the fact that the great
powers have been In q state Of peace,
and thsf destroying forces OF war
quIescent, places black mark against
it In me cAlendAr Of time. Wreck by
sea and land IRE, iSod and gaunt
plague have seemipgly Joined forces
| against the human race. Storms un-
parallelei In violence and frequency,
have swept the earth. Cyclones have
tern through peaceful heIds aud pleas
ant valleys, and befors their electrie
force man and the. wosks'ol>h have
melted like suowy before the furnace
blzst. Huriez1es 6t sea have sent gal
lant ShIps AsaEFprfng to dest-uction.
Steam h4l 6asPed up its full quota of
victims, WHO might truthfully be call
Cd aacrinees on The altar OF progress.
The enrth-itzelf has trenblod, q. if
In alarm af he times which have come
upon ns, and In Ina trembling we find
horror eliminating; islands rising
and falling, as II The solid land was
the sport of the waves. and the tidal
waves sweeping inland have carried
destruction with them aud laid miles
Of once smiling -eountry- 70 waste.
Cholera h no prunR from its lair by the
yellow Nile and is marching westward
10 elasP hA1dAr with the yellow fewer
over theif JSiIft Sictfms. The mere
juggling Sf words cannot express the
full meaning of the years disasters
and Wlirre lspgnAge fails we will have
TO call Agures to our aid.
The folio wing may serve to show
the victims that have been claimed by
grim disaster as Its ewnifNmaAq
First In the dark list comes che Jaws
earthquake, which numbered 100, COO
victims. Next the Egyptian cholera,
with record OF 81 600; ana the Indian
,holera with 600.
RFOllOwipg these comes the loss of
he Cimbria, in which 435 souls went
% join that vast host which shall come
.Orth when the sea gives up It's dead.
Tue iisssters to the English fishing
TseI, which sdmnp the fearful total
II 4 Zoo lives. The Steamer Daphne,
N the Clyde, $50. The Ischia earth
luake, which swallowed 500 people.
fpdwder explO-bn I'm EnrDPe, by
which go people were hiled and mtny
nangled. The April and May torna-
Ioes, 200 and lis respectively. The
ehool panic I'm Sunderland, England,
Shere 2O2 children met death. The
,Arlyon, N. Y, accident, l7O killed.
The mine exPlOsiOas In Earope foot
lp l62 victims. The circus fire in
260. Treading upon the heels
4 these horrors, and their fearful list
4 unprecedented destruction 10 life,
,ome the following casualties, whi h,
n the presence OF the foregoing, pale
nts comparative insignifieanee, but
aeh of which, viewed alone, Is In
tself and epitOme OF borrow:
The Bonn bay fpetoryA factory panic,
OF; Mns.ulee botel hre, 81; heOd IN
m Australian mine, 70; T'ehechipa
oI railroad accident, 2I; fiatboat dis
ster ian North Carolina, Is; loss of the \
:Ity OF Brussens, 40; mine explosion l
n IIliuois, 10; panic In a New York =
choOl, I6; BraidwoOd mine disaster, I.
Z; february freshets Sc; townsville, d
Il6nl dro wing hOfro6 III ; fall of @
'eSas hotel, Il /; Brooklyn bridge panic 8
{; June freshets, So; Baltimore pier )
isaster, Al floods st London, lontario) 4
D July IL; arein HungAtF 90 Ger 8
IAN floods, s73; Mt. Ararat avalanche, .
30; Rochester, MINI, tornAdO, rs;
axe Chem palace accident, q, Corn 8
all mine disaster, n; collision Off d
light, rs; hshermen lost on {
&c Guear Bank, so; Italian steamer, r
msonia, 70; steamer Kenmore Castle,
;; steamer Gypay, IS; steamer Nav O
IRE, 80; ship Dunsloffrages s26, Rome n
xplosion. 40; explosion in Besseg", o
rance, 81; steamer Grappler, 20; ?
lrning OF theater at Lake Como, AZ. =
de4ths fOOts up -the imp9s- h
9 figure OF 1850 members of the il
'e'eFay Of @Hnkipdf aITTOM :