The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-02
THE YEAR ELSEWHERE.
,roRp OF DISASTERS IN THE
United STATES AND ABROAD.


No Nv is record Of disasters on land and
-. as well as by the disturbances of ma
..rn that characterized it. Below we
Give partial list Of the principal disasters
Of the year;
JANUARY.
~, ,he Sd the Rhine aud Danube rose,
',,aatinc towns and villages and spread
~, Scsolation through large territory.
,Io,,e, the Rhine slone the loss Of life was
'onfv ON the 9th the Inman steamer
~. ~ RrusSels was sunk while nearing
n;T,or,,,ol and ten lives lost, and four days
i,,,r me Newhsll House milwaukee, was
%nrncd and scventy-iour souls persisted;
80, planters House, st. Louis, was burned
-, the same time and three lives lost.
nm fine lAth 10000 people were rendered
Srn,cleSS in Hungary by floods and many
n-crc drowned. On the i4th a fire In en-
ans in BerdetShih. Russia. resulted in the
|1c,ih Of 500 persons and injury 10 about as
|m,nv more. on the 18th the village OF Meri-
|3cn. in Holland, was wrecked by the eNpio-
/ CON Of a powder-mill, and twelve persons
[nsri>hed. Onthe same hay the steamer CIm-
II -;, was sunk in the North sea, ana over
L. souls found n watery grave; ana an
k,.jcnt occurred on the Northern-Pacihc
{slroad, in which twenty-five passengers
f. crushed and burned TO death. To
j ,nletc the record ~ the day forty men
- killed bv a powder explosion at Oak
hand. Cal. on the 10th the hrst cavern
4 ,,,urred nj WilkcSbarre. Pa. and though
n lives were lost property was greatly
Managed and thirteen lives were lost Oy
Il b,wrcck of the Agnes jack near swansea
&Tsle>. On the S0th there were heavy
A9ow.SlideS in Colorado. which wrecked
4 any CAMPS. and on the last day OF the
<n,nih the Italian steamer Ansoina was
ar-rcked and twenty persons drowned.
FEBRUARY.
on the Is, twenty-thrce operatives were
4remated bv 4 fire in factory in Bombay,
4 n8io Onthe Sd the British steamer llilda
T.. rim down in the English channel. and
~ . soul escaped. On the 4th disastrous
[ood> inundated large sections OF Western
and Eastern Ohio. On the
anne dav fire and food devastated the oil
Refinery quarter OF Cleveland entall'ng
e. III =. OOO. 900. The Kenmore Castle,
<rom China TO England, foundered III the
|Ray Of Biscay on the sth, thlrty-tVo souls
nershing. On the 9th SIX men were
Killed bv the explosion OF n boiler IN
. tile-factory at Taylorville, Ill. The
Ohio commenced rising rapidly on the
r1tb. and the floods which caused
kucb terrible destruction along the lower
Rivers last year date from that day.
I'm the 10th a land-shp in the mines at
Ill.,. let in flood and the rush
~ waters overwhelmed the miners, nifty
Il ing drowned. On the Goth tire panic
A a Catholic parochial school iii New
sork city caused the death OF seventeen
fut Of the 500 children who rushed for the
4 ,rrow stairway. On the day following
A f. United States steamship Ashueiot was
a 4 of Hong Kong. eleven OF the crew
i ,in0 down with her. The Narren-lne
a amer Glamorgan went down i'll mid
Nm on the oath. her captain and SIX OF
D. crew disappearing.
q MARCH.
81 I'm the llth the steamer Navarro foun-
dered on her voyage from Copenhagen TO
Lfilh and iorty-siX persons were lost. ON
AZ 18th dynamite explosion partially
wrerked the London Local-Board offices,
sfe>troyin- property valued at E4,OOO. On
r. 18th the ship Dunstatfnsge was wreck
Eel of Aberdeenshire and twenty-three
men. women. and children were drowned.
On the 23d 1fma was in eruption. On the
s5tb Hecla showed signs OF conyulslons.
IN on the same day an avalanche swept
dorn from Mount Ararat, burying 100
peop.e. On the 3Oth fifty-one persons
Tere injured IN railroad accident at Ma
fon. Nv. The month closed with an eX-
Boston on board the Mississippi boat Polar
far. and six souls were lost.
APRIL.
On the 1st twenty-six people were killed
tnd thirty-eight wounded by boiler eX-
boston at ST. Dizier, France; six fishing
Vessels were wrecked off Yarmouth, Eng
land. and their crews, numbering forty,
drowned; and an Unprecedented storm
swept over Northwestern Virginia. The
following day the powder depot at PasSo
Crosse, Italy. exploded, killing forty peo-
4le and woundng as many more. On the
.th thirteen guests in the Ends Hotel,
Grcenyille. Texas. were cremated by the
Burning Of the structure. On the llth an
iron mine near Quinnessee. Mlch., caSed
b.. burying eight men alive. The first
fyclonc Of the year swept over Arkansas
b. the l4th, DESTROYING S1,OOO,O0O worth
tf property, the loss OF life being COM
lratiyely small. The Atlantic Hotel at
Abba, Iowa, burned on the 10th, and
three guests were cremated. On the
1j.h, at religious ceremony III
1ndia, sixty-two persons were drowned.
I'm the ODD a cyclone wrecked the towns
b. Wesson and Beauregard, Miss, and de-
4 a,tated a large portion OF Louisiana, Mis-
fissippi. and Georgia. killing $40 and
Sounding 800 in its path. By dynamite
Explosion at Laperucco, Spain, on the same
Ny. seven people were killed. Seventeen
'3rople were burned to death in fire at
3yM,aw, Russia. on the 10Th. On the 18th
! man.Oi-war's boat capsized at IOulon,
j france. and seven seamen were drowned.
I'm the last day Of the month tornado
4wept over a section Of Louisiana. wreck
dng many buildings, but fortunately de-
lriyed no one OF life.
MAY.
1 On the Sd the steamer Grappler was
Burned in Puget sound and seyenty-nve
tyes lost, and SIX persons were killed and
4ye wounded In the Vale mine, Nova Sco-
~. An explosion in the powder.maga-
pine at Portsmouth, England, on the 9TH.
Alled six persons, and an earthquake at
q abreez. Persia, caused the loss OF many
1i'es. On the 14th mail tram from Glas-
fOw came into collision near Carlisle, Scot
land, and seven passengers were killed.
THE same day a disastrous cyclone swept
Fyer Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kan
la, and on the day following, accom-
panied by heavy hail, struck Ohio.
The loss to property was very great.
md seyenty-fye persons were killed.
On the 18th portions Of Texas and Ne
traska were swept by cyclone, several
lives being lost. and much property de-
ON the 10th floods swept away u
portion Of Deadwood and damaged other
towns in Dakota. the total loss footing up