Morris tribune., 1884-01-02
! THE DEAD YEAR.
It's Course Uttered With the Wreck
of Matter
Aud Blood stains On Nearly Every
PAGE OF Ats Record Death, Dis.
aster and Crime Its
Memories.

1000, t.icIuulllS loss VI NE lToH uiSsiSueT, W
crime by execution, by moblaw, and by
suicide. The losses by fire are also given,
emitting all CONGREGATIONS where the prop
erty destroyed did not reach S10O, 900 in value.
The summary is necessarily incomplete, but
is correct as far as the facts could be OBJ
tanned.
The year which is now closing numbers
among its dead more than ordinarily ex-
tended list of prominent names. NJ. Leon
Gambetta, Prince Gortschakoff, Karl Marx,
the father of communism, Safvet Pasha, the
Turkish diplomat, and in our own country
Marshall Jewell, Edwin D. Morgan, Alexan.
der H. Stephens, Timothy o. Howe, Israel
Washburne, Montgomery Blair and Judge
Jere Black have dropped out of the world OF
politics. The most prominent representative
of the nobility was the Comte de Chambord,
who will no longer press his claims
to the French throne. The pulpit has lost
Bishop Colenso and q long list of bishops and
archbishops. The medical profession in this
country has been called to mourn the loss OF
Drs. George w. Beard, Surgeon General
Barnes and j. Warner Sims. Among the
great merchants and business men who have
passed away are Jerome c. Fargo, William
E. Dodge, Samuel L. Croker, Nathaniel
Thayer, Amasa Stone and Charles A. Meigs.
In the field of science and education
Palmiere, the astronomer, Peter
Cooper, Schultz-Delitzsch, Prof. Anthem,
Prof. Marley, the electrician Prof. Siemens
and Prof Sophocles, of Harvard, are gone.
Literature has lost Derwent Coleridge, Jules
Sandeau, William Chambers, Turgeneff,
Henri Conscience and Mayne Reid. Art will
miss Clark Mills, Gustav Dore and Edward
Dubufe. Music has lost Flotow, Tambel'ik,
Wagner, Volkmann and Mario. The most
prominent actors who have passed away are
Charles r. Thorne, Junius Brutus
Booth, Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Boni-
face. The list numbers several hum
dred, among whom were twenty-six CEN
tenarians in the United States, the oldest
of whom was Mortimer Danaher, of Derry.
man, Minnesota; 121, and the youngest
Jupiter Robinson, Jefferson, Arkansas and
Hester Jackson, New York City, each 100.
DISASTERS.
The year 1858 has been most disastrous in
its record of the losses Of life by food and
field, by sea and rail, in mines and by explo-
sions by fire, powder, tornadoes, and other
elements of destruction. No year Of
the present century can compare
with it. / From the old world we
only receive tidings of the most disastrous
calamities, but how numerous these have
been the following list will show: In JAN
uary ferryboaJ was sunk i'll Germany,
drowning 35 people, and floods in Germany
and Hungary drowned 40 more. In the
Polish circus fire 26S persons were burned.
By powder explosion in Holland 40 were
killed, and % We're drowned in New South
Wales mine In February % persons were
killed in a panic in Bombay. In March $50
persons were overwhelmed by an avalanche
on Mt Ararat. In April 81 persons were killed
by boiler explosion at Dizier, France, 40 by a
powder explosion at Passe Cornese, Italy, 1874
by mine explosions in France, and 16 by fire
at Warsaw, Poland. In May % persons
we're drowned at Milan. In June there were
$50 victims by powder explosion at Scutari,
2O2 by the panic at Sunderland, England, and
Al by a theatre fire in Italy. In July $50 per-
sons were killed at the launch of the Daphne,
in Glasgow, 12 by the explosion Of bomb at
Tripoh, 20 by fire in Hungary, 9 by
powder explosion at st. Petersburg, IS
by mine explosion in Sicily and
1900 by the earthquake at Ischia. In August
IL were lost in Cornwall mine, about
$4,000, according to the best authorities, by
the Java earthquake and volcanic eruption,
while during September the cholera carried
OA dDOuG cO,OOV NtSCl11lS III ASJpVb dI1N AoSSoN
in India and China. In October 218 lives
were lost by earthquakes near the Grecian
archipelago, and % by mine e1-
plosions in Englnnd In November mine
explosion killed GO in England, and
20 were drowned in Lake Geneva by
steamboat accident. This month 40
persons were burned in Turkish school
house. The whole list sums up lis, 916 as
against 2,0e5 in 1882.
Causes, as telegraphed during the year:
Tornadoes, SOY; boiler explosions, 1914; fire. 800;
powder explosions, al; foods, 100; mine ex-
pIosions, 1866; lightning, Is; snowslides, IS;
falls of buildings, ;34; total, 1,773. The most
prominent disasters of the year have been
as follows: January, mine explosion
at Coulterville, ILL.,, 10: burning of the
Newhan house. Milwaukee, 80; powder ex-
plosion at Point Clement Cal, 80. Feb.
ruary, floods on the Ohio river, 81; the Braid.
wood mine disaster, n; panic in New York
school, 2S March, food in Arkansas, IL;
burning of boarding house at townsville,
Mimi, II. April, fall of Texas hotel, IA;
tornado in Arkansas Is; tornado in Texas,
20; and tornado in Georgia and Mississippi,
$50. May, tornado in Wisconsin and central
Illinois, 81; tornado in Indiana, 20; Brook
lyn bridge panic, Ia. June, food in Ne
braska, II. July, tornado in Dakota, 10; fall
of a pier at Tivol, Nd, 20. August, tornado i'll
Minnesota, 50. September, explosion of pow
der-mill at Styes, CAL, 40. October, fire at
Savannah, Ga, IL. November, tornado in
Missouri, II. December, snowsiides in
Colorado, %.
The disasters by railroad are less than last
year in the number of killed and injured
The total number of killed as reported by
telegraph is IT'S, against $50 in 1882 and
1,O40 in.18S1, and the total number of those
seriously injured is ], ZIG, as against IT, Is in
1882 and 527 in 1881.
1t is almost impossible to keep an exact list
Of marine disasters, but it is known that
on the great lakes fully 100 craft have
become total losses and over 200 sean,en have
Teen drowned. The principal dsastersof the
year by water are as follows: Steamer CHM
tria, German ocean, 434; steamer Black
Watch, Welsh coast, 26; steamer Kenmore
Castle, bay of Biscay, 81; steamer Glappler,
Pacific coast, 70; bark Pmpoa, Off Fayal, so;
White Star steamer, Ludwig, Sc; November
gales on Grand Banks, 139; brig Rocoby,
IS; steamer st. Augustine, bay of Biscay,
;iS; steamer Iris, off Cape Villand, 30;
steamer Navarro, German ocean, 65; fifty
.ishing vessels on English coast, 373: French
fishing vessels lost on Grand Banks, 81; hur-
a.icane at Nassua, 100; sixty vessels lost in
gulf of Finland, 35, So far as reported about
$500 lives have been lost upon the ocean, 200
upon the lakes, us by railroads, 1,773 by dis.
asters in this country, and 11S,9lG in the old
world, or grand total of 124, 1874.
CRIMES.
Last year YVES regarded as the worst year
for crime this country has ever tnown, but
~
~ II INT NFn11