The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-05
Record of the Year 1883.

| seventy. On the Otn Ine lnIilail SIeduleF Slly
of Brussels was sunk while nearing Liverpool
and ten lives lost, and four days later the
Newhal House, Milwaukee, was burned and
seventy-four souls persisted; the Planters
! House, st. Louis, was burned about the same
| time and three lives lost. On the nth 10000
people were rendered homeless in Hungary
| by floods and many were drowned. On the
| l4th a fire in circus at Berdetshiff, Russia,
resulted in the death of 300 persons and in
jury to about rs many more. On the 18th
the village of Meriden, in Holland, was
wrecked by the explosion of powder mill,
and twelve persons persisted. On the same
day the steamer Cimbria was sunk in the
North Sea, and over 400 souls found a watery
graves and an accident occurred on the
Northern Pacific Railroad, in which twenty
two passengers were crushed and burned to
death. To complete the record of the day
forty men were killed by powder explosion
at Oakland, Cal. On the Goth the first cave
in occurred at Wilkesbarre, Pa, and though
no lives were lost, property was greatly dam
aged; and thirteen lives were lost by the
wreck of the Agnes Jack, near Swansea,
Wales On the Both there were heavy snow
slides in Colorado, which wrecked many
camps, and on the last day of the month the
Italian steamer Ansoina was wrecked and
twenty persons drowned.
FEBRUARY.-0n the LIST twenty-three oper-
atives were cremated by fire in factory In
Bombay, India. On the 3rd the British
steamer Hilda was run down in the English
channel, and not soul escaped. On the 4th
disastrous floods inundated large sections of
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. On
the same day fire and flood devastated the
oil-refnery quarter of Cleveland, entailing a
from China to England, foundered in the
Bay of Biscay on the Sth, thirty-two souls
perishing. On the 9th six men were killed
by the explosion of q boiler in a tile factory
at Tayloryille, Ill. The Ohio commenced
rising rapidly on the 18th, and the floods
which caused such terrible destruction along
the lower rivers last year date from that day.
On the 10th land-slip in the mines at Braid
wood, ILL.,, let in a flood, and the rushing
waters overwhelmed the miners, fifty being
drowned. On the Goth a fire panic in
Catholic parochial school in New York city
caused the death of seveteen out of the 300
children who rushed for the narrow stairway.
On the day following the United States steam
ship Ashuelot was lost off Hong Kong, eleven
of the crew going down with her. The War
rem line steamer Glamorgan went down in
mid ocean on the oath, her captain and SIX
of the crew disappearing.
MARCH-On the 18th the steamer Navarro
| foundered on her voyage from Copenhagen to
| Leith, and forty-siX persons were lost. On
the 18th a dynamite explosion partially
wrecked the London Local Board offices, de-
stroying property valued at 1000 On the
/ 18th the ship Dunstaffnage was wrecked off
/ Aberdeenshre, and twenty-three men, women
and children were drowned. On the 23rd
Etna was in eruption. On the 18th Hecla
showed signs of commissions, and on the same
day an avalanche swept down from Mount
Aarat, burying $50 people. On the 3Oth fifty
one persons were injured in a railroad acct
dent at Mason, Ky. The month closed with
an explosion on board the Mississippi boat
Polar Star, and six souls were lost.
APRIL.-On the LIST twenty people were
killed and thirty eight wounded by boiler
| explosion 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 people and wounding
as many more. On the 9TH thirteen guests i'll
the Ends Hotel, Greenville, Texas, were
cremated by the burning of the structure.
! On the 1lth an iron mine near Quinnessee,
Mich, caved in, burying eight men alive.
On the same day, at Mandalay, in Burmah,
over 200 buildings were consumed in con-
| fagration The first cyclone of the year swept
over Arkansas on the 18th, destroying 81 ,000,
900 worth of property, the loss of life being
comparatively small The Atlantic Hotel, at
/ Abba, Iowa, burned on the 10th, and three
/ ligious ceremony i'll India, sixty-two persons
were drowned. On the 22nd a cyclone
/ wrecked the towns of Wesson and Beaure-
/ gard, Miss, and devasted large portion of
/ Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, killing
$40 and wounding 500 in its path BY dy-
Mantle explosion ut Laperucco, Spain, on the
same day, seven people were killed. Seven
teen people were burned to death in a fire at
Warsaw, Russia, on the 26th On the 29th a
MANI fwar's boat capsized at Toulon, France,
and seven seamen were drowned. On the
I last day of the month tornado swept over a
section of Louisiana, wrecking many build
ings, but fortunately depriving no one Of life.
MAY.-On the Sd the steamer Grappler was
burned in Puget sound and seventy five lives
lost, and six persons were killed and five
wounded in the Vale mine, Nova Scotia. An
explosion in the powder magazine at Ports
mouth, England, on the 9TH, killed six per-
sons, and an earthquake at TabreeZ, Persia,
caused the loss of many lives. On the nth a
mail train from Glasgow came into collision
near Carlisle, Scotland, and seven passengers
were killed. The same day disastrous cy-
clone swept over Illinois, Wisconsin, Mis-
/ souri,, haUSdS, anu Oll the udy az
companied by heavy hail, struck Ohio. The
loss to property was very great, and seventy
five persons were killed. On the 18th portions
of Texas and Nebraska were swept by a cy-
clone, several lives being lost and much prop
erty destroyed. On the 10Th floods swept
away Il portion of Deadwood and damaged
other towns in Dakota, the total loss footing
up 81 100000. Three lives were lost On
the 2Sth serious riot occurred at Belleville,
ILL.,, between striking coalminers and the
militia, and several persons were killed. On
Federal Internationally panic occurred at
the New York end of the Brooklyn bridge
and large number of people fell down the
steps and were trampled to death.
JuSE-0n the 9th the Gaiety Theatre at
Manchester, England, burned, and a powder
explosion at Scutar killed seventeen men.
! On the 18th tornados swept portion of Mis-
souri,, destroying considerable property and
killing several persons. Fire almost obliter
ated the town of Nalloires, France, on the
18th. On the 10th panic occurred in an
audience of school children in Victoria Hall,
Sunderland. England, and 1856 children were
trampled to death. Unprecedented rains in
Southern Nebraska were reported on the 18th;
in Pawnee county alone Ii lives were lost by
floods On the 24th the Witara was sunk off
Portland, England, by the Hurunui; twenty
, two people were drowned. a theatre AT Der
VIC, Lake of Como, was burned on the oath;
forty-seven persons were killed and twelve
injured. About this time the cholera broke
out in Egypt. Twenty-Five Cinnamon were
! killed in a railroad collision in Montana on
| the 18th. On the last of June the number of
\ deaths from cholera at Damietta, Egypt,
reached an average of ll3 daily, and during
fire at Winnipeg an explosion of powder
shattered much property and injured 20 peo
pie, some of whom died. On or about the
18th came reports of disastrous floods in India
and devastation among the crops of Italy by
violent storms.
JuLY.-0n the LIST six persons were killed
and ten injured by a railroad accident at
Rasselas, and on the Sd $50 persons were
drowned by the capsizing of u steamer that
was being launched near Glasgow, Scotland.
On the same day steam tram car capsized
at Huddersfeld, England, killing two and in
juring twenty people; the steamer Susquehan
ma was blown to pieces at Wilkesbarre by her
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