Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-04
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The INss of Human Life by Farrhauake,
| Fire, Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase In Numbers and Variety "A
Years Sport "a the United States
Is Dramatic Events. ~ VI III i
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1.-THE historyof q year Isl something thatthe
best mem sor even the best newspaper, gan
npspresent nnimp aacha b cerrect OaIIy the
salient events of the 365 days can ever be
carried in the mind, and it is OF these that the
limpres, ion of the year 1888 must be made
There is q special value in studying even
the dryest presentation OF the years
events sfas a 81 matter i Of practi-
| cal everyday history. It's convenience
appears ID a. houssnd y ways as time goes
and greater or lesser events fix themselves in
| the memoIy Of their relation to other OCCUR
rences. A review of the events OF 1858,
! CLEANED from review of newspaper files, ap-
pears below Itshows5 that the year waE one
of themost rem arkab bic In historyin the sgreat
! number of Fca.asrophes by$which many lives
weree@losk sAH The fatality Of Y Tie world,
approx mately estimated from the reportsd
| deaths, cannot be far from 100, 600 The list
OF deaths includes larger than usual proror-
ton of great persons. A full catalogue Of the
homicides. and miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States wonld sur
prise the public with the information that vice
is rapidly on the iucreases" i'm other respects
the events Of tleyearars decidedly noteworthy.
t. II DIsAsrERs y - ID ~
\ Few years have wltnessed so many great Ca
tastrephes. jan, 10 the Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin, at4 o'clockSins the morning, and
rs guests aud servants lost their lives. The
peouniary loss was s5oo,ooo Four days
later the Planters house, ST. Lnuls, burned,
causing four d,aths, and the circus il
Bsrditscheff. Russia. burned during 2 pei.
[fan4nance,s and 42GSshHagspas persisted II IHI
January, also, 10 conVae were drowned
crossing Tukaseegee river, North Carolina; the
British ship Empire burned on the way to.
b NH: " an.l IL were lot: a Bethlehem, Pa,
boiler explosion killed s; the Cambria sunk in
collision with the Sultan in the German ocean,
drowning 434 persons; a Southern Pacific,
t ain went over an embanknient' at 1'ehachopa,
Gala, and 20 we're killed; & men were los
from the schooner Garfield in ct I'm near
Halifax; ~ were d,owned by the hoot,ng of
a mine in Au~trIa; 10 lives were lost by the
sinking of the City o. Brussels; at Centsrville,
ILL.,. q mine exploded. and ten men were killed;
in February the frigh1ful disaster at Braid
wood, ILL.,, occurred. by which IS men
bodies were not recover I'd for several montas.
In panic IN the Fourth Street school, Nav
York city, l6 children lost their Ives. BY
various floods in Ohio, Missouri aud Other
neigi boring States So lives lost.
The schooner Pilot Bride went down off DsSo
lat on island aud all the crew but four drowned
The Ashuelu' sa * off Hong Kong, drowning
III In March the steamer Navarro
went down with 65 men on board,
In April boiler exp osion at St Dezier, PariA,
killed sixty. five Gu the 25th Of the same
month 1877 miners were killed in Eaatern
France. II May the Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
up at San Francisco, killing eight, and lorna
does are estimated 10 have killed over 100.
On June is occurred tho frightfut pa ic in
Sunderland Exubi ion hail. in which . = chill
dren were trampled to death. Fl ,ods and
month. Juns 20 twenty-five Chinamen were
killed in niue beyond the Mnilan tunnel,
in a railroad accident at Bradford, Pa
On the 9TH the Daphne, in being
launched at Glasgow, careened and drowned
$50 A fire in HUNGARY burned twenty
July "a 1ivoli pier te near Baltimore, drown
ing seveutv-rwo. at Carlyon, N Y, seventeen
were killed, among them Thomas Hoyue Of
Chicago. Capt Webb was Kill cd the last Of
this month while trying to SWIM the Niagara
whirlpool Floods at London, Ont, druwned
seventeen. The month closed with the VOL
cac eruption at Ischia, of the Bay of Naples.
in which the loss Of life was beyond
estimation. The Cologne Gazette put it
at 5000, while others tbiuk not over
s, 600 lost their lives there. On the 23l Of
Angus occurred the Rochester cyclone, in
which the 10 al loss of life was twenty three.
The steamer Rverdale burst her boilers on the
Hudson river and number of lives were lost
Aug 80 came the Java earthquake, a
catastrophe terrible beyond anything known in
the history of the world Probably 70. 600
pcop:e were killed by it. Tne rayages Of the
cholera IN 1ud'a and Egypt during the summer
people dying in July, aud 10000 being re-
ported in Egypt alone during August:
Deaths by yeiLnw fever in Mexico, the West
Indies, and the Uuited States probably reach
! the Dumbrr of 5000. In septemb-r nine
scl iers Of Illinois militia werekiled at Spring
field. On the 29rh, Il powderrnil in San Fran
| Greco exploded and killed forty-oue: mostly
Chinese. Nov. s, the new wing of the capitol
at Madison, Wis fell, bu,y.ng twenty men
Zone was killed. and others serious y hurt The
steamer Manistse went down on Lake Superior
! about the DIST, with, it is estimated, 6f Y per
sons on board. Tn the same storm probably
seventy-five sailors persisted on the lakes. In
down withsthirty- eight on board. The sinking
| If tha schooner Maiv Ann Hin Thu TT iii Lake
Superior on the 18th caused The death of
dftaeu men, On the 16th the Spanish
Steamer St Augustine burned in the Bay Of
| 6lscay, and upward of thirty lives were lost
| Black Ssea, it which it ia estimated that 500
persisted In the burning OF the Gsrnlan
tsraelite school at Constantinople thirty were
burned to DEATH A SHOWS ide in Colorado
Plautyu. bound for Antwerp from New York,
was fonndered and Eve sailors were killed
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