Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-01-16

lowing from the files Of the Detroit
Daily Free Press, will give the reader
an idea Of the principal events, acct
dents and disasters that have occurred
during 1888;
JANUARY.
During the early part of January,
there occurred devastating floods along
tbs river Danube, in Europe. Many
lives were lost, and great damage
done to property, cities and towns
were inundated, and thousands of
people rendered homeless.
4, PendIeton's civil service bill
passed the House, and was signed by
the President on the 10th.
8, Steamer City Of Brussels sunk
by collision near Liverpool, England ;
ten lives lost and 10000 letters de-
stroyed.
10, Newhall House, in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, destroyed by fire; seven
ty-four lives lost, most Of whom were
burned. A few jumped from the fifth
and sixth stories and were mangled
on the sidewalk.
IA, The Planters House, in st.
Louis, Missouri, partially burned ;
three lives lost and n number injured.
BY the burning of theatre at Ber-
dishef, Russia, 268 lives were lost,
nearly all burned to death.
1S, Boiler of steamer Josephine,
near San Francisco, on Pacific coast,
exploded; eight persons killed, five
injured. Village in Switzerland, de-
stroyed by landslide.
10, Gunpowder factory at Maiden,
Holland, blew up-nearly all the
houses in the village unroofed; forty
lives lost.
20, Train of cars at Tehacapa, Cal
ifornia, rush down n grade and jump
the track-cars burned, and fourteen
lives lost, most of whom were burned.
Steamship Cimbria sunk by COLI
sion in the German Ocean 434 per-
sons drowned-mostly German immi-
grants.
%, A powder factory in California
blew up; twenty-siX lives lost-all
Cinnamon except one. Six men lost
off Gloucester fishing schooner.
Ship Vorwarts sank off Libair, in the
Baltic; eight men drowned. Two
boilers exploded, one at Elkton, Nd,
and the other at Portland, Ohio, three
persons killed, nine injured.
90, Three coal trains, attached,
Jump an embankment some eighty
feet high, near Cumberland, West
Virginia; fifteen lives lost. News re-
ceived of disaster in an Australian
gold mine, on Dec. 18th, twenty-five
miners persisted also sixteen lives
lost by steamer New England being
wrecked at Sidney, and one hundred
persons injured by railway collision
at Hawthorne.
"a, Information received Of wreck
of n large schooner on the New
Guinea coast, Pacific Ocean, and that
the crew, seventeen in number, had
been butchered by the natives.
q, Six men drowned while trying
to save the crew of q German vessel
which was ashore at humble Head,
Wales, England. Steamer Agnes
Jack wrecked near Swansea, Wales,
and twelve men drowned.
30, Twenty-six men lost off a
steamer at humble Head
80, Two persons burned and 80 in
iured by saw mill fire at Havana.
81, Italian steamer Ansonia wreck
ed on the Tripoli coast, Africa, TWEEN.
ty lives lost. Snow slide at Crested
Butte, Colorado, seven persons killed
and eighteen injured.
January was also noted for an ex-
tensive blizzard that visited n large
section of the country, commencing
on the 2Sth, and lasting nearly a
week.
The eminent deaths during January
were Leon Gambetta, Frenchman, on
the 1st, aged "A years; Gen. Chanzy,
French army, on the 4th, aged %
years Lot M, Morrill,, ex-U. S. Sen
ator from Maine, on the 10th, aged 20
years; j. c. Fargo, express man, on
the Dist, and also Prince Frederick
Charles, of Germany, aged 81 years
Gustave Dore, French artist, on the
23rd.