The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-02

ed by the capsizing OF steamer that was
being launched near Glasgow, Scotland.
On the same day steam tram car capsized
at Huddersfeld. England, killing two and
iniuring twenty people; the steamer Sus.
quehanna was blown to pieces at Wilkes
barre by her boilers exploding, and six
persons were injured by collision on the
West Shore road, la New York State.
Near Dover, n. H., on the 4th, seven
houses were struck by lightning and three
persons killed. A huge derrick IN stone
quarry at Lamont. ILL.,, fell on the 9th,
killing six men and one woman
On the 22d terrible cyclone swept over
the Northwest, being particularly severe in
Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota. On
the 23d the death-rate from cholera in
Egypt reached 500 in twenty-iour hours.
On the oath siXty-seven eXcursionists were
drowned by the collapse OF wharf at Tiv-
oil, resort near Baltimore. On the 9th
a terrible railroad collision occurred at
Carlton, on the Rome, WATERFOWL and Og-
densburg railroad. Nineteen passengers
were killed and seventeen injured. some
fatally. By n mine explosion in Sicily on
the 10Th thirty-fiye miners lost their lives.
! The month was rendered memorable by
the lschia earthquake, in which Cassamic-
cioli was destroyed and 1000 lives lost.
AUGUST.
! Thirty buildings, including a public hall
and Il theatre, burned in San Francisco on
the 4th. entaling q loss OF $500, 900. On
the eth two Norwegian banks collided off
Dover: one sank, drowning thirteen of her
crew. The first Of the series OF gales of
the coast Of Newfoundland occurred on the
18th, when a large French fshng-vessel
went down with a crew OF twenty-three
men. Disastrous fires occurred on the
18th; the kimball Honsc, Atlanta. Ca, was
totally destroyed. entailing loss OF l,000.-
600. the 300 guests fortunately escaping;
the town OF Vineyard Haven was
almost totally destroyed. and 100 ware
houses at Salonica were laid in ashes.
| \ private insane asylum burned in Eng
land on the 1ith-f five inmates perishing,
many others being severely injured. On
the 18th twelve Cornwall miners were
killed by falling down shaft. A terrible
cyclone struck Oglesby, Texas, killing
several persons and DESTROYING much pro-
perry. Up to this date official records
show that during the first six months OF
the year 100 persons were killed and 40l
injured in New York State alone by rail-
road accidents. On the Dist terrific cy-
clone swept over Il prosperous section OF
Minnesota. The town of Rochester was
wrecked, twenty-five people killed out
right, and large number injured.
On the same day thirty miners lost their
lives BY an explosion in Il mine near Car
diff Wales. The steamers st. German
and Woodburn came in collision in the
English channel on the 10Th, the latter
sinking with eighteen souls on board: the
steamers Palermo and RivOli collided in
the Mediterranean. the latter carrying
down with her five persons; tive lives
were lost in a Boston tenemcnt-hOuse IRE.
Two days afterward the steamer Riverdalc
exploded her boilers in New York harbor,
seven persons being killed and twelve in
iured. On the Goth fearful gale arose on
! the Great Banks Of Newfoundland, and
nearly 300 fishing-dores were dashed TO
pieces. In this gale about $50 fishermen
persisted. The disaster OF the month was the
Java volcanic disturbance and tidal waves
| in the Straits OF Sunda, which involved ar-
palling loss of life and the earthquake in
/ Asia Minor and the Isle OF Chios.
SEPTEMBER.
On September 1st the total number OF
deaths by cholera in Egypt had reached
27,31S. Captain stephen Whalen and his
crew persisted in storm oil the coast OF
| Labrador on the eth. On the 9th the town
OF Deep Creek, in the Dismal Swamp, and
| half Of the business part OF Auburn, n.y.,
were DESTROYED BY fire. On the 18th news
reached Washington that the Greedy relief
ship Proteus was nipped in an ice-pack
AT the entrance OF Smiths Sound, IN
the Arctic. on July 23d no lives lost.
The bark Britannia was wrecked on Sable
Island. off Halifax, on Tie 18th, and four
teen lives lost. YelIOw-fevcr broke out mt
Guaymas, Mexico, and ragged with great
! yirulence. BY 4 hurricane at Nassau on
the 10Th 100 vessels were wrecked and
seventy lives lost. On the 10Th four fish
| ing-schooners and fourteen OF their crews
were lost on the Newfoundland banks.
On the oath an explosion OF rockets oc-
Cured at Woolwich arsenal, England, by
which several buildings were destroyed
and many lives were lost. A furious storm
swept over the lower lakes. wrecking
number Of vessels and entaillng loss OF life.
OCTOBER.
ON the 9th an Internal machine exploded
nj LYONS, France, damaging the Town
Hall Four men were Smothcred to death
in Minnesota barn by fallen grain on the
10Th. On the 18th floods in Spain sub
merged five villages and caused the loss OF
several lives. Yelow-feyer appeared in
Rrewtop. Ala. on the 18th forty women
were killed and thirty injured in panic
caused by false alarm OF fire in syna-
gogue in Russia. BY panic caused by
slight fire IN a school-house at waterbury,
Conn. six children were severely injured.
ON the 18th the village OF Villa Alcgno,
near Brescia. was destroyed by fire. An
explosion in a colliery in Yorkshire on the
10th caused the death Of twenty men. by
the breaking OF balcony on the 10th some
thirty Harvard students were thrown
into the Charles river 4; Cambridge,
Mass: eight were seriously injured.
ON the 23d mining-squib factory was
blown up at West Kingston, Pa, ana
ei0ht persons were terribly burned, seven
of whom died. A broken rail on the
louisville and Nashville railroad near East
81 Louis caused the wreck OF two coaches
and the wounding Of thirty-seven passen-
Gers ON the 10Th, by a terrible explosion
~ fre-damp at Wilkcsbarre, two men
were killed and several injured. On the
same day cyclones in Indiana, Kentucky,
and Louisiana were reported. causing great
ininrv TO property and some loss OF lie.
Two mysterious explosions in the London
Underground railway injured many per-
cons and DESTROYED considerable property.
ON the last day of the month the parhen-
tine Jane Hunter was lost OH Ne"iounu'
land, and eight on board persisted.
NOVEMBER.
Heavy gales and number OF wrecks on
the lakes on the I'd. On the 9th eleven