The Dickinson press., 1884-01-05
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
The Loss of Human Lite Wy Earthquake.
Fire. Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Numbers and Variety
Years Sport In the United States
Dramatic Events.

The history of a year is something that the
bestmemory, or even the best newspaper, can
not present unimpeachably correct. Only the
salient events Of the 365 days can ever be
carried in the mind, and it is Of these that the
impression of the year 1883 must be made.
There is a special value in studying even
the dryest presentation OF the years
events Es a matter Of practi-
cal everyday history. Its convenience
appears in q thousand ways as time goes on
and greater or lesser events fix themselves in
the memory of their relation to other occur
rences. A review of the events OF 1883,
cleaned from a review of newspaper files, ap-
pears below. 1t shows that the year was ono
of the most remarkable In history in the grea'
humber of catastrophes by which many lives
were lost. The fatality of the world,
approx mately estimated from the reported
deaths, cannot be far from 100000. The list
OF deaths includes o larger thaa usual proroE-
ton of great persons. A full catalogue of the
homicidcs and miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States would sur
prise the public with the information that vice
is rapidly on the increase. In other respects
the events Of the year are decidedly noteworthy.
Few years nave witnessed so many great CO.
tastrophes. Jan. 10 ths Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin at 4 o'clock in the morning, and
70 guests and servants lost their lives. Tho
pecuniary loss was 100000. Four days
later the Planters' house, st. Louis, burned,
causing four dsaths,, and the circus in
Berditscheff. Russia. burned during a per-
Torrance, and 2G9 persons persisted. In
January, also, ID convlc.s vera drowned
crossing Tukaseegee river, North Carolina; the
Bri' ish ship Empire burned on the way to
u mb,y, AMI 16 were lot: a Bethlehem, Pa,
boii or explosion killed 8: tho Clmbria sunk in
collision with the Sultan in the German ocean,
drowning 434 persons; a Southern Pacific
train went over an embankment at Tehachopa.
Gala, and 20 were killed; e men were los.
from tho schooner Garfield in q ct 'rm near
Halifax; ~ were drowned by the flooding of
s mixing of the City OF Brussels; at Centsrville,
ILL.,, a mine exploded and ten men vera killed;
in February the frigh.ful disaster at Braid
wood, ILL.,, occurred. by which IS men
were buried in the Diamond mine, and their
bodies were not recovered for several montas.
York city, l6 children lost their YES. By
various floods in Ohio, Missouri aad other
neisl boring States 5G lives wore lost
The schooner Pilot Bride went down off Desc
lationisland aud all tho crew but four drowned.
Tho Asi.uelot sank off Hong KONG, dr.wnins
i. III dlCu kHo 5pOdll1SA eNdStlI0
went down with 65 men on board,
In April a boiler explosion at st. Dszier, Paris,
Killed sixty-tive. On the Doth IF the same
mouth 127 miners were kiilcd in Easteru
France. In May the Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
does are estimated to have killed over 100.
Ga June 1G occurred the frighlfui .panic in
Sunderland Exhibition hall, i'll which 2n2 chill
dren were tramplcd to death. Floods and
tornadoes causad fifty eight deaths in this
mouth. June 20 twenty-five Cinnamon were
Montana. July 2 seven lives were lost
in a railroad accident at Bradford, Pa.
On the 9TH the Daphne, in being
launched at Glasgow, caroeued and drowned
$50. A fire in Hungary burned twenty.
July "a Iivoli pier ie a. near B,2ti y drown,
were killed, among them Thomas Hoyne of
Chicago. Capt. Webb was killed the last Of
this month while trying to swim the Niagara
whirlpool. Floods at London, Ont, drowned
seventeen. The month closed with tho vol
ca,ic eruption at Ischia, off the Bay Of Naples.
estimation. The Cologne Gazette put it
at 5000, while others think not over
5000 lost their lives there. On the 23l Of
August occurred the Rochester cyclone, in
which the ;oial loss of life was twenty three.
The steamer Riverdale bursther boilers on the
Hudson river and a number of lives were lost.
Aug. 80 came the Java earthquake, q
catastrophe terrible beyond anything known in
the history of the world. Probably 5000
people were killed by it, Tao ravages Of the
cholera In India and Egypt during the summer
psoplc dying in July, and 10000 being re-
ported i'll Egypt alone during August.
Deaths by yellow fever in Mexico, the West
Indies, and the United States probably reach
the number Of 5000. In Sertember nine
sol Tiers CT Illinois mllitis were killed at Spring
field. On the 29th, a powdermill in San Fran
cicco exploded and killed forty-one. mostly
Chinese. Nov. 8, the new wing of the capitol
at Madison, Wis fell, buiYing twenty men.
One was killed, and others serious y hurt. Tho
steamer Manistee went down Oh Lake Superior
about the 2lst, with. it is estimated, fifty per-
sons Oh board. In the same storm probably
seyenty-tive sailors persisted on the lakes. In
December three Gloucester sohooners went
down with thirty eigh: on board. TIL sinking
of tho schooner Mary Ann Hurlburt in Lake
Superior on tho 18th caused the death of
s s'ssaa tt. Augustine 81 burned ledD in the 1Ba Of
Blscay, and upward of thirty lives were lost.
On the 18th a terrific storm occurred on the
Black sea, it which it is estimated that 500
persisted. In the burning of the German
burned to death. A SHOWS ide in Colorado
killed eight men last week. The steamer
Plantyn, bound for Antwerp from New York,
was foundered and five sailors were killed
last week.
The year began with a notable death at
Washington-Eiisha Allen, the Hawaiian min
lister and dean of the Diplomatic corps. while
making o New Years call at tho White House.
On the same day Leon Gambe.ta died near
Paris in his forly-fourth year, from a pisto!
wound, SAID to have bsen inflicted by his mis-
tress, Madame Iron, but now believed to have
been by his own accident The same day also
the earl of Stamford died in England. aged
iifty-four. Other no'abie deaths in January
we're those of Barrett, the jockey
who rode Pa ole; William A. Seaver, ASS. s AIT
Name; DR.. Samuel A. Mudd, near Bryans-
t W., Md. after mis- release from the Dry Tor
tusas for participation in the assassination of
President Lincoln; x-Congressman Fort of
illinois; Bishop Crulkshank of Indianapolis,
.ge slxty-seven: Henry Kip, vice-pres:dent
Fargo, one of the express family, at Buffalo,
y. y; Prince Alexander. brother of Emperor
William; Wolfeaug Goethe, son of the great
German poet; Gnstave Dore, the artist; L.rd
Gscville Of England. In February, ex-Gov.
i wagner wagner, the ne COMPOSER aap r9'1 Marshall ainui
Jewell, the ex.postmastor general aid chair
aa.ao 81 b 5as k 81 4s4s;: DE- HaPij2 2n' c asYqSy 5as e;
cl,ariss Z, Thorns;, The actor. at New York.
The first no'ed death in March was that OF
Alexander H. Stephens Of Georgia, ON tho 4th
of The month. o hsr noted deaths were Col.
Harry Gilmour, the reb. i guerrilla, at d .lti-
moro; Prince Gortschakoff. ex-chancol'or of
the Russian empire, at Baden-Ba Baden;
j. O. Howe, postmaster general;
J. R. Green, the English historian,
at Mentone; Karl Marx, aged sixty five, at
Argenteu,l; and John Brown. Queen yictolla's
body servant. The first notable death in April
was that of Peter Cooper, the phiianshropist,
m New York city, in his ninety-lhirl year.