The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-05

the belchlngS OF many volcanoes. The real
loss of human life will never be accurately
known. 1t has been placed as high as rs, 900.
Accessibility buildings, including pub
lie hall and a theatre, burned in San Fran
cisco on the 4th, entailing loss of $500, 900.
On the It'll two Norwegian barks collided off
Dover; one sank, drowning thirteen of her
crew. The first of the series of gales off the
coast of Newfoundland occurred on the 18th,
when large French fishing vessel went down
with crew of twenty-three men. Disastrous
fires occurred on the 18th; the Kimball House,
Atlanta, Ga, was totally destroyed, cntailing
loss of 81 ,000, 900, the 800 guests fortunately
escaping; the town of Vineyard Haven was
almost totally destroyed, and 100 warehouses
at Salonica We're laid in ashes. A private in
sane asylum burned in England on the 18th
five inmates periShing, many others being Sc
verely injured. On the 18th twelve Cornwall
miners were killed by falling down a shaft.
A terrible cyclone struck Oglesby, Texas,
killing several persons and destroying much
property. Up to this date official records
show that during the first six months of the
year 160 persons were killed and 40l injured
in New York State alone by railroad acct
dents. On the Dist terrific cyclone swept
over prosperous section of Minnesota. The
town of Rochester was wrecked, TWENTY-FIVE
people killed outright, and a large number
injured. On the same day thirty miners lost
their lives by an explosion in mine near
Cardiff, Wales. The steamers st. German
and WOODBURY. came in collision in the Eng
lish channel on the 18th, the latter sinking
with eighteen souls on board; the steamers
Palermo and Rivoli collided in the Mediter-
ranean, the latter carrying down with her five
persons; five lives were lost in Boston tene-
ment- house fire. Two days afterward the
steamer Riverdale exploded her boilers in
New York harbor, seven persons being killed
and twelve injured On the 10Th fearful
gale arose on the Great Banks of Newfound-
land and nearly 200 fishing dories 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 appalling
loss of life, and the earthquake in Asia Minor
and the Isle of Chios.
SEPTEMBER.-On September LIST the total
number of deaths by cholera in Egypt had
reach 27,318 Captain Stephen Whalen and
his crew persisted in storm off 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, KY, were
destroyed by fire; and the same day Hicks
Pasha set out from khartoum with 1000 men
on the expedition against the False Prophet,
which met such terrible fate. Two days
later occurred the anti European uprising in
Canton, China. On the 18th began three
days engagement near Sontay between French
forces and Black Flags, in which the latter
were defeated with heavy loss. The French
troops engaged in a general massacre after
the battle. At Paris on the 18th King Alton
so was Kissed and hooted by the mob on his
arrival from Berlin. Onthe 18th news reached
Washington that the Greedy reliefship Pro-
,,ool- ~ tho AMIR no
of Smith Sound, in the Arctic, on July 23d;
no lives lost. The bark Britannia was wreck
ed on Sable Island, off Halifax, on the 18th,
and fourteen lives lost. Yellow-fever broke
out at Guaymas, Mexico, and ragged with great
virulence. By hurricane at Nassau on the
18th 100 vessels were wrecked and seventy
lives lost On the 10th four fishing schooners
and fourteen of their crews were lost on the
Newfoundland banks. On the 9th an ex
plosion of rockets occurred at Woolwich ar
senal, England, by which several buildings
were DESTROYED and many lives were lost. A
furious storm swept over the lower lakes,
wrecking n number of vessels and entailing
loss of life.
OcToBER-On the 9th an internal machine
exploded at Lyons; France, damaging the
Town Hall. Four men were smothered to
death in Minnesota barn by falling grain on
Inp IUL0. vi iuC illu HOOuS III opdiu Suu-
merged FIVE villages and caused the loss of
several lives. Yellow fever appeared in
Brewton, Ala. On the 18th forty women
were killed and thirty injured in a panic
caused by false alarm of fire in synagogue
in Russia. BY panic caused by slight fire
in school-house at Waterbury, Conn.,, six
children were severely injured. On the 18th
the village of Villa Alegno, near Brescia, was
destroyed by fire. On the 18th Port Antonio,
jamaica, was nearly destroyed by fire; loss
81, 200, 900. An explosion in colliry in
Yorkshire on the 18th caused the death of
twenty men. By the breaking of a balcony
on the 10Th some thirty Harvard students
were thrown into the Charles river at Cam
bridge, Mass, eight were seriously injured
On the 23d mining squib factory was blown
up ut West Cingston, Pa, and eight persons
were terribly burned, seven of whom died.
A broken rail on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad near East St. Louis caused the wreck
of two coaches and the wounding of thirty
seven passengers. On the Doth, by terrible
explosion of re-damp at Wilkesbarre, two
men were killed and several injured. On the
same day cyclones in Indiana Kentucky, and
Louisiana were reported, causing great injury
to property and some loss of life. Two mys-
ferrous explosions in the London Under
ground railway injured many persons and de-
stroyed considerable property. On the Both
Morris Ranger, the great Liverpool cotton
broker, failed for three and a-half million
dollars. On the last day of the month the
barkentine Jane Hunter was lost off New
foundland, and eight on board persisted.
NOVEMBER. gales and number of
wrecks on the lakes on I'd. On the 4th
Hicks Pasha army was annihilated near Ell
Obeid by the forces of the False Prophet.
10 ala nd
many wounded by cyclone at Springfield
Mo. A fire and explosion of benzine at Rou-
baix, France, on the 9Th, resulted in the
death of ten persons and the injury of four.
The steamer Iris went down off Cape Villano
on the eth, carrying thirty-6ve persons with
her; and on the same day, sixty miners
were overwhelmed by the explosion at Ac-
crington, England. On the Sth nine persons
were injured by boier-explosion at Dover,
o., and the roof and inside walls of the Cap
itol at Madison, Wis, fell, killing five and in
turing twenty workmen. During fire in
Charleston, S. c.. on the 18th, several work
men leaped from the third-story windows of
the burning building; four died. At Petos-
KEY, Mich, seven men were drowned by the
capsizing of their boat in a gale. On the 10Th
the boiler of the Coal Bluff mine, Ind. ex-
ploded, killing one man and injuring twelve
more Four men were killed and two injured
by the bursting of boiler in saw mill at
jackson, Pa. By the relescoping of car by
a locomotive near Otter Creek, Ill.,, seven
persons lost their lives and eight were seri-
ously injured. Terrible disasters, with seri-
GUS loss of life were reported from the north
ern lakes. On the 18th the French brig
Rocaberg went down in collision and eighty
eight persons persisted. On the 2sth nearly
fifty persons were injured more or less seri-
ously by the falling Of car down an embank-
ment at North Worchester, Mass.
DEcEMBER.-0n the Sd of December the
steamer Princess Louise was wrecked near
Digby, n. S., and 8 lives lost. The steam
ship Alaska run down and sunk pilot boat
while entering New York harbor, and men
persisted. On the 9th, fire partially destroyed
the Legislative palace at Brussels. A few days
later great storms throughout Great Britain
and Ireland demolished vessels and buildings,
many people meeting their death. The steam
or Severn exploded her boiler at Carthagene,
Central America, on the 18th, killing men,
On the 10th, Dubois, Pa, was visited by fire,
a large number of buildings being burned, the
total loss footing up about $780, 900 On the