The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-11
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
The Loss Of Human Lite by Earthquake.
Fire. Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Numbers ana yaricty-.A
Years SDoYt in the United States-
Dramatic Events.

1He pIstofy oI u year ID SOInctniuS tDat INC
best mem Dry, or even the bast newspaper, can
not present unimneachably correct Only the
salient events OF tho 365 days can ever be
carried in tile mind, and it is of these that tho
impress lou of the year 1883 must be made.
There is a special value in study ng oven
the dryest presentation of the years
events as . matter of practi-
cal cvery-day history. It's convenieucc
appears in n Thousand ways as time goes on
and greater or lesser events fix themselves in
the memory of their relation to other occnr-
rences. A review of the events OF 1883,
CLEANED from q review of newspaper files, ap-
pears below. 1t shows that tho year was one
of the most remarkable in history in the great
number of catastrophes by which many lives
were lost The fatality Of tho world,
approx mately estimated from the reported
deaths, cannot be far from 100, OOO. The list
of deaths includes n larger than uaual rropor-
homicides and miscellaneous crimes that have
prise the public with the information that vice
is rapidly on the increase. In other respects
the events OF the year are decidedly noteworthy.
DISASTERS.
Few years have witnessed SO many great ca
tastrophes. Jan. 10 the Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin at 4 o'clock in the morning, and
rs guests and servants lost their llves. The
pecuniary loss was $500, 900. Four days
later the Planters house, st. Louis, burned,
causing four deaths, aud the circus in
Berditscheff. Russia. burned during a per-
form4nce, and PCS persons persisted In
January, also, Is couv.cs were drowned
crossing Tukaseesee river. North Carolina; the
Iriis ship Empire burned on the way to
b mbsy, anil 1G were lost: a Bethlehem, Pa,
boiler explosion killed 81: the Clmbria sunk in
collision with tbs Sultan in the Geiman ocean,
drowning Asa pelsons; a Southern Pacific
tain went over an embaukment at Ietachopa,
Gala, and 20 were killed; & men were lost
from the schooner Garfield in n 1T I'm near
Halifax; ~ were drowned by tho flooding of
q mine in Austria; 10 lives were lost by the
Ii, n mine exploded and ten men were killed.;
in February the frighiful disaster Mt Braid
woGd, ILL.,, occurred, by which G3 men
were buried in the Diamond mine, and their
bodies were not recovered for several montas.
Iu n panic IN the Fourth Street school. Nav
York city, l6 children lost their Ives. By
various floods in OHIO. Missouri aud other
ncigi boring States ST lives were lost
Tic schooner Pilot Bride wailt down eff Desc
latonisiand and all the crew but four drowned.
Tie Ashuelet sa * of Hong Kong, drowning
IL. In March the steamer Navarre
went dow with 60 men on board,
In April n boiler explosion NJ st Dazier, Paris,
killed stxtv-ise On the both of taa same
mouth 10y miners were killed i'll Eastern
France. in May the BraoK!yp Bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
up Al san Francisco, killing eight, and tarna-
DOS are est to have killed over l0U
GA June lG occurred the frightfui Pm 10 in
Sunderland Exhibition hall, in which 2J2 chill
dreh were trampled to death. flood3 and
tornadoes caused fiftr-eight deaths III this
month Ipnp 90 twerfv.ttya CiIlDaItpn yvar,a
killed in u mIne beyond the Mailan tunnel.
Montlnp. July 2 seven lives we're lost
in u railroad accident at Bradford, Pa.
On the 4th the Daphne, in beng
100. a fire In Hungary burned twenty.
July 24 Iiyoli pier ie ! near Baltimore, drown
ing seventy-two, At Carlyon, N Y, seventeen
We're killed. among them Thomas Hoyuo of
Chicago. Capt. Webb was klAed the last of
this month w!iie trying to SWIM the niagara
whirlpool. Floods at London, Dat, drowaed
seventeen. Tit molth closed with tho vol
canie eruption at Iscnia, off the Bay of Naples,
in which the loss OF life was beyond
estimation. The Cologne Gazette but it
at 5000, while others thiuk no. over
5000 lost their lives there. On the 23l Of
August occurred tho Rochester cyclone, in
Which the 10 al loss of life was twenty three.
The steamer R;yerdale butsther boilers on the
Hudson river aud q number of lives were lost
Aug, 80 came the Java earthquake. y
catastrophe teIflple DcSpiiu GnSttlfnS hntWu III
tho history OF the world. Probably 10000
poop e were killed by it. Tne ravagts of the
cholera IN India aud Egypt during the snmmer
caused n horribi, loss of life, over II, 900
people dying in July, aud 10000 being re-
ported IN Egypt alone caring August
Deaths by yellow fever in Mexico, the West
Indies. and the United States probably reach
tho number of 3,0uO. In Seutember nine
sul iiers Of Illinois militia were killed at Spriug-
field. Ga the 29tb, u rowdermil. in San Fran
circa exploded aud killed forly-oue. mostly
Chinese. Nov. g., the new wing of the capitol
at Madison, Wis, fell, butyl,g twenty men.
One was killed, and Others seriously hurt. The
steamer Manistee went down gu Lake superior
about the 2lst, with. it is estimated, IF y per
sons on board. In the same storm probably
eevcuty-five sailors porishcd on tho lakes. III
December three Gloucester sc.iooner5 went
low with thirty eight on bard. The sinking
of the ciooner Mary Ann Hu lburt il Like
Superior on t!le l1th cansed The death of
fifteen men. On tire lGIn the Spaui h
steamer st. Augustine burned in the Bay Of
Giscay, and upward of thirty lives we're lost.
VA the 18th q terrific storm occurred on the
Black sea, it which it is estimated that SOC
persisted. In the burning OF tho German
~israelite school at Constantinoplc thirty were
burned to destb. A snows.ide in Colorado
killed eight men last week The steamer
sPlantyn, bound for Antwerp from New York,
was foundered and five sailors were kii!cd
last week.
NEUROLOGY.
The year began wi Ii q notable death at
Washington-iliisha Allen, the Hawaiian min
lister and dean OF the Diplomatic corps. while
making n New Years call at the Waite House.
% tho same day Leon Ganbetta died near
Paris in his forty-fourth year, from a pistol
wound, SAID TO have been infiicted by ilis mis-
tress, Madame Leon, but now believed to have
been by his own accident The same day also
the earl Of Stamford died in England. aged
tfty-four. Other no,abie deaths in January
we're those of Barrett, the Jockey
who lode Pa ole; william A. Seaver, MSS ant
editor OF Harper's Niagazne; Lot N. Morrill, of
Maine; DR.. samue A.. hiGid, near Bryans-
I WI, nd. after his release from tho Dry Tor
tnSat for participation III the assassination OF
President LlncoIn; x-Congres-man Fort Of
Illinois; Bishop Cru,kshank Of indianapolis,
age sixty-sevcn: Henry Kip, vica-presldent
United States Express company; Jerome +.
Fargo, one of the express family, at Buffalo,
n y: Prince Alexander, brother OF Emperor
Wiiilaiu; Woifpahg Goeihe, son of tho great
German poet; Gustave Dore, tho artist: Lord
Gferiile of England. In February, cx-(iov.
L. u. Morgan of New York died;
Richard Wagner, the composer; Marshall
Jewei', the ea. postmaster general and char.
man of the Republican national committees:
ex-Gov. DAVIS OF Texas; DR.. Pam Cnadb ourne
of massachusetts,, IN New York city; aud
Charles K Iitorne. the actor, at New York.
The first noted death III March Wac that OF
Alexander II. Stephens OF Georgia. Oh the 1th
of The month. O her noted deaths were Col.
Harry Gilinnur. the reb.l saerrli.a, At Balti-
more; Prince GortschakoI, e~x-chanerlor of
the RUSSIAN empire. at Baden Baden;
/. .. Howe, postmaster general;
J. R Green, the Eaglish historian,
at Mcntone; Karl Marx. aged sixty five, at
Argsnteuil; and John Brown, Queen Fic,orla's
body seryxnt. The first notable death in April
was that of Peter Cooper, the philanthropist,
~ New York city. in his ninety-;hirI year.
(JibAr lpatha Nvnra S,1ruann E..,a,,1 II,
Franz IL, grand dixie OF Mecklenburg-
schwerin: in Constantiuople, Sulteman Pasha.
In May Pre- idspt Grants mother dird a.
Jersey City, in her eighty-foufth year; Israel
Wa.hbnrn died in Philadelphia; L shop Peck,
at Syracuse; William Chambers, the publish-
er, III london; Edonarl Lahoulaye, i'll PARIS;
ClarleAN InLLnn. editor of iha Esltimnra Amer