Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-12-31


steamer on the Chattahoochec River, n
Georgia. Loss of the steamer Daniel Stein
mann OF Halifax; l24 people drowned.
Seven persons killed by railway
accident at Cisco, Tex. Eight men
lose their lives by railroad accident
at Scranton, Pa. Five children burned to
death at Gadsdcn, Ala. Many people killed
and MANNED by fire aud panic in q theater
ut Bucharest Fifteen lives lost by the wreck
Of the Danish bark Alba, in the Shetland
Islands. Five persons drowned while bORtins
In the Hudson River, near Sing Sing. Col.
lisiOu In mid ocean between steamer state ot
Florida and bark Ponema. Both vessels lost
and 1875 persons drowned. More than forty
persons killed by the falling Of train OF
cars into the river near Ciudad Real, SPAIN.
French banker Paquebot run down and sunk
by Norwegian bark Venus; twelve men
Fourteen inmates OF Van Buren
County Poor House, near Hartford, Mich,
burned 10 death. Explosion OF powder mag
azine OF San Anton o, near Havana; twenty
one persons killed and many wounded. Ex-
tensive forest fires In New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania, burning several villages
and many square miles of timber land;
number of persons perished in the flames.
MAY.
Five men killed at Waterford, N. r., by
the explosion of a b1eacher in straw-board
mill The French brig Scnorine foundcred
OF tho great hAnks of Newfoundland. the
fpsafls pseaflshIlE IlE 6s flish M glsp WIN wFscfsd
on the Fiji Islands; seventy passengers. aii
coolies. were drowned. BY collision between
freight aud gravel trains on the baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, near Conncllsvile Pa,
fourteen labOrers were killed. Several shocks
OF earthquake throughout the peninsula OF
damaged: many houses were destroyed: and
100 persons killed. Nineteen lives lost by the
foundering of the ship Alantinc OF the Mag
dalcn Islands. The tottom of the ferry boat
at St. Alberts, p. O., broke through, causlng
the drowning OF sevcn persons. ny the
explosion of boiler in the whitney Marble
Works at Gouverneur, N. Y, seven men were
killed. Ten women were blown to pieces and
two others wounded by an explosion Of dyna-
mite at factory In Ayrshire, Scotland. Five
persons killed by boiler explosion ut Dur
buque, Iowa.
JUNE.
E.evcn men drowned in food caused by
a cloud burst, in camp on Frenchman's Q Creek,
Colorado. Schooner Six Brothers and four
men drowned at TEompson's Falls, Montana.
News from Greenland OF the loss OF
the Danish brig Elena and ten OF her
crew. Two Americans and twelve Nexicans
killed In q railroad accident In New Ia
redo Several persons fatally injured
Burlington and Missouri Railroad. Deashs
from lightning reported in New York,
Pennsylvan Ohio. ana Wisconsin. TAenty'
five persons killed by the breahr
Ing Of an engine axle on the Manchester and
Sheffield Railway. England. Forty por1o0a
overwhelmed and drowned by water spoul
in Russian Turkestan. Fourteen men killed
by the premature explosion OF blast neax
Tampico, Mexico. Thirty people killed -. ~
explosion of . powdcr-mill IN Italy. bet0go
across the river Vfstula, In Germany, supOa
which many people were standing. was swepl
away by flood and twenty Of them wcrs
drowned. Six Italians drowned at EOmerp
N. Y, by the upsetting of a boat. II
JULY.
Steamer Amsterdam, of Netherlands and
American Navigation Company's line,
wrecked on Sable Island In . fog;
three passengers lost. Twenty : four
plosion in British Columbia. Ten persona
drowned by the foundering of q schooner o6
Becks Beach, N. j. Twenty paaaengers
killed and forty seriously injured by'sa rail.
way accident near Manchester, England.
Five men killed by the explosion OF loco.
ming struck the farmhouse OF Nathan Miller,
near Maryville, Kan, killing his four daugh'
ters while asleep.
AUGUST.
Steamer City of Merida burned at Ha
vana; no hives lost. Transfer steamer
Belmont sunk In q storm near Evans
yille Ind; sixteen lives lost. Seven
teen men suifocated in an underground
canal at Braye, France. Seven coliierl
burned to death in . mine at Shamokin, Pa.
Five people fatally poisoned at ShelbyviIle,
Ind hv tru In, vrh{ot tr -
been put by mistake. A gale on the New.
foundland coast causes considerable loss ot
life. Seven men killed by an explosion In q
coal-pt mt Paisley. Scotland. Ten men be-
longing to Orton's Circus perish In Q burning
sleeping-car near Greeley, Col.
sEPTEMBER.
Destructive f1re In Cleveland, Ohio. Mine
persons killed In an accident ON tho Mex icar
Central Railroad. Distillery explosion, Pc
kin, ll.--several killed. A rapid rise In the
Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers, destroying
over $4,OO0, 900 worth Of property. New
from China that the province Of Kiang-See
had been inundated. and seventy thousand
lives lost. Fifty-two lives lost by the sink
Ing of tho British Runboat Wasp, on TOrJ
Island. Seven persons killed and much
property destroyed BY q cyclone In Allegany
County, N. Y. Twenty lives lost by q
fire In sulphur mine In Sicily.
OCTOBER.
Sixty persons killed by q railroad accident
in India. Over 800 lives lost by q hurricane
IN Iceland. Ten soldiers burned to death In
a fire at the royal palace NJ Copenhagen. Al
Esseg, Austria, fourteen children, while
playing in q boat on the river Drave, capslxed
It and all were drowned. Ten men drowned
at Chicago by the washing away, during I
gale, OF hut in which they were lodging.
Ex. Gov. Moses sentenced TO three months ia
the Detroit Penitcntiary for forgery. Five
men killed by powder mill explosion al
sons killed and 400 injured by q cyclone in
Catania, on the island OF Sicily. The Japanese
cities 0i Yokohama and Toxic were visited
by terrible typhoon: in the latter city
5000 houses wero wholly or partially do
stroyed; twenty people were killed; the
killed by boiler explosion 1t Bcltrami,
MINI. A storm on the coast OF Lower Cali
fornia wrecks steamer and seven sailing
craft, the loss OF life reaching nearly 100
Eighteen men guffOcated In q coal mino at
youngstown, Ohio. Sixteen persons trampled
caused by . cry OF nrc. Several vessels
wrecked and many lives lost by hurricane
In the Bahama Islands
NOVEMBER.
Nine persons slain BY q boiler explosion IN
! New Orleans sugar house. Six men die q
6unbury, Ont, from eating pork affected
with trichinR. railway train goes through
. bridge st Hampstead, Texas, drowning
twelve passengers and woundinG forty.
Seventeen lives lost By the sinking of the
american e; snP Andser M'ns 1 50snson % :, e.
capsizing OF boat near Halifax, N. 8
Several persons killed BY Z boiler explosion
on an Alabama River steamer. An unknown
disease. supposed to be caused BY . long