The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-01-03
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
The Loss OF Human Lite by Earthquake.
Fire, Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Numbers and Variety-A
Years Sport in the United States
Dramatic Events.

The history of year is something that the
best memory, 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, ADD it is Of these that the
impression of the year 1883 must be made.
There is special value in studying even
the dryest presentation of tho years
events as matter of practi-
cal everyday history Its convenience
appears in thousand ways as time goes on
the memory of their relation to other occur
rences A review of the events OF 1883.
cleaned from review of newspaper files, ap-
pears below. 1t shows that the year was ono
of the most remarkable In history in the great
number Of casastrophes by which many lives
were Lost. The fatality Of the world,
deathe, cannot be far from 100000 The list
of deaths includes larger than usual propor-
ton of great persona A full catalogue of the
homicides and miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States wonld sur
prise the public with the information that vice
is rapidly ON the increase. In other respects
the events Of the year aredecidedly noteworthy
DISASTERS
Few years have witnessed SO many great ca
tastrophes. Jan. 10 the Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin at i o'clock in the morning. aud
Is guests and servants lost their lives. The
pecuniary loss was $5OO,OOO. -Four days
later the Planters house, st. Louis, burned
causing four deaths, aud the circus in
Berditsched. Russia. burned during per-
Torrance, and 268 persons persisted In
January, also, 1S convicts were drowned
crossing Tukaseegee river. North Carolina; the
BRITISH ship Empire burned on the way to
Bombay. and Ii were lost: Bethlehem, Pa,
boiler explosion killed 5: the Clmbria sunk in
collision with the Sultan in the German ocean,
drowning 434 persons; Southern Pacific
train went over an embankment at Tehachopa.
Gala, and 20 were killed; 6 men were lost
Halifax; ~ were drowned by the flooding of
mine in Au-tria; 10 lives wore lost by the
sinking of the City o. BRUSSELS; at Centerville,
ILL.,, mine exploded and ten men were killed:
in February the frigh'ful disaster At Braid
wood, Ill, occurred. by which G3 men
bodies wero not recovered for several months.
In panic IN the Fourth Street school, New
York city. l6 children lost their Ives. BY
various floods in Ohio, Missouri aud other
neigl boring States So lives were lost
lation island and all the crew but four drowned.
The Ashuelot sank of Hong Kong. drowning
IL. In March tho steamer Navarro
went down with IS men on board,
In April boiler explosion at St. Dezier, Pari-,
month l27 miners were killed in Eastern
France In May the Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
up at San Francisco, killing eight, and lorna
does are estimated to have killed over 100.
On June l6 occurred the frlgh,fut panic in
Sunderland Exhibition hall in which 2O2 chit,
drcn we're trampled to death. Floods and
tornadoes caused fifty-eight deaths in this
month June 25 twenty-five Cinnamon were
killed in Z niue beyond the Mullan tunnel.
Montana July > seven lives were lost
in . railroad accident at Bradford, Pa.
launched at Glasgow, careeued and drowned
$50. A fire in Hungary burned twenty:
July "a Tivoli pier fe near Baltimore, drown
ing seventv-two. At CarlyoD, n Y, seventeen
were killed, among them Thomas Hoyue OF
Chicago. Capt Webb was killed the last of
whirlpool. Floods at London, Ont. drowned
seventeen. The month closed with the VOL
cauic eruption at I-chis, of the Bay of Naples,
in which the loss Of life was bevond
estimation. The Cologne Gazette put it
at 5000, while others Thick not over
August occurred the Rochester cyclone, in
which the total loss of life was twenty three.
The steamer Riverdale burst her boilers on tie
Hudson river aud number Of lives were lost
Aug. 80 came the Java earthquake,
catastrophe terrible beyond anything known in
the history of the world Probably IS, 600
people were killed by it. Tue ravages vt the
cholera IN India and Egypt during tine summer
caused q horrible loss of life, over 1900
people dying in July, and 10000 being re-
ported in Egypt alono during August
Deaths by yellow fever in Mexico, the West
Indies. and the United States probably reach
the number Of 5000 In September nine
s'l 'iers of Illinois militia were killed at Spring.
field. On the 29th, powdermil. in San Fran
ci-co exploded and killed forty -one. mostly
at Madison, Wis, fell, burving twenty men.
One WAS killed, and others seriously hurt The
steamer Manistee went down GU Lake Superior
about the 2lst, with, it is estimated, fif y per
sons on board. In the same storm probably
seven'y-five sailors persisted on the lakes. In
down with thirty.eisht GU board. The sinking
of the schooner Mary Ann Hu'lburt in Lake
Superior on the l4th caused the death of
fifteen men. On the 10th tho Spanish
steamer st. Augustine burned in the Bay
8iscay, and upward OF thirty lives were lost
On the 18th terrific storm occurred on the
Black sea, it which it is estimated that 800
persisted In tho burning Of the German
lsraelite school at ConstAutinOple thirty were
burned to death. SHOWS ide in Colorado
killed. eight men last week The steamer
Plantyn. bound for Antwerp from New York,
was foundercd and FIVE sailors were killed
last week.
NEUROLOGY.
The year began with notable death at
Washington-Elisha Allen, the Hawaiian min
lister aud dean Of the Diplomatic corps. while
making New Years call ut the White House.
On the same day Leon Gambetta died near
Paris in his forty fourth year, from pistol
wound, SAID to have been inflicted bv his mis-
trese, Madame L on, but now believed to have
been BY his own accident The same day also
the oarl of Stamford died iu England. aged
tfty-four. Other n0'ablo deaths in January
who rode Pa ole; William a seaver, ass q att
editor of HarEer's Maeaz ne; Lot NJ Morrill, of
Name; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near Bryane-
town, Nd, after ME release from the Dry Tor
tueas for participation in the assassination of
President L,nco.n: ex-Congres-man Fort Of
Illinois; Bishop Crulkshank of Indianapolis,
age sixty soven: Henry Kip, vice-pres.dent
United States Express company; Jerome F.
Fargo, one Of the EXPIRE g family, At Buffalo,
n. y: Prince Alexander. brother Of Emperor
William; Wolfgang Goethe, son of the great
German poet; Gustave Dore, tho artist; Lord
Grevillo Of England. In February, cx-Gov
+: D. Morgan of New York died !;
Richard Wagner, the composer; Marshall
jewell, the ex-poetmaster general and chair
man of the R0Dublcan National com mi rt.o |.