Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-01-04
4 YEAR or DISASTER.

THE RECORD or oALAMrrrEs IN THE YEAR JUST
CLOSED OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
LIVES LOST by DISASTER.
A statistician who kept an imperfect record
of the first seven months Of the year 1883
estimated that the fatalities resulting from
extraordinary causes had then already reach
ed the enormous aggregate Of over $1,000.
To this must be added the dreadful destruc-
ton Of life by the great earthquake in the ln-
dian Archipelago, aud a number Of disasters,
less terrible than that, but involving large loss
of life. Below is list Of those calamities
which resulted in the greatest loss of life dur
ing the year:
Jan-By floods in Germany and Hungary
about 100 lives were lost.
Jan. 11-Burning of tho Newhsll house,
Milwaukee, and loss Of 90 lives.
Jan. ia circus building in Poland was
burned and go people persisted.
Jan. 2l-By an accident on the Southern
Pacific railway, at Tehichapi Pass % we're
burned and crushed to death.
Jan 22-The steamer Cimbria oollided
with the Sultan of Berkum Island, and 1913
were lost.
Jan. 22-By explosion of powder works at
Oakland, Cal, 26 we're killed
Jan. 2l--Floodng of mine In Australia
caused the loss of % lives.
ItDs l-llhlhu blthuleI huhohih WItbh1h
on the coast of Tripoli; loss 90
Feb. Panic in a factory at Bombay;
loss %.
Feb Steamer Kenmore Castle wrecked
in the Bay of Bisoay loss 80.
Feb. 17-Accident in Diamond coal mine
at Joliet, ILL., loss II.
Feb. 2l-Fire and panic in a Catholic
school in New York loss 3.
March Steamer Gypsy sunk near New
Orleans; loss Is.
March 1O-Hull and Yarmouth (Englaud)
fishing fleets wrecked; loss 1856.
March 11-Steamer Navarro foundered on
voyage from Copenhagen to Leith loss 4G.
March 1S-Ship Dunslaffnage wrecked on
AberdeensLire coast; loss 20.
March 2G-AvRlanches from Mt. ArArat;
loss 100.
April IL Wreck Of six Yarmouth eng
fishing vessels; loss 40.
April BOILER explosion at st. Dizer,
France 81 killed, 60 injured.
April G. Explosion of powder depot at
Rome loss 40.
April II -Sixty.tvo persons drowned while
engaged in religious ceremony At Secunder-
bad India.
April 26-Ship County Aberdeen collided
with ship British Commences loss 20.
April 2G-EIplosion Of mine at Besseges,
France loss 81.
April 27-Tornado in Mississippi, Georgia
and South Carolina; loss $50.
May Steamer Grappier burned in Puget
Sound loss 10.
May G. Large number Of persons killed by
an earthquake at Tabreez, Persia
May li-Cyclone in Illinois, Ohio and
Missouri; loss %.
May lS-Cyclono in Illinois and wscon-
sin; loss "a.
May 23-Two schooners wrecked on Lake
Michigan loss 10.
May 30-Twelve persons killed and many
injured by panic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
June 9-Powder magazine at Scutari struck
by lightningi loss II.
June IA panic among school children
attending an entertainment at Sunderland,
Eng. loss 1877.
June 25-Burning of a theatre on Lake
Como, Italy and loss of AZ lives.
June 25-British steamers Hurunui and
Waitaina collided; loss %.
July 3-Steamer Daphne while being
launched on the Clyde, capsized; loss 100.
July 23-Pier gives way at Baltimore;
loss &c.
July 27-Collison on Rome, WATERFOWL
and Ogdensburg rairoad % killed, and 80
wounded.
July 2s-EarthquAko at Ischia; between
5000 and 1000 killed, and 1000 injured
0ulg - Ia plOolOh VI hlho III sunny
loss 3d.
Aug. 2i-Cyclone at Rochester, MINI.
loss lG.
Aug. 26-Steamer Woodburn run down of
Eddystone Light; loss Is.
Aug. 29-Volcanic eruptions in Java; loss
estimated at from IS, 900 to so, 600
Aug. 3l-Storm on the Grand Banks and
a reported loss of 80 men.
Sept BY a railroad accident TO a train
between Berlin and Steglitz, 40 persons we're
killed and wounded.
Sept. G-Hurricane at SAnte Domingo;
100 lives lost
Sept. 22-Massacre at Portau Prince
1900 persons killed.
Oct. 15-Panc in Jewish congregation at
Zievonka. Russia 40 persons killed.
Oct. 17-Earthquake in Asia Minor, OPP
posite Chios: POO lives lost
Nov. 7-EHplosion in Monk6ed colliery,
Lancashire England; G3 lives lost.
1t is also estimated that nearly 80, 900 PEG.
pie persisted from cholera in India and
Egypt; and about 200 Gloucester Mass.
fishermen we're drowned. The grand total
will reach the frightful number of over lOO,-
600 lives sacrificed to casualty or pestilence.
or course there have been hundreds OF
minor accidents and casualties which find no
place in the above record.