The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-01-10
Casualties of 1884.

The years casualty list begins Oh
January 2 with a collision on I'M
Grand Trunk r ilway, near Toronto
~ which twenty-five lives wer'
lost. On the 9TH the nuns school u
B IIeviIlp, H., was burned, an'
twenty-six of the occupants perlshec
in the flames and on the llth there
was a tremendous explosion of hre
damp in mine at Arras, in France
by which nineteen miners were LOST
| On the nth the Chinese steamer
| Huai Tuen was lost in the Pacific
| with two hundred passengers, dis
aster followed on the 18th by the los
of the City of Columbus iu Vineyard
Sound, with over one hunderd of the
passengers and crew. The oath was
marked with black stone from Tho
death or fifty!seven miners bya fir&
lamp explosion in Crested ButR,
CAL, while on the following day fhe
Sto amer SimIa was lost, with twenty-
two passengers. The 26th will be
remembered in England fer the
great storm that wreck ed an unknown
number of coasting vessels, with
most of the crews, while the 9th
will not be forgotten by the wi YES OF
fourteen Welsh miners who perished
in fire-damp explosion On the
Both the steamer Rhymb0ns was
lost with twelve of her passengers,
and the narrative of the months dis
aSters closed with terrible railroad
accident near indianapolis, in which
a train went through a bridge, with
a loss of fourteen lives.
The month of February had fewer
accidents of unusual fatal nature, the
record beginning on the lst with a
gasoline explosion at Alliance, Ohio,
eight lives being sacrificed to the de-
sire to kindle a fire with neatneSs and
di-patch; while on the 4th the army
of Hicks Pasha WAS entrapped into u
defiir, and the whole force, 5000
strong, annihilated. The llth prov
ed fatal to a wedding party of thirty
five who attempted to cross the ice
Of the Thesis, in Hungary, and were
all drowned ; while on the l4lh al
party Of fifty fishermen on the CaSpi
an sea were carried into open wafer
on the ice foes and drowned. On
the 10Th the news arrived of the cap
ture of Sinkat and the massacre of
Tpwtik Bey and his troops four days
earlier; while the 10Th will he re-
memhered in the Central Valley
States for tremendous tOrnadnes that
caused great destruction of property
and life. The Goth witnessed an aw-
full explosion of fire-iamp in the
Uniontown mines, in Pennsylvania.
ny which nineteen lives were lost.
and on the 25th the boilers Of the Jap
anese steamer Katsai HOngkong ex
pIoled. killing nineteen passengers
an v0unding many more. During
ths latter part of the month there
w're notable floods in the Ohio Riv.
er Valley aud many destructive
storms in the South.
The month of March experienced
, luTl in accidents, there being but
two of any con|equ 'nce, one, how
yer, being perhaps the most dt-truc-
tive eyer known nfthe kindi Amer.
icl-thp loss Of l54 lives by an explc-
sion and subsequent fire in coal
mine at PocahontaS, Va. The other
WAS an accident that is considered
certain to happen sooner or later, its
ncrurance being hut a question of
time, the explosion of Il nitro-glyce-
rine factory at Thnmpson's Point,
Pa, hy which six lives of workmen
were lost.
All FOOLS Day, the 1st of April,
witnessed the destruction 0fOakville.
Ind, by n tornado, with great loss of
life, while on the same day there
we're many tornadoes West and
South. On the 81 the steamer Re
pcra Everifg 'iais ttss t5,tsssae Il Z;
Chattahoorhe river. with great loss
"f life. and on thesame day the Dan
iel Steinman was wrecked off the
coast of Nova Scotia. with loss of
l25 passengers. On the 18th there
was a collision in mid ocean between
the Florida and the Ponema, result
ing i'm the loss of both vessels and
the drowning Of 1876 of the passengers
and crew. The 23d was celebrated
hy panic in the Bucharest Theater
Circus, resulting from a fire and caus-
ing many deaths, while on the 9th
" bridge gave way under a train near
Cindad Real, in Spain, killing 40 pas
SengerS. The 29lh was noted for the
burning of IA paupers in the Van