Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-30

ters by land and water, involving an appalling
destruction OF life. Storms foods fires. earth.
quakes, plaques, explosions, railway collisions,
ETC.. have played havoc with life and property
In every quarter of the globe. The most re-
| markable Of the disasters Of the year are re-
viewed below.
JANUARY.
Stock by the thousands reported dying Of hun
ger in the ranges Of Montana. Shocks Of earth
quake in Spain created intense panic n number
OF towns and villages we're completely destroy
"a, and the surviving inhabitants deserted
them Losses from fires in tho United States
and Canada during ias4 were placed at &112, co.,.
O0oovef III, 600 COO In excess ct the annual ay-
ernge for nfne yrnrs; lcss during Docenff,cf,
1884, S11.000,000r The bodies Of fourteen men
were found along railroad grade between Val
entinc and Gordon City, Neb. who perished in q
blizzard. Many lives, with q number Of vessels,
were lost in great storm which swept the
British coast 4 cyclone whose roar could
be heard for miles swept through Georgia and
alabama carrying a.ay buildings and fences,
Twenty EIGHT men buried alive by an explosion
q FIRE damp In the great coal mine at Levin au
Pas de Calais, France; all killed. Burning Of
the intrmary for male patien,s OF the lunatc
asylum at Kankakee. Ill Sc enteen Of the in
durable INN, tes creInnt d. Twentg-eight lives
lost by the sinking of the British packet Admiral
Moorsom. which collided with the ship Santa
Anna near Holyhead Wales Enormous snow
slide in the Alpine foothills Of switzerland and
Piedmont, crushing tvs villages, with loss Of
over forty lives and the injury Of nearly one
hundred persons. The BAY State .5Ggar Reiiner v
burned Ut Boston lose sIeoa,0oo. Burning OF
the steamer St Johna very large and fine YES
sel-at her pier in new York she originally cost
$500, 600. An avalanche at Melyulles, in the
French Alps, brushes church and biries con-
gregation in the snow twenty workmen in a
marble quarry near by also buried. Some deaths,
@on sehR an ara & many ,h wrGsss repUr.ed
coast caused by cold gale. 10ss OF the Ameri-
can schooner Arcana in the Bay Of Fundy, with
Capt. Holmes and eight men. Forty passengers
Sydney. n S. W. Total Toss by fire in the United
States aud Canada during January, 81. SOC, coo
more than 81 900 900 above average January loss
in nine years.
FEBRUARY.
Fire at Marquette, Mich, destroyed S25o,0oO
worth Of property Loss of over II gN, 900 incur
red by the burning OF n marble building in Bar
clay street, New York. The village of Battle
Lake, Minn almost SWEPT out Of existence by
confiagrat!on. ire in Gold and Spruce streets,
New York, destroyed property valued ut $3.50.
600. Steel works at Nashua N H., suffered
plate and bar mills Bya collision Of freight
trains OH bridge at New Brunswick. N. j., an
oil tank exploded, and the burning fluid spread
to two mannfac.uries. several dwellings, and a
stable full OF horses; four persr'ls persisted in
tho flames, and the money loss reached $1,000
OO0 Powder works near Canton, China, ex-
ploded, killing $50 employees. BY the fall OF n
scaffold on the susquehHnna bridge at Havre de
Grace, five workmen fell through the ice into
the river, fifty feet below, and two drowned.
Thirteen miners killed by colliery explosion at
New Glasgow, N. s. Twenty EIGHT insane in
mates OF the county alinshouse in West Phil
adelphia cremnted in the destruction Of that
heavy avalanche of snow, and three-fourths of
the buildings destroyed eighteen lives lost.
Seventeen lives mine Of them cisibans lost and
much damage done at Gibraltar, Spain, ny the
explosion OF n powder magazine. Pottsville,
Pa, had 100000 confiagration. The entire
business portion Of Bisbee, Arizona, was reduced
ashes loss slooo Several manafaet'riss
OF 100000. Explosion Of gas in a Wiiksbarre
mime caused death Of twelve men and serious
burning q ten others; OF the Canadian voy-
Nile ten were drowned. two died from fever, and
two were killed on the railway in Egypt. Fire
destroyed the Grannis Block. Chicago in which
were three banks, loss OF eJ0O,00u being In
CURED; four large business structures corner of
Second and Chestnut streets Philadelphia--loss
s15o, 900; Jos. II. Browns gronery house at Fort
Worth, Texas-loss Sl00.0O0; the Le Roy Pine
Company at Troy, n Y.-loss $4,000. Five per
sons lost their lives in a collision on the
Virginia Midland Railroad Mt -Four Mile. Va. !;
the contents Of the egprcss safe, s250, 900, were
destroyed also more valuable inail matter than
was ever before known the fire was so iitupse
as to melt the gold and silver in transit. Fire
destroyed the Marvin Safe Companys factory at
New York, valued ut $230,000 John A. Rings
residence in Philadelphia took FIRE before the
occupants had risen from their cuuches and out
OF the family OF eight persons but three escaped
alive. Ten business buildings at New Britain,
Conn, valued with contents at s200,000, were
burned one man lost his life. Citizens and live
stock were reported starving in Mcdowell Coun-
ty, viva. a region 100 miles from any railroad
ON account OF failure oi crops last summer. An
Illinois Central train consumed l68 hours in
making the trip ffozi. Bloomington to Kanka-
kee--S6 miles-Owing to the snow blockade. The
steamer Allegheny, from Cardiff for Ceylon was
lost with her crew Of thirty persons. Flames
swept away the National Theater ut Washing
ton loss &200, 600 During February the fire loss
reached SO 600 COO A terrific hurricane ON the
east coast Of Madagascar sunk an American
sons perished.
MARCH
Fire-damp in tho Uswortil Colliery, na U.s.
worth England, caused an explosion and the
loss Of forty-eight lives. From coal mine in
Austrian Silesia in which an explosion occurred,
l23 corpses were taken. OF 220 miners employed
In colliery at Camphausen, Rhenish Prussia,
all were either crushed to death m asphyxiated
by an explosion Of fre-daMp except thirty. The
Langham Hotel at Chicago was destroyed by
miners lost their lives by terrible explosion In
coal mine at McAllister, Indian Territory.
APRIL.
While workmen were bracing up the yielding
foundations cf eight fvessteUy tenements in New
York City the entire structure fell, burying about
fifty workmen In the ruins the contractor fed
to escape lynching. Tra1nps who had been
driven away from Senator 6tanfords Vina Call
ranch returned and fired his stables, Ill horses
and mules being burned to DEATH A
volcanic eruption causing the death OF 100 per-
sons occurred on the Island Of Java. Vicksburg,