Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-12-31

Rsnard, with crow OF 127, f6bndered In the
Red Sea. Nearly 200 lives were lost by tne
bursting OF a wateyspout I'M the mountains near
the dividing line between the Mexican States
bf Guanajuato and Jalisco. by the faIl OF
crowded stairway In the Court House IN IhieIs'
France 70 persons Ess0 killed ana ~ lOS were
severely injured by destynctiye storm when
visited the western and northern portions OF
Iowa. the loss TO property was SIoO,oU' Asa az
fesnlt OF tho earthquakes in Cashmere, lhdiaI
S06l p6fsons lost their lives, 0,OOO houses were
laid in ruins, ahd $1,000 animals perished. In
single day 2Ss deaths from cholera were re-
ported In Spain, with 491 new cHses. terrible
ex,1oaion occurred ut the Pepdlebtify e0liery,
near Manchestsr, England, and OF the 349 miners
employed therein 160 perishedj Cholera reports
from Spain for one day show JIG deaths and 710
new cases The fire losses in this country DUR
ing tho first six months OF 1885 amounted 70
s5O,75O,OOO
Floods In ChtnR caused great loss Of life
and enormous destruction tf property. Toyama,
Japan was visited by eon1agration which de,
stroyGd SpI7 houses. Stoughton' Wis.f sifiered
a loss Of S65O,GOC nv FIRE about onethird OF the
tobacco crop Of the state was eonsumed' Ihe
stearn-yacht Minnie Cook was sapsized on Lake
Mhsthnka during storm and ten pers9ns, & ins
wife and two sois, were drowned. Fire at
Washington ID. c., destroyed the presses and
composing and editorial rooms 5f the Post,
National Republcan, Critic and SH.dag GGEs.ts;
mouth, ht,gland, TO tho relief Of n brig in dis
tress sank beiofe tsaehing its destination, and
eight of it's crew were drowhei! yhirseen persons
a storm at Tore Cajetani, Italy. Total losses
by fire in this country during the month OF July
estimated at s., 100000.
AUaUsT.
Halt n IaiIe along the water front Of Toronto,
occupied by boat housssi lumber yards eleva-
tors etc. was destroyed by me scores 0l Ees. as
sels were burned; the loss Of property was
placed 70 81 100000; A great earthquake IN tse
region of TashSetdi IN Asiatic Turkey, swai- V,ll
lowed up portions of villages snd cities kiiiihe
many people great food dtTastated the
province of Canton, China causing the doasb q
10000 people and the destruction OF many VII
lagos. An explosion Of gas at the Mocanaqua ",
and bows. The little town OF Norwood, st. Law
renee County, N. Y, was visited by =; terIlne
storm Of only three minutes duration pus oat-
ing that time eight persons were killed ana Tic
place almost wiped out of existence. The Amer
icat bhrks Napoleon and Gazelle were lost III
the ise IN the Northern Pacific, and twenty-five
rersthls ptrished. The British shfp Haddington'
shire was wrecked In the Pacific Ocean, in the
vacfnity OF San Ffaneisc6i eighteen OF the crew
persisted. The German corvette augusta anu
crew OF 23S officers and sailors Were lost III cy'
clone In the Red Sea. The Scotch stea1n-dredge
Beaufort, with crew of twelve persons, wai
lost In q hurricane Of the Bermudas; ofiicers
and men are said TO have been drunk y -
steamer cnrrying pilgrims was wrecked i'm the
Gulf of Aden 100 lives lost. month oi chal
era cost Spain greater loss in money ana llit
than n of q wear uu1ullOu CulilIlb III ho
able bodied men into the field over 10000 peo
ple died in August. Charleston, $. C., was VISIT
! cd by II cyclone, which unroofed one-iourth 0
the buildings in the city and desiroyea vas as
| amount q psperty, the aggregate loss being es
\ tii1ated Mt 81 100000; great haVlc was as
! cdtised along the entire South Atlantic coast
| Three pilot boats hailing from Beauiort, D. ~ ~
| were wrecked in hurricane, fourteen lives DC
| ing lost The losses by fire in the United state
| AID Canada during August reached s5,oOO,oot
the average tor the month named ior zen year a.,
being S7,OO0OO0; f6r eight months OF 1850 the if
waste footed up SG5.50OOOC
SEPTEMBER.
ship-vards NJ Barrow-in-F -Furness, England
| burned causing a i5ss of S1,O0O,0OO, AM
douriying two thousand meE ~ employment
! Near Copenhagen the British steamer huck!an
came in collision with the German gunD'n
! the Auckland's crew of seventeen being rescued
Saye6e1Gh' "Sf 'tli6 efaIh ahd 1ResenRefs "a tff
latter were lost. Prairie fires destroyed over
million dollars worth OF crops ana oeneI Ioa ,nia pi1a
ertv in Dakota n solid stretch OF over lOO lillle
! along the line OF the Northern faclhc wa
| burned People to the number Of 5000 assen
blsd in frcft of Nine Christine NILSSON 1l n9I, ~
Mt stockholm, Sweden, 20 heal her sing from th
balcony. and in the crush that ensued scVente'
persons perished; twenty-nine oIleIs tI MeIo q s
riously injured. Disastrous HOODS, covering q
nrea of $500 square miles, occurred IN IN
presidency cf Bengal, British India causln
immense damage TO property and loss Oh Oh Mdit d.l'
300 persons were drowned. sraht s ny & NIsIU M Y. y.
| Innlnne.
| ~ nronertv. The fire losses for September
the United States and Canada We're compute e
ut 81 SOS OOO-S3 700 900 less than during the co
responding month OF 1854
OCTOBER.
A railway accident I'm Greece caused the dent
or injury OF between forty ana siAsy PeIsITm IInl
london had n Sl5,OO0,0O0 confagration Dlo1
| of thirteen eight-story business buildings WI
consumed in Aldersgate. Floods in the Valie.
OF Switzerland destroyed a. larse s S,,n,bey uUy
lives. Cholera in Tonquin carried on ~
/, Frenchmen in nine months. Deaths IN mo
! treal for FIVE days, from smallpox; hun'eer os.
: 37O. ON one street in Ste. Cunegonde the
was n case to every house. AT Perlgeu
France, the Chancelade guarries zen
, DESTROYING village, and killing many Peop
: | During n storm on the Labrador coast ~ Vess'
a | We're wrecked and 800 lives lost ZOOO sn
= wrecked persons. ON the shore were render !
q | destitute rainstorm of eighteen hours .
> | ration caused floods in the Shenandoah NaIlt
. ! Va more water falling than in the two preVlo
a wears The losses by fire during Octoper IT, ~ ao !
y United States and Canada, reached so,ISoOV
about 50 $50 900 less than the average tor Octo'
: IN the mast ten years. The U. s. Consul
palermo reported 1900 deaths in that city fr'
cholera ul TO October II, and stated that o.
3 GOOOO persons fed from the epidemc'
e NOVEMBER.
/ A ovclone nj Dangerfield, Tex, killed colo
d family of six persons. Nearly score on pee.
a, were killed and forty or nifty seriously lhJu,
a near Selma Ala, by q destructive cyclone
le iron steamer Algoma, belonging TO the Saiaa !,
" Pacific Road struck reef on Port arthur ~, ~
1e Superior in a dense fog. and went down 30
in the messengers were lost, and IA OF the CT
saved Flames in Galveston, Texas, destro.
400 houses, mostly residences, the losses De
81 800 600. A cyclone in the Philippine lslM
~ destroyed 5000 buildings and killed many
w ple A cyclone in the Oressa, Moorshedl'
ut and Huddoa districts of India desolateu vast
ID tents Of country, submerged 100 villages,
IN destroyed 5000 lives A remarkable tidal W
l) along the Atlantic coast on the zlth caused u
es damage on the New England seaboard as
A ma in New York harbor and on the New Jer
r. coast. n submarine earthquake was believed
z, have caused the sudden rise. Inc loss py
IN i'm the United States and Canada during nov
he Der placed ut ~ loOOOOu anu loI ss1s Sas oo
ve months, to Dec. /, the loss footed up se9Ooo'
Va IN DECEMBER
~. Fire consumed the Barnum Wire Works at
by troit valued at S277 900, and employing 1OO
in An earthquake ravagCd four populous toWhi
of Algeria killing 81 persons, among tnem seV
100 Europeans. Through the failure OF grlP
cable train on the East River Bridge, at
York two cars slipped back down the curve
at the Brooklyn end, crashing into announcer u
,s five persons received serious injuries the OF
~. ofhcinls report that the cable road mas Cur
"a "a bOlOOO messengers without losing n
An BROOKLYN people TO the number OF l6,ooO an
~, IN are transported 70 New York during the NOR
,g, hours on week days. The Pennsylvania I
% % many paid S29, ,39S TO William Fitz simmons,
ost of its former engineers, VINO was crlppleuu
M ! life in n coil sion caused by train-dispatci
ar bunder Two iIleh on3',e iet 80 80 nS,-r,tt'a Cor,
"a N. " were killed making thirty-eight who
-tb lost their lives in connecs.ol with this
70 Near Atlanta, Ga, q collision occurred betN
cd trains OF the Georgia Pacihc ana b1sC leL @
A. ~. zoe Roads on n high trestle twelve per
a., were killed and three others received fatal
"a RES. Flames originating ON the dock NJ =
es- sOnNille, ria, Al 80 o,,ciona ~ Az
lph Eouses, Nnluea Nv Ssoo,oIy. S,oy nih fheir on
I'm Thirty Hungarians were drowned in mil
Do hNr a
ark Nanucoke' ~, p3 s,, ,i1e -, ~ n siharian
of River a ~ e,,, loo 70 600 lives