McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-22
CASUALTIES OF THE YEAR.

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January 2 with collision on the
Grand Trunk Railway, near Toronto,
by which % lives were lost. On the
9th the nuns school, in Belleville, ILL., j,
was burned and 26 of the occupants
persisted in the flames, and on the 18th
there was tremendous explosion of
fire. damp in mine at Arras, in
France, by which 10 miners were lost
On the 14th the Chinese steamer Huai
Tuen was lost in the Pacific with 200
passengers, disaster followed on the
18th by the loss of the City of Column
bus in Vineyard Sound, with over 100
OF the passengers and crew. The Oath
was marked by black stone from the
death of 81 miners by tiredamp ex-
plosion in Crested Butte, Col, while
on the following day the steamer Simla
was lost with % passengers. The
10Th will be remembered in England
for the great storm that wrecked an
unknown number of coasting vessels
with most of their crews, while the
9th will not be forgotten by the wives
OF IA Welch miners who persisted in a
firedamp explosion. On the 30th the
ooSeiiOi ALL HdUOuS w ac lOSI WIFI IL
OF her passengers, and the narrative
OF the months disasters closed with a
terrible railroad accident near Indian
apolis, in which train went through
a bridge, with a loss of IA lives.
The month of February had fewer
accidents of unusually fatal nature,
the record beginning on the 1st with a
gasoline explosion at Alliance, Ohio,
eight lives being sacrificed to the de-
sire to kindle fire with neatness and
dispatch; while on the 4th the army of
Baker Pasha was entrapped into de-
file and the whole force, $500 strong,
annihilated. The 18th proved fatal TO
wedding party of So who attempted
to cross the ice of the Thesis, in Hun
gary, and were all drowned; while on
the 18th party of SO fishermen on the
Caspian Sea were carried into open
water on the ice foes and drowned.
On the 10th the news arrived of the
capture of Sinkat and the massacre of
Tewfik Bey and his troops four days
earlier; while the 10Th will be remem-
bered in the Central Valley States for
tremendous tornadoes that caused
great destruction of property and life.
The 10th witnessed an awful explosion
of tiredamp in the Uniontown mines,
in Pennsylvania, by which 10 lives
were lost, and on the 25th the boilers
of the Japanese steamer Katsai Hong
Kong exploded, killing 10 passengers
and wounding many more. During
the latter part of the month there were
notable floods in the Ohio River Val
ley aud many destructive storms in
the South.
The month of March experienced q
lull in accidents, there being but two
of any consequence, one, however, be-
ing perhaps the most destructive of
the kind ever known in America, the
loss of 154 lives by an explosion and
subsequent fire in coal mine at Poca-
hontas, Va. The other was an acct
dent that is considered certain sooner
or later to happen, its occurrence be-
ing but Il question of time, the explo-
sion of nitro-glycerine factory at
Thompson's Point, Pa, by which
lives of workmen were lost.
Ali FOOLS Day, the 1st of April, wit
messed the destruction of Oakyille,
Ind, by a tornado, with great loss of
life, while on the same day there were
many tornadoes West and South. On
the Sd the steamer Rebecca Evering-
ham burned ON the Chattahoochee
River with great loss of life, and on
the same day the Daniel Steinman was
wrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia,
with q loss of 125 passengers. On the
18th, there was collision in mid
ocean between the Florida and the
Ponema, resulting in the loss of both
vessels and the drowning of 1876 of the
passengers and the crew. The 23d
was celebrated by panic in the Bu-
charest Theater-Circus resulting from
a fire and causing many deaths, while
on the 9th bridge gave way under a
train near Cindad Real, in Spain, kill
ing 40 passengers. The goth was noted
for the burning of IA paupers in the
Van Buren, County Poor House. in
Michigan, together with the blowing
up of a powder magazine at San An
tonic, Cuba, the explosion killing 81
workmen. The last four days of the
month were also remarkable for the
breaking out of forest fires in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
by which great destruction of both life
and property was caused.
May had three disastrous accidents.
On the 14th collision on the Balti-
more and Ohio, causing IA deaths; an
earthquake at the Kishau Islands in
the Persian Gulf, destroying many
villages and killing 200 of the popula-
ton, and, on the 23d, the wreck of the
Senorine, off the banks of Newfound-
land, by'which 81 lives were lost. On
this date also Berber was captured
and $500 of the population and garri-
son were massacred.
June 1 was signalized by cloud
burst in Frenchman's Gulch, Col, bv
which II miners were drowned, and
on the 10th the schooner Six Brothers
foundered off the Grand Banks, with
the loss of IA of the crew. Mexico
suffered railroad accident at New
Laredo, by which IA men were killed,
and the last ten days of the month wit
messed cyclones in the central and
western states.
July had but two accidents of any
note, one being the breaking of an en-
oina axle on the Manchester and Shelf