Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-02

All~rooIs' day, the LIST Of April, Wit
ntsscd the destruction Of Oskvillc, Ind,
BY tornado, with great loss Of life.
while on the snme day there were many
tornsdoes west and south. On tho 3D.
the steamer Rebecca Eycringham burned
on the Chattahoochce river, with great
loss Of life. and on The same day the
Daniel Steinman was wrecked Oft the
coast of Nova Scotia, with loss Of l IS
passengers. On the 18th, there was 3
collision in suid-occan between the Flo
rida and the Poncma. resulting ia the
|, less Of both vessels and the drown
ing Of 1856 OF the passengers and
crew. The 23a was celebrated by
panic in the Bucharest Thestre-Circus
resulting from Are, and causing many
deaths, while on the 9th a bridge gave
way under train near Cindad Real. in
Spain, killing 40 passengers. The 10Th
was noted for the burning of IA pau
pcrs in the Van Buren, County poor
house, in Michigan, together with the
blowing-up Of powder-inagazine at
San Antonio, Cuba, the explosion kill
ing 81 workmcn. The last four days
OF the. month were also remarkable for
the breaking out of forest fires in New
York, New Jersey, apd Pennsylvania,
by which great destruction of both life
and property was caused.
May had three disastrous accidents.
On the 18th collision on the Balti-
more and Ohio, causing IA deaths; an
earthquake at the Kishan Islands, in
the Persian gulf, destroying many vii
lagos and killing 200 of the popula-
ton: and. on the Odd, the wreck Of the
Senorine off the banks Of Newfound-
land, by which 62 lives were lost. On
this date also Berber was captured. and
$500 Of the population and garrison
were massacred.
June LIST was signalized by cloud
burst in Frenchman's Gulch. Col, by
which / 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 suf-
fered railroad accident at New La
redo, by which IA men were killed, and
the last ten days Of the month wit
messed cyclones in the central and west
efn States.
July had bit two accidents Of any
note, one being the breaking of an en-
pine axle on the Manchester and Shelf
field railroad, England. on the 10th,
whicl caused the loss Of rs lives; and
the OF er the collision Of the Spanish
steamer Giion with the English steamer
Laxham, off Corunna. on the 2lst-
both ships sinking, and 10 sailors being
drowned.
The first great accident in August
was on the 10Th, when an underground
canal at Braye, France, was flooded,
drowning II workmen, while on the Goth
the Tallapoosa was run down off Mar
tha's Vineyard and 2 men lost. Fire
damp in the Greenback mines in Penn
sylyania killed miners. while the sink
ing of the transfer steamer Belmont, IN
storm on the Ohio river, drowned IL
railroad passengers.
The 9TH of September will not soon
I've forgotten in Cleveland, o., for then
began the great fire in that city, and
the | lih will be remembered in Iceland
for the storm that swept over that I'M
happy island. Floods on the 18th de-
stroyed s4.000,000 worth Of property
along the Eau Claire and Chippewa
rivers but this calamity, great as it
was, bore no comparison to the kiang
See Province in China, where, on the
18th. over 10000 lives were lost by
the floods. On the 23d the English
.gunboat Wasp went down off the Irish
coast with 50 of her crew, and on the
9th cloud-burst over Paehuca de-
stroyed the lives of 80 Of the popula-
ton.
October Sd witnessed the burning of
the Royal palace at Copenhagen. and
the 18th saw a hurricane in Sicily that
destroyed a dozen villages and caused
great loss both of property and life.
Fire-damp in the Moravian mines killed
20 miners on the 10Th, and accident re-
bcated at UniOntown, Pa, on the 9th
with loss of IA lives.
All-SaintsF day. the LIST of November,
beheld panic in the Star Theatre, Glas-
Cow. in which l6 children were tramplcd
to death. while on the 9th there were
two explosions of fire-damp--one at
Washes. in Prussia. the other at Trede-
gar. in Wales, causing respectively 20
and 18th deaths among the workmen.
A railroad collision on the l4th aston
ished the people of Hanau, Prussia, and
killed Is passengers; while on the same
day another, similar in its particulars,
took place on the Houston and Texas
Central, causing IL deaths.
December LIST brought news of the
mysterious plague in the mountains of
Kentucky on the ID the steamer
Mary Joseph was lost on the Grand
Banks with almost all ON board, while
on the 4th a great gale off the Banks
DESTROYED whole fleet of fishing YES
sells, and caused immense loss of life,
and on the same date schooner snug
Cling Cinnamon over from British Co.
lumbia was lost with 10 men. The
18th was noted for storm on the Rap
pahannock, drowning SO fishermen.
The 18th brought another fire-damp ex-
plosion, this time in Stierdorf, Prussia,
while on the 18th occurred the burning
of the Brooklyn Asylum and great loss
Of life. On the 10Th came news Of the
collision of the Bulnau and Maria oil
the PHILIPPINE Islands, while on the
Goth came hurricane in France, with