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

Ali Appalling Catalogue OF Accidents
involving Loss Of Human
life.
Earthquakes, Cyclones, Shipwrecks, Mine
Explosions, Railway Collisions,
Fires, Etc.

Explosions, Railway Collisions,
Fires, Etc.
Tho year has been dreadfully profile h aisas-
ters by land and water, involving an appalling
destruction Of life. Storms, floods, fires, earth
quakes, plaques. explosions railway collisions,
etc, have played havoc with life and property
IN every quarter Of the globe, The most re-
matkabie ot the disasters Of the yeat are <e'
viewed below
JANUARY.
FER IA the' 'Edlsses of Meata1t, Shocks OF earth
quake in Spain created inLehse DHhie pumber
Of towns and villages were completely isstroY;
cd, and the surviving inhabitants aeserted
and Canada during 1884 were placed at s112,0OO-
bOO-oSet $1,000, 900 In efcess OF the annual ay-
erage ior nine yeafs; Toes during December,
1884, s11 100000 The bodies 5f tcitteeh men
were found along railroad grade between var
entine and Gordon City, Mob, who perished in a
blizzard Many lives, with number OF vessels,
were lost in great storm which swept the
British coast. cyclone whose roar could
tA heard for miles swept through Georgia and
Alabama. Carrying ,G%aE buildings and fences.
Twenty eight men buried alive By an exp'oston
Of damp in the great coal mine at LEVIN az
Pas de Calais, France; oil killed. Burning OF
the infrinary for male patien's OF the lunatic
asylum at Kankakee, Ill seyenteen OF tho in
curable inmates cremat d. TwentX-eishs lves
lost by the sinking OF the British packet Admiral
Moorsom which collided with the ship santa
Anna hehr HotyhsRf, Wales. Enormous snow,
slide in the Alpine foothills OF switzerland ana
Piedmont crushing two villages, With loss OF
over forty lives and the injury OF nearly onc
hundred persons. The Bay State Sugar kehner y
burned ut Boston; loss, S1,000,OO0. Burning OF
the steamer ST John-a very large and fino
sel-at her pier in New York she originally cost
5000 An avalanche at Melvulles, i'll the
French Alps, crushes n church and burios con-
| zion twenty
| mafblB quarry shr by Alsb buried. Some deathHl
much suffering ard many wfesks reported
| among the fishing fleets ON the NEWFOUNDLAND
| coast, caused by cold gale. Loss OF the Ameri
| can schooner Arcana IN the Bay OF Fundy, with
eePt. Holmes and eight men Forty passse1gers pss gers
| sydney N s. w. Total loss by fire in tho United
| States and Canada during January, Ss5OO,OOO-g
more than 81 100000 above average January loss
| in nine years
FEBRUARY.
Fire at Marquette Mich, destroyed S25O.OoO
worth Of property. Loss Of over II 900 900 incur
red by the burning Of u marble building in Bar
| clay street New York. The village OF Bat
| Lake Mimi. almost swel out Of existence by n
eonGagration. Fire in Gold and Spruce stree 8,
New York, destroyed property valued at S&30,;
a loss Of 100000 by the bufpins pt
plate and bar mills. BY collision OF freight
| trains on Il bridge ut New Brunswick, n. D., an
oil tank exploded and the burning fluid spread
to two manufactures, several dwellings, and a
stable full Of horses four persons peri5hed IN
the flames, and the money loss reached SLOW
OO0 Powder works near Canton, China, ex-
| ploded, killing $50 employees. BY the tall of a
scaffold on the Susquehanna bridge at Havre dc
Grace, Ave workmcn fell through the ice into
the river fifty feet below, and two drowned.
Thirteen miners killed by a colliery explosion at
New Glasgow, N. S. Twenty-eight insane in
mates of the county almshouse in West Phil,
adelphia cremated in the destruction OF that
institution. The town of Alta, Utah, swept by a
heavy avalanche Of snow, and three -fourths OF
the buildings destroyed; eighteen lives lost
explosion OF powder magaxilel sPottsyille
Pa. had n 100000 confGgratioti The ehtir(
business portion of Bisbec, Arizona; was reduced
TO ashes loss 100000 Several inanufactorie'
at Lynn, Mass., We're swept away, causing los'
OF SlOO 900. Explosion OF gas in Wilksbarr'
mine caused death OF twelve mon ana serious
burning of ten others. OF the Canadian Noy
ayers who took Gen. Wolseieys Doat s,.u up ,l, rn
two were killed on the railway in Egypt tr'
DESTROYED the Grannis Block, Chicago in whicl
were three banks, a loss OF S5oV,Uoo Deils , ~, =
Cured; four large business structures corner o
Second and Chestnut streets, Philadelphla-Ios
$3.50 600; Jos. II. Browns grocery house at For
Worth Texas-loss Sl00,000; the lie Roy Pin
Company at Troy, N. Y.-loss 500, 600. Five pei
sons lost their lives in n collision on tn
Virginia Midland Railroad at -Four Mile, va,
the contents OF tho express SAFE S25OOOO, wer
destroyed. also moro valuable mail matter tina
was ever before known the fire was so intens
rs TO melt the gold and silver in transit; FIR
DESTROYED the Marvin Safe Companys factory Q
New York. valued at $3.50, 900. John A. Ring
residence in Philadelphia took fre before Tn
occupants had risen from their couches, anu OF
of the family OF eight persons but three escape
alive Ten business buildings at New Britain
Conn., valued with contents ut S2OO,OOO WEI
, burned one man lost his life. Citizens ana llN
stock were reported starving in Mcdowell Coul
! ty w. Va n region 100 miles from any railroa'
. on account Of failure of crops last summer. a
3 Illinois Central train consumed 100 h4urs
. kee--S6 miles-owing TO the snow blockade. III
steamer Allegheny, from Cardiff for Coylon, WI
with her the srs% SSopH 81 nTy TSePPtef at
= ton loss 500 900. During February the fire 10
= reached $40 900 900. A terrific hurricane ON u
r enst coast of Madagascar sunk an America
= bark and two French steamers; seventeen pc
Il sons perished'
a MARCH.
II Fire.damp in the Usworth Colliery, at 7
q worth England, caused an explosion ana q
. loss of forty-eight lives. From coal mine
u Austrian Silesia in which an explosion occurre
q l23 corpses were taken. OF 22O miners employ
:: IN a coiliery at Camphausen, Rhenish Pruss
" All were either crushed to death or asphyNlat
10 by an explosion of fre-damp except thirty. II
~ Langham Hotel at Chicago was destroyed
oi fire, causing the loss Of five lives. Iwel
miners lost their lives by a terrible explosion
a coal mine at McAllister, Indian Territory.
APRIL.
Vt While workmen were bracng up tho yieldi
" foundations Of eight fve-story tenements in N
Il York City the entire structure FELL burying aDS
- fifty workmen in the ruins the contractor !
w 10 escape lynching. Tramps who had be
n, driven away from Senator Stanfords Vina (Ci
"a ranch returned and fred his stables, Ill hori
O1 and mules being burned TO death
v volcanic eruption causing the death OF % iOV
-. sons occurred on the Island OF Java NicksDu
- Miss, was visited by q destructive hre wh
n oaused the loss Of forty lives; thirty-two OF
4 victims were buried one day the Telegraph %
" only the briefest mention OF the disaster.
sy avalanche in Iceland swept fifteen dwellin
,p with their inhabitants, into the sea, and TWEEN
~ four persons drowned Aggregate losses
~ Are In the United States and Canada
n April, 81 10000; for the first four months
no 1885 $35 CSC, ,0O0-at the rate of over SlOo,OOO
= for the year.
q A Portsmouth Pa.) dispatch dated the
o. inst announced "The plague here is incrt
Q | ING In horror daily fourteen funerals yesterd
"A 1,700 persons now under medical treeIinenG
ne physicians exhausted with their labors'
of | attempt to raise fve-story factory in Brookl
VI N. Y resulted in the collapse OF the buildi
Oy hundreds of men, women, and girls were
nn Moved therein some thirty OF whom
ho their lives; pecuninry damage' S5O'
io Five children OF Henry Lewiston, a
he mer near Owatonna, Mimi, were b'
,r- cd to DEATH A terrific snowstoTm preVa
p throughout Austria and Hungary on the
'u- and 18th OF May; many persons were froAe
he death and crops generally were destro.
az Eight women and girls employed IN Siil :
so the fifth story windows, and all were Xii
ka nine corpses were found ON the upper hoor
NJ cape by stairwnys was cut on ana teleBr
De- wires prevented the placing OF ladders by
an | firemen During n dense fog, the steam'
- | CITY of Rome crashed into the French
ild George Johns of Newfoundland, twenty-tw
)ut | the bark's crew perishing. A rainstorm
mr. uged the valley Of the Brazos River Texas,
sulting in immense damage; NJ waco
Idt inches OF water fell in Ave hours the losses
ceeded SIC, 100000 Losses by fire in the Un
states and Canada i'm May Ss75O,OOo.
al JUNE.