The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-01-10

HsAlhs; an earthquake at the Kishau
is'ands. in the Persian Gulf, destroy.
NY many villages and killing two
hhnared of the population. and, on
thezSd, the wreck of the Senorine of
me Banks of Newfoundland, hy
Y hlch sixty-two lives were lost. On
'hisdate. also, Berber was captured,
ahas,500 of the population and garri-
svnvpre massacred.
June lst was signalizpd by ~ cloud
nnsNin Frenchman's GuIch, Col. hy
whicR eleven miners were drowned,
anst on the 10Th the schooner Six
lSralAers .foundered off the Grand
3arEs, with the loss of fourteen Gf
the rev. Mexico suffered railroad
Lac Nrt at New Laredo. by which
gnenc we've Killed, ard The
lay StNeN days of the month witnessed
cyflona in the Central and Western
states.
July hsdbut two accidents of any
note-one Icing the breaking of an
engine axle IN the Manchester and
Sheffield Railroad, England. on the
10th, which caused the loss oftwenty-
five lives, and he other the collision
of the Spanish steamer Gijon with
the English stamer Laxham. off
Corunna, on the list, both ships sink.
ing and thirteen ssilors being drown
ed.
The first great accident in August
was on the 10Th, when AN under.
ground canal at Braye, France, was
flooded, drowning seventeen work.
men, while on the 2Nh the TaIIa-
pnosa was run down off Martha's
Vineyard and two men lost. Fire
damp in the Greenback mines in
Pennsylvania killed eight miners,
while the sinking of the trapsfer
steamer Belmont, in a storm on the
Ohio river, drowned sixteen railroad
passengers.
The 18th of September will not soon
he forgotten in Cleveland. Ohio, for
then began the great fire in that city,
and the 11th will be remembered in
lc land for the storm that swept over
that unhappy. island. Floods on the
llth destroyed S4,00O,OO0 worth of
rroperty along the Eau Claire and
ChiiRpewa rivers; hut this calamity,
2Taa As it was, bore no comparison
TeN Kiang See Providence in China,
Yys, on the 18th, over 10000 lives
wete lost by the floods. On the 23d,
the English gunboat Wasp went
down off the Irish coast with fifty
tw0of her crew, and on the 9th Il
cloud hurst over PachGca destroyed
the lives of thirty of the population.
October 8 witnessed the turning of
the royal palace at Copenhagen. and
the 18th SAW a hurricane in Sicily
that destroyed a dozan villages and
caus d great loss of property and life.
Fire damp in the Moravian mines
killed twenty miners on the 19ih. an
accident repeated at UniOntOwn, Pa.
on the 9th with loss of fourteen
lives.
AlISaints' Day, the first of Novem-
her, bphpld a panic in the Star Thea
Ter, Glasgow. in which sixteen chill
dren were trampled To death, while
on the 9th there were two explosions
of 6r-lamp. one ut Washes. in Pru-
Sia, the other at Tredegar. in Wales,
causing respectively twenty and fif-
teen deaths among the workmen. A
railroad collision on the 14th aston.
ished the people of Hanau, Prussia,
and killed fifteen passengers, while
on the same day another similar in
its particulars took place on the Hous.
tonand Texas Central, causing twelve
deaths.
December l brought news of the
mysterious plague in the mountains
Of kentucky; on the I'd the steamer
Mary Joseph was lost on the Grand
Banks with almost all on board.
RI1Ip thp 4ti great gale aiie q Off + HE HE
Banks destroyed whole fleet of
fishing vessels and caused immense
loss of life, and on the same date a
schooner smu Cling Cinnamon over
from British Columbia was lost with
10 men. The 18th was noted for a
storm on the Rappahannock, drown
ing 36 fishermen. The 18th, brought
another fire damp explosion. this
time i'm S,ierdors, Prussia, while on
the 18th occurred the burning of the
Brooklyn Asylum and great loss of
life. On the 10th came Eews of the
collision of the BuInau and Maria off
the Philippine Islands, while 0n the
10th came hurricane in France, with
great loss of life and property.
The most serious calamity Of the
year was the loss of three thousand
lives by the earthquake in Spain on
Christmas Eve and the f0llOwinp