The Republican journal., 1888-09-13
An Awful August.

TIIIRTY-ONE DAYS OF DISASTERS. THE REC
ORD OF CALAMITlES DURING THE MONTH.
The month Of August, 1883, aside from its
meteorological eccentricities. was remarkable
for the succession of disasters and calamities.
involving loss of life and destruction of prop
erty. with which it has been filled A list of
those which have attracted attention a> being
| peculiar in character or extent makes dread
fnl showing. Some of the chief ones. as the
accounts of them appeared day after day, were
the following, the date being of the publica-
ton
Aug. . Fire in Bi-metallic mine. Phillips
burg. Montana, 100 lives endangered. Rail-
road accident at Gaylord, Michigan: - hurt,
3 killed. Typhoid fever epidemic in Bristol.
Il. L.. many deaths.
Aug. 3. Storm in Illinois and Minnesota:
persons Killed and much property destroyed
by wind. hail and lightning. Cholera in Annoy;
1000 deaths in SO days. Volcanic eruption in
others elsewhere killed. Fall Of roof of FAM
Gus cathedral at Seville.
Aug.4 Fire in the Bowery; 81 lives lost.
Aug. 5. Thunder storm in New York and
vicinity; much damage done and several per-
sons killed by lightning and drowned. Dis
| astrous Hoods in Russia. Powder explosion at
Birmingham. Connecticut: two men killed.
Aug. !. Disastrous storm in central Mis-
souri,. Volcanic eruption at Nulcano. Italy.
Aug. 8. Railroad collision near London: 6
persons killed.
Aug. O.. Fire Oil Third avenue. New York;
Bey family, persons killed. Railroad acc-
dent near Morgantown. Indiana: IA injured.
severa! fatally. Labor riots in France; many
injured.
Aug. 10. Yacht cap>ized in Delaware bay
near Pennegrove; ) women imprisoned in the
cabin and drowned. Severe storm in the lIud-
son river valley; men killed by lightning.
Terrific storm in Virginia; l woman KILL ed,
several hurt, and great damage done.
Aug II. Lightning at Anderson. Indiana:
several killed.
Aug. u. Reservoir burst at Valparaiso,
Chill; 200 persons drowned. Fire in Chatta-
nooga; men killed. Steamer Bay Ridge burn-
ed l man killed.
| Aug. 13. st. Louis express on the Erie road
wrecked; man killed. Rowboat swanpcd in
East river; men drowned. Canoe upset ut
Bar llarbor; persons lost. Lightning in
Ohio and West Virginia; several killed and in
jurcd.
Aug. n. Storm in Indiana county. Penn:
| several killed. Massacre of Italian troops bv
-Abys>inians; $50 killed. Wreck OH the Erie
near Port Jervis; SO persons hurt and II horses
killed.
Aug. 1G Famine-strcken soldiers in Epru.
pillage Metzove, killing many Christians
Aug. II. Steamship Geiser run down hy
| the Thngvalla: 105 persons drowned. Smash
up on the Illinois Central; persons hurt.
Aug. Is. severe storms III (ahatta and
Massachusetts,: persons killed at Valley
Field. Quebec, and AT Greenfield. Mass.
Prince Muley. of Morocco and 200 soldiers
maSsacred.
| Aug. 2l. Great storm in the Southwest; Is
| persons Killed and 1900 made homeless in
| Louisiana. Storm at korenburg, Austria: Il
persons killed and great damage done. Fall of
| an arch in Ioboken: men killed.
| Aug. -. Cyclone along the middle Atlantic
| coast; IL persons killed at Still Pond. Mary
land; many lives lost elsewhere and great dam
age done from Maryland to Maine.
| Aug. %. Steamer City of Chester sunk in
San Francisco harbor: 81 persons drowned.
Aug. n. Boiler explosion at Neenah, Wis;
IL men killed and many injured One thou
sand houses burned and many lives lost at
| Orenburg, Russia. Lightning at a baptism at
Carriers wharf, Virginia; 3 persons killed.
Aug. %. lnundation at Teng- Tcona. China;
500 workmen drowned.
Aug. Is. Destructive forest fires burning
also Nadeau. in upper Michigan. Platform
fell at public meeting in New ork: person
killed and several injured.
Aug. %. Steamer Bratsherg wrecked on the
st. Lawrence. II lives lost. Barge Jackson
lost at sea with three persons. Muley liaSSan
putting whole villages to the sword in Moroc-
co. in revenge of his sons death.
Aug. 30 Fight between dervishe> and sol
diers in Egypt: ll6 killed. Explosion of gun
at Hemlock Hollow n y; three men killed.
Aug. 81 Outbreak of typhoid fever at Cad-
well, O.: % deaths. Dynamite explosion near
Albany; two men killed.
Aug. 10 to Sept. /. Yellow fever in Florida;
% deaths in Jacksonville and many elsewhere.