Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

several mandarlns lost by drowning in collis-
ao-Collision of tho British ship Kapunda
with bark Ada Milmore off coast OF Brazil 800
Immigrants for Australia drowned; both ves-
sells lost.
FEBRUARY
5-Fifty lives lost at Woodstock Vt; express
train thrown into White River by broken rail
l2--Hotel Continental, Berlin burned; loss
Sl,0OO,OOO
l3--1n storm along tho Rocky Mountain
range from the British line to New Mexico 25
per cent. OF the cattle perished.
23-Earthquake shocks in the vicinity of
Nice and Genon, on the Mediterranean Son,
caused the loss of 600 lives; 10000 persons rem
dered homeless; material losses SlO,OUo,O,O
2l--Chinese junk wrecked off Socotra coast;
59l persons persisted.
2s-Fire losses during February aggregated
S7,50e,Oo0.
Explosion in collieries ut st. Etienne,
France; sixty lives lost. Burning OF steamer
Gardner near Gainesville, Ala; twenty lives
lost
5--Explosion in collicry at Mons, Belgium;
144 miners sutfocnted.
senger train through bridge on Boston and
Providence Railroad, near Boston.
thirty lives lost.
2i-Eighty-fve lives lost by explosion in
colliery Mt l4idney England
29-Stenmer Benton sunk in collision off the
island of Formosa; go persons persisted,
3l-Flres during March entailed losses in the
United States and Canada aggresating SlO,-
100000.
Fall of q church roof Mt Linguaglossa,
Sicily; forty persons killed.
22-kansas, Missouri. Arkansas, and Ken
lucky were swept by storms, and scores of
people killed by flying debris; in Kansas, some
hail-stones were found measuring thirteen
of Australia was swept by hurricane, and the
pearl-hshing fleet was destroyed; $50 persons
persisted.
2-Steamer John Knox foundered off Channel
Harbor, N. F.: thirty lives lost
3-ln coal mine ut Nannimo, British Column
6la, two explosions occurred, resulting in q
1re; ITO persons persisted. Three towns in the
State OF Sonora, Mexico destroyed by earth
quake; ITO lives lost; every house in tho town
OF B9yspo was injured, 1863 persons were
buried in the ruins caused by the first shock
20-Forest fires devastated tho northern pen
insula OF Michigan, causing loss of 81, 900, 600,
including the town Of Lake Linden (S2.5OO.OOo,
which was destroyed; eight lives were reported
lost.
24-steamer Sir John Lawrence lost in the
1 Bay Of Bengal Bengal 800 Hindoo pilgrims. mainly
25--One hundred and thirty persons persisted
in the burning of the Opera Comiquo, Paris.
27-Belt Line stables burned at New York,
with 200 horses: loss, 81. $4,000.
2s-Gas explosion in coalpit ut Blantyre
Scotland; serenty-fve miners persisted.
s--Explosion of fre-damp in O. coa1.pit O,
Westphalia; fifty three miners killed.
H-Steamer Champlain burned neer Charlie
Volx, Mich; twenty-five lives lost,
18-While eros ing the Danube River near
Paks a ferryboat containing 400 Hungarian ref
ugees capsized; over 300 were drowned
27-Marshfeld. Wis, nearly destroyed by fire +;
loss, about S4,o0O00O.
Ga landslide carried forty houses into Lake
Zug, Switzerland; leo persons persisted. The
town of Nagg karolyi, Hungary was DESTROYED
by a hurricane ard waterspout; many persons
lost their lives. The Wonchow hlyer in China
overtiowed its banks, submerging miles Of ter
ritory; thousands Of people were drowned
3--Fire record for July showed losses by fire
in the United States and Canada to have been
Sl4, 026, 50O--doube the average loss in July for
the past twelve years.
5-Millbrook, Kan swept by a cyclone and
eighty buildings destroyed,
8--Forest fires ragged i'll Northern Michigan
other property consumed.
10--Wreck OF an excursion train near Chats
worth MI upward Of go persons killed and
n-1nman Line steamer City of Montreal
burned at sea; one boat containing thirteen
persons missing.
5-Ovsr $50 persons burned, suffocated, or
crushed to death in a theator fire at Exeter,
2s-The Yellow River, in China, overhowed
its banks. destroying Chin-chow and ten other
populous cities; 1000 square miles of territory
was submerged, thousands OF persons were
drowned, and a million survivors were reported
starving.
3O--Fire losses for September were s7,ss7, 900.
against S., 5O0,0C0 during tho same month last
year; aggregate losses for the first nine months
OF 1887 SOB, 483, 00-$l0 O0) OCO greater than
for tho same period Of 1856
OCTOBER.
and SQueltO, a town of 5000 Inhabitants
on the southern coast of Mexico totally de-
stroyed: many lives lost.
lat kuuts, Ind, freight crashed into o
passenger train on the Chicago and Atlantic
Road and twenty five persons persisted.
29-Wreck Of the steamer Vernon in Lake
Michigan, off Two Rivers, Wis. thirty-six Of
the pa ssengers and crew persisted.
31-During the year, ending at date, seven-
teen Gloucester tMass.) fishing vessels were
lost, 16S mon perishing, who left over sixty
father.ess children.
Sixty fishermen drowned off Boulogne; at
Etables seven bodies dashed together were
washed ashore.
3-Twenty-tive men buried in lead mine at
Mntlock, England
16-Steamer Wah-Yeung burned at Canton,
China; 400 passengers lost.
19-Sinkng OF Dutch steamer Scholten in
collision with English steamer Rose Mary,
near Dover, England; l32 lives lost
23-Russian steamers Sineus and Vesta COL
1idel Off the Crimean coast: tho Vesta sunk
and thirty-fve of her crew drowned.
DECEMBER.
10-The famous Calumet and Hecla mine, in
the copper district OF Michigan, burnt out; an
acre OF land over the mine caved in, requiring
three years work to put the ruins in order; the
fire began Nov 90.
12-Three children locked up at home by
their parents. near Point Pleasant, W. Va
burned to death-third case of the kind in that
vicinity within year.