The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-01
MIStArS EVERYWHERE.
FIRES, EXPLOSIONS, SHlPWRECKS AND
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
The List IL q Terrible One. but IL Records
Only the Most Important Disasters of
History,

JAS. a-Millicn dollar fire at papai palace.
Rome, Italy Fatal fire NJ Madras, India; 30
Killed.
4-Fatal accident On Baltimore and Ohio rail
road. at Tifin, o.: ~ killed.
a.-Gcrman ship Elizabeth wrecked OF Virginia
coast; ~ men drowned.
n-EngIish steamship Cromhrook. with p men.
given up for lost.-Liyerpooi bark Craigher.
given up for lost with IS men.
is-Schooner Parallel blown up by giant pow.
der ut the Golden Gate. san Francisco Panic az
Spitalields theatre. London. IL killed.
5-Damaginy floods reported in .he middle
states: many families driven from their homes.
FEB. 5.-Boston and ~;lontroai express train on
Vermont Central railroad fell through a bridge at
Woodstock, VI. ~ killed.
iI-Tornado passed over central Ohio.
ii-Snow, ice and food caused great suffering
and some ioss of life in the northwest.
D-TornadO in bio. general severe storm.
Ell Earthquakes AZ Nice, France, ana along
the Italian Riviera; t0 killed.
2t- Revival OF Riviera earthquake shocks. 2,01
killed.
MARCH s. Fire damp explosion in coliery in
Belgium, ~ killed
G-Explosion at 81. Fiicnn-. France. So killed.
if-Train fell through bridge on Boston and
Providence railroad. near Boston, Skilled. Tho
Tin bridge" casualty
iS-Rchmoni hotel. Buffalo. burned, 10 killed.
% Terrible iioods IN Dakota on the Missouri
ri -.
sl-Co.iery explosion At SIDNEY. Rev South
waies. 70 nied-Tweive miners burned 60 death
ia boanling house fire BeSSemer. Wis.
.B-Grat blockade on the Intercolonial rail
way. Cluada. 1900 passengers snowboundin New
Brunswick AMI Quebec.
APRIL T.. -TrratSi. Augustine. Fla, destroyed
ancient cathedral and other Buildings -Floqls ia
eastern and middle states Prairie fires IN tho
west.
Is.-Ssyere SNOW storms in middle Atlantic
states.
22-Hurricane OF coast OF Australia; 20 pearl
Gshing boats lost with 80 porsons-TornndO IN
Kansas and M ssouri Floods IN ST. Lawrence
river.
3-Ohio valley flooded several people drowned
AMI much property destroyed
c8-Steamer Benton sunk Of Island Formosa,
80 drowned.
M.-Flools 81 New England.
lfAY 3-Hurrcanes IN the wpst.-Earthquakes
in Mexico. several towns ruinei: 80 people
killed Steamer John Knox foundered OFF New
foundland with % persona
M ne disaster At Vancouver. British Colnm-
bia, $50 men cntomhed.
5.-Great foods reported IN Maine. hoi ses and
ELS swept away
2-white Star steamships Celtic and Brittanic
arrive after cOlliaon on The Atlantic: II re-
ported killed
7-S,eamer la Champagne lost, 10 Italians
drowned.
y -Thcatre Comiaus burned at Paris, aO
killed.
&-One Thousand five hundred horses. sSn.oo
worth OF property belonging 10 Belt Line railroad
in New York. destroyed by fire.
8-Coiliery explosion at Glasgow. - killed.
JUSE 5-Three hundred persons injured and
many killed by falling building IN Berlin.
n-Earth4uakei in nirkestan, 10 killed.
r-Steamer Champlain burned on Lake Mich
isan; 10 lives LOST.
O-Severe storms reported in the Atlantic
states.
gl.- floods reported on the Merrimac.
July 6.-Landslie at Dug. Switzerland. many
houses enguifed in the take; I'D killed.
9-Theatre Mt Hurley, Wis. burned; Il killed.
n-The yacht Mystery sunk in Jamaica bay.
p people drowned
1T-MOunt Etna IN A state Of erup ion. Earth
qullcs m sicily and on the Italian colst
2i-Fatal accident on Erie railroad at Iio-
hobus. - Italian laborers killed
3i-Tidni wave reported 10 have struck cnnart
steamer Umbria: several killed
Ave. s-Forest fires reported on German from
tier.
ll.-Fxcursion on the T.. r. & W. railroad
plunges through bridge near Chlisworth, HIS
liS killed and many injured.
- Heavy gales reported from Newfoundland
fishing BANKS. many fishermen drowned
SEPT. 5-Theatrc Royal, Exeter. England.
burned; 40 killed.
Sl-IIuErlcane blew down 40 tousesi in Browns
villa Tex and HD in Mexico.
OCr. iL-RailroIl accident on Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at Kouts. Ind ~ killed.
- Propeller Vernon foundered in Lake Mich.
igan; ID lives lost. Total loss Of life on the lakes
during October, l82.
Nov. l6-ship burned at Canton, Cnina, 400
killed.
flake steamer Arizona burned at Mar
quette.
tr-Fathor Kirner's school house in Harlem
fell. killing seven including Father Kirner himself.
2o-Steamer Scholten sunk Ia Straits Of Dover;
fs drown~i.
2l-P. 7. Barnum's winter quarters burned at
Bridgeport: loss, 10000
Dec. -Four men persisted In a burning hotel
at Brockville, Kan.
4.-Twenty persons killed BY earthquake at
Calabria-
9.-Twenty fishing smacAs lost of the Orkney
Islands.
0.-Earthquakes still reported in Mexico.
f2-British schooner Henrietta reported abaa-
doned at sea.
18-CyclOne in Indian territory. Several Killed.
f9.-Five men killed by an explosion at TiltOn,
Ga.
@-Schooner Kelly reported abandoned al sea
90-News received that the biz raft towcd
by steamer Miranda from Nova Scotia 10
New York. had been lost Raft broke up and
found a few days later by "a United states cruiser.
D-Ncws received OF the terrible inundatiOn
Of a large portion Of northeastern China ~ the
Overlooking Of the TIoang Io. Thousands OF
SQUARE miles Of territory laid waste, myriaIs
drowned and millions homeless and starving.
81 -SchoOncr Katie Ranger sunk on Absecom
light; crew rescued by brig Nora.
2i-Three hundred houses destroyed at Dara-
Goa. Cuba by a tidal wave.
2i-Explosion Of naphtha in Rochester, n. y,
causes $4,000 damages, two killed and may
burt.
20-2i Many shipwrecks on the Atlantic re-
ported, with much loss Of life.
2-1i.-Rep0rts Of terrible Billiards in the far
west received; many people frozen from lack Of
fuel.
OLD WORLD POLITICS.
JAN. e-Goschen accepted The chancellonhipof
ihs British excheluer.
i0-In.ish troops Withdrew from Egypt.
H. Lsmarck threatened ~ dissolve the German