The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-26
Alfred D. SNOW rreeted It entrance 70 water

Alfred ID. Snow wrecked at entrance TO Wat0s
ford harbor, Irelan 4; 20 lives lost.
IA terrible storm swept over the North
west-the worst blizzard since 1873: from Da-
ko.a, Minnesota. Iowa. Kansas, Nebraska and
Montana came pitiful stories OF suffering ana
death; about 2oJ people psrshed.
2i-Explosion ia ooal-pib at Victoria Is. C.; ~
miners killed.
ls-Tarrihc earthquake in the province of
Yunnan China 2,oJO lives reported lost.
ly-Mount Vernon, III Destroyer by cy-
clone; 40 killed, about 40 inJuroi loss 10
property over ' ,o1O,0vl.
2i-korryboat Julia blown mp at Vallejo. Gal. (;
forty lifea lost Italian vii ags OF Valtorta do
stroyed by avalan ,ho: thirty persons Kflled.
MAisCH.
l-French schooner Fleur do In Mer foundered
OF tho island OF Cayenne; sixty passengers
drowned
IO-Explosion OF pleasure steamers boilers ut
Cartagena, West indies forty Yes lost.
ia passenger train crashed through n tres
tie at Biackshear, Ga. and fell forty feet; twon-
ty-hvs persons killed..
2l-Burnins OF toe Banquet Theator at oporto,
GIN tho valley Of thu vistula Germany. an
area of ton miles square con aiming seventy
seven villages WIS submerged 80 lives lost
$1,000 people made homeless aud loss To proper
ty estimated at SjdOvO,OO.
29-Explosion Of tre-dampi in a colliery at Rich
Hill, Mo over sixty men killed.
APRIL.
5-Amesbury. Mass. swept by the hercest
contagr alton in it's history loSs ~, 10000
SINcr,9srn Texas swept over by no worst
flood known in it's history oyersIOJ miles OF the
Santa he Railroad under water.
MAY.
4-Delhi and .Moradahgd India, visited by
destructive halstorms $50 persons killed.
IL 10 1.-THE overlooking waters OF the Missis-
sipni did great damage To towns and farming
lands along its banks. Dubuque Keokuk
Clinton. burlington and Muscatine Iowa Rock
Island and Quincy. Ill. besides Winona Mimi.
suffered severely. The loss caused by this
mighty Hood was nearly SiOO).0Jo. In tn, Red
River Valley OF the Sou h the loss was almost
beyond .computa ion. muny OF the plantations
being covered with six feet OF water-the hign-
est lood since lSiJ.
5-Almost the entire city OF Hull, opposite
Ottawa, ont, was swept away by FIRE; 500
houses burned and :, 500 people rendered home
less.
ls-Dubois, mining town in Pennsylvania,
laid in ashes; 1900 people homeless; loss, Sl,-
2j-Fhteen hundred lives lost by inundation
OF Leon, Mexican city o, 10000 Inhabitants
loss, S2,0OO,LOO.
n-Terrible loss OF life in n coal mine at Kim
berley, south Africa; over 300 persons white
and black persisted
H-Nolcanic cru ton at Makmats Japan 400
killed and ,00J injured
2-Roslyn. q coal mining town OF Dakota
burned; 1900 people left homeless; loss,
25-One thousand persons killed and several
villages destroyed in the vicinity OF Yokohama,
Japan.
6-During storm the Pacific coast OF
South America an English ami a French bark
were sunk III the haroor OF Valparaiso, with
loss of twenty-five lives.
9-Several business blocks burned at Chatta-
nooga. Tenn. loss, Al, 50l,O00.
13-Disastrous flood in the vicinity OF Pekin,
China; twenty villages overwhelmed, with TO-
0OJ people drowned.
li-steamsrs Geiser AMI Thingvalla collided
in n fog OFF Sable Island, the former sinking in
nve minutes l07 lives lost.
22-During n heavy fog in the Bay of San
Francisco the steamers Oceauica and City OF
Chester collided, the latter going down in five
minutes over thirty lives lost.
3J-In n storm at Nekacori japan, 5000 houses
were demolished. 60) vessels wrecked AMI in
jured, and $4,000 people rendered homeless.
SEPTEMBER.
3-Floods in Bohemia reached alarming pro-
portions at Budweis 1900 people were render
cd homeless, finding refugs in the hills the
Danube rose steadily, submerging six villages in
the valley OF the Poprad crops and granaries
were swept away
1O-San Francisco scared by blaze that de-
stroyed property to the value Of Sl,2jl,C0l
n-During n hurricane in Cuba entire Ash
ing villages along the coast were swept away.
81 lives were lost, and tho damage 20 property
reached into the millions. Valparaiso, Chilli,
flooded by the breaking OF an artificial pond;
l2-Jacksouy lille and Fernandina Fla were Wis
tied by the dread scourge yellow fever. the result
being total Of about 400 cases and 40 deaths.
The island of Cubn was swept by the fever,
causing hundreds Of deaths, and the island OF
Nassau declared n forty-dty quarantine, as did
also the principal cities OF the Southwestern
3)-Business failures in tho United States for
the first nine months OF 1883 number 1850 with
liabilities OF over S9J00,O0l ,gainst G,SjJ in
1851, with liabilities asgrega Ing sis 100000.
OCTOBER.
2-Snow covered the emit o northern penn-
sula OF Michigan, and seriously delayed rail-
TO nj trains by heavy and slipping snow on the
trucks the mountains between White Haven
and Wilkesbarre. Pa, were covered with snow
1)-seveu V people slain in railway acct
dent at Mud Run, ia.
2I-Ten cars Of train OF excuraonists re-
turning to Potenza. Italy, from Naples, crushed
by au avalanche ninety lives lost.
NOVEMBER.
9-Fire in the Rochester IN " Steam Gauge
and Lantern Compauys works resulted IN the
death Of forty employees. An explosion of fire.
damp in coal mines at Pittsburg, han, killed
over eighty miners.
13-Thirty miners met death at Dour, Bel
GUM, from an explosion of fire damp.
DECEMBER.
S-The jail ut Birmingham Ala, WAS attacked
by n mob bent upon lynching Richard Halves,
murderer; tho rioters fired upon by
guard of officers. dozen mon being killed and
many more wounded. At least 10 shots were
fired, none Cf the officers being hurt.
13-Failuro Of DO Lesseps' Panama Canal
scheme announced.