The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-12

FER S,-ioston and Montreal express train on
Vermont Central railroad Eel! tarough bridge at
Woodstock, VI; 10 killed,
H. Tornado passed over central Ohio,
t-Show, Ice and food caused great suffering
and some loss of life in tho northwest
lo-loraado in Ohio; general severe storm.
2j-Earlhquakes ut Nice, France and along
the Italian iaylora; 400 killed,
sL-hivival of Riviera earthquake shocks; ECO
kiled,
AAaoh5 ,-Firo damp explosion in coiery in
Lesun; III killed.
O-laph1sion at st. Eteane France SO killed
h-iiGn fell through bridge on Boston and
Providence railroad, near Boston; IS killed. (The
"llu bridge" casualty
is,-Rchmond hotel, Buffalo, burned; 10 killed.
S'-Ierriole Hoods in Dakota on tho Missouri
river.
e3-Co'liery explosion at Sidney, New South
/ Wales; 20 killed, Twelve miners burned to death
| III boarding house IRE Hcsseme!, Wis,
3o-Gfeat blockade on the Intcrcolonial rail
way, Canada; 5000 passengers snowbound in New
Brunswick and Quebec,
| Arm. IL, Fire at st, Augustine, Fla, destroyed
ancient cathedral and other buildings, Floods in
| eastern and middle States Prairie fires in the
| west.
! lS,-severe snow storms In middle Atlantic
states,
22-liurrlcane or coast of Australia 10 pearl
fishing boats lost with 800 perscns.-Tornado in
! Kansas and Missouri Floods in st. Lawrence
| river.
gj-ohio valley flooded several people drowned
ami much property destroyed,
3-Steamer Benton sunk of Island Formosa.
1870 drowned.
S9-f'o DIS in New England
MAY S.-Hurricanes in the Observation-Disclosures
in Mexico; several towns ruined: 100 people
klled-Steamer John Knox foundered of New.
foundland with 30 persons.
Anime disaster at Vancouver British Colun
bia; $50 men rntombed
5,-Great floods reported in Maine; houses and
mills swept away
&,-White Star steamships Celtic and Brittanic
arrive after collision on the Atlantic; IA re-
poyte'! killed.
1-Steamer La Champagne lost; 40 Italians
drowned.
25-Theatre Comique burned at Paris; 200
killed
3.-one thousand five hundred horses, 5000
wort Of property belonging to Bcit Line railroad
in New YORK, destroyed by fire.
S.-CoiGcfy explosion ut Glasgow; 10 killed.
JUNE 5.-Three hundred prgio:is injured and
many killed by falling b,lilsine III Berlin.
10-EArtHquakci ia 1urHest -; 10 ai.i,d.
11-Steaarer Champiain turned on Lake Mich.
igan; 10 lives lest.
20-Severc storms reported in tie Atlantic
states
25.-Tloods reported on the Nprrimac.
JULY G.-Landslide at Eur, ,wii1egland, many
houses enguiied in the ilt:c: 100 killed
9.--Theatre at Hurley, Wis burned; II killed.
lo.-fhe yacht Mystery sunk in Jamaica bay;
p people drowned
lf,-Nount Etna in STATE of erup ion. Earth
quakGs in Sicily and on the Italian coast
21.-Fatai accident on Erie railroad at IIo-
hokus; Is Italian laborefs killed
3l.-Tidal wave reported to have struck Cunard
steamer Umbrjo several killed.
AUG. S.-Forest fires reported on German from
tier
n.-Excarson on the T., P. 6 W. railroad
p!unGes through bridge near Chatsworth, Ills;
liz killed and many injured.
2o.-Heavy gales reported from Newfoundland
fishing banks; many fishermen drowned
SEPT. 5,-Theatre Royal, Exeter, England,
burned; 40 killed
s3.-Eurricane blew down 400 houses in Browns.
vile, Tex, aad 800 in Mexico.
OCT ll--Railroad accident on Baltimore and
Ohio railroad 1T kouts. Ind. 30 killed
29-lfopclcr Vernon fcundered in Lake Mich
ran; 40 lives lost. Total loss of life on the lakes
during October, 30.
Nov. l6,-Ship burned at Canton, China; 400
killed
Lake steamer Arizona burned at Mar
quette
T.-Father Kirner's school house in Harlem
fell, killing seven including Father Kirner himself
2-Steamer Scholten sunk in Straits Of Dover;
132 drowned.
2l-P 7. Barnums winter qual tiers burned at
Bridgeport; loss, 100000
DEC Flour men persisted in a burning hotel
at Brockve, Kan.
Dec. 4.-Twenty persons killed by earthquake
at Calabra.
9.-Twenty fishing smacks lost off the Orkney
Islands,
9.-EarthquaKes still. reported in Mexico
H.-British schooner Henrietta reported aban. |
doned at sea-
B.-Cyclone in Indian territory. Several killed, |
19.-Five men killed by an explosion at Tilton.
ca.
@.-Schooner Kelly reported abandoned at sea |
DEC. N-News received that the big raft |
towed by steamer Miranda from Nova Scotia to |
New York, had been lost. Raft broke I'D and |
found few days later by q United States cruiser |
3.-News received of the terrible nundation |
2l,-Schooner Katie Ranger sunk off Absecom |
light; crew rescued by brig Nora
M.-Three hundred houses destroyed al Bara- |
a:Cuba, by tidal wave
of a large portion of northeastern China by the |
overlooking Of the Hoang Ho. Thousands Of |
square miles of territory laid waste, myria is |
drowned and millions homeless and starving.
21.-EXplosion of naphtha in Rochester, n. Y,
causes S2500o0 damages; two killed and many
hurt.
1924 Many shpwrccks on the Atlantic re-
ported, with much loss of life
222i.-Reports of terrible billiards. in the far
west received; MANY people frozen from lack of
fuel