The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27

Alfred D. Snow wrecked at entrance to Water
ford harbor, Irelanl; 20 lives lost
PA terrible storm swept over the North
west-the worst blizzard since 1873: from Da-
kOta Minnesota, Iowa, Kansls, Nebraska and
Montana came pitiful stories OF suffering and
death about 100 people persisted.
24-Explosion III coal-pit at Victoria B. c.; u
miners killed.
FEBRUARY.
s18-Terri6c earthquake in the province Of
Yunnan, China; 2, OOU lives reported lost.
19-Mount Vernon, Ill destroyed by cy-
clone 40 killed, about $50 injured loss to
property, over 81 ,0o0,O OJ.
21-Ferryb boat Julia blown up at Vallejo, CAL !;
forty lives lost. Italian village of Valtorta de-
strOyed by all avalanche: thirty persons killed.
MARCH.
French schooner FIeur de la Mer foundered
off the island or Cayenne; sixty passengers
drowned.
1O-Explosion OF pleasure steamers boilers at
Cartagena, West Indies; forty Ives lost.
IA passenger train crashed through tres
tie at Blackshear, Ga, and fell forty feet; TWEEN
ty-hve persons killed
21-Burning Of the Banquet Theater at Oporto,
27-ln the valley Of the Vistula, Germany, an
area of ten miles square, containing seventy
seven villages, was submerged; 81 lives lost,
$1,000 people made homeless and loss to proper
ty estimated at $50.OJ0,0OO.
23-Explosion of fire. damp in colliery at Rich
Hill, Mo. over sixty men killed.
APRIL.
5-Amesbury, Mass, swept by the fiercest
conhagration in its history loss, $1,000 coo.
2S-NorJhern Texas swept over by the worst
flood known inaits history; over lOJ miles of the
4-Delhi and Moradahad, India, visited by
destructive hailstorms $50 persons killed.
u to 2O-The overlooking waters of the Missis-
sippi did great damage to towns and farming
lands along it's banks. Dubuque, Keokuk
Clinton, Burlington and Muscatine, Iowa; Rock
Island and Quincy. Ill, besides Winona. Mimi.
Nhn 1ncc hvyf rio
mighty flood was nearly $4,O0),0oo. In the Red
River Valley of the Sou the loss was almost
beyond computation, many of the plantations
being covered with six feet of water-the hign-
est flood since 1843.
5-Almost the entire city of Hull, opposite
houses burned and $500 people rendered home
less.
16-Dubois, mining town in Pennsylvania
laid in ashes; 5000 people homeless; loss, 81,
20-Fifteen hundred lives lost by inundation
OF Leon, Mexican city OF 100000 inhabitants !;
loss, $2,OOOO0O.
n-Terrible loss of life in a coal mine at Kim
berley, South Africa; over 800 persons white
and black persisted.
l7-Volcanic eruption at Mnkmats, japan 400
killed and O0) injured.
22-Roslyn, q coal mining town of DakoJa
burned; 1900 people left homeless; loss,
$780, 600.
25-One thousand persons killed and several
villages destroyed in the vicinity of Yokohama,
Japan.
AUGUST
6-During g. storm on the Pacific coast of
South America an English AMI French bark
were sunk in the harbor of Valparaiso with q
loss of twenty-five lives
9-Several business blocks burned at Chatta-
nooga. Tenn. loss, $1,50J,000.
13-Disastrous flood in the vicinity OF Pekin,
China; twenty villages overwhelmed, with TO-,
600 people drowned.
onrc Cxoia and 10 on11 6n6
in a fog Off Sable Island the former sinking i'll
five minutes 107 lives lost.
22-During O. heavy fog in the Bay OF San
Francisco the steamers Oceanica and City Of
Chester collided the latter going down in five
minutes; over thirty lives lost.
3J-In storm at Nekagori, Japan 5000 houses
were demolished 600 vessels wrecked ana in
jured, and So, 600 people rendered homeless.
SEPTEMBER.
3-F1oods in Bohemia reached alarming pro-
portions at Budwei5 Is, 900 people were render
ed homeless, finding refuge 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 ST. 25J, COZ.
11-During Il hurricane in Cuba entirs fish
ing villages along the coast were swept away.
80 lives were lost, and the damage to property
reached into the millions. Valparaiso. Chilli,
Hooded by the breaking OF an artificial pond );
1000 lives lost
12-JacksonviIlea and Fernandina Fla were WIS.,
tied by the dread scourge, yellow fever the result
being total of about 4, 100 cases and 400 deaths.
The island Of Cuba was swept by thu fever,
causing hundreds of deaths, and the island of
Nassau declared forty-day quarantine as did
also the principal cities of the Southwestern
States.
3O-Business failures in the United States for
the first nine months of 1888 number 1850, with
liabilities OF over $4,000 00). against $751; in
1887, with liabilities aggregating Sis, 100000.
OCTOBER.
2-Snow covered the emit northern PENN
sula of Michigan, and seriously delayed rail-
road trains by heavy and slipping snow on the
tracks, the mountains between White Haven
and Wilkesbarre, Pa were covered with snow.
D-Seveny people slain in u railway acct
dent at Mud Run, Pa
2i-Ten cars of train of excursionsts re-
turning to POtenza, Italy, from Naples, crushed
by an avalanche; ninety lives lost
NOVEMBER.
9-Fire in the Rochester IN. " Steam Gauge
and Lantern Company's 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.
e-The Jail at Birmingham, Ala was attacked
by mob bent upon lynching Richard Hawes q
guard of officers, a dozen men being killed and
many more wounded At least 10 shots were
fired, none of the officers being hurt.
13-Failure of De Lesseps' Panama Canal
scheme announced.