Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-01-09
ONE YEARS HISTORY.
Record of the Most Important
Events Of 1887.
DEATH, THE GRIM REAPER.
Eminent People Who Have Passed
to the Majority.
EATH, THE GRIM REAPER.
MISHAPS EVERYWHERE.
FIRES, EXPLOSIONS, sHIPWREcKs AND
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

Only the Most Important Disasters of
the Year That Is just Numbered in
History.
JAN 2-Mlion dollar fire at papal palace,
Rome Itaiy.-Fatal fire at Madras, India; 800
killed.
4.-Fatal accident on Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, at Tifln, O.; 10 killed.
s.-German ship Elizabeth Erecled of Virginia
coast; 20 men drowned
14-English steamship Crombrook. with % men,
given up for lost.-Liverpool bark Craigher,
given up for lost with Is men.
1s-Schooner Parallel blown up by giant pow
der at the Golden Gate, San Francisco. Panic at
Spitalnelds theatre, London; Ia killed.
25.-Damaging floods reported in the middle
states; many families driven from their homes.
FEB 5-Boston and Montreal express train on
Vermont Central railroad fell through bridge at
Woodstock, Vt; 30 killed.
11.-Tornado passed over central Ohio.
14-Snow, ice and food caused great suffering
and some loss of life in the northwest.
15-Tornado in Ohio; general severe storm.
23-Earthquakes at Nice France, aud along
the Italian Riviera 400 killed.
a-Rcvisal of Riviera earthquake shocks; 1900
killed.
MARCH 5-Fire damp explosion in colilery in
Belgium; 144 killed. e4ae
6.-Exploson at st. Etienne, France, Sc killed.
14-Train fell through bridge on Boston and
Providence railroad, near Boston; 35 killed Crhe
''Tin bridge casualty
1S-Richmond hotel, Buffalo, burned; 10 killed.
20.-Terrible floods in Dakota on the Missouri
river.
23.-Coliery explosion at Sidney, New South
Wales; 90 killed.-Tweve miners burned to death
in boarding house fire Bessemer, Wis.
30.-Great blockade on the Intercolonial rail-
way, Canada; 1900 passengers snowbound in New
Brunswick and Quebec.
APRIL 12.- Fire at st. Augustine, Fla, destroyed
ancient cathedral and other buildings.-Floods ia
eastern and middle states-Prairie fires in the
west.
1s.-severe snow storms in middle Atlantic
states.
22-Hurricane OF coast of Australia; 40 pearl
fishing boats lost with $50 persons.-Tornado in
Kansas and Missouri. Floods in ST. Lawrence
river.
26.-Ohio valley flooded; several people drowned
and much property destroyed
23.-Steamer Benton sunk of Island Formosa;
$50 drowned
S0.-Floods in New England.
MAY 3.-Hurricanes in the west. Earthquakes
In Mexico; several towns ruined; 100 people
killed Steamer John Knox foundered of New
foundland with 80 persons.
Anime disaster at Vancouver, British Column
bia; $50 men entombed.
mills swept away.
22.-white Star steamships Celtic and Brittanic
arrive after collision on the Atlantic; II re-
ported killed.
7.-Steamer La Champagne lost; 40 Italians
drowned
25-Theatre Comique burned at Paris; 200
killed.
26.-One thousand five hundred horses, S5oo.0o0
worth of property belonging to Belt Line railroad
In New York, destroyed by FIRE.
28.-Coiliery explosion at Glasgow; 75 killed.
JUNE 5-Three hundred persons injured and
many killed by falling building in Berlin.
10.-Earthqualei in TrrZestan; 100 killed.
17.-Steamer Champlain burned on Lake Mich
igan; 10 lives lost.
sO-Severe storms reported IN the Atlantic
states.
25-F1oods reported on the Merrimac.
july 6.-Landslide at Zug, Switzerland, many
-6u6ses engulfed in the lake; Ic0 killed
O.-Theatre as Hurley, sTis.. burned: X killed
10.--The yacht Mystery sunk In Jamaica bay;
q people drowned.
17-8Iount Etna in state Of eruption Earth
quakes in Sicily and on the Italian coast.
2f.-Fatal accident on Erie railroad ct Ho-
hckus; IS Italian laborers killed.
S1.-Tidal wave reported to have struck Cunard
steamer Umbria: several killed.
AUa. S.-Forest fires reported on German from
tier.
11.-Excursion on the T., P. & ". railroad
piungeS through Drldge near CnaLsWortn, ILS.;
11e killed and many injured.
29.-Heavy gales reported from Newfoundland
fishing banks; many fishermen drowned.
SEPT. 5.-Theatre Royal, Exeter, England,
burned; 40 killed.
23-Hurricane blew down 400 houses In Browns
vile, Tex, and 800 in Mexico.
OcT. 1f-Railroad accident on Baltimore aad
Ohio railroad at Kouts. Ind; 90 killed.
29-Propeier Vernon founcered in Lake Mich
igan 20 lives lost. Total loss Of life the lakes
during October, lS2.
Nov. le.-ship burned at Canton, China; 400
killed.
Lake steamer Arizona burned at Mar-
q=rtte-
1T.--Father Kirner's school house in Harlem
FELL killing seven including Father Kirner himself.
2o-Steamer Scholten sunk in Straits Of Dover;
1S2 drowned.
2l.-P T. Barnum's winter quarters burned at
Bridgeport: loss. $100co0.
DEC Flour men perished IN burning hotel
at BrockviIIe. Kan.
4.-Twenty persons killed By earthquake At
Calabria.
o.-Twenty fishing smac,ss lost OF the Orkney
Islands
9.-Earthquales stIu reported IN Mexico.
1a-British schooner Henrietta reported aban-
dcned at sea.
1s-Cyclone Il Indian territory. Several killed
1o-FIve men killed by an explosion at Tilton,
Ca
20-Schooner Kelly reported abandoned at sea
2o-leTs received thar the big raft, towed
by steamer Miranda from Nova Scotia 10
New York. had been lost. Eaff broke up and
found few da5s later b. listed states cruiser.
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