The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-03
MISHAPS EVERYWHERE.
FIRES, EXPLOSIONS, SHIPwREcKS AND
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

The List IL "a Terrible One. hut II Records
Only the Most Important Disasters %
the Year That IL just Numbered I'm
History.
JAN. 2-Miilion dollar fire at papai palace.
Rome, Italy.-FataI fire at Madras, India; 30
killed.
fatal accident on Baltimore and Ohio rail
road at Tiffin, o.; 10 killed
Sherman ship Elizabeth wrecked on Virginia
coast; ~ men drowned
H-English steamship Crotnbrook. with - men,
given up for Iost-Iiverpool bark Craigher,
given up for lost with IS
Is-Schooner Parallel blown up by giant pow
der at the Golden Gate. San Francisco.-Panic at
Sptalhelds theatre, London; II killed.
S-Damaging floods reported in the middle
states; many families driven from their homes.
FKB 5.-Boston and Montreal express train on
Vermont Central railroad fell through a bridge at
Woodstock, VT; 20 killed
1I.-Tol nado passed over central Ohio.
H-sSnow, ice and food caused great suffering
| and some loss Of life in the northwest.
la-rornado in Ohio; general severe storm.
g3-Earthquakes at Nice. France, and along
the Italian Riviera; go killed.
es-RevivaI Of Riviera earthquake shocks; a,o0
killed.
MARCH Sire damp explosion in colliery i'm
Belgium; 14s killed
6-Explosion At st. Efienne, France. Sc killed.
A-Trsin fell through bridge on Boston and
Providence railroad. near Boston; As killed CThe
Tin bridge" casualty
Is-Richmond hotel, Buffalo. burned; 10 killed.
0-Terribae floods in Dakota on the Missouri
river.
sa-Coliery explosion At Sidney, New South
Wales; 20 killed.-Iweiye miners burned TO death
in boarding house FIRE 2essemer, Wis
30-Great blockade on the Intercoloniai rail
way, Canada; loo passengers sDowbound in New
Brunswick and Quebec.
| APRIL Ia.-Fire Sc. Augustine. Fla destroyed
ancient cathedral and other buldngs.-F1oods In
eastern and middle states.-Prairie fires in the
west.
| states.
s-Hurricane on coast OF Australia; 20 pearl
| fishing boats lost with $50 persons. in
Kansas and Missouri FLOODS in st. Lawrence
| river.
6-Ohio velley flooded; several people drowned
| and much property destroyed.
s-Steamer Benton sunk on Island Formosa;
| $50 drowned.
3O-F1oods In New England.
MAY 3-Hurricanes in the west.-Earthquakas
in Mexico; several towns ruined: 100 people
kiiled--Steamer John Knox foundered on New
foundand with 30 persons.
Mime disaster at Vancouver, British Colum-
bia; $50 men entombed-
5.-Great foods reported In Maine; hou ses and
mills swept away.
s-white star sseamships Celtic and Brittanic
ported killed
S-Steamer La Champagne lost; 20 Italians
drowned
a5-Theatre Comique burned at Paris; 900
killed.
A.-one thousand i've hundred horses 10000
worth OF property belonging TO Belt Line railroad
In New York, destroyed by ire
5-coii'ery explosion at Glasso~' % Killed
JuSE 5.-Ihree hundred persons injured and
many killed BY falling building in Berlin
io-Easthquakei In Turksstan' I'D killed
E--Steamer ChAmpiAin burned on Lake Mich
gan; 10 lives lost
ae-Severe storms reported In the Atlantic
states
5-floods reported on the Merrimsc.
house: sngulfea in the lake ,, 100 Killed .,,,
e-IneaiFe Al huney, WIS, burned IL kihed-
io.-Ths yacht Mystery sunk In Jamaica bay;
people drDsn~o
E:-Mount Lima "a ss.e on eruption EArth-
auakes IN SICILY anu on tne ilshsn ooas'
H--faa.i accaeh. on Ens fAAr"~a ~ mo-
"oaus; - az as s' iAoor '., .isd
,..an,ar Tn,,.ri. $3.50 la,.d lunar"
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"o Ana' anu many 'nJu0.
-heasy gas reoyr'ed rom Se~toundiaAd
1sning oanks. many nshermen dro~ned
sErr a-ineatre Royal Exeter England,
ouIneu, Ip kea,
~ u" o~n =" nouses VA Dro~ns
snir, Tex anu az IN neAico.
oc.' ii--tairoah accident on baltimore and
ohio railroad IL kouts. md 30 killed
9-fropeiier vernon foundered in Lake Mich
,gan: ~ lives lost IotA loss OF NE ON the lakes
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