Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-12-27


pa terrible sto-m swept over the North
west-the worst blizzard since 1873; from Da-
ko-a, Minnesota Iowa. Kan as, Nebraska and
death about 200 people psrshed.
2i-Explos ON In conl-pit at Victoria b. c.; u
- As'' A"''1'f wrKsRuAnya u
1s-Terrihc earthquake In the province OF
Yunnan, China; 2000 lives reported lost. d
c,dga MoSnt aS t,,IsS xsinon abon, III sstsOSSi ey
property, over ~ ,0)0,00l.
2f-Fsryboat Julia blown up at Vallejo. Cal. !;
forty lives lost. Italian vii aga OF Valtortl de-
stroyed by an avalanche: thirty persons killed.
MARCH.
z 1-Frenoh schooner FIeur de In Mer foundered
off the island OF Cayenne sixty passengers
iO-EIplcsion Of pleasure steamers boilers at
Cartagena West Indies; forty YES lost. -
ia passenger train crashed through tres
tie at Blackshear Ca, and fell forty feet; twen-
ty-hve persons killed.
0I@Burning Of the banquet Theaterat oportO,
2T-In the valley OF the Vistula, Germany. an
area OF ten milee square, containing seventy
seven Villages. was submerged y lives lost.
$1,000 people made homeless. and loss TO proper-
| ty estimated at SJo,0J0OOO.
2J-Exploson OF ire-damp In a colliery at Rich
Hill, Mo over sixty men killed
| 5-Amesbury. Mass, swapt by the fisrcest
conhagr Ition In its history; loss, SI,oOoO00
flood known in it's history; over 100 miles OF the
Santa Fe Railroad under water.
/
4-Delhi and Moradahad, India visited by
destructive halls torms $50 persons killed.
12 TO 2J-The overnowing waters OF the Missis-
sippi did great damage 70 towns and farmin
| Clinton. Burlington and Muscatine. Iowa; Rock
Island and Quincy. Ill, besides Winona. MINI,
suffered severely. The loss caused by this
| mighty flood was nearly Sl,00J,0)O. In III, Red
| River Valley OF the So1 the loss was almost
| beyond computa. ion, many Of the plantation
being covered with six feet OF water-the hig1-
/ est flood since lS43.
| JUNE a --t.
5-Almost the entire city of Hull, opposite
ottawa, Ont, was swept away by nrei 800
houses burned and 2, 500 people rendered home
| less.
ls-Dubois, a mining town in Pennsylvania
laid I'm asheS; 5000 people homeless; loss, ST.
| 9C-Fifteen hundred lives lost by inundation
| of Leon, Mexican city OF 10000 Inhabitants !;
| loss, S2,OOO,OOO.
1 11-Terrible loss OF life in a coal mine at KIM
berley, South Afrca; over 800 persons white
| I7-Voicanic eruption at Mskmats, Japan; 400
| killed and l,00J injured
22-Roslyn. a coal-mining town OF Dakota
burned; 1900 people loft homeless; loss.
95-One thousand persons killed and several
/ villages destroyed in the vicinity OF Yokohama,
Japan.
| G-During a storm on the Pacihc coast OF
South America an English AMI q French bark
Il
loss Of twenty-five lives.
| 9-Several busireis blocks burned at Chatta-
| nooga. Tenn. loss, 81, 900.
| 13-Disastrous flood in the vicinity OF Pekin,
| China twenty villages overwhelmed, with TO-
| O00 people drowned.
| lf-Steamers Geiser and Thingvalla collided
| in a fog of Sable Island, the former sinking in
| five minutes; l07 lives lost
| 22-During q 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 a storm at Nekagori, japan, 5000 houses
| were demolished 60) vessels wrecked AMI in
i jured and 50, 600 people rendered homeless.
| SEPTEMBER.
| 3-Floods In Bohemia reached alarming pro-
portions at Budweis l., 600 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 granartes
1O-san Francisco scared by blaze that de-
| stroyed property to the value Of 81, 25).C0L
ll.During hurricane In Cuba entir' hsh-
| ing villages along the coast were swept away.
| 30 lives we're lost and the damage to property
| reached into the millions. Valparaiso. Chill,
| flooded by the breaking OF an artificial pond
l2-Jacksonvillea and Fernandlna, Fla, were Wis
tied by the dread scourge, yellow fever the result
being n total of about 100 cases and ADO deaths.
| The islani OF Cuba was sw,ps by tho fever,
eau sing hundreds of deaths. and the island OF
| Nassau declared forty-dsy quarantine as dill
also the principal cities OF the Southwestern
States.
3O-Bus:ness failures in the United States for
the first nine months OF 1888 number 1850, with
liabilities OF over $90,0)0.O0l, against 6.85J in
1887 with liabilities aggrega,ing S125.0 900.
| OCTOBER.
2-Snow covered the enti northern PENN
sula OF Michigan, aud seriously delayed rail
road trains by heavy aud slipping snow on the
tracks; the mountains between Whit1 Haven
| and Wilkesbarre Pa, were covered with snow.
11Seveniy people slain in railway nc Il
dent ut Mud Run, Pa.
2l-Ten cars OF train OF excursionists 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 Companys works resulted in tbs
death of forty employees. An explosion of fire.
damp In coal mines at Pittsb1rg, han, killed
over eighty miners.
| 13-Thirty miners met death ut Doar, 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
murderer the rioters were frsd upon by 9
guard OF officers, a dozen men bsing killed and
many more wounded At least 10 shots were
4 fired, none Of tn, officer being hurt
13-Failure OF Do Lesse2s Panama Canal
scheme announced.