The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-01-05
WORK OF THE ELEMENTS.
| How Damo Nature Has Punished Too
Daring Man.

How Damo Nature Has Punished Too
Daring Man.
The list of disasters that were solely
due to the winds and the waves and the
floods during the year 1887 is u long and
most appalling one. 1t would, of course,
bc impossible in the space allowed in the
present article 10 mention all, even of the
important elemental accidents of the year.
But those most important arc given such
prominence as can be allowed them.
The two most terrible were the Riviera
earthquake in France and Italy and the
floods of the lIoanS IO in China. Nothing
approaching the former has been recorded
since the terrible Java earthquakes. The
latter has not been approached at all in
modern times.
JANUARY.
s. TwcEty men drowned by wreck Of ship Eliza
beth off Virginia coast.
H. English Steamship Crombroof, with twen-
ty-cight men given up for lost. Liverpool bark
Craigher given up:for lost with fifteen men.
FEBRUARY
9. Great suffering from snow; ice and foods,
and sorne loss Of life in the northwest.
3. Tornado in Ohio. General severe storms
passed over center of tho state
q Four hundred people killed by eartht uakcs
ct Nice, France, and along the Italian Riviera
81 Earthquake shocks in Riviera. Two thou
sand killed.
90 Terrible foods in Dakota and on tho Ills
souri, river.
q Loss of schooner Marcus A. Dorr and crew
80. Two thousand passengers Snow bound in
New Brunswick and Quebec blockade on Inter
colonial railway, Canada
API,iL.
12 Prairie fires in tho west, floods in eastern
and middle states.
, storms; $50 persons lost in forty pearl fishing
boats.-KansaS and Missouri experience lorna
does.-Fioods in St. Lawrcncc river.
2G. Flood in Ohio valley; several people
drowned and much property damaged.
30. Floods in NeS England.
q The west experiences hurricanes-Earth-
quake in Mexico; several houses ruined: 1856
people killed. ed.-Foundering of steamer John Knox
of Newfoundland; thirty lives lost.
S. Floods in Maine sweep away houses and
mills.
10. One hundred and twenty killed by Garth
quake shocks in Turkestan.
-. Severe storms in the Atlantic states
sa. The Merrinac overfiowed its banks owing
70 heavy rains; considerable damage done.
July.
6. One hundred persons killed by landslide at
Zug, Switzerland.
TO- SINGING or yacht Mystery IN Jamaic4 bay !;
tventy-seycn lives lost
Il. Sicily visited by earthquakes and the erup-
tion OF Mount Etna.
a Tidal wave strack steamer Cmbria, doing
great damage and killing two or three people.
AUGUST.
%. Great damage done by heavy gales OF New
Foundland. Considerable loss OF life reported.
sEPTExBxR.
! Is (Aboutl. The Hoana Ho yellow river burst
it, banks In China and flooded many thousands
OF square miles Of territory. Many thousands
were drowned, millions were made homeless,
myriads perished from hunger.
u Four hundred houses destroyed BY hurri-
cane at Brownsville, Tex. Great damage done In
Mexico.
9. Severe storms on the Atlantic coast
l3 Washouts on Southern Pacific railroad in
Arizona.
! .. Propeller Vernon foundered OF Manitowoc;
/ forty drowned. Total loss OF life from the elc-
uaents in October on the great lakes, Is9. There
were in all IS disasters on the lakes in October
too large o list to think of presenting.
! NOVEMBER
During this month many shipwrecks, both On
the sea and on the great lakes were reported.
The loss Of life was Considerable, but there were
j no single great disasters.
| Earthquake at Calabria killed twenty per.
| s5rs.
| o. Storms on the orkneys sink twenty fishing
smarkS
Earthquakes are stin reported in Mexico.
X british schooner Henrietta abandoned at ssa