The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-01-06
MISHAPS EVERYWHERE.
FIRES, EXPLOSIONS, sAlPWREcks AND:
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

FIRES, ExPLo osloNs, sAlPwREcks AND H
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. d
The List Is Terrible One, but It Records G
Only the Most Important Disasters Of
the Year That Is Just Numbered In 1
History. Il
JAN 2.-Million dollar fire at papal palace.
Rome, 1taly.-Fatal fire at Madras, India; 800
killed.
fatal accident on Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, at Tifin, o.; 10 killed.
8.-German ship Elizabeth wrecked on Virginia
coast; 20 men drowned.
14-English steamship Crombrook. with q men,
given up for lost-Liverpool bark Craigher.
given up for lost with Is men.
18.-Schooner Parallel blown up by giant pow II
der at the Golden Gate, San Francisco.-Panic at !
spsabsalssa thaatr folds 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; 40 killed
11.-Tornado passed over central Ohio.
14.-Snow, ice and flood caused great suffering
and some loss of life in the northwest.
15-Tornado in Ohio; general severe storm:
Ga-EarClQu0keS at Nice, fTauces 6uu SslOu6
the Italian Riviera; 400 killed.
24-Revival of Riviera earthquake shocks; 2,OO
killed.
MARCH Sire damp explosion in colliery in
Belgium; IA killed.
6-Explosion at st. Etienne, France. s. killed.
14.-Train fell through bridge on Boston and
Providence railroad, near Boston; - Killed. Clne
Tin bridge" casualty
lS-Richmond hotel, Buffalo, burned; 10 killed.
N-Terrible foods in Dakota on the Missouri
river.
3.-Collery explosion at Sidney, New South
Wales; 20 killed.-Twelve mineAs burned to death
in boarding house fire Bessemer, Wis.
3O.-Great blockade on the Intercolonial rail-
way Canada; 2 600 passengers snowbound in New
Brunswick and Quebec.
APRIL 12-Fire at St. Augustine, Fla, destroyed
ancient cathedral and other buildings.-Floods IN
eastern and middle states.-Praire fires in the
west.
1S.-Severe snow storms in middle Atlantic
states.
2s-Hurricane off coast of Australia; 10 pearl
fishing boats lost with $50 persons.-Tornado in
Kansas and Mssouri-Floods in st. Lawrence
river.
26-Ohio valley flooded; several people drowned
and much property destroyed.
8Steamer Benton sunk off Island Formosa;
$50 drowned.
3O-Floods in New England
MAY 3-Hurricanes in the west.-Earthquakes
| killed.-Steamer John Knox foundered of New
foundland with 30 persons
Anime disaster at Vancouver, British Colun.
bia: $50 men entombed.
5-Great floods reported in Maine; houses and
/ mills swept away.
es.-White Star steamships Celtic and Brittanic
| arrive after collision the Atlantic; IA re-
| ported killed.
1-Steamer La Champagne lost; 40 Italians
| drowned.
25.-Theatre comique burned at Paris; 200
killed.
26.-One thousand five hundred horses, $500O0o
worth of property belonging to Belt Line railroad
in New York, destroyed by fire.
28-Coiliery explosion at Glasgow; IS killed.
| JUNE 5-Three hundred persons injured and
many killed by falling building in Berlin
| 1O-Earthquakei in Turkestan; 12O killed.
17-Steamer Champlain burned on Lake Mich
igan; 10 lives lost.
aO-Severe storms reported in the Atlantic
states.
25-Floods reported on the Merrinac.
July 6..Landslide at Zug, Switzerland, many
houses engulfed in the lake. 100 killed.
s.-Theatre at Hurley, Wis. burned: II killed
10-The yacht Mystery sunk in Jamaica bay'
q people drowned. -,
| 17-Mount Etna in state of eruption. Earth
ouakes In Sicily and on the Italian coast
21-Fatal accident on Erie railroad at Ho-
hokus; IS Italian laborers killed.
31-Tidal wave reported to have struck Cunard
steamer Umbria: several killed.
| AUG. S-Forest fires reported on German from
tier. ,
11.-Excursion on the T., P. & W. railroad
nlunpes through bridge near Chatsworth, 1lls; {;
119 killed and many injured.
29.-Heavy gales reported from Newfoundland
fishing banks; many fishermen drowned.
SEPT. 5.-Theatre Royal, Exeter, England,
burned; 140 killed.
| 2-Hurricane blew down 400 houses IN Browns
| v;Ilo Toy and 3OO in Mexico.
| Oct 1l.-Railroad accident on Baltimore ana
Ohio railroad at Kouts. Ind; 30 killed.
29-Propeller Vernon foundered in Lake Mich
igan 10 lives lost. Total loss OF life on the lakes
during October, 1872.
Nov 16-Ship burned at Canton, China 400
killed.
17-Iake steamer Arizona burned at Mar
quette
17.-Father Kirner's school house in Harlem
FELL killing seven including Father kirner himself
9O-Steamer Scholten sunk in Straits OF Dover
132 drowned
21.-P. T, Barnums winter qua: ters burned at
Bridgeport: loss, 100000.
DEC, -Four men pershed in burning hote
at Brockville, Kan.
DEC. 4-Twenty persons killed by earthquake
at Calabria.
9-Twenty fishing smacks lost off the Orkney
Islands.
9-Earthquakes still. reported in Mexico.
| 12-British schooner Henrietta reported aban
doned at sea.
1s-Cyclone in Indian territory. Several killed
19.-Five men killed by an explosion at Tilton
Ga.
so-schooner Kelly reported abandoned at sea
Dec. 2O.-News received that the big raft
r | towsd by steamer Miranda from Nova Scotia t
New York, had been lost Raft broke up an
found a few days later by United States cruiser
a-News received of the terrible inundatio
21-Schooner Katie Ranger sunk off AbsecoI
light; crew rescued bv brig Nora.
21-Three hundred houses destroyed at Bars
coa,eCuba, by tidal wave.
: of q large portion Of northeastern China by th
: overfowing of the Hoang Ho. Thousands {
square miles of territory laid waste myriad
drowned and millions homeless and starving.
M.-Explosion Of naphtha in Rochester. N.
:. causes $780, 600 damages; two killed and man
: hurt.
1924. Many shipwrecks on the Atlantic r
= ported, with much loss of life.
22-a-Reports Of terrible billiards. i'll the T:
L west received; many people frozen from lack