San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-17


dents and Boiler EIplosions-The Dead
from Casualties I'm 1888 Number bill
lions.
JI,7uARY
10 Thirteen killed at nRvcTl!lll bridge oyer tho
Mairiuac, on tho Boston and Maine railroad
~ Violent blizzard reported from Dakota
. - Fourteen men burned 20 death ut boaruuS
house FIRE, nj Tower, MINI.
e. Thirtyhvc miners killed by explosion W COZ
Aery, no Wellington, e q
@. Al railroad travel suspended between New
York and BOSTON hy q snow bochEGe
Terrible storms reported upon the Atihnuc
ocean.
FrnnrARY
l. Fire IN Buffalo Loss, Sl,j0o,OCJ
| British luTk Abnsvou wrecked near NOUN OF
the Columbia river, W II; 9! drowned
l6 Collicry explosion near RaiseEa!Gutern' bava'
ria. ~ kil!cd
| TO- Tornado at Mt Vernon II!si 81 killed, 10 NOR
tally wounded. 100 Injured go houses do
stroyed and 900 people rendered homeless.
q. Between tyehty AMI thirty people lilicd by
Tho explosion Of q boiler at river steamer
United States OF Columbia
| - RcpOrt that dC,J men we're cn|ttd w.le
nlling breach In the yellow river enhaEli'
meut in Chine confirmed
| e. Explosion aud snGngo OF ferryboat at vallejo
Cal Forty livcs lost
! % Agalanches destroy several Alpine villeges In
Italy
MARCH
8. The famous lospico In st. Bernard buried by
an avalanche. No lives lost.
O. News received Of earthquake IN the province OF
Yum Een, China. one hundred and lIteen
Thousand people killed md l,SCOOO rendered
homeless.
TO- Twenty.eiyht lives lost by the sinking Of the
British steamship City Of CorGth
A Ia
coast Buslur7a parnlyznd; many people
frozen death; numerous railroad accidents
ami sea diSlSters Ice bridge formed between
New York and Brooklyn, East ri7er
r. The south bound West Indian mail train on
tho Savannah Florida and western railroad
broke through tho trcstlc after crossing creek
near Blackshlre Ca; nineteen persons killed;
thirty-four hurt; narrow escape of George
Gould and wife,
~ Twelve inches Of snow fell In northern
Texas Theatre burned at Oporto, Portugal;
1lO people consumed.
Ct Tornado in East Tennessee Many floods.
- Dil2znrh reported in the northwest.
a. Terrible foods IN Germany and Hungary-lO
villages submerged many lives lost-i00o1
rendered homeless Heavy foods in Aia-
bama
60 Sixty miners killed by on explosion at Rich
Lin, Mo.
Arm.
I. Eighteen people burned To death and siEty-tive
injured Mt Celaya, Mexico, by the burning of
the stand for spectators At a hnll fight
9 News received Of wreck OF bark Princess of
Caniaha Portugal. twenty .three drowned
5. Twelve persons killed IN an accident on tho
CHICAGO Milwaukee and St Paul railway at
New Hampton, Ia.
g. Tornado destroyed several houses In Sioux
City, Ia.
H. Great damage done by ice gorges in the north
west
TO- Report from Calcutta Of tornado at DaccN,
killing more than 100 persons and womdns
mora thul lCDJ
TO- E;riorion OF coulery IN WorkinSham, Eng
land ,.il!ed twenty-five persons
90 Floods In wisconsin and In tho southwest
Loss OF life and destruction OF property re-
ported.
4. An e1ti7c family consisting Of seven persons
burned to death near Burlington. Eeh
G. Cl5.a burst near }yiaN, Kan ard caused
flood, during which = touse was swept into
the Arkansas river and four persons Of one
family dro~ncd.
Explosion of q carload Of dynamite near Locust
Gap ra., killed eight persons and injured
twenty moro, seventeen houses wrecked AID
burned. Damage, $1,000
II. Destructive tornado ut Frecrort, Ills,
49, High water at Alexandria, no, along the FED
River valley; many plantations flooded
several lives lost
% Destructive storms from ocean 10 ocean, much
property damaged and several lives lost
Pennsylvania nlone reports loss Of more
than n n!il!Cl doilar&
Juya.
g. EigLtccn persons killed and fortT-onc Injured
in a railway accident near Tanpico Mexico
Eleven persons burned in Ore in the Undinc
hotel, Rockford Tex.
10 n.1ois Ia. suffer- the loss Of SO houses by
Gnc; 1900 people rendered homeless
TO- Eighty men escape! from q burning German
steamer, 70 be drowned 10y tho caps!z0S Of a
lcrya boat
20 Accounts Of the gales on tho coast Of iceland
in May show that 400 French fishermen wero
drowned.
o. Disastrous foods IN 'Gcvlco. Ia ono city 6oo
houses destroyed, and in another 1909 bodies
found
Ct u5llroo,c 4. T, almost entirely destroyed by
Ere
Steam launch upset on Newark, N. j.. hey, by
pleasure seekers aboard il, aud 81. drowuod
july.
B. Tornado passed over Illinois and iowa; great
dana-c. Severe storms also reported from
Nov Brunswick, y. j.
Two hundred end t7eEty-forr persons killed
in q fir In the Deoecrs mine, at Kimberly
GrCuuilrd, west South Africa.
Reports f.0I pi.ts,Uiry Gll Wheeling, place
the recent loss by foods along the Ohio GuI
Iionoar alail rivers Cs high as S2,GJNC.N
e Two Isr.r,l houses burned at EpcuG Mich.
1891 PERSONS rendered homeless
Eight hundred men outombel II 4 mine IN South
Africa
Il Seventeen persons drowned by tire wreck .tae
Erlsh ship star Of Greece. near hl-ilila,
Australia
= over SD rcr,,rs kinsd by an o--r-uo7 II the
Elnisi san volcanic region, Japan.
hoo. .H -FT 81.
turS.
81. Faarso,n rl:s-aen. while dr7:nl, s9i trying to
run tuc 'ia.laEla river r-l.1s, Canada, were
drowned
81 Incenarlry c-,7 at Tor: a. Prince. T-r.i
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