Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-04

PA terrible storm swept over the North
west-the worst blizzard since 1879: from Da,
k0ta. Minnesota, Iowa, Kunsas, Nebraska and
Montana came pitifut stories of suffering and
death; abont 300 people persisted
24-Exploson in coal-pit ut Victoria, B. g.; u
:. 1s-Terrhc earthquake in the province OF
oa uhT NOW HGs sSno,fsa 0s H. cv
clone; AZ killed. about 25J inlulel: loss to
property, over 81 ,hO,tOl -
2t--Ferryboat Julia blown up at Vallejo Gal.
forty lives lost Italian iii age OF Valtorta do
stroyed by an avalanche: thirty persons Kllic9
MARCH,
French schooner Fleur de la Mer foundrred
OH the island OF Cayenne; sixty passengers
drowned
1o-Explosion Of pleasure steamers bolers at
Cartagena, West Indies forty Yes lost.
IA passenger train crashed through IL trrs-
tie at Backshear, sIa.. and fell forty feet TWEEN
ty-fve persons killed.
sl-Burning OF tho Banquet Theater at Oport),
Portugal; 123 deaths.
27-ln the valley Of the vistula Germany at
area OF f., ten miles square. con aining SEVENTY
3lU}O people made homeless and loss to proper
ty estimated ut s5o,UJu,0o0.
2-Exploson of tire-dampi i'll IL colliery at Rich
HILL Mo over sixty men killed.
APRIL.
5a,Amesbury Mass, swept by the fiercest
contagrstion in it's history; loss sl,uoO,c;p.
2o.Sorthern Texas awepG Over by The worst
Hood known i'll it's history; over 10, miles of the
s't1'ta re RnilroGd under water.
4-Delhi and Mora:!ahud India visited by
obstructive halstorms; $50 persons killed.
.,l ~ TO ~ G1Ihe 'yerowins waters OF the MHsis-
, s,pln dld great damage to towns and Turning
Clinton Burlington and Muscatine. Iowa Rock
Island aud Quincy. Ill, besides Winona. hSinn!,
mighty flood was nearly s4Ooo.oSN In tbs Red
River Valley OF the Sou h the loss was almost
beyond compute ion. many Of the plantations
est flood since ls43
almost the entire city of Hull, opposite
Ottawa. Ont, was swept away by fire; 500
houses burned and z, 500 people rendered home
less.
ls-Duiois, mining town in Pennsylvania,
600, 600. -
Fifteen hundred lives lost by humiliation
OF Leon, Mexican city o. lDD,0oO inhabitants
l-Terrible loss OF life in acoal mine at Kim
berey, South Africa; over 800 persons white
l7.Volcanic e,uption ut Makmats, japan; 400
killed and l.00) injured.
9-Roslyn a coal mining town of Dakota
$5Ou,UU0.
25-one thousand persons killed and several
villages destroyed in the vicinity Of Yokohama,
Japan.
6-During storm on the Pacific coast Of
South America an English and a French bark
loss OF twenty I've lives.
9-Seyeral busine,s blocks burned at Chatta-
nooga. Tenn. loss, 81, 500, 800.
13A-Disastrous flood in the vicinity OF Pekin
China; twenty villages overwhelmed, with TO-
900 people drowned.
H-Stea1ners Geiser aud Thingvalla colided
i'll n fog of Sable Island the former sinking in
five minutes; lO7 lives lost.
2-During heavy fog in the Bay Of San
F Franc the steamers ooeanica and City of
minutes over thirty lives lost.
31-In a storm at Nekagori, Japan. 3, 0)O houses
were demolished. 600 vessels wrecked anl in
jured, and 81, 600 people rendered homeless
SEPTEMBER.
3-Floods in Bohemia reached alarming pro-
portions; ut Budweis 200 people wers fendsr-
ed homeless, finding refuge in the hills; the
Danube rose steadily, submergng six villages in
the valley Of the Poprad crops and granaYies
were swept away.
10-San Francisco scared by blaze that de-
stroyed property to the vlLlue of 81, $50 900
ll-During a hurricane i'll Cuba entire fish
ing VILLAGES along the coas. were swept awny.
reached into the millions. Valparaiso Chill,
flooded by the breaking OF IN artificial pond
], OOD lives lost.
12-Jackson and Fernandina Fla were WIS.,
tied by the dread scourge yellow fever tho result
being total Of about 100 cases and 400 deaths
Of hwR
also the principal cities 81 the soutnwestern
States.
D-Business failures in the United States for
the first nine months of 1888 number $50. with
liabilities OF over O0), against G.sjJ III
1887, with liabilities aggregating Sl2S, 600 600.
OCTOBER,
2--Snow covered the emit 9 northern PENN
sula of Michigan, and seriously delayed rail-
road trains by heavy and slipping snow on the
tracks the mountains between White Haven
and Wilkesbarre. Pa. were covered with snow.
1)-seventy people slain in railway acct
2l--Ten cars OF Il train of exoursionists re-
turning to Potenza. Italy, from Naples, crushed
by an avalanche; ninety lives lost
9-Fire in the Rochester IN. " Steam Gauge
and Lantern Company's works resulted in the
death Of forty employees An explosion Of fire.
over eighty miners.
l3-Thirty miners met death at Dour, Bel
sum, from an explosion OF firs-damp.
e--The jail at Birmingham, Ala, was attacked
by mob bent upon lynching Richard HAYES, a
murderer; the rioters were fired upon by .
many more wounded. At least 10 v shots were
fired, none Of tho officers being hurt.
13-Failure of De Lesseps' Panama Canal
Throttled by the Law.
JANUARY
G-Nathan B. Sutton at Oakland. Cal.
13-Henry Schmidt at West Union, Iowa
M-James +. Nowln taged lo) at Cambridge,
Mass
ss-Dan Driscou at the Tombs prison. New
3-At Minden, La, Jim Cornelius, q negro boy
aged Il (; murder.
9-Clement Arthur Day at Utica, NY.
10-Patrck J. Hart at Helepa, Montana.
l7-Martin L. Scott at De toLodge, Montana
MARCH.
Oscar F. Beckwith at Hudson, n. Y.
9-Macey Warner ut Jeffersnnvllle Ind.
APRIL.
3-Adan Volkovitch at Wilkesbarre. Pa
4-Luther ShHffer ut I4ockhaven, Pa
Prophet Frazer at Waterboro, S. e.
l3-"Huppy Bob Van Brunt at Warsaw n Y
Nels Olson Holong at Fergus Falls, Mimi. Chill
lers Banks at Wilisville, 1exas.
20-N. b. Lester at Lebanon, Tenn.
N-Geor:e Nee. Durham at Woodbury., N. j.
.Y7-Jack Grow, George Moss, ind Owen d,
Hill (nogroes with Indian blood at Fort Smith,
Ark Jack Prater at Oranseburg, s. G. James
Davis ut Colombia, S. c. John Is. Biscoe at
Md
a-Robert e. Hall and David Vincent ut Phila.
lelpha.
li-Rev. George McDuffis at Greensboro, Ga
l!--Iephyr Davis ut Chicago.
17---Wiliun George ut Columbus, Ohio.
22--At Greenvlle, Misa., o white man named
Graham and Two no5rues-Lavid None and
Willard Hail.
la--Ja1nes Eady and Aich,el Rosette. half
breeds. ~ Re3inA, Northwe.. .'etritory.
.2-Willium Patterson at svile, Ky.
2.-George Wilson ut Albio. :. y.
eng at mil vt he .;x