The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-31
nA1uRe,s pEsrRucIwe HAND.
How puny Man Suffered from Storm and
Flood IA 1880.

Flood Ia 1880.
JANUARY.
O Terrible wind storm nj u aiding, PttsburR, Nv
aoar, Falls and elsewhere; % killed AT keoil
ing aud II at Piusburg New suspension
bridge blown dowu " Niagara
10 Storms DID great damage In states west OF the
Ohio
to shipping. sailors drowned
FEBRUARY
a I, men lost by the wreck ~ the bark Josie
Troop on tho North Carolina coast
y Gale on the North sea; 20 lives lost
MARCH,
G Forest fires reported Ia the northwest.
i6a % Storm on the Atlantic coast Gnd Chcsa
reake bay Bark Peitenzill wrecked OF the
Virginia capcs; 10 lives bot.
. IS lost By laundering OF French torpedo boot
or Chribourg
II News received Of the loss q the Hayian
steamer Conservf,. with crew 81 % men
y News received 81 the terrible storm In Samoa.
which DESTROYED the American ships Nifsc.
vanlslia and Trenton with - men, md Ter
man ships Olga oud Adler, Will i1l men
April.
~ lives and % vessels lost In the recent storm
on Chesapeake bay
p Ocean storm disabled tho steamer Danmafk
OF the Thingvall1 1e. which wcs seen floating
disabled and abandoned 80 miles on the coast
OF Ireland Capt Augrcll. of tho steamer
Missouri. /, was discovered later, had rescued
the captain and crew on AprJ0
MAY
IT, Great damage from storms reported near
Pittsburg, Pa. and elsewhere.
&C. Thirty lives lost by laundering Of the steamer
Alaska Oh Cape Blanca. Ore
. il5 persons drowned by the loss OF two French
fishing vessels
% persons drowned by floods In Bohemia
81 This Is the date Of the teiIi1e J0hustoNn dis
aster The rainfall in the middle Atlantic
region on this day. and FOR several succeeding
days was the heaviest on record lan3
towns suffered. Jamestown. Pa. most severely
where several thousand lives wcrc lost ana
millions Of dollars of property The greatest
damage reported from other points was from
Wuuamsp0rt, Pa: Washington, ID. c.; the
Geueses valley. n Y; Petersburg, Va, etc
The horrors of Gre were added TO the destruc
ton of the fool 40 Jolnstown 'iuch damage
also reported 10 shipping and 10 Canada
JUNE.
10 Tornado I'm lewis and jefferson counties
Y Much damage done by high water in Ind
ana
n. Damaging storm IN New York. brooklyn and
Newark. y j. Bursting canal banks ruined
mills 40 Ilolyoie. Mass.
49, Losses by floods in Pennsylvania estimated NJ
eHs10nO
90 severe storms reported in the Ohio valley
Floods In Arkansas
july
Q Heavy rains caused q washout on the Norioh
and western r. r.. near Naxton, Va; q train
was ditchel and - were killed
J e.oo9 lives reported lost by foods In China
o Johrstown y T.. suffered severely from O.
clouihurst.
a Damaging storm in Maryland. Property and
lives destroyed
H. Several lives l1st On floods n Texas
Destructive storms reported Boo Kansas, Illinois
end Wisconsin
IS Damaging storms reported from the north
west
D. Chicago suffered from high winds; were
killed by falling walls
% Damage done by storms in Delaware, Mary
land. West Virginia Ohio valley. the Atlantic
coast ami the ako regions. much property
and some life lost.
49, Houston. Japan destroyed by an earthquake
AUGUST
= Steamship Montreal OF the Dominion line
wrecked at Belle Isle.
10 Drought I'm Mexico. cattle dying
O. Damaging storms no me west and on the 40
hntic coast Hundreds ol people made home
less hy Hoods DO Nebraska
3D. 1880 people killed DE- floods and lanisidcs IN
the province ol hh, Japan
p Earthquake 90 Kuenz0rik, on the Russian iron
tier. ~ people buried
sIrUiBrR
i0 beginning Of prolonged storm along tho New
Jersey colst; lcaleualle damage sustained
by high seas' Sd lives ana many ships lost az
tho Delaware hrcakwater alone.
10. % bodies recovered from the debris of land
slide in Quebec; many houses destroyed
OCTOBER
q vessels wrecked by cyclone on the Cam
pcgclv coast
% british shin nolcn from Calcutta 20 Liver
pool reported lost, together with 81 lives
NOVEMBER
e. Wrcck'of the American ship ChceseDorougt
or the coast of Japan reported; 10 drowned
g. Severe snow storm n Hew Mexico Hundreds
of cattle and sheep, and ut least cowboys
frozen tO death
B. Storm on the lacac coast, 70 lives lost by the
wrackng Of o tug oa Oregon
&c. Wreck OF the German bark Germonh or
Long Branch. a. j.. 81 drowned
DECEMBER
e. Rcportsof disastrous Hoods in the sacramenio
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