Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-01-11

8. Destructive tornado felt at Reading, Pittsburg
and other points, Pa; SO killed at Reading
and II at Pttsburg. New suspension bridge
blown down at Niagara Falls 81
10. Railroad accident at Emwood Mich. Lieut..
Gov Mcdonald of Michigan killed.
81. z sailors drowned in Massachusetts bay during
storm. 5sT
Q. Fire in Buffalo, N. Y; 100000 loss; fire
man killed and II injured; acres burned
8. II persons killed near Groenendall Belgium
by the collapse Of q railroad bridge.
1 Steamer Eereid and British ship Killochas
collided Off Dungeness; both sunk; Is lives
lost. ts .. -I
Steamer Glencoe collided with bark Largo Bay
Off Beachy Head and sunk; 81 lives lost.
10 Drug house of John Wyeth & Bro, Philadel
phia, burned; loss 100000.
49, Boiler explosion wrecked the Park Central
hotel. Hartford, Conn; y lives lost.
Tornado in Alabama caused loss of much
property and or lives.
80 miners killed by explosion in Hyde col
lery, near Manchester, England.
q Bark Josie Troop wrecked ON North Carolina
coast; captain and 10 of the crew lost.
o. II girls killed by explosion in q mining
squib factory at Plymouth, Pa
o. Passenger train on Great Western R. z. at st
George, Ont, wrecked 10 killed
20 lives reported lost in gale on the North sea
MARCH.
T. British man-of-war Sultan wrecked In tho
Mediterranean.
.. 4s drowned by sinking of Spanish steamcs
Remus.
49, Colliery disaster at wrexham. England; 90
killed.
ID Colliery explosion at Nismes France; Is killed.
l8 Bark Pettengill, Of Portland, Me-, wrecked Of
the Virginia capes; IA lives lost.
90 Violent storms on the Chesapeake bay and
along the Atlantic coast
40, hoat found 1nfF nror1
Is lost.
81 Report of loss of Haytan steamer ConServa.
with crew of 20 men.
&C. Spanish steamer Mndanao collided witk
with steamer Visayas and sunk; 80 drowned
Excursion steamer Ocoteau foundered in Lake
Chapala, Mexico; more than so lost.
30 Ostend packet Countess of Flanders sunk in
British channel by Belgian mail steamer
Princess Henriette; 15 drowned
APRIL
g. Prairie fires destroyed 100000 Of property
in Minnesota and Dakota.
G. S1,oo0,010 fire ut Savannah, Ga. N%#
o. Fifty vessels and 20 lives lost in the recent
storm on Chesapeake bay.
70 Coal pit explosion at Castrop. New South
Wales; Is killed.
12 Steamer Danmark OF Thngvalla, line seer
floating disabled 600 miles of the COST Of
Ireland Her passengers and crew wern
rescued April by the steamer Missouri
Capt. Murrell, and taken to the Azores
TO- N Y. c. and H. R r. r. grain elevator in
New York destroyed by fire; loss s., 00o, 900.
% Railroad accident on Grand Trunk r. r.,
Hamilton, Ont; IS Americans going to
Washington Inaugural Centennial in New
York killed.
O. 10 miners killed by an accident in Casca VIII
liam Colliery, Pa.
IL Terrific storms in Washington Territory and
Virginia. Several lives lost in Washington
Territory.
49, Fire in Quebec; 700 houses burned; 100000
worth of property destroyed.
Steamer Alaska foundered OF Cape Blanca
Ore; so lives lost
% Two French fishing vessels lost; 175 persons
drowned.
Drowning OF Is persons by food in Bohemia
reported.
- Condagration at Podhaiee, Galicia; many
lives lost.
81. Great rainfall in the Middle Atlantic region,
particularly In Pennsylvania, the two vir-
ginias and the District of Columbia. Johns
town, Pa and several other towns destroyed
by the breaking Of dam; several thousand
lives lost and millions Of dollars damage
done
2 Relief offered from all sources for Johnstown
sufferers. Great damage reported at VIII
Transport, Washington, the Genesee valley,
n. Y, Petersburg Va, etc Violence re-
ported ut JOnDStOWn, IA MUCH u3ulaE!
also reported to shipping and in Canada.
g. Great fire in Seattle, WASH loss, s., 600 900.
10 Tornado in Lewis and Jefferson counties, n,
Y. Great loss to crops caused by high water
In Indiana.
IL Disastrous storm; damage done to life and
property in New York. Brooklyn and New
ark, N. j.; three churches burned by light
ming.
Hoyoke, Mass, mills ruined By the bursting
of the canal banks.
II Al houses kirned In Grinnell. La. which was
entirely destroyed by tornado some years
ago.
&c killed in railway Sunday school excursion
accident near Armagh, Ireland.
IS. 10 persons buried in the ruins Of market In
the City of Mexico; dead
II. 10 acres burned over in Montreal
- Business center of Vancouver Wash, destroyed
by fire.
"a. % houses burned at Johnstown. Pa
JULY.
q 60Oo lives reported lost by food in provinces
of Cbaupinges and Ping Yuen, China.
washout and accident on Norfolk and Western
railroad near Maxton, Va; 12 killed.
g. Firedamp explosion at St Etienne, France;
1855 killed
o. 40 people drowned by the overflow of the river
Indus
Disastrous cloudburst near Amsterdam. N. T.;
Johnstown, n Y, suffered severely.
% T. M. Brown, q railroad president OF Denver,
Colo, drowned in the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado.
o. IS persons reported drowned in the West Viz
ginia floods.
% Severe winds in Chicago;s killed by falling
buildings
%. 30. Damaging storms in Delaware, Maryland
the Ohio valley. the lake region and on the
Atlantic coast; dams near Plainheld, N. j.,
carried away; loss of life and property Sus-