Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-02
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NATURES DESTRUCTIVE HAND
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Flood I'm 1889.
JANUARY.
A Terrible wind storm at Reading, Pittsburg, Nj
agara Falls and elsewhere; IS killed at Read
ing and IA at Pittsbmg. New suspension
bridge blown down at Niagara
n Storms did great damage in states west OF the
Ohio
q. Storm on Massachusetts bay. Much damage
% shipping; sailors drowned
FEBRuARx-
a II men lost by the wreck Of the bark Josie
Troop on the North Carolina coast
r. Gale on the North sea; 20 lives lost
MARCH,
G Forest fires reported in the northwest
SEQ Storm on the Atlantic coast and Chesa-
peake bay Bark PettengiI wrecked on the
Virginia capes; II lives lost
20 IS lost by laundering of a French torpedo boat
off Cherbourg.
a. News received of the loss of the Haytian
steamer Conserva. with crew of 20 men
no. News received of the terrible storm in Samoa,
which destroyed the American ships Nipsc,
vandalia and Trenton, with SO men, and Ger
ships Olga and Adler. with lO7 men
APRIL
o. 20 lives and 80 vessels lost in the recent storm
on Chesapeake bay.
T. Ocean storm disabled the steamer Danmark
of the Thingvalla line which was seen floating
disabled and abandoned coo miles off the coast
of Ireland Capt Murrell, of the steamer
Missouri, it was discovered later had rescued
the captain and crew on April G.
NAY.
II Great damage from storms reported near
Pittsburg. Pa, and elsewhere.
n Thirty lives lost by laundering Of the steamer
Alaska of Cape Blanca, Ore
u 175 persons drowned by the loss OF two French
fishing vessels
Is persons drowned by floods in Bohemia
a. This is the date of the terrible Johnstown dis
aster The rainfall in the middle Atlantic
region on this day, and for several succeeding
days was the heaviest on record. Many
towns suffered, Johnstown, Pa, most severely,
where several thousand lives were lost, and
millions of dollars OF property. The greatest
damage reported from other points from
willamsport. Pa; Washington, D. c.: the
Genesee valley, N Y; Petersburg, Va, etc
The horrors of fire we're added TO the destruc-
ton Of the flood at Johnstown. Much damage
also reported to shipping and In Canada
JUNE
10 Tornado in Lewis and Jefferson counties N.
Y Much damage done by high water in Indi-
ana
II. Damaging storm in New York Brooklyn, and
Newark, n. j. Bursting canal banks ruined
mills at HolyoEe. Mass.
IS Losses by floods In Pennsylvania estimated at
$44,250.000
Floods in Arkansas
q Heavy rains caused washout on the Norfolk
and Western r. R., near Maxton, Va: a train
was ditched and le were killed
1000 lives reported lost by floods u China
Q. Johnstown. y suffered severely from
coudburst.
n Damaging storm in Maryland Property and
lives destroyed.
n. Several lives lost in floods in Texas.
Destructive storms reported in Kansas. Illinois
and Wisconsin.
Is. Damaging storms reported from the north
west
o. Chicago suffered from high winds; 2 were
killed by falling walls
%. Damage done by storms in Delaware, Mary
land, West Virginia, Ohio valley, the Atlantic
coast and the lake regions; much property
and some life lost.
%. Kiousiou Japan. destroyed by an earthquake
AUGUST
2. Steamship Montreal, Of the Dominion line.
wrecked at Belle Isle
10. Drought in Mexico, cattle dying
a. Damaging storms in the west and on the At
lantic coast Hundreds OF people made home
less by floods in Nebraska
10 II 500 people killed by floods and landslides in
the province of Xii Japan.
u. Earthquake at Kuenzorik, on the Russian from
tier; 129 people buried
SEPTEMBER
% Beginning Of prolonged storm along the New
Jersey coast; incalculable damage sustained
by high seas; 40 lives and many ships lost az
the Delaware breakwater alone.
fo e5 bodies recovered from the debris OF q land
slide in Quebec: many houses destroyed.
OCTOBER
z 81 vessels wrecked by cyclone the Cam
peachy coast.
% British ship Bolen from Calcutta to Liver
pool, reported lost, together with 50 lives
NOVEMBER
T. Wreck of the American ship Cheeseborough
of the coast of Japan reported; 10 drowned.
g. Severe snow storm In New Mexico. Hundreds
of cattle and sheep, and at least cowboys
frozen to death.
- Storm the Pacific coast; 10 lives lost by the
wrecking CT tug on Oregon.
q. Wreck of the German bark Germania on
Long Branch. n. j.; II drowned.
DECEMBER.
Is Reports Of disastrous floods In the Sacramento
River valley received