The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-03
FLOOD N FLAMES.

JANUARY
1-Richnrdson's drug house at st. Louis, Mo-,
burned loss SJUJ.O)0.
"a cyclone i'll Pennsylvania left death md
destruction IN LIS "a h. an unfinished sew
en-story building a. Pit sburgh q silk-mill
ut hadiug. and u nnil-lnill at Sudbury
being demolished; the loss of lie ct II rad-
ing exceeded forty, mostly young girls; ut
Iittsbargh twenty perish 4; and ut Sun
bury ;A The working force were killed or
injured. The storm clent2d havoc ut Nj
nsara Fails. the suspension bridge nearest
the fulls being carried away nnd'deposited
in the river; loss, over 81, 900, o.. Two
gns reservoirs at Brooklyn, N. Y, explod-
ed loss, sou, UUO.
o-Fire at Buffalo, n. y, overed a territory of
six acrea losses, about 50 OOl, OOo.
4-Coliisiun of st amor Glencoe with bark
Lareo Bay, of Btachv Hal, England; the
former sunk. With all on board, titty-four
lersOnS.
10 and l7-The American men.of-war Trenton,
Vandalia and Nipsic md the G. rman men.
of-Mar Adler, Olga and Eber were driven
on q 1eaf off The Samoa islands and
wrecked; following is n record OF the
officers md men lost: E1cr, tho captain
nnl oil other officers except cn,, and
sevonty-six mon; Vandalia, thu captain,
four officers, and forty men: Nipsic, seven
men; Adler, altogether fifteen persons.
The loss of property by Germany and he
United States was S3 .OyO,OD.
Hotel, Hartford, tonn.; thirty-hve or
more perish in the blazing ruins,
APRIL.
3-DestructtVe prairie fires III Dakota; many
people persisted In the flames the pecunf-
airy loss exceeded -, 90, oO).
19-New York experienced tho greatest fire 1t
has had during this genera ion one lie
was lost. many people Injured, and $4,0JO,-
900 worth OF property destroyed.
MAX.
Sire at Gohote;Akita;Ken. Japan over a
and 10000 people made homel So.
13-St, amer Alas IN founderod in the Pacific
Ocean, off Tho coast Of Oregon; t-irty ives
16-st. Sauveur. q suburb of Quebec, almost
wiped out by fire; 81 buildings burned,
1,2U families left homeless, with loss Of
So 900.
31-Johns' own, Pn., almost completely swept
from the face o. The earth by thu bursting
OF n reservoir above the town; a strip OF
country two miles long aud half II mile
vide devastated by the d 'luge; over 6,O)o
lives lost; two rufians were 1ynched for
having despollsd some Of the d ad Of jew
elry; four OF these Mre.ches were driven
into the river aud speedily drowned; loss
to property go lma ed q ss10Oo,oOo.."
we WEoay Min 3, uTn1 pnint c. M1heyeh' M Nc rel
neaut, small towns in the valley of the
Copemnugh, were utterly destroyed.
3-The horrors of the Johnstown disaster
blind d the world eyes to The 81 offerings in
other flooded districtsj at Willia ms por5,
were lost, and 81, Ooo.Coj worth Of property
e-Business port on of Seattle, the chief city Of
washington ierfliory, reduced 10 ashes;
loss 3 ,UO0,0 0).
12-Fire swept oyer Grinnell. Iowa, once
wrecked by a cyclone; forty-one business
houses In ruins; loss, SO, 900. .. Near Ar
nIagh, Ireland, q train ia which were 1910
persons, chiefly Methodist Sunday-school
children and their teachers, was wrecked,
with a loss OF s~e7enty-three lives.
JULY.
4-Ellensburg, Wash. Ter, scorched by flames,
and ten blocks Of the business portion
laid in ashes.
7-Bakersfeld. o thriving city Of Southern
Caaiornia' wiped ont w 6rei Loss, va,
Dep,Qo9