The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-04
FIRES AND DISASTERS.

JANUARY.
l. Richardson Drug Co. s store, ST. Louis, burnsd;
loss, $yOO00O
L. Firedamp explosion In Ovideo, Spain; "a killed.
o. Destructive tornado felt at Reading, Pittsburg
and other points, Pa. 80 killed at Reading
and Ii at Pittsburg. New suspension bridge
blown down at Niagara Falls
49, Railroad accident at Elmwood, Mich; Lieut.
Gov. Mcdonald Of Michigan killed
q. sailors drowned In Massachusetts, bay during
storm,
FEBRUARY
g. Fire In Buffalo, N. Y; 100000 loss; fire.
man killed and II injured; acres burned
8. IL persons killed near Groenendal, Belgium
by the collapse OF u railroad bridge.
L Steamer Ncred and British ship kllochan
coded Off Dungeness; both sunk; % lives
Steamer Glencoe colded with bark Largo Bay
Off Beachy Head and sunk; 81 lives lost.
10. Drug house Of John Wyeth & Bro, Philadel-
phia, burned; loss, $l,O0,OOO
IL. Boiler explosion wrecked the Park Central
hotel, Hartford, Conn; 20 lives lost.
Tornado In Alabama caused loss Of much
property and or q lives.
80 miners killed by explosion in Hyde col
liery, near Manchester, England.
o. Bark Josie Troop wrecked on North Carolina
coast captain and 10 Of the crew lost.
70 II girls killed by an explosion In mining
squib factory AT Plymouth, Pa.
a. Passenger train ON Great Western Il. r. ut St
George, ont, wrecked; 10 killed.
20 lives reported lost in gale on the North sea.
MARCH
2 British man of war Sultan wrecked In the
Mediterranean.
o. ~ drowned by sinking OF Spanish steamer
Remus.
Is Colliery disaster at Wrexhan England: 20
killed.
49, colliery explosion at Nismes, France; 10 killed
IT, Bark rettengill, Of Portland, Me, wrecked of
the Virginia capes; Ii lives lost.
20 Violent storms ON tho Chesapeake bay and
along the Atlantic coast.
French torpedo boat foundered Off Cherbourg
10 lost
"a Report OF loss Of Haytian steamer Conserva,
with crew of - men.
NJ Spanish steamer Mindanao collided with
with steamer Vsayas and sunk; 30 drowned
Excursion steamer Ocoteau foundcred In Lake
Chapala, Mexico; more than % lost.
30 Ostend packet Countess OF Flanders sunk I'm
British channel by Belgian mail steamer
Princess Henrietta; ID drowned
APRIL
Q. Prairie fires destroyed 100000 Of property
in Minnesota and Dakota.
0. 100000 fire at Savannah, Ga.
8. Fifty vessels and ~ lives lost In the recent
storm on Chesapeake bay.
10 Coal pit explosion at Castrop New South
Wales; % killed
u Steamer Danmark, of Thingvalla, line seen
floating disabled COO miles off the coast Of
Ireland Her passengers and crew were
rescued April by the steamer Missouri,
Capt Murrell and taken to the Azores
49, n. Y. G. and ii. X X. r. grain elevator In
New York destroyed by fire; loss 49, 900 900.
% Railroad accident Grand Trunk X, Il,
Hamilton, Ont; 10 Americans going 10
Washington Inaugural Centennial in New
York killed.
o. 10 miners killed by accident in Casca vii.
liam Colliery Pa
H. Terrific storms In Washington Territory and
Virginia Several lives lost In Washington
Territory.
&C. Fire In Quebec; 200 houses burned; 5000, 600
worth Of property destroyed.
Steamer Alaska foundered of Cape Blanca,
Ore; 30 lives lost.
~ Two French fishing vessels lost; l75 persons
drowned.
Drowning of IS persons by flood in Bohemia
"a Conhagration at Podhajee, 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 VI dollars damage
done.
JUNE
2 Relief offered from all sources for Johnstown
sufferers. Greet damage reported at VIII
Transport Washington, the Genesee valley
n. Y, Petersburg, Va, etc. Violence 10
ported at Johnstown, Pa Much damage
also reported TO shipping and In Canada
Q. Great fire In Seattle, WASH loss, s., 10000.
10. Tornado in Lewis and jefferson counties, n
Y. Great loss 20 crops caused by high water
! ia Indiana
Il. Disastrous storm; damage done TO life and
property In New York. Brooklyn and New
ark, \. j.; three churches burned by light
ming.
Holyoke, Mass, mills ruined by the bursting
of the canal banks
- q houses burned In Grinnen, Ia, which vas