The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-01-01

destruction IN its path. IN unfinished sew
en-story building 1T Pittsburgh. . silk mill
ct Reading, aud nailmill At sunbury
ing cxceeded forty. mostly young girls; at
Pittsburgh twenty persisted and st Sun
bury half the working force were killed or
injured. The storm created havoc Rt Nj
agara Falls, tho supervision bridge nearest
the falls being carried away and deposited
in the river; loss. over ~ 100000. Two
gas reservoirs at Brooklyn. N. u. explod-
ed; loss, $4,000.
FEBRUARY.
Sire at Buffalo N. Y, covered a territory OF
six acres losses, about 81 .00o00O.
l-Collision OF steamer Glencoe with bark
Largo Bay. of Beachy Head, England Hne
former sunk, with all on board, nfty-four
persons.
l6 and 1.-THE American men-of-war Trenton
Vandalia and Nipsic and the German mem
of-war-Adler, Olga and Eber were driven
on reef off the Samoa islands and
wrecked; following 10 a record OF the
officers and men lost Eber, the captain
and all other officers except one, and
seventy six men Vandalia, the captain,
four officers, and forty men Nipsic, seven
men Adler, altogether fifteen persons.
The loss OF property by Germany and the
United States was - .0)O,0O
ls-Mysterious explosion in the Park Central
Hotel, Hartford Conn. thirty-hye or
more perish in the blazing ruins.
APRIL.
3-Destructive prairie fires in Dakota; many
people persisted in the flames the pecuni-
AIRY loss exceeded - OO0.OOJ
19-New York experienced the greatest fire IL
has had during tliH genera ION one nIe
was lost, many people Injured ana "a, OOO-
600 worth OF property destroyed.
MAY.
Sire at Standardization. Japan over n
score of lives lost 4 900 houses destroyed,
and 10 900 people made homeless.
13-Steamer Alaskan foundered in the Pacific
Ocean, of the coast OF Oregon; thirty lives
lost.
l6-St Sauveur, suburb Of Quebec, almost
wiped out by fire; 500 buildings burned,
100 families left homeless, with loss OF
S600, 900.
31-Johnstown Pa, almost completely swept
from the face of the earth by the bursting
OF a reservoir above the town; n strip OF
country two miles long and half mile
wide devastated by the deluge over 5000
lives lost; two rufians were lynched for
having despoiled some OF the dead of jew
elry four OF these wretches were driven
into the river and speedily drowned loss
20 property estimated at $4,000, 900.
Woodvale Conemaugh, Nineveh Morrell-
Vile. Mineral Point, Cambria, and Con.
neaut, small towns in the valley Of the
Conemaugh, We're utterly destroyed.
JUNE.
3-The horrors OF the Johnstown disaster
blinded the world eyes to the sufferings in
other flooded districts; at Williamsport,
on the Susquehanna, from 50 To 100 lives
were lost, and 81, OOO.C0J worth OF property
swept away.
6-Business portion OF Seattle the chief city OF
Washington Territory, reduced TO ashes
loss -, 900 900.
12-Fire swept over Grinnell, Iowa, once
wrecked by cyclone forty-one business
houses in ruins; loss. $780, 900. =. Near Ar
magh, Ireland, train in which |, 200
persons, chiefly Methodist Sunday school
children and their teachers, was wrecked,
with a loss of seventy-three lives.
JULY
4-Ellensburg Wash Ter, scorched by flames,
and ten blocks OF the business portion
7-Bakersheld, thriving city OF Southern
California, wiped out by fire; loss, Sl2,-
l0-Fire at Lu Chow. China, barned for twenty
three hours, destroyed $1,000 dwellings,
and caused the loss of 800 lives. no less
than 1,2OO persons having burned in the
flames.
22-The Yellow River overhowed its banks in
the Province of Shantung, China, causing
widespread destruction, the number OF
persons drowned being too great to be
counted
AUGUST
I-Business portion OF the city of Spokane
Falls, w. T., destroyed by FIRE twenty.
five blocks reduced to ashes; loss, S14,
0O00c0.
20-Great floods in Japan which destroyed the
city OF Wakayamo 10000 persons drowned.
22-Much damage done by gales on the English
coast; severe hailstorms passed over Aus
tria; many persons killed heavy storms
in France caused much damage.
2i-Famine prevailed at Khartoum, Kassola, To-
kar, and other river towns OF Egypt, caus-
ing many deaths from starvation, and
forcing the survivors TO become cannibals.
26-In an earthquake ut Khenzorik. on the Rus
sian frontier l29 persons were buried
alive.
SEPTEMBER.
5-Explosion in colliery near Edinburgh, Scot
land sixty-two miners entombed.
6-Explosion of dynamite in u cartridge factory
ut Antwerp, Belgium's commercial city
160 persons killed, 80 seriously hurt, and
300 slightly wounded.
9-Damage TO property aggregating millions OF
dollars was caused by n storm that swept
the Atlantic coast for two days Coney Isl
and, with all its pretty summer resorts
was one magnificent wreck the hurricane
in New York City was phenomenal in its
severity eight feet OF water on the race
track at Brighton Beach.
19-Landslide at Quebec; thirty persons killed
OCTOBER.
16-Explosion in Bentilee cOlliery at Longton
England sixty unfortunates buried
NOVEMBER.
Fifty women and girls crushed TO death by
falling walls of carpet factory at Glas-
gov, Scotland
26-Fire in the Bay State shoe town OF Lynn
utterly destroyed all the factories, stores
and dwellings, in Ward Four loss, S10-
00O0O0 5000 operatives thrown out Of en-
ployment.
2s-Boston, Mass, visited bya great fire loss
S6,00O,0O0.
DECEMBER.
3-Collapse OF platform OF theater at Wien
hen, province OF Shantung, China during
performance; 200 perscns killed.
DIED BY LEGAL, PROCESS