The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-01-03

eeFfre ~ Qokote.AkftA-Ken. Japan I; over .
SCORE 9 tlives lost. l,eOo houses destroyed.
and 600. people made homeless.
lS-Steamor Alaskan foundeyed In the Pacific
Ocean. on the coast Of Oregon; tuirty lives
le-st. .ssuveur. I. suburb Of quebsc. almost
wiped out by tres 5O) buildings burned,
1870 families loft homeless, with loss OF
$4,000.
from the face Ct tho earth BY Tho bursting rTHps
country, two miles long and half = iaile
lives lost; two ruifians were lynched for
having despoiled soins az the dead Of jcw.
elry; four Of thess wrctclses wore driven
to property estimated 81 $40, 1000. -.
Woodyals. Conemsugh, Miueveh. Morreil.
Vile, Mineral Point, Cambria; aud Con.
Conemaush, were utterly destroyed.
JUNK.
blinded tho worlds eyes to the sufYerings in
other Hooded districts; at Wlllianisport,
on the sus1uehanna, from 80 to 10l lives
e-Basiness portion of Seattle, the chief city o,
Wa assaai,nsssn "a, Territory, reduced to ashes;
l2-FIre swept over Grinnell. lowe, once
yreckedbya cyclone; iorty.ons business
persons. chiefly Methodist sundsy.school
children and their teachers. was wrecked.
WAtu = lubh Vi h0SeulysIUTe0 llvoo.
JULY.
4-Ellensburg, wssh. Ter, sccrched by nA1ses.
and ton blocks of the business portion
7-Bekersfield. 9 thriving city of Southern
California. wiped out by fire; loss. sla,-
lo-rire At Lu Chow, China, burned for twenty.
three hours. destroyed $1,000 dwellings,,
n caused the loss of 1900 lives. no less
than 1900 persons having burned in the
a2-The Yellow River oycrfowed its banks in
the Province Of shantuug.. China. causing
widespread destruction, the number Of
person. drowned being too great to be
counted.
4-pu.tnes. norton nr 81 aSs c,tv ., s,os.,.
Falls, W. T., destroyed by lre; twenty.
ays blocks reduced to ashes; loss. sll.-
2o-Greet foods in Japan. which destroyed the
city Of Wakayamo 10000 persons drowned.
2a-Much damage done by gales ON tho English
t eGsss m ssyef ne asd,sso riI,sI passed nsd ss Aus:
In Franco caused much damage.
ei-Famine prevailed at Khartonm. Kassola, To.
Ing Ing naa y'e death. siss' ROM sSMn' s 81 Essfs; cana sns
forcing the survivors to become caunibalv,
28-In an earthquake at Khenzorik, on the Rus.
sian frontier. 129 persons were buried
alive.
SEPTEMBER.
6-Explosion In colliery near Edinburgh, Scot.
land; stXty-two miners entombed
6-Explosion of dynamite In o cartridge factory
a. Antwerp, Relginm's commercial city;
1OV ptThutb kIlleu, 2oU ASflOuSly Qurt. and
800 slightly wounded.
9-Damage to property aggregating millions OF
dollars was caused by q storm that swept
the Atlantic coast for two days Coney ISL
and. with all its pretty summer resorts.
was ono magnificent wreck; the hurricane
in New York City was phenomenal in its
severity; eight feet of wafer on the race.
track 1t Brighton Beach.
1~9-Landslide at Quebec; thirty persons killed.
OCTOBEs.
1G-Explosion in Bentileo colliery at Longton,
England; sixty unfortunates buried.
NOVEMBER.
FIFTY women and girls crushed to death by
falling walls of a carpet factory ct Glas-
gov Scotland.
9G-Fire in the Bay State shoe town Of LYNN
utterly destroyed q! the factories. stores.
100000; 5000 operatives thrown ont Of EN-.
ploynent.
2s-Boston. Mass, visited by a great fire; loss,
81 ,OOl,O00.
DECEMBER,
3-Collapse OF a platform Of a theatcr at Wien
hen, province of Shnntung, China. during
q performance: 200 versions killed. ~