Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-10


being demolished; the loss of lie al Read
ing exceeded forty, mostly young girls at |
Pittsburgh twenty persisted; and at sun !
bury half Tho working force We're killed or
injured. Tho storm crcnted havoc ut Nj |
agara Falls, tho supervision bridge nearest
the falls being cnrriea away and deposited I
in the river; loss. over Sl.01o,0)o Two I
gus reservoirs ut Brooklyn, N. Y, explod-
ed; loss S500,3O0
2-Fire at Buffalo, n. Y. covered n territory of
six acres losses, ni,ogt sS3 OD5,00O.
4-Collision OF st.Mner Glencoe with bnrk !
former sunk, with NIL on board, ffty-four |
1G and 17-The american men, of-wnr Tronton
Vandalia md Nipsic and the German mem !
of-war Adler, Olgt md Eber were driven
on 1eef off The Sanloa islands and
wrecked; following is u record of the
officers aud men lost: Eber, the captain
and all othcr officers except one, and
seyenty-siN men; Nandalia, tho captain,
four officers md forty men; Nipsic. seven
men, Adler, altogether fifteen persons
The loss of property by Germany and the
United States was s.. 10000.
1sMysterious explosion in Tho Par Central
more perish:in the blazing ruins
APRIL.
3-Destructive prairie fires in Dakota; many
people persisted in the flames the pecuni-
airy loss exceeded 81, 900, 900
l9-New York experienced the greatest fire it
has had during this generation; one life
was lost, many people injured, and 81 600,
COO worth of property destroyed.
MAY,
3-Firo at Standardization, japan over n
score of lives lost. 1000 houses destroyed,
and 10000 people made homeless.
15-Steamer Alnskan founlercd in the Pacific
Ocean. OFF the coast OF Oregon; thirty lives
16-St. Sauveur, a suburb of Quebec, almost
wiped out by fire; 800 buildings burned,
LOO families left homeless, with loss OF
SG0O,000
3l-Johnstown, Pa, almost completely swept
from the face OF the earth by the bursting
n n "a NS-ro n cfrS ,Df
country two miles long and half O. milo
wide devastated by the deluge; over G,O00
lives lost; two rul1ians We're lynched for
having dcspoiled some of the dead of jew
ely; four Of these wretches We're driven
into the river and speedily drowned; loss
Y 81 Ma1e
Vile. Mineral Point Cambria, and Con
neaut, small towns in the valley of the
ConemauSh, We're utterly destroyed.
JUNE.
3-The horrors of the Johnstown disaster
blinded the world eyes to the sufferings in
other flooded districts; at Willinmsport,
on the susquehanna, from SO to 100 lives
We're lost, md -, 100000 worth of property
swept away.
. Washington Territory, reduced to ashes;
12-Fire swept over Grinnell, Iowa, once
houses in ruins; loss, 500 600. Near Ar
1nagh Ireland, q train in which were l. 200
persons, chiefly Methodist sundayschoel
.,
with a loss of seventy three lives.
JULY.
4-Ellensburg. Wash Ter. scorched by flames,
and ten blocks of the business portion
laid in ashes.
7-Bakersdeld, u. thriving city of Southern
California, wiped out by fire; loss, sl2,-
10-Fire'at Lu Chow, China, burned for twenty
three hours, destroyed $1,000 dwellings,,
and caused the loss of 800 lives, no less
than loo persons having burned in the
flames.
22-The Yellow River overlooked its banks in
the Province of Shnntung, China, causing
widespread destruction, the number OF
persons drowned being too great to be
counted
4-Business portion OF the city of Spokane
Falls, w. T., destroyed by fire; twenty.
FIVE blocks reduced to ashes; loss. s14,-
2O-Great floods in Japan, which DESTROYED the
city of Wakayano TO- 900 persons drowned
22-Much damage done by gales on the English
coast; severe hailstorm ms passed over Aus
in France caused much damage.
24-Famine prevailed ut khartoum, Kassola, To-
kar, and other river towns of Egypt, eaus-
ing many deaths from starvation, and
forcing the survivors to become cannibals.
2G-In an earthquake at Khenzorik, on the Rus
sian frontier, 100 persons were buried
SEPTEMBER.
5-Explosion in colliery near Edinburgh, Scot
6-Explosion of dynamite in IL cartridge factory
at Antwerp, Bclyiuns commercial city;
l60 persons killed:25o seriously hurt, and
300 slightly wounded.
9-Dalnuge to property nsgregnting millions OF
dollars Was caused by storm that swept
the Atlantic const for two days ;Coney ISL
and, with all its pretty summer resorts,
was ore magnificent wreck; the hurricane
in New York City was phenomenal in its
severity eight feet of water the race
track ut Brighton Beach.
19-Landslide at Quebec; thirty persons killed.
OCTOBER.
16-Explosion in Bentlee colliery at Lo1gton,
England; sixty unfortunates buried
NOVEMBER.
Fifty women and girls crushed to death by
fnlling walls OF carpet factory at Glas-
2G-Fire in the Bay State shoe town of Lynn
utterly destroyed nll the factories stores
and dwellings, in Ward Four; loss, SlO,-
100000; 5000 operatives thrown out of en-
ployment.
2s-Boston, Mass, visited by great fire; loss,
s-Col]apse OF platform OF thenter at Wien
performance; 200 persons killed.
DIED BY LEGAL PROCESS.
JANUARY
3-Robert Elder at Mays Landing, Nj.
25-John Yancey ut Yanceyville, N. c.. Charles
AIcGill at Cameron Texas. !. JAS. Seames
at Eutaw, Ala. Ed Fry at Marietta Ga
Charles Blackmnn at Ellaville Ga.
s-James Ross at Brandenburg, Ky.
15-John Lee at Alexandria, MINI.
MARCH.
14-virgil Jackson at Utica, N. Y.
15-Willis Green, Anderson Mitchell. and Daniel
Jones at Arkadelphin, Ark.
22-Tim and Pete Barrett ut Minneapolis, MINI.
Monroe Wilkinson at Scottville, Ky.
29-Jud Pritchett ut Chatham, Va.
APRIL.
1s-John H. Swift at Hartford, Conn.
19-Sylvester Grubb at Vincennes, Ind. NAL
achi Allen and Jim Mills at Fort Smith,
Ark.
26-Casar Frazier ut Charleston, S. c.