Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-01-01

MAY.

W. !. L
S-Fife a. Gokcte-Akita- -Kea Japan; over .
score Of lives lost. 1900 hpcsos destroyed,
:, and 1000 people made honeleBs
l3-Stf amer Ala ahan foun.erea in the raeihc
Ocean, OFF tho coast of Oregon; thirty Hves
lost.
i6st. sauvene a suburb Of Quebec, almost
wiped out by fire; 500 buildings burned
l.2o families lsft.homeless, with loss Ok
s.ioo,O50
5l-Johnstown, Pa, almost completely swept
from the face OF the earth by the bursting
of reservoir above the town; II strip of
country two milos long aud hall a iniie
wide devastated by the deluge; over 5000
lives lost two rutiaus were lynehed for
having despoilsd some Of the dead Of jew
elry four of these wretches were driven
INTO the river and speedily Drowned loss
TO property estimated ut $50 600, 900. :. !.
Woodyale, Conemangh. Nineveh, Morrell-
VILE Mineral Point, Cambria, and Con-
neaat, small towns in the valley Of the
Conemaugh We're utterly destroyed
- JUNE,
3-The horrors of the Johnstown disastar
blinded the world eyes co the sufferings in
other flooded districts: at Williamsport.
on the Susquehanna, from SO TO 100 lives
were lost, and 81, ,oo0G0) worth OF property
swept away.
e--Business portion Of Seattle, tho chief city OF
Washington Territory. reduced TO ashes
loss 81 ,QOJ, 300.
l2-Fire sweps over dlinneil Iowa. oa,es
wrecked BY n cyclone; forty lone business
houses in ruins; loss, Sioo,GD. Near Ar
magh, Ireland a train in which were 300
persons, chiefly Methodist Sunday school
cnIitiren ana their teachers, was wrecked,
with loss OF seyenty-three lives.
JULY.
4-Ellensburg, Wash. Ter. scorched by flames,
and ten blocks of the business portion
7-Bakersield, u thriving city of Southern
California, wiped out by fire; loss, Sl2,-
000,9t0
1O--Fire at Lu Chow China, burned for twenty
three hours. DESTROYED 81, 900 dwellings,
and caused the loss of 1850 lives no less
than 1900 persons having burned in the
flames.
22-The Yellow River orerfowed its banks in
the Province OF Shantung, China, causing
widespread destruction the number OF
persons drowned being too great to be
counted.
AUGUST.
4-Business portion OF the city of Spokane
Falls, W. T., destroyed by fire; twenty.
I'VE blocks reduced to ashes; loss, Sl4,
100000.
20-Great floods in Japan, which destroyed the
city of Wakayamo 10 900 persons drowned.
22-Much damage done by gales ON the English
coast; severe hailstorms ssed over Aus
tria; many persons killed; heavy storms
in France eau sed much damage
A-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.
26-1n an earthquake at khenzorik on the Rus
sian frontier, 129 persons were buried
SEPTEMBER
5-Explosion in colliery near Edinburgh, Scot
land siXty-two miners entombea
o--ENptOsloD OF dynamite III n carthage factory
at Antwerp, Belciums commercial city
160 persons killed, $50 seriously hurt, and
800 slightly wounded.
9-Damage to property aggreGatfng millions Of
dollars was caused by 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 it's
severity eight feet Of wafer on the race
track at Brighton Beach.
19-Landslide at Quebec; thirty persons killed.
l6--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, Sl0-
ou00aa; 5000 operatives thrown out of EN-
ployment.
2s-Boston Mass, visited by great fire; loss,
S5,e01,0J0.
DECEMBER.
3-Coiapse OF n platform Of n theater Mt Wien
hen, province of Sbantung China during
performance: 200 persons killed