Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-10
FIRES AND

JANUARY.
/. Richardson Drug Co. s store, St. Louis, burned:
loss, 5000, 600.
4 Firedamp explosion in Ovideo, Spain; q killed.
8. Destructive tornado felt at Reading, Pittsburg
and other points, Pa; 80 killed at Reading
and IA at Pittsburg. New suspension bridge
blown down at Niagara Falls.
19. Railroad accident at Elmwood, Mich. Lieut..
Gov. Mcdonald of Michigan killed.
q. 2 sailors drowned in Massachusetts, bay during
storm.
FEBRUARY.
2. Fire in Buffalo, N. Y; $780, 900 loss; 1 fire.
man killed and II injured; 9 acres burned
g. ID persons killed near Groenendall, Belgium,
by the collapse Of a railroad bridge.
4 Steamer Nereid and British ship Killochan
collided off Dungeness; both sunk; Is lives
Steamer Glencoe collided with bark Largo Bay
off Beachy Head and sunk; 81 lives lost.
10. Drug house Of John Wyeth & Bro. Philadel-
phia, burned; loss, $1,000, 900.
IL Boiler explosion wrecked the Park Central
hotel, Hartford, Conn.,; % lives lost.
Tornado in Alabama caused loss Of much
property and S or 6 lives.
70 miners killed by explosion in Hyde COL
iery, near Manchester, England.
% Bark Josie Troop wrecked on North Carolina
coast; captain and 10 Of the crew lost.
70. II girls killed by an explosion in a mining
squib factory at Plymouth, Pa.
81 l 0SSA6Cl Gill ou NlcdL VCSCCIu H.. H. III 81.
George, Ont, wrecked; 10 killed.
lives reported losti in a gale on the North sea.
MARCH.
2. British man-of-war Sultan wrecked in the
Mediterranean.
9. 42 drowned by sinking of Spanish steamer
Remus.
10 Couiery disaster at Wrexham, England; 20
killed.
1h. Colliery explosion at Nismes, France; Is killed.
16. Bark Pettengiu, Of Portland, Me-, wrecked of
the Virginia capes; ID lives lost.
70. Violent storms on the Chesapeake bay and
along the Atlantic coast.
French torpedo boat foundered off Cherbourg;
Is lost.
a Report of loss of Haytian steamer Conserva,
with crew of 20 men.
2 Spanish steamer Mindanao collided with
with steamer Visayas and sunk; 80 drowned.
Excursion steamer Ocoteau foundered in Lake
Chapala, Mexico; more than so lost.
80 Ostend packet Countess of Flanders sunk In
British channel by Belgian mail steamer
Princess Henriette; ID drowned.
April.
T. Prairie fires destroyed 100000 o of property
in Minnesota and Dakota.
6. $1,000, 900 fire at Savannah, Ga.
9. Fifty vessels and 20 lives lost in the recent
storm on Chesapeake bay.
10 Coal pit explosion at Castrop, New South
Wales; Is killed.
u Steamer Danmark, of Thinpyalla. line seen
floating disabled 600 miles off the coast of
Ireland. Her passengers and crow were
rescued April 6 by the steamer Missouri,
Capt. Murrell, and taken to the Azores.
10. N. Y. c. and II. R. r. r. grain elevator In
New York destroyed by fire; loss 5 5000, 900.
q. Railroad accident on Grand Trunk R R.,
Hamilton, Ont; 10 Americans going to
Washington Inaugural Centennial in New
York killed
aE10 miners killed by an accident In Casca VIII
liam Colliery, Pa.
H. Terrific storms in Washington Territory and
Virginia. Several lives lost in Washington
Territory.
16. Fire in Quebec; 700 houses burned; 5000, 600
worth of property destroyed.
Steamer Alaska foundered off Cape Blanca,
Ore. 30 lives lost.
q Two French fishing vessels lost; 175 persona
drowned.
Drowning of IS persons by flood in Bohemia
reported.
70 Confagration at Podhajee, Galicia; many
lives lost. y,
particularly in Pennsylvania, the two vir-
ginias and the District of Columbia. Johns
X town, Pa, andseveral other towns destroyed
y' by the breaking Of a dam; several thousand
lives lost and millions Of dollars damage
done
z Relief offered from all sources for YOUNGSTOWN
e sufferers. Great damage reported at Will
" Transport, Washington, the Genesee valley,
q N. =, Petersburg, Va, etc. Violence re-
l. ported at Johnstown, Pa Much damage
z also reported to shipping and IN Canada.
g. Great fire in Seattle, Wash; loss, $1,000, 900.
TO- Tornado in Lewis and Jefferson counties, N.
7. Greatloss to crops caused by high water
in Indiana. -. hI
II. Disastrous storm; damage done to life and
property in New York, Brooklyn and New
ark, Nj; three churches burned by light
ming.
Holyoke. Mass, mills ruined by the bursting
Of the canal banks.
~ II houses burned in Grfnnell, Ia, which was