The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-01-02


being demolished; the loss OF life 1T Read
ing exceeded forty mostly young girls at
Pittsburgh twenty persisted; and at Sun
bury half the working force were killed or
injured. The storm created havoc at Nj
agara Falls, the supervision bridge nearest
the falls being carried away and deposited
IL the river; loss, over 81 100000. Two
gas reservoirs at Brooklyn N. Y, Eplod-
ed loss, 5000
FEBRUARY.
RFire at Buffalo, n. Y, covered q territory OF
six acres losses, about 50 600 900.
4-Co1lision of steamer Glencoe with bark
Largo Bay, off Beachy Head, England; the
former sunk with all on board. ffty-four
persons.
16 and 1.-THE American n-of-war Trenton,
Vandalia and Nipsic and the German men,
of-war Adler, Olga and Eber were driven
on a reef off the Samoa islands and
wrecked: following is 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 $3. 000,000
1S-Mysterious explosion in the Park Central
Hotel, Hartford, Conn. thirty-five or
perish in the blazing ruins.
APRIL.
3-Destructive prairie fires in Dakota; many
people persisted in the flames; the pecuni-
airy loss exceeded s., 000, 00O
19-New York experienced the greatest fire 1t
has had during this genera zion one life
was lost, many people injured and 81, 0O0,-
MAY.
3-Fire at Gokote-Akita-Ken, Japan; over a
score of lives lost. ], 900 houses destroyed,
and 10 900 people made homeless.
13-Steamer Alaskan foundered in the Pacific
Ocean, off the coast of Oregon; thirty lives
lost.
16-St. Sauveur, a suburb of Quebec, almost
wiped out by fire; 500 buildings burned,
1900 families left homeless, with loss of
5000, 900.
31-Johns town, Pa. almost completely swept
from the face of the earth by the bursting
of a reservoir above the town; strip OF
country two miles long and half mile lie
wide devas tated by the deIuge; over 5000
lives lost; two ruffans 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
to property estimated at $30,0OO 600. -.
Woodvale, Conemaugh, Nineveh, MorTell-
vile. Mineral Point, Cambria, and Con,
neaut, small towns in the valley of the
Conenaugh, were utterly destroyed.
JUNE.
S-Tho horrors OF the JObnstOWn disaster
blinded the world eyes to the sufferings in
other flooded districts at Williamsport,
on the Susquehanna, from SO to 100 lives
were lost, and 81, O00.C0O worth of property
6--Business portion OF Seattle the chief city OF
Washington Territory, reduced to ashes !;
loss $7000,000.
12-Fire swept over Grinnell, Iowa, once
wrecked by cyclone; fOrty-one business
houses i'll ruins; loss, $4,000 Near Ar
magh, Ireland, train in which were /, 200
persons, chiefly Methodist Sunday-school
children and their teachers, was wrecked,
with a loss of seventy-thre lives.
JULY
4-Euensburg Wash Ter, scorched by flames,
and ten blocks of the business portion
laid in ashes.
7-Bakersfeld, a thriving city of Southern
California, wiped out by fire; loss, $12,-
100000.
1o-Fire at Lu Chow, China, bdrned for twenty
three hours, destroyed 81, 900 dwellings,
and caused the loss of 800 lives. no less
than 1900 persons having burned in the
flames.
22-The Yellow River overlooked it's banks in
the Province of Shantung 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, $14,
OOO,OCO.
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.
24-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 at Khenzorik, on the Rus
sian frontier, 129 persons were buried
alive.
SEPTEMBER.
5-Explosion in colliery near Edinburgh, Scot
land sixty-tw miners entombed.
6-Explosion of dynamite in g cartridge factory
at Antwerp, Belgum's commercial city;
16O persons killed, $50 seriously hurt, and
800 slightly wounded.
9-Damage to property aggregating millions of
dollars was caused by a storm that swept
the Atlantic coast for two days Coney ISL
and with all it's pretty summer resorts,
was one magnificent wreck the hurricane
in New York City phenomenal in it's
severity eight feet of water on the race
track at Brighton Beach.
19-LandsIde 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 a 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, $1O,-
100000; $500 operatives thrown out of en-
ployment.
29-Boston, Mass, visited by a great fire; loss,
$6,O00,000
DECEMBER.
3-Collapse Of a platform OF a theater at Wien
hen, province of Shantung, China, during
A. performance. 200 pors0 as killed