Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-01-02

ing exceeded forty, mostly young girls AZ
Pittsburgh twenty perished and at Sum
bury half the working force were killed or
injured. The storm created havoc at Nj
agara Falls, the supension bridge nearest
the falls being carried away and deposited
in the river loss, over S1,000,0JO Two
gas reservoirs at Brooklyn, N. Y, explod-
ed; loss, $50O,0O0
FEBRUARY.
2-Fire at Buffalo, N. Y, covered a territory OF
six acres losses, about 80 100000.
4-Collision Of steamer Glencoe with bark
Largo Bay, of Beachy Head, England the
former sunk, with all on board, hfty-four
persons
10 and 1.-THE American men. of-war Trenton,
VandGlia and Nipsic and the German men-
of-war Adler, Olga and Eber were driven
on reef of 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 %, 3,0l0OO.
1s-Mysterious explosion in the Park Central
Hotel, Hartford, Conn. thirty-hve or
more perish in the blazing ruins.
APRIL.
3-Destructve prairie fires in Dakota; many
people perished in the flames the pecuni-
ary loss exceeded $2,00OO0J.
19-New York experienced the greatest fire 1t
has had during this genera ion one life
was lost, many people injured, and - 900, :
600 worth Of property destroyed
MAY
Sire at Gokote-Akita- Ken, Japan over n
score Of lives lost. 900 houses destroyed,
and 10, 600 people made homeless
13-Steamer Alaskan foundered In the Pacific
Ocean, off the coast OF Oregon; thirty lives
lost
IS-St. Sauveur, a suburb OF Quebec almost
wiped out by FIRE; 500 buildings burned,
100 families left homeless, with loss Of
S60O0O0
31-Johnstown, Pa, almost completely swept
from the face OF the earth by the bursting
OF reservoir above the town. q strip OF
country two miles long and half mile
wide devastated by the deluge; over 5000
lives lost; two rufiians were lynched for
having despoiled some of the dead of jew
elry; four OF these wretches We're driven
into the river and speedily drowned loss
TO property estimated at $4,000, 900.
Woodvale, Conemaugh, Nineveh, Morrell-
vile, Mineral Point, Cambria, and Con-
neaut, small towns In the valloy Of the
Conemaugh, were utterly destroyed.
JUNE.
3-The horrors OF the Johnstown disaster
blinded the world s eyes TO the sufferings in
other flooded districts at Williamsport,
on the Susquehanna, from so to 100 lives
were lost, and 81, ,OOoC0) worth OF property
swept away.
6-Business portion of Seattle, the chief city OF
Washington Territory, reduced to ashes
loss q, 100000.
wrecked by cyclone; forty-one business
houses in ruins loss, 800 900. -. Near Ar
magh, Ireland train in which were 200
persons, chiefly Methodist Sunday school
children and their teachers, was wrecked,
with loss of seventy three lives.
JULY.
4-Ellensburg, Wash. Ter, scorched by flames,
and ten blocks of the business portion
laid in ashes.
7-Bakersheld, thriving city of Southern
California, wiped out by fire; loss, So,
l0-Fire at Lu Chow, China, burned for twenty
three hours, destroyed $1,000 dwellings,
and caused the loss OF 1900 lives, no less
than 200 persons having burned in the
flames.
92-The Yellow River overhowed it's banks In
the Province OF Shantuug 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 hrej twenty.
fve blocks reduced to ashes; loss, S14
0OO0c0.
20-dreat 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
4-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 Khenzohk, on the Rus
sian frontier, l9 persons were buried
SEPTEMBER
5-Explosion in colliery near Edinburgh, Scot
land; sixty-two miners entombed.
6-Explosion of dynamite in a cartridge factory
at Antwerp, Bolgum's commercial city
160 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 its pretty summer resorts,
was one magnificent wreck the hurricane
in New York City was phenomenal in its
severity eight feet OF water on the race
track at Brighton Beach
19-Landslide at Quebec thirty persons killed
OCTOBER.
16-Explosion in Bentilee collery at Longton
England sixty unfortunates buried.
Fifty women ana igfris 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, sIO.
100000; 1000 operatives thrown out OF EN-.
ployment.
2s-Boston, Mass, visited by great nre; loss,
S5,00),0)o.
DECEMBER.
3-Collapse of platform of theator at Wien.
hen province OF Shantung, China during
performance; 200 persons killed.