Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-31


ester, Pa. The grip sweIled the death list il
| many localities.
Chicago had q, DOC. 900 fire. A wreck o,
the Lake Shore road killed six postal clerk
and two engineers. Half million Of propert
was burned at Little Rock. A Sls0. 900 fire oc
Cured in Chattanooga.
In May fire in Pittsburg destroyed severa
large buildings, with s750, 900 loss. Severa
villages were swept away by floods on the Rit
Grande. F. H. Leggett's New York war,
mite explosion on construction train neal
Tarrytown, N. Y, killed twenty men and in
Jured as many more. $500, 900 fire tool
| place in Jacksonville. Fla. Three persons were
burned to death in q tenement house fire in
New York.
In July nineteen persons were killed and
seventy-two injured by railway collision Mt Ra-
VIENNA, Ohio Thirteen were killed and forty-two
injured in q railroad wreck at Charleston. W. Va.
cyclone at Baton Rouge blew down many
IN and ten inmates persisted A. Brickhardts
building at Chicago was burned. with $3.50, 900
loss At Aspen junction, COL, twenty five per-
sons were killed by railroad collision. Tex
tile mills in Philadelphia were burned, with
S75o. 900 loss. $500, 600 fire took place at
Dallas Tex.
In August Chicago had $3.50 600 fire. Thir-
teen persons were killed in a wreck near Syra-
cusc. S225 600 was lost by fire in Norfolk Twenty
persons were killed and many injured in an ac-
road.
In September the Delaware iron works at
Newcastle were burnod and 800 hands were
thrown out of work. 4 fire in Minneapolis
destroyed S200,00 Of property and several fire.
men we're seriously injured. Eleven persons
We're killed by an explosion of u mortar at
Newark. A 100000 fire took place at Savan-
nah A confagration west of the Missouri river
swept over country 800 by 200 miles. destroy
ing crops and buildings. Seven men were
entombed in mine at Glen Carbon, Pennsyi-
vania.
In October st. Louis had o 500, 0C0 fire.
Forest fires ragged in California. In a wreck
killed.
In November seventeen lives were lost in the
Anaconda mine. A 5000, 900 fire occurred in
Cleveland A million dollars worth of prop
erty was burned in st. Louis. A tornado did
S25O.O0O damage i'll Washington. Fremont
Ohio, had S250,000 fire. A train on a South
Carolina railroad was wrecked by wreckers and
four lives lost.
ing OF a wall in st. Paul. Ten persons lost
their Hives in fire at Louisville.
FOREIGN DISASTERS.
In foreign lands several disasters Of great
magnitude occurred during the year. In Jam
uary twenty girls were burned in fire at
Leeds. Sixty men were killed in q coal pit in
Polish Ostran Twenty-four lives were lost in
q wreck off the Siciar coast. One hundred
persons were killed by storm and flood on the
Island of Massowah. Twenty-Five persons were
killed III an avalanche in Greece. During the
year thousands OF people in Siberia died from
the ''biack DEATH
In February 100 miners were killed by an
explosion ut cOlliery i'll Nova Scotia twenty
two lives were lost by an avalanche in Switzer-
land and zoo Chinese persisted by the burning
OF steamer at Nanhu, China
N
Madagascar and in the same month the Ste amer
Utopia sank i'll Gibraltar bay and SCI lives were
lost.
April saw thirteen persons killed by an ex-
plosion III the sultan's palace Mt Zanzibar and
ninety persons drowned by the wreck of steamer
st. Catharis Oft the Caroline Islands.
Lin June sixty persons we're killed in rail-
way accident III Switzerland and in the follow
Ing month !oity-three were killed aud many
injured by a railroad wreck in France.
In August cyclone at Martinique sank ships
and did tremendous damage. 1nrca hundred
lives were lost aud $40. 1000. O0a of property de-
stroyed. In the same month $50 persons lost
their lives by typhocn III japan.
In September 100 lives were lost by the sink
Ing OF the steamer Taorinina off the Greek
coast. III September also yellow fever ragged
at itio Janeiro and l, zoo persons were drow ncd
by foods III Spain During tie year II, 900 pill
grims to Mecca died OF the cholera
During October the famine il. Russia caused
great loss of life and the month WAS marked by
I, tremendous earthquake III Japan. by which
from 1000 to 10000 persons lost their lives.
In November 1871 persons were killed by a
cyclone ut AEtadan Island, and in December
screnty-three miners were killed by fire damp
at St Ellenne, France and $50 lives we're lost
IN q coal mine in Poland
THE DEATH ROLL.
Death has been busy during the year among
the prominent people both in this country and
in foreign lands. The twelve months saw many
historic names taken from the list of living
The list from our dead is long.
In.January died Walter A. Abel, son of the
proprietor OF the Baltimore Sun: Emma Ab-
bott, Associate Justice Charles Devens of Massa-
chusetts; John A. Hart mayor of Chattanooga:
George Bancroft, historian and statesman: ex-
United States Senator Wadleigh of New Hamp-
shire, Judge d. L. Curtis of Massachusetts. and
Hon. William Window, Secretary of the Treas
ury. who died at a banquet in New York
In February passed away J. \ Mccullough
first vice president of the Pennsylvania road
eX-Congressm.n Waldo Hutchns of New York
cx-Chief Justice Morton OF Massachusetts, ex-
Secretary of the Interior A. H. IL. Stuart of
Virginia, Admiral David ID. Porter. Gen. VIM
/. Sherman. DR.. }. 5. Messersmith retired
medical director L. $. navy; Gen. ii. H. Sibley,
first governor of Montana: ex-Mayor S. L.
Cobb Of boston, Caleb S. Green of New Jersey,
Senator Z. X. Wilson of Maryland and Senator
George Hearst of California.
The deaths i'll March included Y-Congress-
man Jonathan ScCville of New York Leonard
Jerome. ex-senator Joshua Hill of Georgia.
eX-CongresslaGn Thomas Hudeman of Georgia.
ex-senator George NJ. ChiIcCtt of Colorado,
United States Minister Swift. A!phonzo Minor
Griswold, the humCrist; Judge John r. Brady
OF the New York supreme court. VIM. Ii. Hern-
don, former law partner OF Lincoln; Lawrence
Barrett, the traSedlan: cE-Gov. LuciIs Robin
son OF New YORK. Gen. Joseph L. Johnston,
DR.. James /. Wlckershanl, eX-minister to Dem
mark; Nelson i. Reed, editor Pitts5urg Com
fnerctdl Gazette; Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby and
Col. John McEnery, ex-governor of Louisiana
In April the list was added to by ex- Congress.
man }. II. Grinnell of Iowa, Gen. Albert Pike
I. L. Barnum, the grea. Snowman; Congress-
man Russell Errett of Pennsylvania, ID. G.
Fowler, governor Of North Carolina; ex-Con-
gressrnan George A. Bicknell OF Indiana. Con.
sressYfian /. Il. Spinola OF New York, Bishop
Giifour OF Ohio. Robert Whitney Waterman
ex-governor of California; Rear Admiral Alfred
Taylor, Congressman NJ. II. Ford OF Michigan
ana Gen. Armisted L. Long, who was Gen.
Lees chief of staff.
May took to their last rest Chas. Pratt. vice
president standard Oil Company; Judge Al
phonso Taft. Henry S. Stanford, eX-miuister to
Belgium: Congressman L. c. Houk Of Tennes-
sec. ex-Gov. David Butter OF Nebraska. Rev.
DIR. J. Henry Van DYKE OF New York. Col, VIM.
II. Peyton of Virginia and DIR. Benson ]. Loss
ing, the historian.
In June the great majority was Joined bv
William Allen, judge OF the Massachusetts, SUI
preme court; ). X. Emmett, the actor; Harrison
Luddington, ex-governor OF Wisconsin; Essen