The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-27
GREAT EVENTS OF 1893
The Remarkable and Interesting
Happenings of the Year.
AFULL CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD.
Appalling Railway Disasters. Fatal Storms
and Cyclones, and Many Commercial
Failures-A Long Obituary List-Social,
Political and Scientific Gatherings and
Celebrations without Number.

Failures-A Long Obituary List-Social,
Political and Scientific Gatherings and
Celebrations without Number.
Between Jan. 81 and Nov. s, 1898, there
were 20 serious railroad accidents in the
United States resulting in the death of $50
people and the injury of 627. There were
several fatal cyclones on land and sea dur
ing the year, many marine disasters and an
unusual number of destructive fires. Bos-
ton was visited by two large fires, one of
them in the old burned district. Chicago
was also swept by a large fire. Many dis
tinguished names appear on the obituary
list. The year has also been made notable
by the Worlds fair and great number of
conventions and congresses. Following is
a condensed diary of the most important
events arranged by months and days:
JANUARY.
/. Fires: Binghamton, n. Y, Bayless' paper
mill: loss, 100000. Emporia. Kan, dry
goods store destroyed; loss $4,000.
2. Fire: Denison, Tex, dry goods store: loss,
$4,000.
8. Fire: Memphis; loss. $4,000.
Obituary: Mrs. Martha Joan Reade Nash
Lamb, historian, in New York city; aged 81.
Gilbert l'illsbury, once a prominent aboli-
ton leader, in North Abingdon, Mass;
aged 70.
8. Fires: Omaha, the Omaha Printing COM
pany burned out; loss, 100000. Pittsburg,
several fires; losses, S226, eco. Denver Hal
leck building destroyed; loss, $4,000. Liv-
erpoOl, 10000 bales of cotton burned in ware
house.
G. Obituary: Maj. j. p Frost of the Boston
Globe, an old New England journalist, in
Boston. c. a. Cappa, bandmaster of the
Seventh New York militia, in New York
city; aged 5S.
Miscellaneous: Wickham & Co.. wholesale
fish dealers, of Huron, o., assigned liabl-
tiles, S2500IU.
Z. Fire: Fall River. Mass, the Troy building
burned; loss, S135.0O0.
9. Fire: New York city, a six story building
destroyed; loss, S250,0O0.
10. Fire: Boston. several warehouses burned;
losses, Sl65O,OOO
Obituary: Gen. Benjamin T. Butler, at Wash
ington; aged IS.
Disasters Several men killed by the burst
ing of flywheel in a Pittsburg mill. ~
miners killed by gas explosion at Como.
Colo.
II. Fires: Chicago, several: losses, S25O,OOO.
Chateaugay, n. Y, Is stores burned: loss.
Sl5O,0OU.
13. Fires: Kansas City: loss S245,OOo. Duluth,
st. Louis hotel destroyed; loss, 100000.
IA. Obituary: Gen. Joseph J. Bartlett, Union
veteran and eX-minister to Sweden, in Bal
timore; aged SO.
Miscellaneous Revolution in Hawaii; Queen
Liluokalani deposed.
Is. Obituary: Gen. Rufus Ingalls,, U. S. A.
(retired), in New York city; aged "A.
16. Personals: James Smith, Jr., elected United
States senator from New Jersey.
II. Fires: Chicago, the Calumet clubhouse de-
stroyed; loss, S3OO,OOO RICHMOND, Allen &
Gintner's cigarette factory; loss, S25O,OOO
Obituary: Gen. Rutherford Orchard Hayes
ex-president of the United States, at Ere
mont, o.; aged II.
Personals: Edward Murphy. Jr, elected
United States senator from New York.
Is. Disaster: A train dashed into sleigh load
of people at Lonsdale, r. l., killing 8.
maiming7 7.
u. Fire: Rochester, the Mckay building de-.
stroyed; loss, $25O,0OO.
Disaster: An oil tank exploded on wrecked
freight train near Alton, Ills: q killed and
nearly 100 injured.
r.. Fires: st. Louis, the Carondelet grain ele-
vatOr destroyed: loss, 81, 10000. Elmwood,
Ind; loss. 100000.
q. Fires Clinton, Mo-; loss, 100000. Indianap-
oils, grain elevator destroyed; loss, $4,000
Obituary: Rev. Phillips Brooks, bishop of
Massachusetts,, in Boston; aged IS.
"A. Fire: Sioux Falls, the Beehive building
burned; loss, $4,000.
Disaster: Fire damp exploded in a coal mine
at Dux, Bohemia, killing 132 miners.
Obituary: Justice l.. @. G. Lamar of the
United States supreme court, at Macon.
Ca; aged IS.
q. Obituary: Hon. James Gillespie Blaine. in
Washington; aged 63. Gen. Abner Double
day. U. s. A., retired, a veteran of the Mex
lean and civil wars at Mendham. N. J.:
aged "A.
Personal: John H. Mitchell, elected United
States senator from Wisconsin.
q. Obituary: Gen. s. S. Carroll U, S. A. re-
tired, in Washington; aged 70.
20. Fire: Portsmouth, o.. wheelworks de-
stroyed; loss, 100000.
81. Earthquake: The island of Zante. Greece.
FEBRUARY.
!. Fire: Little Falls, N. Y; loss, 100000.
Miscellaneous: United States protectorate
established in Hawaii.
3 Miscellaneous: Algernon Sartoris, husband
of Nellie Grant, died at Capri, Italy.
I. Fire: Fairport, N. Y, chemical works
burned; loss, 100000.
9. Fire: Peoria, Ills, warehouse of the Grape
Sugar company destroyed; loss, 100000.
Disaster: Norwegian bark Alice went ashore
at Long Branch; sailors drowned.
2. Personal: Judge w. B. Allen, Populist,
elected United States senator from Ne
braska.
& Shipwreck: 80 people drowned by the loss
of the British steamship Trinacria off the
coast of Spain.
q Fires: Dover, N. H., lunatic asylum de-
stroyed; A deaths. GAINESVILLE. Tex.
block of stores burned: loss, $15O,OOO.
IL Disasters: miners killed by q landslide in
tunnel at Villa Grove, Colo. 10 men
crushed to death by falling rocks at q mar
BILE quarry in West Rutland. Vt.
Il Fire: Nashville; loss of $284, 900 in three
CONGREGATIONS
Obituary: DR.. Norvin Green, president of the
Western Union Telegraph company, in
Louisville; aged Is.
II Disaster: q persons burned to death at q
carnival dance at Deutsch Perez, Hungary.
Il Political: President Harrison sent to the
senate his message recommending the an
nexation Of Hawaii and the treaty.
II. Obituary: Rear Admiral Augustus Ludlow
Case, U. s. n, in Washington; aged 80.
10. Obituary: George E. Spencer, ex-United
States senator from Alabama, in Washing
ton.
70 Obituary: Gen. P. G.. T. Beauregard, the
Confederate veteran, at New Orleans; aged
Is.
PERSONAL: William N. Roach, elected United
States senator from North Dakota.
a. Fire: Louisville tobacco factory burned;
loss, $250.0OO.
a Obituary: Rufus Hatch, q well known stock
broker. in New York city; aged 81.
Miscellaneous: Beaupre, Keogh & Davis,
wholesale grocers, assigned in st. Paul; liza
bilities over $4,000.
~ Miscellaneous: The California capitalist,
John w. Mackay shot and seriously wound
cd by an insane man.
a Fire: FELTON,, Ga, planning mill burned: loss,