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Casualties in 1874

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 4.

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Casualties in 1874.

The following list comprises the leading casualties that occurred during the year 1874:
Jan. 22, near Port Townsend, Washington Territory, the ship Panther was lost with twenty-three persons.
Feb. 13, eleven men killed and as many more injured by the falling of a brewery in Philadelphia.
Feb. 13, Taylor’s Pantechnicon in London burned. It was a repository for the most valuable furniture and other articles of value. Loss $15,000,000.
March 24, boiler explosion in steamer Crescent City on the Mississippi; sixteen lives lost.
April 1, the greater portion of Millerstown, Pa., burned and seven persons lost their lives.
April 17, by an unprecedented rise of the Mississippi and violent local storms, six or seven of the largest and most fertile parishes of Louisiana were overflowed, leaving thousands of people without food or shelter. The federal government rendered large assistance and all the larger cities contributed generously. Other states along the Mississippi were more or less damaged.
March 31, the loss of the French steamship Nile between Hong-Kong and Yokohama reported, by which 80 persons were drowned.
April 9, twenty-two persons were killed by an explosion on board the Tigress at St. John, N. F.
April 2, the French Transatlantic Co.’s steamship Europe, from Liverpool to New York, was lost and on the 9th, the ship L’Amerique of the same line was abandoned at sea, but towed into an English harbor in good condition.
April 15, fifty persons were killed by a coal mine explosion in England.
May 16, the Mill Run reservoir, covering a tract of 100 acres at Williamsburg, Mass., gave way quite early in the morning, and the vast mass of water was precipitated down a steep, narrow valley through the villages of Haydenville, Leeds, Florence, and the town of Northampton. A million dollars’ worth of property was destroyed and one hundred and fifty lives lost by drowning. In December the top of the newly constructed dam at Haydenville gave way owing to bad engineering and material.
June 23, second floor of the Central Baptist Church of Syracuse, N. Y., gave way during a strawberry festival, precipitating hundreds of people into the lower story. Thirteen persons were killed and many injured.
May 31, seventy-three lives were lost by the stranding of the ship British Admiral on King’s Island.
June 20, by a collision in the Sea of Marmora 320 lives were lost.
July 4, one hundred houses were burned in Allegheny City, Pa.
July 14, a fire in Chicago destroyed 346 buildings. Loss $4,000,000, with an insurance of $2,500,000.
July 26, a destructive deluge or “burst of a water cloud” resulted in a loss of over 100 lives in the suburbs of Pittsburg, Pa.
August 5, over fifty lives were lost by the burning of the steamer Port Rogers on the Ohio river.
July 26, a land slide in Navarre, Spain, caused the death of 200 persons.
September 7, nearly 700 families were made homeless by a destructive fire in Merningen, Germany. Loss $3,000,000.
September 19, the Granite Mill at Fall River was partially burned, and in the consequent panic over twenty operators were killed.
An earthquake in Guatemala, Sept. 3, nearly destroyed several towns and more than 200 persons lost their lives.
Sept. 28, a very destructive gale occurred on the coast near Charleston, causing an extensive loss of property. Great loss was occasioned by an extensive tornado in south-western Texas a little earlier.
The grasshoppers destroyed quite an extensive breadth of crops in the newly settled portion of Minnesota, and in the south-western part of Nebraska and new counties of Kansas, so completely devastating the country as to make about 25,000 people objects of charity.
The terrible famine which threatened India, has been averted by the interposition of the British government. At one time it was feared that thousands in a population of eight millions would die of starvation. It is estimated that all were saved except two thousand.
November 17, the emigrant ship Cospatrick bound from Liverpool to Australia, was burned at sea, and 474 lives were lost.
Oct. 2, a large load of gunpowder, weighing four tons, exploded in a canal in London, killing twelve persons and inflicting great injury on property in the vicinity.
Sept. 22 and 23, a typhoon of great extent and violence swept over the vicinity of Hong Kong, by which 30,000 persons lost their lives and $50,000,000 of property were destroyed.
Dec. —, the Pacific Mail steamer Japan was burned soon after leaving the Chinese port and 400 Chinese passengers lost.