Disasters of 1875 and the Year's Tragedies
In truth, 1875 will be noted as a year fruitful of disaster of every kind. Typhoons, railway and steamship disasters, explosions, and large fires, these and other forms of disaster have figured in the newspapers all the past year. Indeed, the history of a single fortnight, the last two weeks of the old year, includes such tragedies as the Deutschland and Bremer-haven steamer accidents, the terrible colliery explosion at Framieres, the destruction of Arecibo by an earthquake, the collision on the Gironde, the burning of the English training ship Goliath, the explosion of the Boston gas-main, the tornado in Bermuda, the school-house massacre at Hellikon, Switzerland, and the tornado in the Philippines, while the new year is ushered in with the promise of a speedy eruption of Vesuvius;—and what tragedy may there not yet be enacted there?—Christian at Work.