A LIST OF DISASTERS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 257, 7 February 1889, Page 3

A LIST OF DISASTERS.

FIRES ON LAND AND AT SEA. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. OVEB TWELVE’ HUNDRED DEATHS--1175 FROZEN TO DEATH, [per mail steamer.] The British Steamship Almisa, Captain Smith, bound from England to New York, via Halifax, was burnt on the night of December 14th, about twenty five miles out of the port last named. Tha Captain’s wife, two children, and twelve sailors were burned with the vessel. The Captain, first mate and second mate took a small boat and landed at Rockland, Maine. The steamer Kate Adams, running on the Mississippi river between Memphis and Arkansas city, was burnt on December 23 rd. Fifty persons perished. The town of Marblehead, Mass., was in a great part reduced to ashes on Christmas night, Tho fire consumed the railway depot, all the boot and shoe factories, ana many other buildings, burning over seven acres of ground. It was the most disastrous con flagration in the history of tho city. The loss is estimated at 1,500,000 dollars.* Advices from Russia state that 1175 persons were frozen to death in Ekaterinburg on December 27. Railway disasters are reported from Baku and other places, A train on the Trans-Caucasian railroad was blocked in the snow early in January near Tiflis. Fourteen passengers perished, and twenty were injured. A relief party lost their way, and were all frozen to death.