Death and Disaster Across the Sea and Rails
Reports from London and Hamburg detail the steamer Cimbria sinking after a collision with the Sultan off Borkum. About 140 aboard, 56 saved, with fears of 800 total deaths as searches continue by six steaming craft amid fog. Also a runaway train casualty knocks 18 dead.
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London
Cimbria
Hamburg
New York
Sultan
Barkum
North Sea
Cuxhaven
Elbe
Borkum
Weiser
Horkum
Diamant
Hansa
Nso
Bavaria
Diamount
Massive Powder Plant Blast Kills Dozens in Berkeley
At Point Clement near West Berkeley a powder works exploded in four major blasts starting about 4 PM. About thirty Chinese workers and one foreman were killed, with estimated deaths 30 to 40. Fire engulfed the site, with windows shattered and buildings scorched. Losses total around 100000 dollars, with hundreds of lives and a large magazine area at risk. Rescue crews battled flames through the night as casualties mounted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Point Clement
West Berkeley
Conk
Berkeley
Judson & Co
August Forgofsky
Explosion at Milwaukee Grand Opera House Kills One
A calcium light cylinder exploded during the performance of Lights of London at the Grand Opera House Milwaukee injuring four. Albert Seymour, a stage hand, died from the blast while others sustained serious injuries as the curtain collapsed and debris filled the stage. Investigators moved quickly as doctors treated victims and the audience was dismissed.
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Grand Opera House
Milwaukee
Newhall
London
Albert Seymour
Opera House Explosion Injures Several Stage Employees
In the aftermath of an explosion at the opera house, Robert Ferring ton suffered a badly shattered thigh and knee, Gustav Stember badly injured with a torn leg and side, Richard Reed with a badly injured knee, and James Poster with a severe leg injury. Fire followed the blast but was quelled. About 2000 people gathered near the scene as authorities blamed carelessness with the lighting apparatus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Ferrington
The
Calcium Light
Gustav Stember
Richard Reed
James Poster
Calcium Lights
Muiden Disaster Firework Factory Explosion Kills Over Forty
AMSTERDAM January 19 A gunpowder factory at Muiden eight miles from here exploded shattering houses and roofs. Blazing debris and falling structures left most homes unroofed and village damaged. Over forty people died many with relatives in the town and surrounding villages. The scene is one of horror and desolation in a town of fewer than 2000 inhabitants.
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Amsterdam
Muiden
Veeht
Zuyder Zee
Maiden
Care Jump the Track Eighteen Passengers Hiked
A Southern Pacific overland express near Tehachapi grade runs away on a downgrade. Eighteen passengers and two sleeping car porters were killed and ten to twelve injured. Mrs Downey wife of ex Governor Tom Downey is among the dead. Captain Waterhouse is among the injured. A full investigation will follow. A special train with physicians and an undertaker was sent from Los Angeles.
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San Francisco
Cal
Overland Express
Southern Pacific
Tehaehapi Station
Sumner
Tehachapi
Hey
Los Angeles
Summner
Downey
Tom Downey
Captain Waterhouse
Fillmore
Dangers of Helping Blocked Engine in Colorado Storm
A blizzard on the Atlantic & Pacific line near Coolidge and Fort Wingate caused four sixty ton engines to crash after rescuers arrived. Engineer Charles Laken and his helper were bruised. others were only slightly hurt. The storm raged with zero visibility and the rescue train itself wrecked. No serious injuries were reported.
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Denver
Col
the Tribune
Albuquerque
Atlantic & Pacific Road
Coolidge
Fort Wingate
Charles Laken
No. 16
Freman
Mo Olient
Mariposa Sunk Off Fisher's Island Then Pirates?
The brig Mariposa bound for Boston from Perth Amboy sank after a collision with steamer Canima off Fisher's Island, Long Island Sound, about 3 in the morning. All but one crewman, Charles Powers of Eastport Maine, perished. Powers, rescued by Canima’s crew, reported Captain Haskell was not aboard. The Mariposa, built 1865 in Cherryfield Maine, 298 tons, owned by George B Milton of Boston, insured for 4000 with China Fire and 1500 with India Fire, was en route with coal from Perth Amboy. The Canima's owners have libelled the steamer.
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New York
Newfoundland
Fisher’s Island
Long Island Sound
Charles Powers
Eastport
Haskell
New Jersey
Coook
Mike Kemp
P. Donavan
J. Davis
J. Norton
Boston
India
George B. Milton
Cherryfield
Perth Amboy
Perth
Aimboy
Endymion Survivors Rescued After Sea ordeal and starvation
Captain Waycott and 17 others survive the Endymion wreck after three days without food or water. The Schiedam crew plucked them from raging seas off December 7 night, aided by a lead pipe water intake and improvised cooking.
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Waycott
Endymion
New York
Schiedam
Royal Netherlands Line
Amsterdam
Muskwash
St. John
N. B
Liverpool
Loye
Endyrmmon Built in East Boston by Dewolff Co
A fragment notes Endyrmmon was constructed in East Boston within a pie. It was owned by Dewolff & Co of Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortable
Boston
Dewolff & Co
Liverpoo
Steamboat Josephine Explodes Killing Many Near Seattle
The steamer Josephine blew up in Port Susan bay fifty miles north of Seattle while dinner was served. The explosion killed captain Bailey crew and purser, steward and attendant, and several passengers including Kavanagh and J E Cannon. Injured included engineer Dennis Lawler and Estella Bradish. The boat broke in two, one part sank and survivors were rescued.
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Seattle
W. T
Josephine
Skagitt River
Port Susan Bay
Johnson
Bailey
Davia Sparks
Kavanagh
E. Cannon
Bates, Reed & Cooley
New York
Sam Babbitt
Dennis Lawler
Estella Bradish
Tacoma
Hannah & Price
Skagitt
Ln- 13
Fireman Killed in Delaware & Hudson Rail Accident
A morning Fort Edward branch train jumped the track one mile south of Glen Falls due to ice on the rail flange. Fireman Edward Nichols was crushed to death. the engineer and pierers were bruised. Travel was delayed a couple of hours as the line was cleared.
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Troy
Fort Edward
Delaware & Hudson Tailroad
Glen's Falls
Edward Nichols
Fate of Six Sailors From Grand Banks Tragedy
The schooner James A Garfield arrived from the Grand Banks reporting the loss of six crew on January 10 after they left to tend trawls and could not return in heavy seas. Names listed include James Ray John McKinnon John Whitman Ned Brophy James Dunn and a seaman known as English Bill.
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Gloucester
James A. Garfield
Grand Banks
James Ray
John McKinnon
John Whitman
Ned Brophy
James Dunn
English Bill
Vorwarts Sinks Off Lunov. Eight Drowned
A Russian ship named Vorwarts sank off Lunov on January 22, with eight persons drowned. Rescue and inquiry details were not disclosed, and the fate of the remaining crew remained unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lunov
Russia
Vorwarts
Explosion kills three at Childs mill near Kikton
A boiler explosion at the George W. Childs paper mills near Kikton Maryland, operated for the Philadelphia Ledger, killed three workers and severely injured five others this morning around six o clock in Wilmington Delaware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
George W. Childs
Philadelphia Ledger
Kikton
Noted Hickeys Held in Cruelty to 16 Year Old Girl
Oswrao New York January 22 Joln Hickey and Mary Jane his wife are held in $1500 bail each on charges of atrocious cruelty to Osee Everett now 16. The girl was taken from her poor parents eight years ago when she was 11. She is described as a skeleton and severely disfigured. Her captors are alleged to have kept her in a cold shed during winter with neglect and abuse. Civil action for $10000 was filed by the girl’s brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oswrao
N. Y
Joln Hickey
Mary Jane
Osee Everett
Hickeys
Eias
Hickey
Newhall House Ad Promises Fire Protection Prediction
An advertisement from the Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph dated January 7 touts Newhall House with J. B. Antisdel & Son as proprietors. It proclaims a great reduction in rates for rooms and board and claims Dwight's patent fire-escape provides exit from every floor in case of emergency. The hotel staff are trained as a fire department and each floor has water onsite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhall House
Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph
Ewhall House
Milwaukee
Antisdel & Son
Hake & Dwight
Hoax Foretold Fire Prediction At Newhall House
A Chicago paper three years ago carried a dramatic hoax about the Newhall House fire killing many. The article ended warning such calamity could happen any time. E. B. Northrop, then a Chicago newspaper man now in St. Paul, authored the hoax and said it would later be seen as a prediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Newhall House
E. B. Northrop
St. Paul
Smallpox Cases Reported in Wilmington and Little Rock
Reports to the National Board of Health from Wilmington Delaware show thirty smallpox cases since January 1 with nineteen deaths. Dr Gibbons in Little Rock Arkansas notes three cases to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilmington
Del
National Board of Health
Gibbons
Little Rock
Ark
Small-pox Quarantines Expand Near Seneca Lake
Small-pox is raging in Schuyler and nearby counties around Seneca Lake New York with several towns quarantined by the State Board of Health. These actions reflect a broader outbreak across the state, prompting stricter movement controls and health inspections to curb spread.
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New York
Schuyler
Seneca Lake
State Board of Health
Fire devastates Susanville for a second time
A Reno dispatch reports Susanville in northern California again burned to the ground. The post village, capital of Lassen County, lies on the Susan river at Horn Lake valley, about 110 miles northeast of Marysville and eight miles from the Sierra Nevada, at 4180 feet elevation. Once rebuilt after a prior blaze, the town with about 2000 people had two newspapers and two churches and a fine public school system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Reno
Susanville
Fie
Lassen County
Cal
Susan River
Horn Lake Valley
Marysville
Sierra Nevada
California
Electric crew unseats 600 pound weight atop mast
In Minneapolis on January 22 C Sullivan and James Campbell worked on an electric light mast. A rope failed causing the balancing weight to drop. Campbell fell about fifteen feet while Sullivan clung to a wire cable and descended unharmed after Campbell’s ascent to the top.
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Minneapolis
C. Sullivan
James Campbell
Campbell
Sullivan
Senate Passes the Postal Appropriation Bill in Senate
Washington reports the Senate resumes work on the post office appropriation bill with Sherman opposing rushed amendments and a two cent letter rate. Debate centers on postal telegraph, government lines, and funding, plus amendments on third class matter and fast mail service. Also notes a fraud warning against Ellsworth Williams Co and proposed Congress meeting dates bill.
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Washington
Senate
Sherman
United States
Congress
Miller
New York
Plumb
Messrs. Anthony
Edmunds
Mr. Edmunds
Cockrell
Senate Committee
Post Office Department
Gorman
Committee of the Whole
Albaque New York
Congress to Tackle Tariff and Appropriations This Week
Congress faces a week focused on tariff legislation with the Senate set to consider the Morrill bill and the House timetable constrained by four hours of general debate. The Ways and Means and Senate finance committees present divergent tariff plans, while large appropriation bills loom. Also on deck are river and harbor studies, whiskey bond legislation, and a census report estimating U S forest product consumption and charcoal use in major cities.
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Republican Party
Ways and Means Committee
Republican
Washington
Congress
Senate
Morrill
House
Nlucus
Senate Finance Committee
Burrows
Mississippi River
Ellis
Louisiana
Mississippi
Kuds
Representative Butterworth
Ohio
United States
England
Ireland
Census Office
Profit Highlight in Star Route Contract Trial
Washington January 22 eighth week of the star route trial opened with Canyon City to Fort McDermott route. James I Browne, the carrier, testified that Contractor Miner initially received 21,500 while the performing carrier got 10,000. Payments later rose to 50,000 but the carrier's share remained 20,000. Defense objected but court admitted the testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Canyon City
Fort McDermott
James I. Browne
Miner
Democrats and Tariff Bill Pass Through House
Washington January 20 Representative Flower of New York a prominent Democrat in the House said today that the Democrats would not oppose the passage of the tariff bill this session. They are prepared to support the bill without obstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Voorhees
Indiana
Signal Service
Agricultural Bureau
Representative Flower
New York
House
Massachusetts Lad Detained After Pepper Box Amid Night Wanderings
A 15 year old Boston boy named George E. Coleman was found wandering the streets near Greene's drug store in Providence. He admitted seeking lodging after riding a freight car and was taken to the Central Station cell with a pepper box revolver a candle a gimlet scissors tobacco a diary and poems he penned about a boy named Peter Gray. He claims to be an orphan living on Branch avenue and was sent to the cell for safety.
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Packard
Dary
Central Station
Greene
Branch Avenue
West Indies
Boston
Peter Gray
George E. Coleman
Rosedale
Mass
Ano
Yale
Stolen Keg of Gold Ties Loss to Wells Fargo Express
Pay Inspector Rufus Parks reports a December shipment of two kegs containing 100000 in gold coin marked Parks Pensacola was delivered to a Panama vault but one keg vanished before January 1 1900. No trace of the stolen gold has been found and the loss will fall on Wells Fargo Express which guaranteed safe delivery aboard the Pensacola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hughes
United States Naval Force
Pacific
Chandler
Rufus Parks
Wells, Fargo & Co
Panama
Parks
T. T. Caswell
New York
United States
U. S. S. Pensacola
Pensacola
Express Company
Ragman John Cantellow Surprises Doctors By Driving Home
Boston ragman John Cantellow was believed fatally injured after a fall from his wagon in Malden on Tuesday. While en route to City Hospital for observation, he awoke and insisted on driving his own team back to his Rochester Street home in Charlestown, prompting officers to step back and let him handle the reins.
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John Cantellow
Boston
Malden
Shute
Miller
Charlestown
Rochester Street
Funeral for NYPD officer bitten by lunatic causes death
Police man William Heaviside of the fourth precinct, famed athlete, died after being bitten on the right hand by the man he arrested three months earlier. His condition worsened from a swollen hand to pyemia or blood poisoning, with no hydrophobia signs. He died Thursday in severe agony.
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New York
William Heaviside
Heaviside
Ice Flood at Niagara Falls Destroys Property and Infrastructure
At 1 a.m. high wind and water drove vast ice over Niagara Falls filling the gorge. Ice bridges more than 100 feet thick along the shore wreck houses and property, causing several thousand dollars in damage. Two hundred feet of the inclined railway structure and the observatory and dressing rooms below the bank were crushed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Fall
N. Y
Anne
Frye Chosen U.S. Senator by Legislature
Joint convention of the Legislature tallied votes from both houses and declared William P. Frye elected United States senator for six years from March 4, 1885, after obtaining a majority in each branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avugusta
United States
William P. Frye
Arrest of Prince Napoleon for Issuing a Manifesto
Paris reports Prince Napoleon arrested for a revolutionary manifesto provoking strong public excitement. The incident dominates Parisian discussion, while the government and press debate legality and the political impact amid claims of other dynastic plots and widespread placards.
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Prince Napoleon
Extensive Legitimist Conspiracy Report Shocks Paris
Paris reports a vast conspiracy named the Catholic Alliance led by Charette. Thirty three legions are alleged to exist in the west and center, with officers and ex official conspirators implicated. Police conduct house searches as government probes deepen to quell unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Army of the Republic
Catholic Alliance
Charette
Alliance
Arr
Republic
Paris Faces Royalist Plots and Expulsion Moves
Paris reports a Royalist attempt to downplay a Legitimist conspiracy while rumors spread of plots and counterplots. Police hunt suspects as Catholic workers' clubs show unease. The government plans expulsion power for overt acts and the Orleans family holds a council at Duc d Aumale's residence. The Extreme Left insists on stripping the Orleans princes of military commands.
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Paris
Republic
Orleans
Duc d'Aumale
Extreme Left
Chamber of Deputies
France Moves to Expel Pretenders and Reform Press Law
In Paris the Chamber of Deputies debated a ministerial bill allowing the president to order expulsion of former royal family members whose presence threatens state safety with potential imprisonment for return. Princes in the army would be retired, sparking uproar. A separate bill tightens 1881 press law penalties for republican outrages, with urgent vote set and committee appointees Ballue and Floquet slated for Tuesday. Prince Napoleon’s arrest provoked Bonapartist protests calling for a popular appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Napoleon
Jerome
Freneh
Chamber of Deputes
M. Plaquet
France
Algeria
M. Deves
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Republic
MM. Ballue
Floquet
The Socialists One of the Dangers that Threaten the Republic
London reports post Gambetta death turmoil among French Republicans as Lyons court extends 1872 law to the International. Kropotkin and anarchists face harsh sentences while Socialist leaders vow to convert prisoners to their cause. Daily News warns government risks alarming social order by clashing with socialists. The piece notes potential Legitimist leverage amid the unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
France
Gambetta
Lyons
International
Lyons Revolutionary Federation
Prince Kropotkine
The
Daily News
Interview summaries from Paris anarchist trials reported
Le Petit Journal quotes four convicted anarchists in Paris on January 21. Bordat confirms ties to revolutionary groups and denies knowledge of the federation chief, while denying responsibility for the Theatre Belle Cour blast. Bernard admits aiding the anarchist party and that letters came from Prince Kropotkin. Clauthier boasts of activities in Paris and involvement in revolutionary work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
le Petit Journal
Bordat
Revolutionary Federation
The
Etendard Revolutionaire
Theatre Belle Cour
Lyons
Bernarad
Prince Kropotkine
Clauthier
Severest Storm on Record Turns Cold as Rail Traffic Halts
January 21 report from Coleago notes a historic cold spell in 1882 with Chicago at 10 below and Rega in the Northwest at 68 below, trains abandoned across states, and multiple towns such as Sioux Falls Elko Leadville and Beloit suffering 40 to 68 below zero. Rail lines including Central Pacific and Burlington Missouri Nebraska face heavy snow and blockages. Five freight trains blocked between Fall City and Pailhan threaten livestock losses as winds and blizzards continue across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleaco
Mercury
Chicago
Northwest
Rega
Northwest Territory
Mercnary
Sioux Falls
Dak
Ely
Central Pacific
Nevada
Elko
Spirit
Kukenma
Col
Leadville
Atchison, Kam
Burlington, Missouri & Nebraska
Fall City
Pailian
Rockford
Beloit
Wis
Ecenteal Olinois
A Russian Nobleman Chooses Liberty Over Wealth
A Russian nobleman is portrayed as preferring a life of poverty and liberty to wealth gained under restraint. The piece contrasts aristocratic privilege with personal freedom and moral choices amid society’s pressures.
Man Who Built the Track Behind First American Locomotive
Uncle John Raymond of Walton New York died at Scranton aged 4S years He built the first mile of railroad track for commercial use in America on the Delaware and Hudson line between Honesdale and Carbondale In 1829 the first American locomotive tested on that mile Horatio Allen conducted the trial Raymond born 1796 married 1819 surviving wife also noted Cleveland January 24 Harry Y Chapman a nine year old boy died in Lake street after blood poisoning from dye transfer in stockings causing fatal infection to the foot and leg
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Raymond
Scranton
Walton
Delaware County
N. Y
Ohio
America
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
Honesdale
Carbondale
Horatio Allen
East Orange
Raymond
Cleveland
Harry Y. Chapman
Lake Street
Great Remedy for Coughs and Lung Ailments
The advertisement touts a remedy claimed to alleviate coughs colds asthma and spits of blood with relief for loss of voice hoarseness and respiratory afflictions affecting the throat bronchial tubes and lungs potentially leading to consumption. It presents results and appeals to sufferers seeking cures for chronic throat and lung conditions.
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Gers
Berlin
Weser
Hansen
Oscar Torqustsky
Netherlands
Colorado
Ove
Delaware & Hudson
Ite
New York State
Delaware
Arkansas
E. Ellsworth
Atlas J. Williams & Co
Fifteenth Street
Detroit
Mich
Signal Service For Agriculturists
Whiskey Lobby
Gore
Massachusetts Bay
Providence
Officer Heaviside
Niagara's Ice Gorge
Frye
Prince Jerome
Faubourg
St. Antoine
Halles
Belleville
M. Pallieres
Progret
Tranifesto
Count de Chambord
Bordat, Bernard, Gauthier and
Tresesad
Tressant
Chicaco
Otto Goodknecht
Tie
Goodknecht
Otto
Ision
Kone
Adamson
Smith, Doolityle & Smith
Frank Swan
Adamason
Perkins & CO
Divistown
Portland
Jne, Osborn
Evans, Webster & Co
Myrtle Ave
Brooklyn
Chichester
Springfield
Masa
Mary A. Brockwell
R. I
Lorenzo Mund
Balsam
Adamson’s Botanic Balsam
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