The Ceaseless Reaper Destruction on Land and Sea
A year in review 1897 highlights numerous disasters including deadly railroad wrecks shipwrecks and fires. Obituaries span Rear Admiral Skerrett Gen Walker Josiah Meade and many others from the U S and abroad. War with Greece Turkey and Cuba tensions appear amid storms quakes and fires across continents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Greece
Cuba
United States
Spain
Hawaii
America
Joseph
Natitucket Island
Roberval
Que
Albert
Willis
Honolulu
J. H. Johnston & Co
New York
Danville
Minneapolis
Daniel Franklin Davis
Maine
Bangor
Keller, Ettinger & Fink
New York City
The
Orphan Home
Dallas
Joel T. Headley
Newburg
N. Y
John Hanson Beadle
Rockville
Ind
Joseph C. Willard
Boniface
Washington
Rev. J. W. McHorse
San Jacinto
Georgetown
Tex
Nahum Chapin
Long Island
Elijah Carson
Atlantic Ocean
Anamosa
Isaac Pitman
London
John D. Stevenson
St. Louis
Sandusky
Henry G. Thomas
Guthrie
O. T
Chicago
Red Lake Falls
Minn
Hungerford
Duchess
Dublin
Syracuse
Plattsmouth
Neb
National Bank of
Pacific Junction
Philadelphia
John Eugene Smith
Hoboken
Andrew Jackson Smith
Samuel W. Stone
Topeka
John H
Russell
Charles A. Carleton
Portland Paper Co
Gilbertville
Johannes Brahms
Vienna
Edward P. Doherty
Wilkes Booth
George F. Otto Co
Cincinnati
Globe Savings Bank of Chicago
Orrington Lunt
Evanston, Ills
Andrew J. Garvey
Tweed Ring
England
Dr. von Stephen
Universal Postal Union
Berlin
Theodore Tilton
Brooklyn
Edward Drinker Cope
Moresque Block
New Orleans
Baron von Grothens
Teton County
Mon
Charles Goode
Belmont
Wis
Milnes Levick
Billy Birch
Richard W. Johnson
St. Paul
King Humbert
William S. Holman
Leeward Islands
T. E. Breckenridge
Hannibal
Mati
Turnavo
Larissa
Pharsala
Antonio Maximo Mora
Newport News
Grant
Riverside Drive
Burruss, Son & O
Norfolk
Jesse E. Peyton
Haddonfield
N. J
George W. Biddle
Daniel Ruggles
West Point
Fredericksburg
Charles H. Andrews
Boston Herald
Boston
American Medical Association
Academy of Music
Princeton
Harvard
New Haven
Urbana
Samuel P. Lee
Omaha
Hudson Junction
Ney Elias
Meshed
Eph Morris
Pittsburg
Edward C. Taft
Holyoke
Mass
Sarah A. Granger
Stephen A. Douglas
Clifton Springs
Robert Johnston Finley
McClure
Joseph Richardson
John Haswell
St. Louis Milling Co
Carlinsville
Fils
Aden
Socotra Island
Nancy E. Clem
Indiana
Indianapolis
Alvin
Clark
Cambridge
Octagon
Herman Tubbs
East Oakland
Cal
Archbishop Janssens
Faure
France
James W. Fitzgerald
St. Mary’s
Kan
George EK. Barnes
San Francisco
Father Kneipp
Woerishofen
Munich
James Gayler
Michael
McDuffee
Lincoln
Logan County
Ill
Black River Falls
John M. Francis
Troy Times
Austria
Portugal
Troy
Juliet Carson
Iowa State University
Iowa City
Gen. Green P. Garner
Chi
Capt. Boycott
Christian K. Ross
Charles Ross
Germantown
Ben Brush
Coney Island
Salina
George W. Harrington
the Elks
Kalamazoo
Mich
W. L. Winans
Winans
Alice Dunning Lingard
Charles Copeland Wight
Baltimore
Cornell
Poughkeepsie
Yale
Margaret Oliphant
Wimbledon
Missouri City
Mo. W
George M. Lane
Harvard College
Rembek
Dardanelles
Northwestern
Requital
Sheepshead Bay
George Bliss
Narragansett Pier
Franz-Josef Land
Broad Ripple
Cygnet
Emporia
Kaw
Sons of Veterans
J. R. Willard & Co
Newcastle
Colo
Lattimer
Hazleton
Antonio Terry
Paris
John Sedgwick
Conn
Polyphemus
Red Sea
Hanson
Il.t
International Association of Police and Telegraph Superintendents
Nashville
Supreme Lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor
Detroit
Sabine Pass
North Manchester
Versailles
Diaz
Mexico
John A. Logan
Youngstown
Chippewa Falls
George Waldron
Balaklava
Montreal
Henry W. Sage
Cornell University
Ithaca
Hull Lumber Company
Ottawa
Cuxhaven
Hamburg
Duke Frederick William Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Italy
Bourbaki
Imperial Guard
Bayonne
American Forestry Association
Bainbridge, C
John Gund Brewing Co
Lacrosse
Star Coal Co
Braidwood
Ills
German Baptists of the East
C. B. Kilgore
Ardmore
I. T
Hezekiah D. Sharpe
Church of the Pilgrims
James Lane
Jimmy
James Allen
Providence
Michael H. Cross
Bremen
Southampton
Quinton Campbell
Star Pointer
Neal Dow
Portland
Joseph Proctor
Austin
Starbuck
Medora
William A. Stiles
Forest and Stream
John Gilbert
Sienadore
Seymour
Philippine Islands
Fortland
Second Presbyterian Church
Lafayette
John Brady Cluz
U.S. N
General Pulger
Caracas
Thomas Whiffen
Hertford
Mrs. Atkinson
West Virginia
Windsor
Charles A. Dana
New York Sun
Glen Cove
Triton
John L. Worden
Monitor Hero
John W. Hague
George Mortimer Pullman
Palace
O. P. Caylor
Winona
Osceola
Ark
W. G. Hitchcock & Co
Fowler Crete Co
Justin Winsor
Harvard University
Princeton University
Charlie Decker
Valparai
Garrisons
Toronto
Caspar
Point Arena
Francis Turner Palgrave
Oxford University
Atlantic
Hatteras
John Sartain
Repute
Wabash Railroad
Woelfel Co
Morris
Thy, Duchess of Teck
Princess Mary of
Richmond
Thomas G. Alvord
Society of the Army of the Tennessee
Milwaukee
Sturgis
Buffalo
Association of Collegiate Alumnee
Henry George
Hercules Robinson
Cape Colony
Scranton
Union Pacific Railroad
J. R. M. Chard
V. C
Rorke’s Drift
Taunton
Central Hotel
Corry
Marlboro
Chesapeake and Ohio
Charlottesville
Thomas L. Clingham
Morgantown
N. C
R. Sheffield
New London
Dr. Moraes
Brazil
Texarkana
Cornelius O’connor
San Francisco, Aged 60. Fires: Hotel San Marco At St. Augustine
Fla
Louisville
Idaho
Lake Erie
James ©. Duane
Alexander Calder Rhind
General Assembly
Knights of Labor
Middleboro
Augusta Nack
Martin Thorn
Thorn
Long Island City
Lion
John Bagnald Burgess
Henry C. Dorr
Thomas Wilson Dorr
Thomas Wilson Evans
Napoleon II
Eugenie
Mme. Verdi
Rome
Delta County Bank of Delta
Robert M. Steel
St.q.john’s
George Hendricks Houston
Ner
Mediterranean
China
Bluff City
Chester
Henry Calderwood
Edinburgh University
Edinburgh
William Seymour Tyler
Amherst College
Amherst
Albert Ordway
Pensacola
Madison Square Garden
Miner Raymond
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Martini
Frauenfeld
Switzerland
State
Pennsylvania
Scott- Auerbach
Salt Lake City
Col
George Meade
Gen
Meade
Gettysburg
Infanta Marie Louise Fernando
Duchess de Montpensier
Madrid
Amsterdam
Cornwall
Castelmary
Tristano
Martha
Metropolitan Opera House
Hosea Vize
Pocahontas
Macedonia
William P. St. John
C. Bunting & Co
Blackfoot
Ida
Edmund R. Calhoun
John I. Baker
Sage
Essex
Republican Party
Beverly
Alfred Pleasonton
John Cleveland Robinson
Fort McHenry
Binghamton
Webster
Gloucester
Toledo
Lee
Grand Forks
N. D
Khania
Caroline Woods
David L. Proudfit
Middle Branch
Edward C. Dana
James Austin
Thomas A. Hueguenin
Charleston
Matthew Buckley
Delavan
Casey
Alexandria
St. Bernard
Alps
Avalanche
Scoville Mallory
Churchman
Nelson Wheatcroft
Oshkosh
Huntingdon
Worcester
Peoria
Bingham
James P. Kern
Cora Stewart Wheeler
Newton
Mass. l
Henry Drummond
Tunbridge Wells
Shiel Barry
Elkins
W. Va
Cretan
John Hay
Horace Porter
Great Britain
James M. Warner
Alexander Macomb Mason
Fitzsimmons
Corbett
Carson
Nev
Clinton
Fullerton
B. and O
Oakland
Ottumwa
Crete
Georgia
Theodore Burr
Des Moines
Gibbstown
William T. Adams
Oliver Optic
William R. Terry
Chesterfield
Margaret J. Preston
Chandler
Epirus
Arta
Trinity Church
John V. Crum
Richard W. Meade
Elbridge Gerry Spaulding
James B. Runnion
Kansas City
Henri d’Orleans
Duca d’ Aumale
Louis Philippe
Zucca
Sicily
Mallory Line
William Strong
Lexington
R. Sporting
Pinkney
Tenn
Robert Kemp
Max Maretzek
Staten Island
Horatio King
Frederick Schaefer
Presbyterian Church
Southern Presbyterian Convention
Charlotte
N.C
George Holman
Ont
Matthew Laflin
G. A. Soden
Tine F. Hewit
Community of Paulist Fathers
Akron
Akron Iron and Steel Co
National Executive Board
United Mine Workers of America
Hartsville
William
Groesbeck
Isham G. Harris
Tennessee
Samuel B. Halliday
Plymouth Church
Orange
Aeronaut Andree
North Pole
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
Friar
N. H
Nicholas C. Creede
Los Angeles
M. F. Wentworth
Kittery
Matteawan
Frank McLaughlin
Philadelphia Times
John F. Farnsworth
Philip Regis de Trobriand
Bayport
Joseph Conrad
Sheridan
Mission Ridge
Atlantic City
Bridgeport
Brown
Clarence A. Seward
Geneva
Lafayette McLaws
Savannah
William Reed & Co
Rowland Bros
Pass Bros
Yonkers Silk Co
Yonkers
Thorntown
Pioneer Fireproof Construction Co
Emaus
Lehigh County
Goldenrod Silk Co
Paterson
Marie Seebach
St. Moritz
Engadine
H. W. Jayne Chemical Works
Samuel P. Baker
Elmira
Rustchalk
Bulgaria
Peter Jay Munro van Cortlandt
Spokane
Wash
Agriol Paul
Liederkranz Society
Senor Canovas del Castillo
Santa Agueda
Lamb
Picknell
Marblehead
National Christian Alliance
Cleveland
Barnum
Polk County
Samuel Chester Reid
Reid
Isaac Holden
M. P
Tunis Lumber Co
Count of
Turin
Prince Henri
Orleans
Gerry Lumber Co
Eagle River
American Bankers’ Association
Society of American Florists
David G. Swaim
Young People’s ‘Christian Union
United Presbyterian Church
William Ward
Newark
National Temperance Society
Saratoga
Henry
White & Sons
Chapachet
R. L
Society of the Army
N.Y
Angiolillo
Senor Canovas
San Sebastian
Globe Building and Loan Association of Louisville
Corneil
Columbia
Lake Ann
Johm Evans
Colorado
Denver
August
Manhattan Beach
Joe Patchen
LP. Thomas’ Sons & Co
Paulsboro
James Reynolds
Old Fenian Brotherhood
Cairo
Curly Chief
Perry
Salamander
Woodbridge
L’ Alouette
Ogden Goelet
Isle of Wight
William Cookson Carpenter
Readville
Erastus Corning
Albany City National Bank
Stephen Field
United States Supreme Court
Bavaria
D. D. Belden
Pomeroy Block
Slosson
Schaefer
Ives
Daly
Sutton
Adolph Neuendorf
Birmingham
Alice Wellington Rolling
Louise Mayer
M. de Fourtou
Campbell Moffitt
William Blakely
Joseph F. Green
Brookline
Charles Fleishman
Ohio
St. Orion Clemens
Mark Twain
Keokuk
Gardiner G. Hubbard
Nancy Allison McKinley
Canton
Charles W. Miller
Hale
Rice
Sehimeer
Chestnut Street
Charles Butler
Union Theological Seminary
Justus McKinstry
Susan P. Thurlow
Cushing Island
Marshaltown
Fort Smith
Alphonse Daudet
Dakota
McCoy
Dan Creedon