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DISASTERS IN" 1886. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 



age, and several lives lost, by wind and sea. Fire ; 

 city of Vancouver almost totally destroyed. 



25. Explosion in colliery near Rochamp, France ; 

 24 killed. 



July 2. Explosion ; dynamite in Atlantic Com- 

 pany's works near McCainsville, N. J. ; 10 killed. 

 Shipwreck ; 8 French torpedo-boats foundered in a 

 storm in the Atlantic ; 50 lives lost. 



5. Fires ; Harlem, N. Y. ; loss, $200,000 ; Cohoes, 

 N. Y. ; loss, $200,000 ; Chicago j 2 killed, 4 injured; 

 loss, $30,000. Kail way ; collision in Scotland, be- 

 tween Edinburgh and Glasgow ; 35 injured. 



7. Earthquake at Malaga. 



15. Explosion ; an old artillery shell in St. Peters- 

 burg, Kussia; 16 killed, several injured. 



19. Gale on the North Atlantic coast ; much damage 

 at Far Rockaway, N. Y. 



28. Fire; theatre at Tinnevelly, British India { 

 about 100 lives lost. 



30. Shipwreck ; American schooner Sarah Craig, 

 with a pleasure-party of 11 persons on board, capsized 

 off Sandy Hook ; 7 drowned. 



31. Explosion (supposed malicious intent) ; dyna- 

 mite, at Reading, Pa.; church blown up. Floods: 

 great damage and loss of life in the New England and 

 Middle States. 



August 4. Drowned ; 7 members of one family in 

 the harbor of Portland, Me. 



9. Earthquakes continued in New Zealand. 



11. Tornado in central New York. 



12. Shipwreck ; two yachts capsized near Boston ; 

 10 drowned. 



13. Explosion ; in Woodend colliery near Leigh, 

 Lancashire 2 England ; 36 killed. 



15. Hurricane; Newburg, Ind., destroyed. 

 17. Earthquake in Malta. 



20. Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, and 200 miles 

 inland, along the coast of Texas ; 38 lives lost. Gal- 

 veston suffered most severely, and property was de- 

 stroyed to the estimated value of $5,000,000. 



21. Fire in San Francisco; estimated damage, 

 $2,000,000. 



23. Flood ; Irrawaddy Eiver, Burmah, bursts its 

 banks, and floods the city of Mandalay ; 25 lives lost. 



25. Railroad; runaway train r>3ar Saluda, N. C. ; 5 

 killed, 8 injured ; mo^t of them convicts. Ship- 

 wreck ; French ship L'Etoile, strikes a reef and sinks 

 at once ; 12 lives lost. Horses run away with a car- 

 riage containing Senator W. M. Evarts, Judge Stan- 

 ley Matthews, "C. C. Perkins, and Miss Matthews ; 

 Mr. Perkins killed, and all the rest injured. 



28. Earthquake in Greece, affecting the neighboring 

 islands ; 600 lives lost ; several towns destroyed. 



29. Fire ; steamer Daniel Drew burned at her moor- 

 ings near Kingston, N. Y. 



30. Explosion; fire-damp in Fairlawn Colliery, 

 Scranton, Pa. ; 5 killed. Railway ; collision near 

 Vienna, Austria ; 7 killed. 



31. Earthquake ; central in South Carolina, but 

 affecting nearly all the territory of the United States 

 east of the Mississippi River. In Charleston, nearly 

 every building was damaged, and some were thrown 

 down ; 61 lives lost. The shocks continued with de- 

 creasing violence for about two months. 



September 4. Yellow i'ever at Biloxi, Miss. Fires in 

 Jersey City, N. J. ; Milwaukee, Wis. ; Pittsburg, Pa. ; 

 and Long Island City, N. Y. 



5. Railway; collision near Curtis Bay Junction, Mel.; 

 15 injured. 



12. Panic in Pilgrimage Roman Catholic Church, 

 Radna, Transylvania; 15 killed, 100 injured. 



13. Mine caves in near Scranton, Pa. ; 1 killed, 6 

 buried, but afterward rescued. 



14. Railway ; collision on the New York, Chicago, 

 and St. Louis Railroad, called the "Nickel Plate," 

 30 miles west of Buffalo. Baggage and smoking-car 

 telescoped ; 13 killed, 7 fatally injured, 12 seriously. 



16. Tornado; Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, arid 

 Michigan ; several towns wrecked, and lives lost. 



24. Lightning ; 5 oil-wells set on fire at Lima, Ohio, 



27. Fire ; 30 buildings burned at Deland, Florida. 

 30. Explosion ; powder- works near Bavchester, 



N. Y. ; 4 killed. 



October 3. Explosion; fire-damp in a colliery near 

 Wakefield, Yorkshire, England ; 24 killed. 



5. Explosion on steamer La Mascotte, nearNeeley's 

 Landing, Cape Girardeau ; 22 killed. 



12. Gale in Gulf of Mexico, Sabine Pass destroyed ; 

 102 lives lost; Johnson's Bayou, La., destroyed: 

 145 lives lost. 



14, 15. Hurricane in Great Britain, much damage 

 done, and many lives lost. Fire ; a large part of 

 Eastport, Me., burned. 



21. Explosion ; 600-pound shell at Sandy Hook 

 Government experiment station ; Lieut. Metcalfe and 

 private King killed ; several injured. 



28. Railway accident near Rio, Wis. ; 13 killed. 



30. Shipwreck; Cunard steamer Pavonia struck a 

 rock and had to be beached in Boston Harbor. 



November 3. Railway accident between Nicolaief and 

 Odessa ; 40 soldiers killed. 



9. Explosion ; 3 powder-houses near Lake Ho- 

 patcong. 



11. Floods in the south of France. 



14. Explosion on Chinese steamer Tokatman, off 

 Niigata : 96 lives lost. 



15. Shipwreck; steamer Normantore founders off 

 Pashima, Japan ; 60 lives lost. 



16. Fire; town of Durham, N. C.j business section 

 burned loss, $500,000. 



17. Fire in Baltimore ; 3 firemen killed by breaking 

 of ladder. Town of Salisbury, Md., almost wholly 

 burned. 



17-23. Storms ; terrible gales on the Great Lakes ; 

 about 30 vessels wrecked ; 50 lives lost. 



24.' Fire at Forsyth, Mo. ; estimated loss, $390,000. 



25. Explosion ; tug Sunbeam in East River, N. Y. ; 

 6 killed. 



27. Shipwreck ; British steamer Westernland ; 

 struck by a sea; deck crushed in; 6 men killed, 13 

 iniured. Fire ; grain- elevators burned at Duluth ; 

 3 lives lost; estimated damage, $850,000. 



29. Shipwreck ; life-saving crew at Point au Sable, 

 Mich., answer false signals of distress from a schoon- 

 er ; 3 drowned. 



December 3. Fire ; town of English, Ind., nearly 

 destroyed. 



4. Railway ; collision near Balconv Falls, Va. ; 4 

 killed. 



9. Explosion ; locomotive-engine, near Jersey shore, 

 Pa. ; 4 killed. 



10. Railway; collision near Memphis, Tenn. ; 4 

 killed viz., the conductor, and 3 tramps, who were 

 stealing a ride. 



14. Railway; broken bridge near Chapel Hill, N. C. 

 The whole train fell 20 feet ; 5 injured ; car took fire. 



82. Railway ; train derailed near Henderson, N. C. ; 

 11 injured. 



25.' Explosion ; kerosene at Newberne, N. C. ; 3 

 houses burned ; 2 lives lost. 



31. Railway; collision near Devil's River, Texas; 

 5 killed, 10 injured. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. The Disciples of 

 Christ, while they have no general official or- 

 ganization, are represented in general mission- 

 ary work by three voluntary societies, viz. : 

 the General Christian Missionary Convention, 

 Avhich was organized in 1849 as the American 

 Christian Missionary Society, and reorganized 

 under its present name in 1881 ; the Christian 

 Woman's Board of Missions, which was or- 

 ganized in 1874; and the Foreign Christian 

 Missionary Society, organized in 1875. The 

 first society labors chiefly in the United States, 

 the third in foreign countries, and the Wom- 

 an's Board co-operates with both. The annual 





