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The Showing of the Port of Chicago for the Season of 1883. Xnmber of Craft Arriving and Pc-parting—The Seaports Wholly Eclipsed, Cargoes Received and Skipped—How Freights Hgye Ruled—Marine Insurance. Lake THE GREATEST POBT. CHICAGO LEADING THE PRINCIPAL SEAPORTS. The installment of The Inteb Ocean's marine ¦ review herewith given is devoted to a succinct Showing of the lake, commerce of Chicago during the saason, the condition of lake freights, marine insurance, etc. Chicago makes a grand exhibit, > and indicates beyond question the justness of The Intek Ocean's claim that she is the greatest port on th< Aj lerican continent. Combine the j Hgures of the port of New York and any oilier ; 'our principal seaports and the total does not equal the total number of vessels arriving and • clearing at Chicago during the season (or the t year) just closing. Lake freights have ruled very fair, but the ' •losses bv shipwrecks have been extraordinary . heavv and the underwriters are great sufferers. , The sacrifice of life has also been terribly largo. . ire of the review will appear shortly..! J AT THE STRAITS. THE OPENING BATES. The Straits of Mackinaw opened the past season on April 28—that is the, first craft passed through on that date. The following table shows -the opening date for a series of years past: ; [When a craft has passed through the Straits in the spring navigation on the lakes is considered 1,11 un 7.000 52:350,000 63,161,607 775,523 1,624,597 ¦910,782 252.818 371810 175,449 62,883 14,724 22,210 64,680 27,000 25,171 26,011 11714=! 942 178,722 ¦ 7 10 shtpiments of some of the leading products or comnnodities by lake during the season: Luro ber received, feet..............l-'T^'1^00? b received, No............. Lath received, No................. Grain shipped, bushels.......... Flour shipped, ban-els............ Flaxseed shipped, bushels....... Coal received, tons—........... Timothy seed shipped, bushels.. Lard shipped, tierces............ Pork shipped, barrels............ Beef shipped, barrels............ O-;.' meal snipped, barrels......... Salt received in barrels.......... Salt received in sacks............. Salt received in bulk, tons....... Pig iron received, tons............ iron ore received, tons............ Wood, cords...................... Slab:;, cords...................... Bark, cords................-....... Cedar posts. No.................. Railway ties, No................, Telegraph poles, No.............. Spiles, No....................... :'¦¦ eral hundred thousand tons of general merchandise was received from the lower lakes by the several propeller lines, but no record is kept of this. ——a*---- INSURANCE LOSSES. HOW T3E COMPANIES HAVE SUFFERED. aso,h of lake navigation, while it has been a moderately paying one to vessel owners, has been one of the most disastrous to the marine in- e companies ever known in the history of Jake commerce. A good authority estimates that : theiosses-of the marine companies for 1883 will i exceed their gross premiums received during ; the year by $500,000. This is a very large sum, but when the gross premiums. received during the year, amounting to nearly $1,000,000. is of FrankfoiL; ViWIUl freezing weatli ¦:-, fearful experience of the crew. Nov. 20—The propeller Ooiicsr.oga lost her quarter board in the storm; ifi washed ashore at. Point Betsey life station, and was the origin of a ling rumor that she was lost, but turns up safely. Nov. 27—The large steamer D. E. Bailey disabled; pa: - I';. Qkfort with her colors at- the tug D. P. Hall picks her up and tows ber to theManltous. Nov. 29—The tug D. P. Hall rescues schooner H. C. Richards, ashore on South Manitou Island. Nov. 30—The Point Betsey life .station closed to-day, and schooner Graham Bros, arrived. Dec. 5— Schooner Graham Bros, sails for Manitowoc, being the last sail departure of the season. Dec. 6—A schooner is said to have foundered off Empire Bluffs. J) u nil g the sum mer another crib has been adde>J to the South Harbor pier, and a channel fifteen feet deeD*dredged between the piers, giving ns the best port of refuge on the east shore. Charles Burmeister. THE DISASTERS, ETC. The installment of The Inter Ocean's marine review for 1883 giving the disasters, tonnage passing out,new tonnage commissioned, etc., will appear in a few days. Some craft are still outside, and to be heard from. k. Buffalo, N. v.. Dee. 23.—The owners of the barge II. J. Mills have libeled her cargo of lumber for $1,330, being the amount claimed for demurrage and general average expenses. Mr. John L. Williams. Secretary of the Western Transportation Company, states that the rumor that S. D. Caldwell, now manager of the Red Line, is to become manager of the Western Transportation Company is false. Mr. John Alien, Jr., its President and present manager is a large stockholder and has no idea of resigning. 10 22 DISASTERS OF 1883, .rHHeiWmDHmMPWGIWU WWL iiacc on jua stage at the Grand Opera House, Milwaukee...............-....................: Jan. 20—Three powder explosions occurred in a manufactory at Meriden, eight miles from Amsterdam..................- ¦ ¦ ¦ - • ¦ • Jan, 21—A train on the Southern Pacific hallway, when detached from the looomo-motives, ran down a steep grade at Te-heehapiPass and plunged down an embankment. The cars fell in a heap and caught lire Instantly. Some of the passengers were u millet I and some were crushed to death...........................;¦¦ •¦¦•/¦ The Hamburg-American steamer Cimona, which left Hamburg on the 17th for New Yoik with 380 passengers and 110 officers and crew, collided on the 10th with the Hull steamer Sultan,-oft' Borkutn Island. The Cimbria sank almost immediately. Some of the passengers and men were picked up in the small boats by steamers sent to their rescue......................... 3 J8 Jan 22—The Atlantic Giant Powder Works, ' near Oakland, Cal., were destroyed by a series of explosions. Five white men and a large number of Chinamen were em ployed in the works at the time.......... Jan 2ii— A boiler exploded in the Lodger Paper Mills, near Elton, Md............ The ship Vorwarts was sunk off Llbau...... A party of fishermen belonging to the schooner James A. Garfield were lost in a gale off the Massachusetts coast........ Tan 24—Three coal trains on the Georges Creek and Cumberland Bailroad ran down a steep grade near Cumberland, Va., and jumped the track oyer a tressel...... 4 Some Hercules cartridges expolodcd ma blacksmith's shop in Pine Hill, Ky........ J A mine was Hooded with water near Sydney, Australia................•.........¦•....... 22 Jan 27—A floor fell upon firemen who were lighting the flames in a Milwaukee building ffrmirs. 26 Opeu for the season. 1 1854........ ....April 2411809. : ....... ....May 1 1870. 1856........ ....May 11871. 1857........ ____April 30 1872. L858 ....... .A.'ll :::1S — 1859....... ....April 3|1874. 18B0........ ....April 12 1875 1861........ il 'M 18-70 1802........ ____April 17 1877 I8G11........ ....April 10 1878 18G-1....... ....April 22:1879 ...... . ..April 20 1880 ... . ....April 28 1881 1' ¦ >7 ....April 21,11882 1809....... : yeather. .....April 23 .....April : - .....April 3 ____April 28 ___.April 29 .....April 29 .....April 30 .....April 28 .....April 1 8 .....April ' 5 . .....April 22 ! .....April 4 ......May 3 .....Mar. 28 j .April 28 is taken into consideration, the amount of money swallowed up bv the lake How Nearly Three Thousand Lives for 1-883 reaches enormous proportions. 'Add to this the money paid general and local Cor commissions and the salariesof special agents, besides incidental expenses, and the sum will reach nearly $2,000,000 paid out for losses by the marine insurance companies in 1883. In marked contrast with this year the business of : paid a handsome dividend to the companies doing business on' the lakes. A prominent business man of this city, and until unite recently largely interested in marine insur-1 ( iuice, in conversation yesterday with a Sunduu Aw-.s- reporter, said: "I predicted last spring when navigation lirst opened that, owing to the low rate of premium ottered by the insurance companies for carrying risks, the companies v >i d lose money, evon if the lake disasters during tthe year did not exceed those of 1881 and 18812, My prediction proved correct, but I was not iprcparcd for the heavy losses which followed the gales of last month. If last season's rate of premiiuiii hail been maintained tins year, the dlf-feremce between last year and this would have paid! nearly all the losses. Last year the average preimlum rate-exceeded 5*2 per cent. This year Were Lost in the Last Six Months. Accidents, Panics, and Calamities—Fire and Flood and Human Carelessness Doing Their "Worst. ,., , ,- ,.., ..;>....,!, ! piemnum rate 'e-voeeuee "¦ " ':%l'Y ; it laas not been much above 3 per cent, a differ ' oi cold' i,;ila ,, encVof 2i ner cent. This_would have been sum ABR1VALS AND CLEABANCES. TH^SHOWIK* :'. SEASON. ,u and foreign vessels in j (et for the season of navigation to I » ?L,:-i -:¦- r.< -" Koigsjsiwg ?? 5|«Mf Tonnage. II Hi . . . ---- ~1 M . ¦ ¦ '. 1 No. .- i-cr.a.-i-1-j-i-.: : : . i i i-d 0 .-.X fJlcr-.l:!-.,-'°"J: : : fej ^~e-'~c-.b—io'ic: : : Tonnage. % n 13IC bh;- a ~ a;;: : : si KO. HtWKUCi;. • ¦ s« : HMtpj—w ; : ; : j Xo. MO sxswoo. • . K : i H b ?¦¦' : e:|.l;n.,:. . . • i 2. 11 -1- UDCltcVlOSMK" • Tonnage. 'r1- . s p '-- ¦ --. - 1 .. . ¦ • 1 ___ HM y,>i MH No. » \r -- >~ to _;.-¦! ,!-or-0 KO^swat^an^ H • :; H i ¦ H z! ? x-; * 9} t tr» it* ,: ¦-": J. -?^^^?w^ Tonnage. OCT ~. -i a^l-x "C C T. r. -- — It... -i:..;.; :: ;;¦•¦! — z -: ::- -1 — C-l - --,-:;-- . Clearances of American and foreign vessels from his distrii l ! i ason of navigations to Dec. 22: cielofi to pay the losses^"—Buffalo Ketos, FREIGHT. GEAlN, CHICAGO TO BU1FALO. The following table shows the average rates of lake (freights on wheat and corn- between Chicago and Buffalo during each month in the past ten years: the highest rate on wheat in each year, and tiie average rate on wheat In each year: May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov ets eta cts cts ota cts ots 1874-Wheat-I.5 -l.-J ii.:! S.l S.S 4.1 4.0 Corn..4.0 S.9 3.0 2,3 3.2 3.8 4.2 HiL'-,-.i rail.'on whHiit. Cm: averse on wheat, 3.9c: b"... WKi-jilli.O M.O -4.H 2.5 2.4 3.7 5.9 Corn..3.6 2.U 2.6 2.2 2.2 3.4 5.5 Elighest rate uinvluMt, O^c; average on wheat. 3.5c. 1876 Wheati.O 2..') 1.9 2.2 2.6 4.4 3.7 Com. ,2.7 2.:', 1.2 1,8 2.2 4.1) 3.3 II iuhi'sl r;itc on wiit;;.t. 5c ; -aVcivige uti wliCiii, *~.\h-, ]"¦¦. Wli.:jd3.5 -A A 2.,; 4.0" 4.0 4.9 4.5 Com..2.9 1.0 2.2 3.6 3.4 4.4 3.9 ¦¦! Citte on wbeat, Oc: H'.'i-rngo oii wheat,<3.7e. 187Sf-Whe»t2.5 2.1 1.7 3.2 4.1 3.6 4.5 Com..2.2 13 1.5 3.0 4.1 3.3 4.1 :•- 'if,! rate on whi.'ut, 7c: ;ivi.-".uti on wlit'in, Xle. lavs** -\Vii.;ir;;.i 2.1 2.5 Corn..2.S l.H '-'.;: Hiiglifst i'.i(c 011 wli-jjit, S'vi' lSy(.l-~\Vli.-;it5.n 7.1 4.S Com. .4.3 6.6 4.3 lii.L'licst rate on wheat, S'ue 18S.l~Wlieat4.7 4.1 2.6 Cora..4.2 3.0 2.2 Hitriiest r;ile on v. !u-18SU -Wh a!2 2 2.6 1.9 I Corn..2.0 2.1 1.7 [ Highest nil*' "ii uheat. :i1--,-1883 Wbeat2.9 2.1 2,6" j Cora..2.6 2.2 V.:! Highest rata on wheat, 5*4C CO.Vi, BUFFALO rO CHJ iA&O. The following shows ! he range of coal freights from Buffalo > Chicago during the season of 1881. The dates indicate when the changes took place: 60|Oct 8.............$ .75 50 Oct. 10..............80 ! 00 Oct 15..............85 , 75 Oct. 16............. l.UO G5 Get. IS............. I.JO I 60 Oct. 20............. 1.25 50 Get. 29............. 1.10 I 60 Oct.31..:.......... 1.00 ¦ G5 Nov. 15............ 1.25 70 Nov. 17............ 1.50 GO iS b.3 7:7 7.0 4.5 4.S 7.1 6.5 average on wlient. 4.7c. 5.0 4,4 D.8 7.1S C.i 3M i;.:i 0.5 avenige on mini 5.J0, . • L'.s g.O 2.2 i!5 . . e on wheat 3 2c. 2.3 2.4 2.i. 3.0 2 1 2.2 2.0 -..I in Wheat 2.5b. :..: 3.9 3.5 4.2 3.5 3 '¦> icon wheat, 3.4c. April 25 May Ii Slav 15. May IS. Juno 25 June 2o' July 7 Aug. 2. Aug. 1 7 Auk. 1 b. bei.t. 3. AT ETENTa rri-.Mr.M No. 0 0 > -•:i a ,- wmmm Tonnage. H vmm_ O'C ! .., ¦ . - -- -'-.-. -1- iniliS Tonnage. Tonnage. «?| KMMMMi^ THE FOOT OF THE X.AKE. OF THE SEASON ABOUT FliANiiFOIlT. Special Correspond' nc o£ The lute > ¦ tah. ., Dee. 21.—The first steam arrivals a' ITrai were the pro- pellers Mi nfort, Jr., Sunday, A^jril 8, and the first sail vessel, the scow Nellie Church, from Sheboygan, April 16. :xts. April 2—Point Betsy Life Station, Captain Thomas E. Matthews, resumed to day. The crew went down with a team laden with supplies on the ice on Lake Michigan. Aprill3—The Frankfort pier had light lit up, and tug Westen launched. April 16—Tug I). P. Hall departs for Manis-tique, beii ¦..-.. craft to leave for the Straits region. She returned on the 17th; reports the north e ho t ice. April 17—Point Betsy light lit up to-day. April 25—Propeller Champlain and two grain vessels pass, bound for the Straits of Mackinaw. April 2d—Heavy snowstorm until noon. April 28—A large fleet of lumber schooners are in the large bodies of pack iee coming tie north and closing in about the Mani-tons ; some vessels free themselves and reach Frankfort harbor. May 7—Tug Godfrey and dredge Eva, of Green Bay, arrive to dredge channel in harbor. May 28—Propeller James Pisk explodes some j part of her boiler ten miles abreast of Frankfort; is taken in tow by the Champlain to the Maui- tons. June 15—Schooner Donaldson, of Buffalo, caught fire in towinc outi and loses some of her ¦ ¦' head-gear. ¦# July 16—Terrific cyclone strikes Frankfort, doing groat damage. Tu'g Hall rescues schooner 1' uv -v, ;:ig. ashoi'e in Platte Bay. Aug. 2; Brigantine I. M, Hall springs aleak hroM fifty cords of wood over-raiikfort harbor with three .¦ hold, The schooner Boaz goes ashore al I nd loses two masts. 31—Wrecking scow Williams has been at w.»rk trying raisi the sunken propeller City of he attempt, Sept. 3- '.. Blade foundered . jtuee Island, and her crew arrive her on propeller Champlain. Oct, 2—Schooner Spy ashore, at Good Harbor the crew arrive hei No v. 11—Schoont loss. Sudden Death in Every Form—A Becord that Has No Precedent. From the New York Herald. Nearly 3,000 persons, according- to Seraldf history—and this resume, it will be noticed, does not include the hundreds of unrortun- ¦ ate events wherein the loss of life was less than three—were sacrificed in the first six I months of 1883 to accidents and calamitous, occurrences of one kind and another. It has* been thus far a year of almost unparalleled, cruelty. In the list below the reader will find accidents by flood, by fire, by lightning, by explosives, by panic, by landslides, by Bnowslidfes, by stems at sea and storms on shore—dire happenings of every description —some in our midst and some in every part of one world. The reader will not find, however, the accidents of a lesser kind whereby one or two lives only were lost. There were a very great number of such accidents during the first half of the year. Only well-defined happenings will be found in the list, and it must be left for the reader to picture the destruction of and estimate the lives lost by the long continued floods in the valleys of the lluine and Danube, and the Mississippi,the Missouri, the Ohio, and other Western rivers of our own country. The first half of the year has been prolific in such floods. It has been prolific, too, in earthquakes, in tornadoes, in cyclones, and other of nature's agencies for destruction,from Which the aggregate loss of life can scarcely be estimated. As published in the following list, the events are given under the date of their first publication, which, innearty every instance of land disaster, is the day succeeding their occurrence. With the exceptions noted the list will be found very complete, for there are no parts of the civilized globe from which the la raid has not received prompt daily reports of all serious happenings. When classified according to the months in which they were reported, the deaths are divided as follows: No. of Heaths. No. of Deaths. January........... 966 April.............. 551 February.......... 360 May............... 254 March............. 4=23 June............... 341 Total.....................................'2,895 If these events, which can be properly designated "accidents," were ranged together together in numercial order the first place would have to be given to boiler explosions, of which the Meartd seldom fails to chronicle one a day of more or less serious consequence. Killed. Jan. 1—An explosion of giant powder occurred near Mceksville, M. T.............. 3 Jan. 3—A flatboat lea.led with convicts was upset on the Tuckaseegee River, Jackson County, N. C. Some one cried that the boat was leaking, which caused a panic.. 18 Jan. 4—An explosion of dynamite occurred on the Kentucky Central Bailroad extension. 3 Jan. 5—A boiler explosion occurred at Plack Horse Landing, W. Va.................----- 3 A boiler exploded in a flour mill at Fillmore Center, Mich.............................. 3 A boiler exploded in a box factory at North Muskegon, Mich........................... 4 Jan. S—The Inman„ steamer City of Brussels collided in a fog in the Mersey with tiie steamer Kirby Hall. The City of Brussels was bound from New York to Liverpool, and only sailed with eighteen passengers, of whom two were lost, together with eight, of the crew........................... 10 Jan. 10—An ex] ' ire-damp occurred, in a coal mine near Coultersville, III....... 8 A boiler oxploaed in a blast furnace at Bethlehem, Pa.................................. 5 Jan 11.—The Newhall House in Milwaukee was burned to the ground in the night and when it was filled with guests. In addition to those killed very many were injured. Terrible scenes were enacted, and they so impressed themselves upon the mind of the lessee that he lost his reason.......... 59 Jan 12.—A shanty occupied by negroes was burned in Mo'berly, Mo..................... 3 Jan 14.—The American brig Goldhnder was wrecked, after encountering fever and frost, on a voyage from Port-au-Prince to Boston.,.................................... 5 Jan 15.—A fire broke out in the Planters' House, St. Louis, which created a panic among the guests...................'....... 3 A circus build Ing was set on lire in Berdit-schen", Russian Poland, through the carelessness oJ a groom, who throw a lighted cigarette on the straw-covered stable. The doors were few and narrow, and opened in. wardly, and the people who escaped did! so mostly through the windows: 120* women and 60 children were among the lost.............................270 Jan. 17—A teenement-house on Widegate street, Lomdou, was burned............... 5 Jan. 19—The boiler of an engine on the Mansfield (lap Railway, Louisiana, exploded....................................... 5 4 12 20 23, 13 9 Jan. 29—The "steamer Agnes Jack, from Sardinia, was wrecked off Swansea, with the loss of all her crew......,•••••••¦.....:•¦*;• Feb 1—A snowslide overwhelmed a miner s cabin, near Crested Butte, Col.; thirty men were sleeping in the cabin, of whom twenty-three were rescued, though nearly all were seriously injured.................. 7 The Italian steamer Ansonia was wrecked on the coast of Tripoli......................... An explosion occurred In a hreworks_factory at Aniacusea, Mexico, the proprietor and four others being burned to death ... Feb 2—A panic in the wool factory at Bombay was occasioned .by the cry of fire, raised because some dust was suddenly blown into one of the rooms.................----- j<ek_ 8—Two coasting steamers were driven 'on the Isle of Man and wrecked........... Feb 4—The steamship Tacoma was wrecked off the California coast............. -¦¦-••- Feii 5—An iron bridge crossing Oil Creek at Titusville, Pa., was washed away by the flood......................;* *.- Yl' I" **----i" Feb (J—A passenger and a freight tram collided on the Dayton and Michigan Rail-roai 1, near Kirkwood, Ohio................. A cave occurred in the Esmeralda mine at Leadwood, D. T................. ......• ¦ - ¦ Six railroad cars fell down a steep mount bin side in Hungary...................-¦- •:-----• peu $_a cave was caused in a coal mine at Centerhill, Pa., by a miscalculated blast.. The Castle line steamer Kenmare Castle foundered in the Bay of Biscay........... 32 jperj, 9—a schooner was wrecked near the Shetland Islands, Scotland................ U A scijooner was wrecked near Portat'erry, ' Ireland............................-......• • ° Feb 10 -A boiler exploded in some hie works at TaylorviUe, 111............-. - - - - - -.....- 7 The steamer Gem took fire in Puget Sound, W. T., and some of her passengers jumped overboard....... ..............¦•¦¦"¦¦;••• 5 A steamer was wrecked in a gale off Har-with, Eng.............•«................... iy r Potomao wrecked; total j An accident occurred in a shaft of the Severn - Tunnel Works............................. * Feb. 14—The floods drove thousands of people from their homes in Louisville, Ky., and five were drowned..................... o Feb. 15—Two fishing smacks were lost at Yarmouth, with all on board.................. 14 The pilot boat Atlanta was wrecked off the coast of South Carolina.................... 4 Feb. 16—An explosion of sewer gas blew up a house in Cincinnati......................... 6 Feb. 17.—The Columbus and Cincinnati Express was derailed near Gallon, Ohio...... 7 A cave occurred in the Diamond coal mine, at Joliet, 111.; 117 men were imprisoned, of whom forty came out alive............. Feb. 18—A sleighing party was run over by a locomotive at Wallingford, Conn.;....... An explosion took place in a powder mill at Corbeil, France............................ Feb. 19—Two freight trains collided on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Bellaire I Feb. 20—lack damp overcame some miner in Cumberland County, N. C................ Feb. 22—A fire and panic occurred in a Catholic school in East Fourth street, New York, where 700 children were attending. A balustrade broke down with the weight of the struggling children and caused the loss of life................................. The Allan Line steamer Buenos Ayrean collided with and sank a steamer oil Lam-lash, Scotland........................... 11 Feb. 22—The United States steamer Ash- uelot foundered in the China Seas........ 11 1 Feb. 25—The steamer Glamorgan, from \ Liverpool to Boston, foundered in mid-ocean in a hurricane...................... 8 Feb. 27—A dwelling house was burned at New Brighton, S.I........................ 3 A farm house was destroyed by fire in Montague, Mich................................ 3 March W— The walls of a burning elevator in ( Albany fell on an adjoining building and crushed the occupants..................... 3 March 5—The steamer Yazoo, of New Orleans, was sunk near Gypsy Point, about twenty-five miles from the city.................... 18 March 9—The Watkins Block in Nashville, Tenn., was destroyed by tire, and several persons were crushed by falling walls___ 3 March Hi—Some dynamite caps v^ad by blasters exploded near McKee-spon, Pa----- 3 The Hull and Yarmouth fishing fleets were caught in severe gales ami several boats were lost........t.........................135 March 11—A boat was driven out to sea from St. Pierre, Canada, and its crew frozen to (leath....................................... 9 The steamer Navarre foundered at sea while 011 her way from Copenhagen to Leith..... 40 March 12—A lodging occupied by laborers at the western terminus of the Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad was destroyed by fire.............»............................ 11 March 13—A mail hack was run over by a locomotive on the Indianapolis, Blooming-ton and Western Railroad, at Troutman's Station, Ind................................ 3 A boiler exploded on a plantation near Havana, Cuba................................. 7 .March 18—The ship Dunstali'iiage, from Calcutta to Liverpool, was wrecked on the coast of Aberdeenshire.................... 25 March 19—The walls of a burned building in Indianapolis, Ind., fell upon adjoining buildings three days after the fire......... 3 March 20—A dwelling burned in the village of Maglione, Canada...............'........ 3 The Glasgow express frem Edinburgh collided with a train from Glasgow, near Central Station............................ 4 Mai'ch 26—Snow avalanches visited several localities at the foot of Mount Ararat......150 April l—Six fishing smacks went down in a teniiic gale off Yarmouth.,-................ 40 The boiler of the tugboat Polar Star, on the Ohio River, near Columbus, exploded..... 5 April 2 -A boiler exjjloded in St. Dizier, France, whereby thirty-one persons were killed and sixty-five were injured, some of them fatally............................ 31 1 April 4—A boiler exploded in one of the Griffin mills at Moss Point, Miss.............. 3 April 5—A gas explosion was caused in Chew street, Baltimore, by a boy dropping a lighted match into a sewer opening rilled with escaping gas......................... 3 Some ice on which children were playing gave way near Valatie, N. Y..........;___ 3 April 0—A powder depot near the Passo Cor-rese, Rome, for the use of engineering works, exploded with terrible result;-. In addition to the number killed many were : fatally injured......................,,...... 40 A farmhouse was burne<d near Hartwiek Village, Otsego County, N. Y............. 4 April 8—A sailing party was upset'at Northeast, Md..................................... 3 The Ende Hotel at Grecmville, Hunt County", Texas, was destroyed Iby fire.....'......... 13 77 3 6 3 3 15