The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1892. A Chapter of Horrors

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 13, 19 July 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1892. A Chapter of Horrors

During the past ten clays the cablegrams from varsous parts of the world have contained little but narratives of horror. A summary of them may be interesting. In San Francisco an explosion took place at the Grant powder works, on Lake Geneva the boiler of a steamer burst and killed twenty or thirty passengers, Mount Etna burst out into violent eruption, devastating with torrents of lava the adjacent country and ruining the villagers, and Mount Vesuvias has also burst out later. In the United States of America the miners at Pittsburg began an outbreak which compelled the Government to send a large body of troops to quell, with the loss of many valuable lives. The cholera has broken out in Russia where the people rose against the doctors, several of whom were murdered, and the hospitals were demolished in the mad riot, and now that fell disease has found its way into France and Spain over which countries it is spreading with fatal rapidity. The town of St. Johns, in Newfoundland, and one half of Christiana, the capital of Norway, have been destroyed by fire, and thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children have been rendered homeless. In Ireland two hnndred men armed with pitchforks and knives chased some political opponents for miles, and in another case tore up the metals on a railway line to wreck a train conveying voters to the polling booth. In Idaho (U.S.A.) some Union miners sent a car of giant powder down on incline among some non-Unionists, and blew a half a score of them to atoms. In Switzerland a flood overwhelmed some villages, and two hundred and twenty drowned persons were accounted for. In Australia the dealings of fraudulent directors and promoters of bank and other financial companies have brought many innocent persons from affluence to abject poverty. Off the coast . of South America a man-of-war, one of the Argentine fleet, foundered, but fortunately the crew were saved. From Calcutta we learn thot the whole frontier of Hazarat is in rebellion again, and a terrible earthquake occurred at Sangir Island, in the Celebes Sea, whereby 12,000 people were in an instant swept into eternity. There are other dreadful occurrences chronicled, but we think we have quoted sufficient to show that the chapter of horrors for July is one of the longest that has been in the world's history for soma time. In this part of the world, with peace and plenty surrounding us it is almost impostibie to realise the horrors above recounted.