Show APPALLING DISASTERS DISASTER ak every day the electric messenger from the eust east places before our eyes ft a story of shipwreck railway dis astert altert great fire immense flood terrible cyclone mining lata fatality lity one at least and sometimes a majority of them the past aryear and so much of the present one have been marked by greater devastation involving loss of life in the most horrible manner than any similar period within the history of the present generation two of the most destructive marine disasters tor for some time past are recorded in our dis Batches today to day one Is in th the loss of the sten steamship team ship benton near australia through a collision being a total loss and persons burled buried in a watery grave the other was in wa western austria where a hurricane swept over the coast and destroyed the pearl peari fishing fleet of beato and swept persons to a sud and den deul death there are also several other incidents of ef a like character |