The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

PERU, 1746.

Peru was visited on the 28th of October, 1746, by an
earthquake, which is declared to have been more tremen-
dous and extensive than that of Lisbon in 1755. In the
first twenty-four hours two hundred shocks were experienced.
The ocean twice retired and returned impetuously upon the
land ; Lima was destroyed, and part of the coast near
Callao was converted into a bay ; four other harbours,
among which were Cavalla and Guanape, shared the same
fate. There were twenty-three ships and vessels, great and
small, in the harbour of Callao, of which nineteen were
sunk, and the other four, among which was a frigate called
St. Firmin, were carried by the force of the waves to a great
distance up the country. The number of the inhabitants in
this city amounted to four thousand. Two hundred only
escaped, twenty-two of whom were saved on a small frag-
ment of the fort of Vera Cruz, which remained as the only
memorial of the site of the town after this dreadful inunda-
tion.

LISBON, 1755.
The great area over which this earthquake extended, is
very remarkable. The movement was most violent in Spain,
Portugal, and the north of Africa; but nearly the whole of
Europe, and even the West Indies, felt the shock on the
same day. A sea-port, called St. Euhals, about 20 miles
south of Lisbon, was engulphed. At Algiers and Fez, in
Africa, the agitation of the earth was equally violent, and at
the
.distance of eight leagues from Morocco, a village, with
the inhabitants to the number of about eight or ten thousand
persons, together with all their cattle, was swallowed
Soon after, the earth closed again over them. A greatav
swept over the coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty
feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell
eighteen times on the coast. At Funchal, in Madeira, it rose
fifteen feet perpendicular above high-water mark, although
the tide which ebbs and flows there seven feet was then at
half ebb. Besides entering that city, and committing great
ha woc, it overflowed other sea-ports in the island. At Kin-
' sale, in Ireland, a body of water rushed in
into h
to te harbour,
whirled round several vessels, and poured the market-
place.
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Tug RED RIVER FLOOD.—ON)' HUNDRED LIVES LOST•
—The Southern American papers give melancholy acconnts
of the loss of life and property by the rise in the Red River.
Amid the general distress, Captain Crooks, of the st ea
lhe
m-
boat Hunter, proceeded to Mill Creek, and rendered
sufferers every possible succour in his power, going from
place to place, picking up the survivors from the tops of
houses and trees ; thus rescuing from a watery grave seventy-
five
of or a hundred
p ar
reaching them--their
—their cries sh in the cane and timber,
often being heard among the
as there was no possible way
Persons. Some were necessarily left to
noise of the element. Six families of Indians, li miles this
side of Jonesborough, are reported lost, and Colonel Milan),
of Kentucky, with a lady, his niece, and a Mr. M'KinneY,
erished. It is thought that over a'hundred lives bad been
lost between Fulton and Jonesborough—how many, we, as
yet, cannot with certainty predicate.