The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-01-11
MEMORABLE DISASTERS.
RICHMOND, LAWU.ARY IL, 1912.

The fatal night of the 26sh of December is
uneQualled 6 in the annals of this country'
but Is not without a parallel in those OF
the old worid.--We speak not of war, which
sweeps thousands and tens of thousands OF
our species into the grave-we speak not
OF those earthquakes, which swallow up in a
moment thousands of men and the monu-
ments OF his art as that of Lisbon in 1855
which III the course of s minutes overturn-
! ed whole streets, and DESTROYED 10000 of it's
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the foundations of the
sea, like that in 1927, which breaking in 4
bort, drowned 70 villages and 100000
people, and Termed the present Zuyder Sea
Nor of Tornadoes, by ore of which on the
22d April 1852, 1000 The ,nhabitun,s of SUI
rat were swept away--nor of Volcanoes
which have buried whole cities & their in
habitants under its desolating lava
We shall not take the dimensions of hui
man misery on SO large scale. We shall not
wander 15er SO wide field of devastation,
but seize case similar to our own where,
man cooped up III houses or the narrow en-
closures which he has built has persisted in
their ruins. The annals of the old world
TEEN with such disasters-Hundreds have
been crushed TO death and fire has consum-
ed it's thousands
For the following list of " memorable ac-
cldents" we are indebted to the last New
York Evening Post:
MEMORABLE ACCIDENTS.
Extracted from Luekon,6e's Tablet of Memory.
lhe hmphltheatre at Fiatorca in Italy
fell in and killed fifty thousand people. A.
~. 20. ne ruins OF 1t now remain at Cas-
tel Giobelio.
A fire happened at barn at Burwell
Cambridgeshire, at a Puppet- shew, when 100
persons lost their lives. A. ID. 1877.
The roof of the Church at Fearn, in Scot
land, tell in during the service, and killed
so persons. Oct. l742
Amsterdam Play House took fire seven
persons were suffocated, and great numbers
were wounded in getting cut. A. ID. 1872.
At the celebration Of a wedding at Man
tua, GO Jews were tilled by floor giving
way among whom were the bride and the
brdegroom's mother. June Sd, 1776.
Bourbon lcs-bains, in Bassigni, France.
had the vault under the Church give way.
during the celebration of mass, which occa-
stoned the death Of six hundred persons
Sept. "a, 1778.
Montpelier in France, had booth where
In play was performing, fell, and killed
500 persons. July 81, 1886.
The floor of Meeting House of Method
ISIS at Leeds, gave way, when 10 women, a
man and child, were killed, and near 80
persons drcadfully wounded. May 90, 1896.
Inc heatre at Mcntz, was DESTROYED by
hre during the performance, OH the falling in
OF which many were crushed to death and
70 were burnt. Aug. 1896.
Saragossa in Spain, had 400 of its inhab;-
tants persisted by a FIRE, that burnt down the
Playhouse. December 1878"
There is more particular dissertation Of
the fire OF the Opera at Amsterdam, given
BY the English Annual Register for 1773--in
the following words. The reader will be at
snce struck by the similarity OF its cause, 8.
of the cause of the one which has Just steep
| ed our own city in tears
"Tbc letters from Holland bring us the
following melancholy account. On Monday
evening last, TIE 18th inst. At the Flemish
opera, at the theatre in Amsterdam, n
small rope belonging to some Of the machin-
cry took fire, owing to a candle having been
~ accident placed Immediately under it.
Thich CO N nlnicated itself to the scene,
@ith such rapidly, that in a very few min
utes the whole house was in flames. Til.
smokc and Confusion were 81 great, tina,
nirty one persons persisted on that mela.
chosy eecAs.-i', aneDs w:sm were several la