The weekly Butte record., 1862-02-01
Remarkable foundations.

Ii would be impossible, IN q newspaper arti-
Gle, TO give list Of al the destructive iuunda-
tions that have occurred in Europe and other
countries, within the historic period The
following. which We collate from historical
Cyclopedia, are among the most remarkable /:
" In 4. ID. 13S, Glasgow was inundated bv
an overflow of the Clyde, and more than 400
families were drowned.
In lies, Flanders was inundated bv the sea
and the town of 0Stend totally immersed
The present city was built above league from
the channel where the old one lies submerged.
In I446, there was an awful inuudation in
Holland, occasioned by the failure Of the dikes.
The sea broke in at bort and formed the Zuv-
der Zee In the territory of Dordreeht. -
villages We're destroyed, and 10000 persous
were overwhelmed and perished and more
than 100000 persisted in Dullart, Friesland,
and Zealand. In the two last named provinces
upwards of 500 villages were submerged, and
the tops of their towers and steeples were for
ages after 10 be seen rising out of the water.
In 1883. the Severn overhowed for ten davs.
and carried away men, women. and children in
their beds, and covered the tops of many moun-
tains the waters settled upon the lands, and
were called " the great waters for a hundred
years after Holhnshed.
There was another general inuudation in
Holland in 1880, caused by the breaking Of the
dikes. More than 100000 persons are said to
have persisted.
In III, lS00 inhabitants were drowned bv
an overflow of the Flbe. and incredible damage
was done at Hamburg.
In September, 17S7. 2000 persons lost their
lives in Navarro, by the torrents from the
mountains
BY an overflow of the Danube in 1911, the
city of Perth. in Hungary, was partially de-
stroyed and 81 villages and their inhabitants
swept away.
BY an overflow of the Danube, in Septem-
Der, 1913, Turkish corps Of 1000 men, en-
camped on a small island near Widdn, were
surprised and met instant death In Silesia,
the same year, 5000 inhabitants persisted. 4,OO0
are supposed 10 have perished in Poland, and
the ruin of the French army under Macdonald
was accelerated by the foods
In March, 1916, in Germany, ll9 villages
were laid under water, and great loss of life
and property sustained.
On the 9th Of April. 1929, the waters of the
Vistula broke through the dikes at Dantzic,
sweeping Off 1000 houses and their inhabitants.
In February, $50. incredible damage was
done by an overflow of the Danube At Wen
ma, the dwellings of 10000 inhabitants were
laid under water, and many lives lost.
In the latter part of October and first of \ O.
vember, 1910. an awful inundation occurred in
France. The Saone poured its waters into the
Rhone, broke through its banks, and covered
10000 acres of thickly populated territory
Lyons was inundated in Ayignon 100 houses
were swep. away 2l8 houses were carried
away at La Guillotiere and upwards of 800
at Vaise, Marseilcs. and Nismes The Saone
had not attained such hight for 23S years"
We can find no definite records of the many
diSasterous inundations that have occurred at
different periods in Italy. The river Po, which
rises in the Alps and runs through northern
Italy, sometimes rises TO an unprecedented
hight, submerging the valley to depth of
twenty and twenty-five feet, sweeping off cities
and villages, and their inhabitants by the thou
sand. Many years ago every house in the
town of Tivoli, on the riber, was swept away
except the old pagan temple of Nesta, which
was built upon a rock foundation and of such
solid materials that it withstood the torrents
The inundations of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers have at different times caused great des-
truction of property. but as those streams rise
gradually, the destruction of life has not been
so great as that caused By the overflow of some
of the rivers in Europe Nevada Democrat