The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-15
EARTHQUAKES.
The Losses They Have Caused-A Chrome
logical List of the Most Important.

[From the New York Commercial Advertiserl
The loss of life and property caused by
earthquakes is almost appalling. With
out going deeply into the subject, the
following viii embrace chronological
list of the more important earthquakes,
from the earliest records down to the
present period: About 425 years before
he Christian era, Eubea was made an
island by an earthquake, and in the year
1921 c.. Ellice and Bula, in Pelopon-
nesus, were swallowed up. Fourteen
years later chasm was opened in Rome,
when, as Livy informs us, Curtius
mounted on horseback, in obedience to
an order, and leaped into the yawning
abyss Thirteen years after this event.
Duras, III Greece, and twelve cities of
Campania, we're buried through an earth
quake, and all the inhabitants persisted.
In the year 283 B. c. Lyaimachia, with
all it's inhabitants, was buried; and sew
enteen years after Christ's birth Ephe-
sus and other cities were overturned
Herculaneum and Pompeii were both Wis
tied by an earthquake in the year 63, and
were finally destroyed by an eruption
from Vesuvius in 70. Four cities III Asia,
wo in Greece and two in Galatia were
overturned i'm the year 10Y, and eight
years later the first recorded destruction
of Antioch took place. In 1875 A. D.,
Nicea, Caesarea and Nicomedia, in Asia
Minor, We're overturned, and in 357 about
$50 cities and towns in Asia, POntus and
Macedonia, were damaged. The very next
year Nicomedia was again demolished
o7,1 &c 3,o1,0 re- -, i4c1
In the year 543 an earthquake was felt
all over the known world, and fifteen
years later Constantinople was destroyed,
and thousands persisted.
Three years after this event, many
cities were overturned in Africa, but in
742 A. D. over 500 towns in Syria, Pales-
tine and Asia were destroyed, and the
loss of life has never yet been known.
A shock was felt in France, Germany and
Italy in the year sol and Constantine
pie, with the whole Of Greece, was ter
ribly shaken in the year 936. A slight
shock was felt in England about 1909
A. D., and twenty-five years later Anti
och and several other towns were de-
strOyed. In the year 1137 Catania, in
Sicily, was destroyed, with Is, 900 inhab-
itants, and, less than forty years after,
the city of Calabria, with all it's build
ings and people, was swept into the
Adriatic sea-
During the years 1142, 1874 and 1918,
England was more or less affected by
shocks of earthquake; but in 1886 over
10000 persons persisted at Naples. Lis
bon was visited by terrible earthquake
ErOlD1,,1o,, 1SO7 Oh 1,l,1aI I
houses and 10000 persons were buried
an the ruins, and in 1886 several churches
were partially overthrow in London. In
1869 several cities in Japan were de-
.strOyed, and thousands of persons per-
lshed, and in 1888 Calabria was again
buried in ruins. In 1862 shock passed
through the Chinese territory and in
Pekin alone over 100000 persons were
buried alive.
A similar calamity occurredin the year
1871. Jamaica was partially destroyed
in 1892, the houses in Port Royal being
ingulfed fully forty fathoms deep" In
September, 1898, over 100000 persons
persisted in Sicily, where forty-four cities
and 300 villages were destroyed Can
tania for the second time, with it's Is, 900
inhabitants, not leaving even trace
behind.
Palermo was nearly destroyed in 1926,
and ten years later a mountain turned
completely round in Hungary. Lima and
CaliaO, in South America, were demol-
lshed in 1746, and nearly 10000 persons
persisted, and six years later Adrianople
was nearly overwhelmed. At Grand Carlo
10000 persons persisted in 1854, and
Quito was destroyed in the next year,
as was also Lisbon, previously alluded
to. -Four years later an earthquake ex-
tended over 900 square miles in Syria,
at the time when Balbec was destroyed,
and in 1857 nearly 2, 1000 persons lost their
lives at MartinicO. In 1773 Guatemala,
with s, 900 persons, was swallowed up, and
five years later Smyrna was destroyed
During the next year Tauris, with Is, 900
houses and multitudes of people; Mes
sina and other towns of Italy and Sicily
and Archindschan were destroyed, and
the loss was terrible; another fatal one
occurred in Sicily in 1871 and in Naples
in 1894, during which year 10000 per-
sons also persisted in three towns of
Turkey.
The whole country between Santa Fe
and Panama was destroyed in 1897, and
three years later a destructive shock
spread from Constantinople into Rou-
mania and Wallachia. Naples was again
visited in 1906, when 5000 lives were
lost; and in 1910 the village of ST.
Michael's, at the Azores, sank out OF
sight, lake of boiling water taking its
place. On March &c, 1912, the city OF
Caracus, in Venezuela, was destroyed
with $4,000 inhabitants; and several de-
,structive shocks visited India in 1919
during which year Genoa, Palermo
Rome and many other towns were dam
aged, resulting in great loss of life. Ii
1926, Calabria and Sicily were again Wis
tied, and 5000 persisted in Spain in 1929
while four years later over forty shocks
were felt in the duchy of Parma.
Next year Calabria, Cozengo and Other
villages were destroyed, with over l 900
persons. A similar disaster again oc
c711,rnd at Ca1abria dI1rinO tho NEXT wear