River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-02-15

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came down the chimney and brighten
Ell Mrs. Williams out of her senses.
They said one thing that / am inclined
to think might be true-that she never
liked to make eel soup after, nor cared
to look at red pepper.
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Earthquakes-The Losses They Have Caused.
The loss of life and property caused
by earthquakes is almost appalling.
Without going deeply into the subject,
the following will embrace chrome
logical list of the more important
earthquakes, from the earliest records
down to the present period About
425 years before the Christian era,
Eubea was made an island by an
earthquake, and in the year $40 b. c.,
Ellice and Bula, in Pelopponnesus,
were swallowed up. Fourteen years
later, d chasm was opened in Rome,
when, as Livy informs us, Curtius
mounted on horseback, in obedience
TO an order, and leaped into the yawn-
ing abyss. Thirteen years after this
event, Duras, in Greece, and twelve
Icities of Campania, were buried
through an earthquake, and all the in
habitants persisted. In the year 2S3
b. c., Lysimachia, with all Its inhabi-
tants, was buried and seventeen
years after Christ's birch Ephesus and
other cities were overturned. Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii were both visited
by an earthquake in the year 90, and
were finally destroyed by an eruption
from Vesuvius in 10. Four cities in
Asia, two in Greece, and two in Gala
Tia. were overturned in the year l07
and eight years later The first record
ed destruction of Antioch took place.
In l26 \. D., Nicea, Ciesarea, and Me
oneida, in Asia Minor. were over
turned, and IN 357 about l55 cities and
towns in Asia, P0ntuS, and Macedonia
were damaged. The very next year
Nicomedia was again demolished, and
its inhabitants buried in its ruins.
In the year 543 an earthquake was
felt all over the known world, and II
years later Constantinople was des-
troyed, and Thousands persisted.
Three years after this event many
cities were overturned in Africa, but
in 742 A. ID. over 500 towns in Syria,
Palestine. 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 Constantinople, with the whole of
Greece, was terribly shaken in the
year 936. a slight shock was felt in
England about 1889 A. d., and 50 years
afterward Antioch and several other
towns were destroyed. In the year
.ll37 Cantania,in Sicily, was destroyed,
with $4,000 inhabitants, and, less than
40 years after, the city of Calabria,
with all its buildings and people, was
swept into the Adriatic sea.
During the years lI42, 1874 and 1918,
England was more or less affected by
shocks of earthquake; but in 1886 over
10000 persons persisted at Naples.
Lisbon was visited by a terrible earth
quake in February, 1881, at which
time 500 houses, and 10000 persons
were buried in the ruins, and in 1880
several churches were overthrOwn in
London. In 1896 several cities in
Japan were destroyed and thousands
of people persisted. ard in 1858 Calabrid
was again buried illu:ns. In 1862 a
shock passed through he Chinese ter.
ritory, and in Pekin alone over 10000
persons were buried alive. \ similar
calamity occurred in the year 1871
Jamaica was partially destroyed in
1892. the houses in Port Royal being
engulfed ''Iully forty fathoms deep
In September, 1893, over 100000 per.
sons persisted in Sicily, where 81 cities
and 800 villages were destroyed Gaia.
MIA, for the second time, with its
Is. 600 inhabitants, not leaving even q
trace behind.
Palermo was nearly destroyed in l72C
end ten years later a mountain turned
completely round in Hungary. Lima
and CallaO, in South America were
completely demolished in l746, and
NEARLY 20, 900 persisted, and six years
later, Adrianople was nearly over
lwhelmed. At Grand Cairo 10000 per
ished in 1854, and Quito was destroyed
| the next year, as was also Lisbon, pre-
viously alluded to. Four years later
an earthquake extended over 10000
square miles in Syria, at the time wher
Balbec was destroyed, and in l7GI
nearly 1000 persons lost their lives al
Martinico. In 1873 Guatemala, will
s. 5000 persons was swallowed up, ana
five years later Smyrn was destroyed
During the next year Tauris, with Is, 00t
houses, and multitudes of people Mes
sina, and other towns of Italy anC
Sicily and ArchindSchan were destroy
ed, and the loss was terrible, another
/ fatal one occurring in Sicily in l79l
i and in Naples in 1894, during which
N .a1G .~iC1 IN
three towns of Turkey.
The whole country between Santa
Fe and Panama was destroyed in 1877
and three years later a destructive
shock spread from Constantinople into
Roumania and Wallachia. Naples wal
again visited in 1876, when 5000 live.
were lost; and in 1910, the village Of
st. Michael's at the Azores, sunk on
lof sight, a lake of boiling water taking
Its place. On March % 1912, the city
Iof Caracas, in Venezuela, was destroy
ed with $4,000 inhabitants; and severa
destructive shocks visited India il
1919, during which year, Genoa, Pa
lerm0, Rome, and many other town:
were damaged, resulting in'great loss Of
/ life. In 1925, Calabria and Sicily were
again visited and 5000 persisted il
Spain in 1899, while four years later
over 40 shocks were felt in the Duehy
of Parma.
Next year Calabria, Cozenga, and
other villages were destroyed, Will
over a thousand persons. 4
similar disaster again occurring al
Calabria during the next year. South
ern Syria suffered severely in Decem
Der 1886, and Port Royal, Martinique
nearly destroyed in 1889. During lS4(
the Island of Ternate was laid waste
A destructive earthquake occurred il
Armenia, and many persons persisted