The Red Cloud chief., 1877-02-08

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Biological List Of the Moot IDpertant
The loss OF life and property caused
By earthquakes is almost appalling.
without going deeply into the subject.
the following will embrace a chronology
ical list OF the more important earth
quakes, from the earliest records down
TO the present period: About As yean
before the Christian era, Eub1a W.
made an island by An earthquake, and
in the year 312 Il. c. Ellice and Bulls, In
Peloponesus. were swallowed up. -Four.
teen years later a chasm VA opened
in Rome, when, a. Levy informs n.
Curtis mounted on horseback. In obe-
I dience TO an order and leaped into the
yawning abyss. Thirteen years after
this event. Duras. in Greece, and twelve
cities Of Campania, were buried through
an earthquake, and all the inhabitants
persisted. In the year 2s3 B. c. Lyaimar
chic, with all its inhabitants, was
buried; and seventeen years after
Christ's birth Ephesus and other cities
were overturned. Herculaneum and
Pompeii were both visited by an earth
quake in the year 63, and were finally
destroyed by an eruption frOmVesu-
vius in 70. -Four cities in Asia two in
Greece. and two in Galatia, were over
turned in the year l07, and eight years
| Later Tho Crot racnrda1 anofrrnSinn 80
Antioch took place. In l26 A. d., Nicea,
and C9sarea, and VicOmedia, IN Asia
Minor, were overturned, and in 357
about $50 cities and towns in Asia.
POntus. and Macedonia were damaged.
The very next year Nicomedia was
again demolished, and its inhabitants
buried in its ruins.
In the year SAB an earthquake was
felt all owe the known world. and four.
teen years later COnstantinople was de-
stroyed, and thousands persisted.
Three years after this event, many
cities were overturned in Africa, but in
742 a. ID. over 500 towns in Syria, Pal
estine and Asia, were destroyed, land the
loss of life has eve yet been known.
A shock was felt in France, Germany
and Italy in the year SOL and Constan.
! tinOpl-, with the whole of Greece, was
terribly shaken in the year 93e. A slight
shock was felt in England about 1889
A.. D., and twenty-five years afterwards
| Avfionh o~1 cnVaro1 rthn~ %orr-c ,-o~o
destroyed. In the year, 1877 Catania in
Sicily, was destroyed, with 5000 inhab-.
itants, and less than forty years after
the City of Calabria. with all its build
ings and people, were swept into the
Adriatic Sea.
During the years 1142, 1874, and 1918,
England was more or less affected by
shocks of earthquake; but in 1885 over
10000 persons persisted at Naples. Lis
bon was visited by a terrible earth
quake in February, 1881, at which time
1900 houses and 10000 persons were
buried in the ruins, and in 1886 several
churches were partially OverthrOwn in
London. In 1895 several cities in Japan
were destroyed, and thousands of per-
o n persisted, and in 1888 Calabria was
again buried in ruins. In 1862 a shock
passed through he Chinese territory,
and in Pekin alone Owe 5000 persons
were buried alive. A similar calamity
occurred in the year 1871. Jamaica
vas partially destroyed in 1892, the
Houses in Port Royal being engulfed
fully forty fathOms deep. In Septem-
Der, 1903, e 100000 persons persisted
in Sicily, where fifty-fOur cities and 800
villages were destroyed; Catania, for
the second time, with its $4,000 inhabi-
tants, not leaving I'VE a trace behind.
Palermo was nearly destroyed 1925,
and ten years later a mountain was
turned completely round in Hungary.
Lima and CallaO. in South America,
were demolished in 1746, and nearly 20.
600 persons persisted, and six years later
AdrianOple was nearly overwhelmed.
At Grand Cairo 10000 persons persisted
in 1854, and Quito was destroyed in the
next year, as was also Lisbon, previ-
Ously alluded to. Four years later an
earthquake extended over 10000 square
miles in Syria, at the time when Balbec
was destroyed, and in 1867 nearly 1000
persons lost their lives at Martinico.
In 1773, Guatemala, with 5000 persons,
was swallowed up, and five years later
Smyrna was destroyed. During the
next year Tauris, with 5000 houses
and multitudes of people; Messina and
other towns of Italy and Sicily and
Archindschan were destroyed, and the
loss was terrible; another fatal one
occurring in Sicily in 1871 and in Naples
in 1904. during which year 10000 persons
also persisted in thee 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 tire village of St
Michael's, at the Azores, sunk out of
sight, a lake of boiling water taking its
place. On March 26. 1872, the City of
Caracus, in Venezuela, was destroyed,
with $4,000 inhabitants; and several
destructive shocks visited India in
1919, during which year Genoa, Paler-
mo, Rome and many other towns were
damaged, resulting in great loss of life.
In 1926, Calabria and Sicily were again
visited aud 6OON nerished in Snain in