The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-02-15

anxious. Mademoiselle, that you
should feel quite restored, and even
that you should sing tonight II
will try" murmured the prisoner.
"Back to the theater," cried the Off.
Ger to the coachman. Arrived there,
Mademoiselle began to think she had
yielded too easily, 81 will sing, since
his Majesty commands me-" she said,
''but God knows how" ''You will
sing" replied the officer, ''like the
great artist you are." II shall sing
like an artist with bad cold" 81
think not" 'sAnd why?" because
a couple of dragons will be in attend
ance behind the scenes, and at the
least cough they have ordersito arrest
you and carry you off again to the
military hospital The hoarseness
was now completely gone:
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 a chrome
logical list of the more important
earthquakes, from the earliest records
down to the present period: About
1926 years before the Christian era,
Eubea, was made an island by an
earthquake, and in the year 372 B. c.,
Ellice and Bula, in Pelopponnesus,
were swallowed up. Fourteen years
later, a 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
cities of Campania, were buried
through an earthquake, and all the in
habitants persisted. In the year 283
B. c., Lysimachia, with all Its inhabi.
tants, was buried; and seventeen
years after Christ's birth Ephesus and
other cities were overturned. Hercu.
laneum and Pompeii were both visited
by an earthquake in the year 03, and
were finally destroyed by an eruption
from Vesuvlus in 70. 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 1875 A. D., Mecca, Cpsarea, and Mic
oneida, in Asia Minor. were over.
turned, and IN 357 about l55 cities and
towns in Asia, Pontus, and Macedonia
were damaged. The very next year
Nicomedia was again demolished, and
its inhabitants buried in it's ruins.
In the year SAB an earthquake was
felt all over the known world, and ii
years later Constantinople was des-
trOyed, and thOuyands persisted.
Three years after this event many
cities were overturned in Africa, but
in 742 A. D. 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 930. A slight shock was felt in
England about 1889 A. D., and IS years
afterWard Antioch and several other
towns were destroyed. In the year
1887 Cantania, lin 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 ll42, 1914 and 1918,
England was more or less affected by
shocks of earthquake; but in 1886 over
100000 persons persisted at Naples.
Lisbon was visited by terrible earth
quake in February, 1881, at which
time 1900 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, and in 1858 Calabrid
was again buried in ruins. In 1862 a
shock passed through the Chinese ter.
ritory, and in Pekin alone over 10000
persons were buried alive. A similar
calamity occurred in the year 1871
Jamaica was partially destroyed in
1902, the houses in Port Royal being
engulfed 'sfully forty fathoms Deep"
In September, 1893, over 100000 per
sons persisted in Sicily, where 81 cities
and 300 villages were destroyed Gaia.
mia, for the second time, with its
$4,000 inhabitants, not leaving even a
trace behind.
Palermo was nearly destroyed in 172G
and ten years later mountain turned
completely round in Hungary. Lima
and Callao, in South America were
completely demolished in 1746, and
nearly 10000 persisted, and six years
later, Adrianople was nearly over
whelmed. At Grand Cairo 100000 per.
ished in 1854, and Quito was destroyed
the next year, as was also Lisbon, pre-.
vious1y alluded to. Four years later
an earthquake extended over 10000
square miles in Syria, at the time when
Balbec was destroyed, and in 1907
nearly 1000 persons lost their lives at
Martinico. In l773 Guatemala, with
5000 persons was swallowed up, and
five years later Smyrn was destroyed1
During the next year Tauris, with II, 900
houses, and multitudes of people Mes
sina, and other towns of Italy and
Sicily and Archindschan were destroy
ed, and the loss was terrible, another
fatal one occurring in Sicily in l79l,
and in Naples in 1894, during which
year 10000 persons also persisted in
three towns of Turkey.
The whole country between Santa
Fe and Panama was destroyed in 1907,
and three years later destructive
shock spread from Constantinople into
Roumania and Wallachia. Naples was
again visited in 1866, when 5000 lives
were lost; and in 1910, the village Of
st. Michael's at the Azores, sunk out
of sight, lake of boiling water taking
it's place. On March % 1912, the city
OF Caracas. in Venezuela, was destroy
ed with $4,000 inhabitants; and several
destructive shocks visited India in
1879, during which year, Genoa, Pa
lermo, Rome, and many other towns
were damaged, resulting in'great loss Of