The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-16
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EARTHQUAKES.
The losses They Have Caused-A Chrome
logical List of the Most Important.

list of the more important earthquakes,
from the earliest records down to the
present period About 425 years before
the Christian era, Eub9a was made an
island by an earthquake, and i'll the year
.372 b. G. Ellice and Bula, in Pelopon-
nesus, We're swallowed up. Fourteen
years later n chasm was opened III 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, in Greece, and twelve cities of
'Campania, were buried through an earth
quake, and all the inhabitants persisted.
In the year 2S3 b. c. Lyaimachia, with
all its inhabitants, was buried and sew
'enteen years after Christs 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 49, Four cities in Asia,
wo in Greece and two in Galatia were
overturned in the year 1O7, and eight
years later the first recorded destruction
of Antioch took place. In 1876 A. d.,
Nicea, Cesarea and Nicomedia, in Asia
Minor, were overturned, and i'll 357 about
$50 cities ami 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 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 i'll
TAP A. ID. over 500 towns i'll 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
Iibly 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 1877 Catania, in
Sicily, was destroyed, with Is, 900 inhab-
itants, and, less than forty years after,
the city of Calabria, with all its 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 i'll 1886 over
10000 persons persisted at Naples. Lis
bon was visited by a terrible earthquake
in February. 1881, at which time 800
houses and 10000 persons We're buried
III the ruins. and in 1856 several churches
were partially overthrow in London. In
1869 several cities in Japan were de-
stroyed, and thousands of persons per-
ished, and in 1888 Calabria was again
buried in ruins. In 1862 a 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, 1893, over 100000 persons
persisted IL Sicily, where forty-four cities
and 300 villages were destroyed Can
tania for the second time, with its Is, 600
inhabitants, not leaving even trace
behind.
Palermo was nearly destroyed in 1926,
and ten years later mountain turned
completely round in Hungary. Lima and
Caliao, in South America; were demol-
ished in LAG, and nearly 20, 900 persons
persisted, and six years later Adrianople
was nearly overwhelmed. At Grand Carlo
10000 persons persisted i'll 1854, and
Quito was destroyed i'll the next year,
as was also Lisbon, previously alluded
to. -Four years later an earthquake ex-
tended over 10, 900 square miles in Syria,
at the time when Balbec was destroyed,
and in 1867 nearly 2, 900 persons lost their
lives mt Martinico. In 1878 Guatemala,
with 8, 000persons, 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 destructive shock
spread from Constantinople into Rou-
mania and Wallachia. Naples was again
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 26, 1912, the city OF
Caracus, in Venezuela, was destroyed
with II, 600 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
1896, Calabria and Sicily were again Wis
ited 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 othe
villages were destroyed, with over | ,00t
persons. A similar disaster again oc
CURED at Calabria during the next year
Southern Syria suffered severely in De
cember, 1896 and Po- Royal, Martin
ique, was nearly destroyed in 1889. Dur
ing 1910 the island of Ternate was lai,
waste. A destructive earthquake oc
CURED in Armenia, and many persons
persisted mt Zante. Over 5000 per
sons lost their lives at Cape Haytien, il
San Domingo, in 1912, and Point-a-la
Pitre, in Gaudaloupe, was entirel.
destroyed on February 8, 1S43. During
1851 Rhodes, M@ri. Valparaiso, an,
South Italy were destructively visited