The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-07-14
A CURIOUS RECORD.
Notable Fires. Floods. CaIamities and
Other Happenings i'm the WORLDS
[From the Brooklyn Union.l

happenings in the centuries that are
gone. which have entailed hardship and
aff1lction in unusual measure, or which
have been of an otherwise exceptional
character, are the following:
In the wear 26 the amphitheater at
Fridonia fell and killed 80, 600 persons:
The ruins of it now remain at Castel
Gimbelio.
Prince William, eldest son of Henry
/. of England, with two of his sisters
and $50 of the nobility, wereshlpwrecked
and drowned in 1120.
A fire consumed barn at Burweil,
England. 1927, in which 160 persons
lost their lives.
The roof of the church at Fearn,
Scotland. fell in during service, Octo-
Der 19, 1742. and killed sixty persons.
The Victory, man -of-war, was lost at
sea in October, IVA, and 800 gentle
mems sons were lost with it, besides
the crew.
A scaffoId for spectators TO see Lord
Lovat beheaded in 1747, fell down ana
killed large nunber of people, mann
ing nearly all the rest who were pres
ent.
The Prince George, sloop-of-war,
burnt off Lisbon, 1853, and 4S5 OF her
crew perished.
On April q, ITO, at the fireworks ex-
hibited at Paris, in honor OF the Dau-
phln's marriage, the passages became
blocked by an immense crowd OF people,
when a panic occurred, aud the termed
spectators trampled one another until
they Law in heaps. The scaffold erected
over the river broke down and partlcl-
pated / ZOO persons to the water, where
they were drowned.
The London, East India ship, was run
down and sunk by the Russell, man-of-
war, and 151 persons drowned, Decem-
Der %, 1888.
Four hundred persons were burned to
death IN the theater at Saragossa, SPAN,
December, 177S.
Six hundred people we're killed IN the
church at Bourbon-les-Aains, France,
by vanlt under the floor giving way,
September IA, 1778.
In February, 1779, while receiving
benediction at the conservation OF
bridge at Puerta de st. Maria, Spain,
the structure fell and killed 700 persons.
On June %, 1872, the Royal George,
man. -of-war, capsized at Portsmouth and
drowned Admiral Kempepfelt, the entire
crew, with 100 women and 200 Jews who
were on board.
At Oxenhall, England, in 1179, the
earth suddenly rose to an emlnence re-
sembling a mountain, remaining SO
many hours; it then sank In as suddenly
with deafening and terrific roar, leav-
ing a deep chasm.
The Cullen River in Norway buried it.
self underground in 1874, but soon after
burst out and destroyed 800 persons,
With several churches, houses, etc.
Alice Hackney, who had been buried
175 years, was dug up at St. Mary's
Hill, London, in 1404, the skin was
whole and the arms pliable.
On Saturday evening, February II,
1871, Marcley Hill, near Hereford Eng
land, began to move from the base 1t
continued in motion until the subse
quent Monday carried along with it
trees, hedges and cattle it overthrew a
church, demolished everything IN its
path, and at last settled into mount
forty feet high, leaving a chasm forty
feet deep in its path.
In 1856 similar phenomenon hap
pened i'll Dorsetshire, England. A
field of three acres, with trees, fences
and cattle, moved from Blackmoor to
Hearn and settled there.
In 1918 the town of Pleurs, Italy, was
buried by slice of the Alps falling,
and 2.200 people were killed. A town
thirteenth century.
One hundred and thirty persons on
the Swan, sloop-of- war, were lost off
Waterford, August, 1882.
Five hundred people were killed at
Montpelier, France, in booth where .
play was being performed, in July 1856
Sixty houses, including tsvern full
of company, were blown up at London,
opposite Barking church. in Tower
street, by the explosion of some barrels
of gunpowder at ship chandler's near
by. A child was found safely landed on
the leads of the church. This happen
ed in 1649.
Three thousand people were killed by
an explosion i'll Gravelines, England, in
1864.
In Dublin, in 1893, 100 men were
blown up by the explosion of magazine
containing 218 barrels of powder.
One thousand houses were destroyed
III Bremen by the explosion of powder in
September, 1879. A large number of
citizens were killed.
Iu Trinchinopoli, Indio, 1772, maga-
zine caught fire and exploded, blowing
800 persons to atoms and shaking the
foundations of the city.
Cranberry in Sardinia, had an ex-
plosion in 1773 that destroyed large
part of the city.
An in Ero,ao
November, 1873, caused damage of
472, 917 hvres, killed $50 people and de-
stroyed 100 houses.
Breseia, Italy; was nearly demolished
by an explosion, August 2S. 1779.
A playhouse IL Bury, England, fell
down during a performance and buried
the audience in its ruins, July ], 1887.
Seventy-two thousand pounds of DOW
der and 600 bomb-shells blew up at
Corfu, March IL. 1889, and killed 200
men.
A column of fire appeared in the air at
Rome during thirty days, in the year
39O
The country of Palestine was infested
with swarms of lOcusts that darkeped the
sky in 406; after devouring everything
green they died aud caused pestilential
fever, which swept away thousands of
people.
In the month of August, S73, such
prodiglous swarm of locusts setteld upon
France that in one night every green
thing vanished from the land, even
to the bark of young trees. They soon
died and caused plague to ravage the
country.
A fash OF lightning penetrated the
theater at Venice In August, 1863; 600
people were in the house, several of
whom were killed; it put out the candles.
melted lady's gold watch case, and all
the jewels which we're composition only;
the real diamonds were merely split by