Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13
CURIOUS RECORD.

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| The Victory, man-of-War, was lost at
sea in October, 1744. and 800 gentlemen's
sons were lost with it, besides the crew
A scaffold, for spectators to see Lord
Lovat beheaded in 1747, fell down and
kille5 large number of people, manning
nearly all the rest who were present.
The Prince George, slOop-Of-war. burnt
off Lisbon, and 4S5 of her csew persisted.
On April 21, 1870, at the fireworks eX-
hibited at Paris, in honor of the dauphin's
marriage, the passages became blocked by
an immense crowd of people, when pan
ic occurred, and the terrified spectators
trampled one another until they lay dead
in heaps. The scaffold erected over the
river broke down and precipitated 1000
persons into the water, where they were
drosned.
Four hundred persons were burned to
death in the theater at SaragoSa, Spain,
DECEMBER, 177S.
SIX hundred persons were killed in the
church at Bourbon les bains, France, by a
vault under the floor giving way, Septem-
be,,177S.
In February, 1179, while receiving the
benediction at the cOnsecration of bridge
at Puerta de st. Maria. Spain, the struc-
ture fell and killed 200 persons.
On June 2S, the Royal George, man-Of-
wai., capcized at Portsmouth and drown
ed Admiral kempenfelt, the entire crew,
with 100 women and 200 Jews who were
on board.
Sixty houses, including tavern full of
company, were blown up at London, op-
posite Barking church, in Tower street,
1,,-t tl'ao ~ hor 10 nf
powder in ship chandler's near by. A
child was found safely landed on the leads
of the church. This happened 1649.
Three thousand people were killed by
an explosion in Gravelines, England, in
1864.
IN Dublin, in 1893, 100 men were blown
up by the explosion of magazine con-
tanning 21S barrels Of powder.
One thousand houses were destroyed in
Bremen by the explosion of powder in
September, 1749. A large number of cit
iz MS were killed.
IN Trichinopoli, India, 1772, magazine
rsZss sght fire and exploded, blowing 300 per-
sons to atoms and shaking the foundation
of the city.
Cranberry, in Sardinia, had an explo-
sion in 1773 caused damage of 472,917
livres, killed $50 people and destroyed 100
houses.
Brescia, Italy, was nearly demolished
by an explosion, August %, 1779.
A play house in Bury, England, fell
down during performance and buried
an audience in its ruins, July l, 1887.
Seventy-two thousand pounds of pow
der and 600 bomb shells blew up at Corfu,
March 21, 1889, and killed 200 men.
The country of Palestine was infested
with swarms of locusts that darkened the
sky, in 406; after devouring everything
green, they dieu and caused pestilential
fever, which swept away thousands of
people.
In the month of August, S73, such a
prodigious swarm of locnsts settled upon
France that in one night every green
thing vanished from the land, even to the
bark of young tree. They soon died and
caused a plague to ravage the country.
A prodigious swarm of snakes formed
themselves into two bands on plain near
Tourney, in FLANDERS, In 1859. They
fought with great fury until one band
was almost destroyed, when the peasants
attacked the rest with clubs and extermi-
mated them.
At Oxenhall. England, in 1179, the earth
suddenly rose to an eminence resembling
a mountain, remaining so many hours; it
then sank in as suddenly with deafen-
ing and terrific roar, leaving adeep chasm.
The Cullen river in Norway buried it.
self under ground in 1874, but soon after
burst out and destroyed 300 persons, with
several churches, houses, etc.
On Saturday evening, February II, 1871,
Marcley hill, near BerefOrd England, be-
gan to move from the base; it continued
in motion until the following Monday;
carried along with it trees, hedges and
cattle; it overthrow a church, demolished
everything in its path, and at last settled
in mount forty feet high, leaving d
chasm forty feet deep in its path. In 1888
similar phenomenon happened in Dor
setshire, England. A field of three acres
with trees, fences and cattle, moved from
Blackmoor to Hearn and settled there.
In 1913 the town of Pleurs, Italy, was
buried by slice of the Alps falling, and
1890 people were killed. A town near
teenth century.
An unaccountable darkness-no elipse
at MONDAY, settled over England Janu-
ary -, 1869, so that no one could see to
read.
A country seat at Norway sank into an
abyss, 300 feet deep, in 1909, and the spot
was instantly covered with water, drown
ing IA persons and $50 head of cattle.
A body of light appeared in the north
east on March 6. 1715, which formed sew
eral pillars of flame and lasted until three
o'clock the subsequent morning; it alarm
ed the people who saw it terribly, as they
thought the end of the world had come.
A flash of lightning penetrated thea
ter of Venice in August, 1863; 600 people
were in the house. several of whom were
killed; it put out the candles, melted Ia
dy's gold watch case; and all the jewels
which were composition only. The real
diamonds were split merely by the bolt.
In December 1771, Solway, Moss, near
Scotland, ten miles from Carlisle, began
to swell, owing to heavy rains, and over
400 acres of it rose to great hight above
the level of the ground around it. 1t then
rolled forward like a torrent, and contln-
ued so over mile, sweeping everything
before it. 1t then divided into islands OF
various extent, from one to ten feet deep.
Hares wild fowl and various wild AMI
mails were found on it. 1t covered 600
acres of Netherby, and while moving,
during the time from Saturday until
Wednesday, it destroyed thirty small VII
lagos in its path.
One Thomas Parr, of Shropshire, Eng
gland, was in his one hundred and slxtleth
year. brought to London by the Earl OF
Arundel. He was in perfect health, but
the change of air killed him. He died In
1865.
Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, died IN
1850, aged 169.