The bee., 1883-07-21
A CURIOUS RECORD.
Notable Fires, Floods, Calamities and Other
Happenings in the Worlds History.


which have been of an otherwise ex-
ceptional character, is the following:
In the year IS the amphitheatre at
Fridonia fell in and killed $1,000 per-
sons. The ruins Of it now remain at
Castel Gimbelio.
Prince William, eldest son of Henry
/. of England, with two of his sisters
and 80 of the nobility, were ship
wrecked and drowned in l12O.
A fire consumed barn at Burwell.
England, 1727, in which 160 persons
lost their lives.
The roof of the church at Fearn,
Scotland, fell in during service, 0cto-
Der 10, 1742, and killed sixty persons.
The Victory, man of-war, was lost
dt sea in October, 1774, and 300 gen
tlemen's sons were lost with it, beside
the crew.
A scaffo,d. for spectators to see Lord
Lovat beheaded in l747. fell down and
killed a large number of people, maim-
ing nearly all the rest who were pres
ent.
The Prince George, sloop-of-war,
burnt off Lisbon, l75S, and 4S5 OF her
crew perished.
On April q. 1770, at the fireworks
exhibited a. Paris, in honor of the
dauphin's marriage, the passages he
came blocked 10y an immense crowd of
people, when a panic occurred, and the
terrified spectators trampled one
another until they lay dead in heaps.
The scaffold ere ted over the river
broke down and precipitate1 1000
persons tG the water, where they were
drowned.
Four hundred persons were burned
to death in the theatre at Saragosa,
Spain, December, 177S.
Six hundred people were killed in
the church at Bourbon-les bainS,
France, by vault under the floor Civ
ing way, Septemb + IA, 177S.
In February. 1779, while receiving
the benediction at the conservation of
a bridge at Puerta de st. Maria, Spain,
the structure fell and killed zoo per-
sons.
On June %, 1852, the Royal George,
man-of-war, capsized at Portsmouth
and drowned Admiral Kempenfelt, the
entire crew, with 100 women and 200
Jews who were on board.
Five hundred people were killed at
Montpelier, France, in booth where
play was being performed, in July,
1856.
Sixty houses including a tavern full
of company, were blown up at London,
opposite Barking church, in Tower
street, by the explosion of some barrel:
of gunpowder at a ship chambers near
by. a child was found safely landed
on the leads Of the church. This hap
pened in 1649.
Three thousand people were killed
by an explosion in Gravelines, Eng
land, in 1854.
In Dublin, in 1898, 100 men were
blown up by the explosion of maga.
zine containing 216 barrels of powder.
One thousand houses were DESTROYED
in Bremen by the explosion of powder
in September, 1879. A large number
of citizens were killed.
In TIichinopoli, India, 1772, a
magazine caught fire and exploded
blowing 500 persons to atoms and
shaking the foundations of the city.
Chamberry, in Sardinia, had an ex,
plosion in 1873 that destroyed a large
part of the city.
An explosion in Abbeville, France
in November. 1173, caused damage
of Az, ,917 livres, killed $50 people and
destroyed 100 houses.
Brescia, Italy, was nearly demolishej
by an explosion, August %, 1779.
A playhouse in Bury, England, fell
down during performance and buried
the audience in its ruins, July !, 1887
Seventy-two thousand pounds OF
powder and 600 homb-sheIlS blew ur
at Corfu, March IL, 1889, and killed
200 men.
The country of Palestine was in
Tested with swarms o. locusts that
darkened the sky, in 400; after de
vouring everything green, they died
and caused a pestilential fever. which
swept away thousands of PEOPLE.
In the month of August, 973, sucl
a prodigiouS swarm of locusts settled
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 raw
age the country.
A prodigious swarm of snakes
formed themselves into two bands or
a plain near Tourney, in Flanders, il
1869. They fought with great fury
u1til one band was almost destroyed
when the peasants attacked the res
with clubs and fire and eXterminated
them.
At Oxenhall, England, in 1179, th,
earth suddenly rose to an eminence re
sembling a mountain, remaining 81
many hours; it then sank in as sudden
ly with deafening and terrific roar
leaving deep chasm.
The Cullen river in Norway buried
itself underground in 1874, but seoI
after burst out and destroyed 800 per
sons, with several churches, houses
etc.
On a Saturday evening, Februar,
IL, 1871, Marcley hill, near Hereford
England, began to move from the base
it continued in motion until the subse
quent Monday; carried along with i
trees, hedges and cattle; it overthrev
a church. demolished everything in it
path, and at last settled into noun
forty feet high, leaving a chasm fort,
feet deep in its path. In 1886 a sim
liar phenomenon happened in Dorset
shire, England. A field of three acre;
with trees. fences and cattle. move,