The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-09-27
EARrnQrAKEs.

Somo ono. In writing of the great
earthquakes ol ne old aud new worlds,
SAYS "Great mtslorlunes wars, pegti.
lenpes Hoods, and those moro mystrfis
Gus n acIdonts which unliS the firm set
earth hold the first place Ia tho rec.
ord' Of every people, Sir John
llcrchol, who, with hi, hammer In his
hand and hts barometer ON hia back.
climbed lilo cones of Npsuyius and
htnn, aud wandered over aud goolo.
gilcd among all tho principal scenes
oi volcanic activity In Europe, does
not class volcanoes and earthquakes
among "great mdouunos They
ragged on this Garth thousands nlld
Thousands Of years before man set his
foot upon 1t, aud, said lloschcl,
these y.silaiions are unavoidable aud
are mere incidents In u vast system OF
action 10 which wo owo the very
gtound We stand upon, tho land we IN.
hab /, and without which neither man,
nor beast, nor bird would have n place
for thoir existence, and the world
would be habltatlon for nothing but
fishes"
Volcanic powers and earthquakes
have caused gigantic mountain chains
to spring up In day, and, ever at work,
are changing the boundaries Of sea aud
land. After the earthquake Of 1922 the
whole coast OF Chill for the length Of
one hundred miles was found to bo
thrcO feet higher than before, and u
still greater rise was noticed after the
one Of 1855. DR.. Kane found similar
marks of elevation and depression
whilst exploring tho Arctic seas, and
along the cIast Of Greenland, whore
the EsquimauX hus were being washed
by the sea In the columns OF the Tenn.
pie Of Scraps, near Iuzluoli, natural
lists find holes cut twcnty-four feet above
the level OF the sea, that were cut by u
species ~ marine tostncir ihnt can rot
live above the soa-lcycl II supposed
that by earthquakes and oscillations.
the temple was first lowered into tho
sea, whore the molluscs committed the
sacrilegc, and afterwards the grca. up-
hcayal force Of the waters forced It again
to its present position.
M pHr 81 muOUc." said Calico, and
strange TO say. when he uttered those
words TO the bigotel aud skcptical in
quisitors, tho earth had moved, not per-
hnps W he meant, but great earth.
quake had rocked Italy that very year
1888. From the earliest tmes earth
quakos have challenged the close niton.
ton OF philosophers. Aristotle. Liyy.
Seneca, Pliny, lhucydides, Josephus.
Strabo, Tacitus, and many others mem
tion them In ther writings, knd many
shrcwd theories aud spoculations were
evolved from the phenomena regarding
the cause and origin.
Tho Biblical records In Syria contain
notlccs Of earthquake IN 800 u. g.,
during the reign Of Ahab. and In 800 Is.
G.. during tho reign of Uzziah. An
earthquake deyasiod Judea In 81 Il. g..
while the battle OF Actium was being
fought, and which passed almost I'M.
noticed amid the carnage aud confusion
Of war. although Josephus records il rs
terrifying. and says I, cost 10000 per.
Sons their lives. Antioch received ire.
quent earthquake visits. In ll5 A. ID.
II was almost destroyed. In Is6 Il was
again visited. and In 526 occurred tho
most disastrous ono recorded. aud Glib.
bon asserts that 2jO.O00 people were
killed. In hsi Il was again devastated.
aid the victims numbered $1,000. The
last one at that point wins in 1872.
The various theories regarding earth.
quakcs and the on-systomatic study VI
them led the British Association Tor the
Advancement ol Science 10 devote a
sum Of money for tho purpose Of 'nycs-
tigation OF the strange phenomena, and
to make n report in accordance. The
labor WAS enormous, and for the bril-
liant success we are chiefly indebted Ia
Mr.. Robert Mallel. Tho report Is OK.
ccodingly interesting. One volume con.
tains records ot nearly 1000 earth.
quakcs between 1906 u. e. to 1912 A. ID.
II is ~ Mr. Mallcl's labor that seismol.
ogy- tho Greek for earthquake has
become n science and fact The
catalogue Of the association contains
the earthquakes arranged ebronologic.
ally 81 years before tho death oI
Christ Asia Minor had thirteen Of her
important cities destroyed, and Mat.
thew, Luke and Eusebius have tDld a.
how the earth quakod and rocked dur.
ing that awful tragedy. IN A. d. 81
occurred the earthquake that partially
destroyed Herculaneum aud Pompcii.
aud sixteen years later those cities were
buried under tho delugo of ashes and
lava from fesuvlus. Later. In the fifth
century. there wure ii6 earthquakes In
Europe, enough 10 keep her in violent
eonynlsion for the whole of that time.
They devastated the greater part OF the
the civilized world. In isI Laodicea.
Tripolis, Aghihlcum and iIicropolis
were overwhelmed In 5H2 thera were
severe shocks. followed by Tho falling
Of huge rocks and by strange subterra-
mean confuaions, proceeding from the
mountains near the Rhone. In 6sl Josa,
province Of Japan. WIS visited
by \ terrible earthquake tina. claimed
thousands oi liver. and 900. 100 acres oI
land SINK into tho sea. In s1l the
llasllica Of IT. Paul al Romo was de-
siroyed By m earthquake that shook
France, Germany aud Italy. In 81
nearly all Of France was visited by ter.
rifle shocks. and then Is recorded ths
first account u an epidemic fellow ng
an earthquake. In Nd Antioch had
LOO houses destroyed and the next
year Holland was convulscd and one Of
the mouths Of the Rhine suddenly
closed. In that century india had lSo..
90 people destroyed by an earthquake
that yisltei her. and which was pre-
eeded by an eclipse of the sun. AMI -
showers Of black stones called meteorin
In 1921 Southern Germany and Ba
varia were seriously injured. and The
water in many u the wells became red,
like blood. Large innndaiious and
lgneous meteufs were common. In
1900 AL Europe was shocked aud con.
vulsed. IlDsisei leaped up and fell,
trees were killed as u By lightning. and
harvest uas not gathered until IN No
ssinbsr. In ilhs the Thames wa
dried up aud could b. cruesed dry shoi
In Durham. IN l77a. the earth swclled
TO grsai height from nine In the morn.
inE ur'f Hznssi. aBt thea suiieais
sank. learina uools Of ualnr herr and