Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-04
A LIST OF GREAT HISTORICAL
EARTHQUAKES.

great historical earthquakes, back to the
wear 742. 1t is especially interesting at
this time in showing the enormous devasta-
ton and loss of life, this mysterious phe,
nomenon of mother earth has caused. Here
is the list:
742-Awful earthquake in Syria, Pales,
tine and Asia; more than 500 towns were
DESTROYED, and the loss of life surpassed all
calculation.
l147-Catania, in Sicily, overturned
and Il. 900 persons buried in the ruins.
1l5S-In Syria, etc. %, 600 persisted.
l26s-In Cecilia; $4,000 persisted.
Ass, Dec. Sat Naples; 10000 per
ished.
1909, Sept. 14-ConstantinOple; thOus
ands persisted.
1881, Feb. 26-At Lisbon; 800 houses
and 30, 200 persons buried in the ruins
several neighbOring towns engulfed.
1895, July 2-In Japan; several cite:
made ruins and thousands. persisted.
1926, July 30-In Naples; 80 towns OF
villages ruined; 20, 900 lives lost.
1867, April 6-Ragusa ruined; 5,OOC
persisted.
1G61-AtSchamaki, lasted three months
80, 600 persisted.
1872, April 14-At Rimini; above !, 5Ot
persisted.
1862. June 7-On the Island of Jamaica
which totally destroyed Port Royal, who's
houses were engulted 40 fathOms deep, anC
3, 900 persisted.
1893, Sept.-One in the Island of Sicily
which overturned 81 cities and towns anC
BOO Villages; of Catania and its Is, 900 in
habitants not trace remained; more thar
lGO, 600 lives were lost.
1908, Feb. 2-Aquila, in Italy ruined
5, 600 persisted.
17O3-Jeddo, Japan, ruined; 2OO,OOC
persisted. $500,
l7O6, Nov. 3-In the Abruzzi; 15,OOt
persisted.
1716, May and June-At Algiers; 90,
900 persisted.
1926, Sept. Palermo nearly destroyed
nearly 5000 lives lost.
1881, Nov. 3O-Again in China, anC
100, 600 people swallowed up at Pekin.
l7&2, Nov. 29-n Naples, etc; l,9lI
persisted
lT46, Oct. 2S-Lima and CalaO dcmOl
iShc,l; II. OOO persons buried in the ruins
l7Jl. Srpt.-At Grand Cairo; half tn,
houses and .ii,OOOperSOnS swallowed up.
l155, June 7-KaSchan, y. Persia, dc
StroyrI; Ia, 900 persisted.
l1.EI, Nov. The great earthquake ut
Lisbon. In about eight minutes most o.
the houses and upwards OF 81, 900 inhablt-
ants were swallowed up, and whole streets
buried. The cities of Colmbra, OpOrtO and
Hragl suffered drcadtully, and st. Ube'
was wholly overturned. In Spain, a large
portion at Malaga became ruins. One-hal
OF Erz. in Morocco, WAS destroyed, and
more than 1000 Arabs persisted there.
About half the Island OF Madeira became
waste, AND 1000 houses in the island OF
MitylrnS, in the Archipelago, were over
thrown. This awful earthquake extended
>, ONO miles, even to Scotland.
lTJ9, Oct. 30-In Syria, extended ovel
10, UOOsquare miles; Baalbec destroyed; 20,
900 persisted,
lTSO-At Tauris; 5000 houses thrown
down and multitudes buried.
1858, Feb. 5-Messina and ether towns
in Italy and Sicily Oyerthrown; thousands
persisted.
1874, July 23-Ezinghian near Erzeroun
destroyed, and 5000 people buried III 1t:
ruins.
1T9T, Feb. THE country between SAINT;
Fe and Panama destroyed, including Cuz
co and Quito; 10000 people buried in ont
second.
1905, July 26-At Frosoline, Naples
5000 lives lost.
1Sl2, March 1G-At Caracas; II, 900 per
ished
1st9, June 16-Seyeral throughout India
district of Hutch sunk; 1000 persons were
buried.
1S22-AleppO destroyed; above 20, OOt
persisted: shocks on 10th and 18th of August
and 9TH of September.
1929, March 16-In Spain; Murcia and
numerous villages devastated; 5000 per
sons perish.
1880, May 26 and 27-Canton and neigh
bOrhOOd; about 5000 persisted.
1876, February 14-At Ternate; the isl
and made n waste, and thousands OF lives
lost.
lS42, May AT Cape Haytien, st. Dom
inigo, which destroyed nearly twO-thirds
of the town; between 1000 and 5000 lives
were lost.
1851, August 14-In South Italy; Melt
almost laid in ruins; IA, 900 lives lost.
1856, March 2-At the Island of Great
Sanger, one of the MOluccas, volcanic
eruption and earthquake; nearly 1000 lives
lost.
1853, September 16-In Calabria, Mon
temurrO, another town was destroyed, and
about 10, 900 lives lost.
1859, March 22-At Quito, about 5000
persons killed and an immense amount OF
property destroyed.
1861, March 20--At Mendozr, South
America, about two-thirds of the city and
1000 lives lost.
1868, July . and 3-Manilla, Philippine
Isles, immense destruction of property;
about 10000 persons persisted.
1868, August 13-l5-The cities of Are
quipa, Iquique, Taena, and Chenca, and
many small towns in Peru and Ecuador
destroyed: about %, 600 lives lost and 80,
900 rendered homeless; loss of property
estimated at $50, 10000
1875, May l6-lS-San Jose de Cucuta
and other towns near Santander, on the
boundary of Colombia, destroyed; about
II, 600 lives said to be lost.
1873, April 14-Cua, Venezuela, nearly
destroyed; about 800 killed; loss about
e30, 600.
1881, March 16-Several shocks in South
Italy; much destruction and loss of life at
CaSSamicciola, town in the isle of Ischia,
$50 houses destroyed, ia lives lost, about
SIS, 900 loss. March "a, more destruction
by another shock.
1881, April 3-Scio-the town and sew
eral villages destroyed; about 1000 per-
3otelS.