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THE GREAT HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES.

JOSEPH 1. G. CLARLE.
THE GREAT HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES.
The following is a succinct record of the
most destructive earthquakes which have
been recorded from the eighth century down
to the present time:
742-Awful earthquake in Syria, Palestine
and Asia; more than 500 towns were des-
troyed, and the loss of life surpassed all cal
culation.
1137-Catania, in Sicily, overturned and
$1,000 persons buried in the ruins.
1150-In Syria, etc.; 90, 900 persisted.
126S-In CECILIA; So 900 persisted.
1855, December Sat Naples; 10000
persisted.
1909, September 14-Constantinople
thousands persisted.
1881, February 26-At Lisbon, 1900
houses and 10000 persons buried in the
ruins; several neighboring towns englufed.
1896, July 2-In Japan; several cities
made ruins and thousands persisted.
1926, July 30-In Naples; 80 towns OF
villages ruined; 1000 lives lost.
1867, April 6-Ragusa ruined; 5000 per-
ished.
1667-At Schamaki, lasted three months:
$4,000 persisted.
1879, April 14-At Rimini; above 1900
persisted.
1899, June Ton the Island of Jamaica,
which totally destroyed Port Royal, whose
5000 persisted.
1893, September.-One in the Island of
Sicily, which overturned 81 cities and towns
and 300 villages; of Catania and it's $4,000
Inhabitants not trace remained; more than
100, 900 lives were lost.
1908, February 2.-Aquila, in Italy, ruin
ed; 5000 persisted.
17O3.-Jeddo, Japan, ruined; 200, 900 per-
ished.
1706, November 3.-In the Abruzzi; TO-
900 persisted.
I7l6, May and June.-At Algiers; 1000
persisted.
1926, September Palermo nearly de-
stroyed; nearly 5000 lives lost.
1871, November 50.-Again in China, and
100000 people swallowed up at Pekin.
1882, Novembe 29.-In Naples, etc.; l.
$40 persisted.
174e, October 28.-Lima and Calao demol-
ished; 18, 900 persons buried in the ruins.
1884, September.-At Grand Cairo; half
the houses and 10000 persons swallowed
up.
1866, June 7.-Kaschan, N. Persia, de-
stroyed; 10000 persisted.
1755, November 1.-The great earthquake
at Lisbon. In about eight minutes most of
the houses and upwards of $4,000 inhabit-
ants were swallowed up and whole streets
buried. The cities Of Colmbra, Oporto and
Braga suffered dreadfully, and st. Ubes was
wholly overturned. In Spain, large
portion of Malaga became ruins: One-half
of Fee, in Morocco, was destroyed, and
more than $4,000 Arabs persisted there.
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waste, and 1900 houses in the Island of
Mitylene, in the Archipelago were over
thrown. This awful earthquake extended
5000 miles, even to Scotland.
1859, October 30.-In Syria, extended
over 10000 square miles; Baalbec destroy
ed; 10000 persisted.
17S0.-At Tauris; Is, 900 houses thrown
down and multitudes buried.
1888, February 5.-Messina and other
towns in Italy and Sicily overthrow; thous-
ands persisted.
1884, July 23.-Esinghian, near Erze-
roum, destroyed, and 5000 persons buried
in its ruins.
1897, February 1.-The whole country
between Sante Fe and Panama destroyed,
including Cuzco and Quito; 10000 people
buried in one second.
1905, July 26.-At Frosolone, Naples; g.
900 lives lost.
1912, March 16.--At Caracas; II, 900 per-
ished.
1919, June 16.-Several throughout India
district of Hutch sunk; 2, 200 persons buried.
1S22.-Aleppo destroyed above 20, 600
perish; shocks on the 10th and 18th of Au-
gust and 9Th of September.
1929, March 16.-In Spain; Murcia and
numerous villages devastated; 5000 persons
perish.
1880, May 26 and 27.-Canton and
neighborhood; about 5000 perish.
1916. February 14.-At Ternate; the is
land made waste and thousands of lives
lost.
1s49, May AT Cape Haytien, st. Do
ningo, which destroyed nearly two-thirds
of the town; between 1000 and 5000 lives
were lost.
1851, August A. In South Italy; Melfi
almost laid in ruins; IA, 900 lives lost.
1856, March AT the Island of Great
Sanger, one of the Moluccas; volcanic erup-
ton and earthquake; nearly 5000 lives lost.
1857, 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 Mendoza, South
America, about two-thirds of the city and
1000 lives lost.
1868, July and 3.---Manilla, Philippine
Isles, immense destruction of property;
about 10, 900 persons persisted.
1868, August 13-15.-The cities of Are
quips, Iquique, Tacna, and Chencha, and
many small towns in Peru and Ecuador de-
stroyed, about 25, 900 lives lost and $4,000
rendered homeless; loss of property esti-
mated at e60,O00,0O0.
1875, May 16-1S.-San Jose de Cucuta
and other towns near Santander, on the
boundary of Colombia, destroyed; about
$4,000 lives said to be lost.
1878, April 14.--Cua, Venezuela, nearly
destroyed; about 300 killed; loss about $780,
0OO
1881, March 16.-Severe shocks in South
Italy; much destruction and loss of life at
Cassamicciola, town in the Isle of Isehia;
2e9 houses destroyed, ia lives lost, about
e38, 900 loss. March 4, more destruction by
another shock.
1881, April 3.-Scio-the town and sew
eral villages destroyed; about 4, 900 perish
ed; much restitution ensuing successive
shocks, beginning 1 80 P. M.
18S3,iJuly 23.-The town of Cassamic-
ciola, Forio and Lacco Ameno, on the Is
land of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, almost
entirely destroyed; 1 800 lives lost and 374
persons injured.
1888, August 26.-The Krakatoa cata-
clysm in Java, in August, which was the
most stupendous on record, An island was
shattered and sunk, and sixteen others
raised their heads above the surrounding
waters. Nearly 100, 900 people were buried
beneath volcanic debris or swept off the face
of the land by the volcanic wave. The
floor of the ocean over a wide area to the
southeast of.Sumatra was raised into plain