The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
GREAT EARTHQUAKES.

Ah0 Ncb IteSullS Ol LOSS FROM mOSt
Disastrous Shocks on Record.
742-Syria, Palestine and Asia; 500
towns destroyed.
1137-Sicily; $4,000 persons Hurled.
115S-In Syria; 10000 perished
126S-In Cecilia; so, 900 perishcl.
1855, December Sat Naples; 49,
900 persisted.
1909, September 14-Constantiaople;
thousands persisted.
1881, February 26-At Lisbon; 800
houses and $4,000 persons buried.
1926, July 30-Naples; thirty towns
and 10000 lives lost
1867, April 6-Ragusa ruined; 5000
persisted.
1667-Schmaki lasted three months;
10000 persisted.
1872, April 14-At Rimini; above
1900 persisted.
1892, June Island of Jamaica;
whole of Port Royal engulfed forty
fathoms deep and 5000 persisted.
1898, September-Fifty-four cities
and towns and more than 100000 lives
were lost.
1903, February 2-Aquila; 5000 per-
ished.
17O3-Jeddo, Japan, ruined; 200, 900
persisted.
1905, November SIN the Abbruzzi,
$4,000 persisted.
1716, May and June-At Algiers, 90
900 persisted
1925, September Palermo, 5000
lives lost.
1882, November 30-China, 100, 900
people swallowed up at Pekin.
1892, November 29-Naples, 1910
persisted.
1916, October 2S-Lima and Callao.
$4,000 persons buried.
1754-Grand Cairo, half the houses
and 10000 persons swallowed up.
1755, June 7-Karschan, North
Persia, destroyed; 10000 persisted.
1853, November The great earth
quake at Lisbon. In about eight min
utes most of. the houses and upward Of
$4,000 inhabitants were swallowed up.
1859, October 30-Syria, 10000 per-
ished.
178O-Tauris, Is, 900 houses and null
titudes buried.
1897, February Panama destroyed
and 10000 people buried in one second.
1905, July 26-Frosolone, Naples,
5000 lives.
1912, March 16-At Caracas, $4,000
persisted.
1919, June 16-Kutch sunk, 1000
persons buried.
1S22-Aleppo destroyed; above 90
900 persisted.
1916, February Hibernate, thou
sands lost.
1912, May Cape Haytien, St.
Domingo, between 1000 and 5000
lives.
1851 August 15-south Italy, $4,000
lives lost
1856, March 2-Island of Great San
ger, 5000 lives lost.
1859, March 22-Quito, 5000 persons
killed.
1861, March 20-Mendoza, South
America, 1000 lives lost.
1853, July 2 and 3-Manilla, Phillip
pine Isles, 10000 persons persisted.
1868, August - and 15-Peru and
Ecuador, $4,000 lives lost and 10000
rendered homeless; loss of property
estimated at $500, 100000.
1875, May 16 and Islam Jose de
Quota, Colombia, II, 900 lives.
1881, March 16-Ischia, 289 houses,
ia lives lost, about f38, 600; March 4,
more destroyed by another shock.
1881, April 3-Scio, 1000 perish
1888, July 23-Island of Ischia, in
the Bay of Naples, destroyed; 1890
lives.
1888, August 26-Java Island was
shattered and sunk, and sixteen others
raised their heads above the surround
ing waters. Nearly 100000 people
were buried beneath volcanic debris or
swept off the face of the land by the
volcanic wave.
18S4-S5-Andalusia, 745 persons
killed, 1,4S5 injured. and 1900 build
ings damaged.
18S5-Serinagur and numerous viii
lagos almost destroyed.
1885, August 2S-Morea and the IS
land of Zante, several villages and 300
lives lost.
1886, August 31-Charleston S, G.
about 90 persons killed and property
to the amount of $4,000,000 destroyed.