The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-10

DESTRUCTIVE COMMISSIONS RECORDED
BY HISTORY FROM THE EIGHTH
CENTURY.

most destructive earthquakes which
have been recorded from the eighth
century down to the present time has
been prepared hy the Baltimore Sun
742-Awful earthquake in Syria,
Palestine and Asia more than 500
towns were destroyed, and the loss of
life surpassed all calculation.
1137-Catania, in Sicily, overturned
and $4,000 persons buried IN the ruins.
1l5S-In Syria, &c; 10000 perished
126S-in CECILIA $4,000 perished.
1455, Dec. 5-At Naples 10000
persisted.
1909, Sept. l4-Constautinople
I thousands perished
1881, Feb. 26-At Lisbon 1,5OO
houses and 10000 persons buried in
the ruins several neighboring towns
engulfed.
1896, July Pin Japan several
cities made runs and thousands per-
ished.
1926, July 3O-In Naples 80 towns
or villages ruined 10000 lives lost.
1867. April 6-Ragusa ruined s..
900 perishcd.
16f7-At Schamaki, lasted three
months 10000 perished.
1872, April 14-At Rimini above
! 800 persisted.
1862, June On the Island Of
Jamaica, which totally destroyed Port
Royal, whose houses were engulphed
40 fathoms deep, and 5000 persisted.
1903, September-On in the Islano
of Sicily which overturned "a cities
and towns and 800 villages; of Catania
and its $4,000 Inhabitants not q trace
remained more than 100000 lives
were lost.
1908, Feb 2-Aquila, in Italy, rnin-
ed 5000 perished
1703-Jeddo, Japan, ruined 2OO,-
600 perished.
l70G-November Sin the Abruzzi
$4,000 perished
l7lG-May and June-At Algiers
10000 perished.
1729-Scptember l-Palmero nearly
destroved nearly 5000 lives lost.
E, Nov. 30-Again in China, and
.yr,ooO persons swallowed up in
Pekin.
1892, Nov. 29-rn Naples, etc. L.
$40 perished.
l746, Oct. 2S-Lima and Calao de-
molished $4,000 persons buried in
the ruins.
1854, Sept.-At Grand Cairo half
the houses and 100000 persons swal-
lowed up.
1855, June 7-Kaschan, N. Persia,
destroyed 10000 persisted.
1855, Nov. The great earthquake
at Lisbon. In abont eight minutes
most OF the houses and upwards of 5O,-
600 inhabitants were swallowed up,
and whole streets buried. The cities
of Colmora, Oporto and Braga suffer-
ed dreadfully, and St. Ubes was wholly
overturned. In Spain, large portion
OF Malaga became ruins. One half of
Fex, in Morocco, was destroyed, and
more than $4,000 Arabs perished there.
About half the island of Madeira be-
came waste, and 1000 houses on the
island of Mitylene, in the Archipelago,
were overthrown. This awful earth
quake extended 5000 miles even to
Scotland.
1859, Oct. 3O-In Syria, extended
over 10000 square miles Baalbec de-
stroyed 10000 persisted.
17SO-At Tauris ; $4,000 houses
thrown down and multitudes buried.
1888, Feb. 5-Messina and other
towns in Italy and Sicily nverthrown ;
thousands perished
1884, July 23-Ezinghan, near
Erzeroum, destroyed, and 5000 per
sons buried in its ruins.
between Santa Fe and Panama de-
stroyed, including Ouzco and Quito +;
10000 people buried in one second.
1905, July 26--At Frosolons, Naples;
6,OOO lives lost.
1912, March 16-At Caracas l2,-
600 persisted.
1919, June 16-Several throughout
India district of Kutch sunk 1000
persons perished.
lS22-Aleppo destroyed above 90
900 perished shocks on 10th and 18th
of August and 5th. of September.
1929, March 16-In Spain Murcia
and numerous villages devastated g..
600 persons perished
1880, May 26 and 27-Canton and
neighoorhood about 5000 perished
1876, Feb. l4-At Ternate the
island make waste, and thousands OF
lives lost.
| ls42, May AT Cape Hayticp, St
Domingo, which destroyed nearly two
thirds of the town between 1000 and
5000 lives were lost.
1851, Aug. l4-In South Italy. Melt
almost laid in ruins $4,000 lives lost
1856, March 2-At the Island oil
Great Sanger, one of the Moluccas
volcanic eruption and earthquake
nearly 5000 lives lost
1857, Sept. 1G-In Calabria. Monte.
murro, another town destroyed, anG
about 10000 lives lost.
1859, March 22-At Quito, about &,
900 persons killed and an immense
amount of property destroyed.
1861, March 20-At Me0dozr, South
America, about two-thirds of the city
and 1000 lives lost.
1862, July and 3-Manilla ant
Philippine Isles immense destruction
of property about 10000 persons per
ished
1868, Aug l3 and l5-The cities o
Arequipa, Iquique, Tacna and Chencha
and many small towns in Peru anC
Ecuador destroyed about 25,OOO live,
lost and 10000 rendered homeless; los,
of property estimated at f6O,OOO,OOO
1875, May 8-ls-San Jose d,
Cucuta and other towns near Santan
= der, on the boundary of Colombia de-
stroyed about $4,000 lives said to b,
lost.
1878, April 14-Cua, Venezuela
nearly destroyed about 800 killed
loss about $4,000
1881, March, l6-Severe shocks il
South Italy, mnch destruction and losi
al life at Cassamicoiola, \ tswn in tn,
Isle of Ischia 2s9 houses destroyed
ia lives lost, about f3S,OO0 loss