Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-04

f0uRnly toIrtu90s AL StfuctusSS WSs0
deserted, and everybody win slssp In
the streets tonight.
AT MACON, GA.
MACON, Ca, September 3.-An.
other shock was felt here at ll:03
o'clock tonight. II was distinct, and
caused some little consternstion among
the people, but no damage was done to
property. The shock was felt heavily
in the upper part Of the city.
Great Hissoricas Esrthcuskss.
742-Awful earthquake in Syria,
Palestine, and Asia; more than 500
towns were destroyed, and tho loss Of
life surpassed all calculation.
ll37-Catsnia, in Sicily, overturned
and $4,000 persons buried in the ruins.
ll5s-In Syria, etc. 10000 per-
ished.
I26s-.In Cecilia; $4,000 perishsd.'
1855, december Sat Naples;
10000 perished.
1909, September l4-Constantino.
PIE thousands perisbed.
1881, February 26-At Lisbon;
1900 houses and 30, 900 persons buried
in the ruins; several neighboring towns
eDgulfed.
1896, July 2--In Japan; several
cities made ruins and thousands per-
ished.
1926, July 30-Ia Naples; thirty
towns or villages ruined; 10000 lives
lost.
1867, April 6-Ragusa ruined 5000
perisbed.
l667-At Schamaki, lasted three
months; $4,000 perished.
1872. April l4--At Rimini; above
1900 perished.
1892, June 7-0n the Island Of Ja-
maica, which totally destroyed Port
Royal. whose houses were engdlfsd
forty fathoms deep, and 5000 per-
ished.
1903, September--0ne in the Island
of Sicily, which overturned fifty-four
cities and towns and three hundred
villages; of Cstanis and its $4,000 in
habitants not trace remained more
than 100000 lives were lost.
1903, February 2-Aquilla, in Italy,
ruined; 5000 perished.
l703-Jeddo, Japan, ruined 20O,-
900 perished.
l706, November 3-In the Abruzzi;
$4,000 perished.
l7l6, May and Juue-At Algiers;
10000 perished.
1926, September PALERMO nearly
DESTROYED nearly 5000 lives lost.
1871, November 30-Again in China,
and 100000 people swallowed up at
PekiD.
1882, November 29-In Naples, etc. /;
1910 perished.
l746, October 2S-Lima and Calao
demolished $4,000 persons buried in
the ruins.
I754, September-At Grand Cairo
half the houses and 10000 persons
swallowed up.
1855, June 7-Kaschan, Northern
Persia, destroyed; 10000 petished.
1855, November THE great earth
quake at Lisbon. In about eight
minutes most of the houses and up
wards of $4,000 inhabitants were
swallowed up and whole streets buried.
The cities Of Colmbrs, Oporto, and
Braga suffered dreadfully, aud St. Ubes
was wholly overturned. 10 Spain a
large portion of Malaga became ruins.
One half of Fez, in Morocco, was de-
stroyed, and more than II 900 Arabs
perished there. About half the island
of Madeira became waste, ard 1000
houses in the island of Mity lene, in the
Archipelago, were overthrown. This
aw ful earthquake extended 5000 miles,
even to Scotland.
1859, October 30-In Syria, ex-
tended over 10000 square miles !;
Baalbec destroyed, 10000 perished.
l7S0-At Tsuris $4,000 houses
thrown down aud multitudes buried.
1888, February 5-Messina and other
towns in Italy and Sicily overthro~n
thousands perished.
1854, July 23-Ezinghisn, near Err
zeroum, DESTROY ed, and 5000 persons
buried in its ruins.
1877, February 4-The whole coun-
try between Santa Fe and Panama de-
stroyed, including Cuzco and Quito
10000 people buried in one second.
1905, July 26-At Frosolone, Ma
pies; 5000 lives lost.
1912, March l6-At Caracas; 1900
persisted.
1919, Jane I6-Several throughout
India; distric, of Kutch sunk 1000
persons buried.
lS22-Aleppo destroyed; above
1000 perish; shocks on 10th aud
18th OF August and 5th Of September.
1929, March l6-In Spain; Murcia
and numerous villages devastated {;
5000 persons perish.
1880. May 26 and 27-Canton and
neighboIhOod about 5000 pcrished.
lS46, February l4-At Ternite the
island made waste, and thousands Of
lives lost.
I842, May AT Cape Haytien, 81.
Domingo, which destroyed nearly two
thirds Of the town; between 1000 aad
5000 lives were lost.
1851, August l4-In South Italy :;
Melfi almost laid in ruins; Ii ,00J lives
lost.
1856, March 2-At the Island OF
Great Sanger, one Of the Molaccas !;
volcanic eruption and earthquake !;
nearly 5000 lives lost.
1857, September l6-In Calabria
Montemurro, another town was de-
stroyed, and about 10000 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.
1863, July 2 and 3-Manilla, Phil