St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-13
GREAT EARTHQUAKES.
The Net Results Of Loss From The Most
Disastrous Shocks ON Record.
7x9-Syria Palestine and Asia: 500

The Net Results Of Loss From Tho Most
Disastrous Shocks ON Record.
742-Syria, Palestine and Asia; 500
towns destroyed.
1137-Sicily: $1,000 persons buried
115S-In Syria; 10000 perished.
126S-In Cecilia; SO, 600 perished.
1855. December Sat Naples; 4O,-
900 perished.
1909, September 14-Constantinople;
thousands perished.
1881, February 26-At Lisbon; 1,5OO
houses and so. 900 persons buried.
1926, July 30-Naples; thirty towns
and 10000 lives lost.
1867, April 6-Ragusa ruined; 5000
perished.
1667-Schmaki; lasted three months;
$4,000 perishcd.
1872. April 14-At Rimini; above
1,500 perished.
1892, June Island of Jamaica,
whole of Port Royal engulfed forty
fathoms deep and 5000 perished.
1893, September-Fifty-four cities
and towns and more than 1OO, 900 lives
were lost.
1908. February 2-Aquila; 5000 per-
ished.
1703-Jeddo. Japan, ruined; 200, 200
perished
17O6, November Sin the Abbruzzi,
$1,000 persisted.
1716, May and June-At Algiers, 2o,-
600 perished
1925. September Palermo, 5000
lives lost.
1882, November 3O-China, 100000
people swallowed up at Pekin.
1882, November 29-Naples, 1,94O
perished.
1746, October 2s-Lima ard Callao.
$1,000 persons buried.
1754-Grand Cairo, half the houses
and 1000 persons swallowed up.
1855, June 7-Karschan, North
Persia, destroyed; 4O.OOO perished.
1855, November The great earth
quake at Lisbon. In about eight min
utes most of the houses and upward OF
SO, 900 inhabitants were swallowed up.
1859. October 30-Syria, 10000 per.
ished.
17so-Tauris, $1,000 houses and mul.
titudes buried.
1897, February 4-Panama destroyed
and 40, 900 people buried in one second.
1905. July 26-Frosolone. Naples.
6,000 lives.
1912, March 16-At Caracas, $4,000
perished.
1919, June 16-Kutch sunk, 1900
persons buried.
ls22-Aleppo destroyed; above 2o.-
900 perished.
1876. February 14-Ternate, thou
sands lost.
1912, May Cape Haytien, St.
Domingo, between 1000 and 5000
lives.
1851 August 15-south Italy, 14.ooo
lives lost.
1856, March 2-Island of Great San
ger. 5000 lives lost
1859, March 22-Quito, 5000 persons
killed.
1861, March 2O-Mendoza, South
America. 1000 lives lost.
1868, July and 3-Manilla, Phillip
pine Isles, 10000 persons perished.
1868, August 13 and 15-Peru and
Ecuador, $4,000 lives lost and $4,000
estimated at $500, 900, 900.
1875, May 16 and 18-Lan Jose de
Quota, Colombia, IA. 600 lives.
| 1901, March lO-lSCnl8. ZoJ houses,
la lives lost, about f3s, 600; March 4,
more destroyed by another shock.
1881, April 3-Scio, 1000 perish.
1883, July 23-Island of Ischia, in
the Bay of Naples, destroye1TA 4, 800
lives.
1883. 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.
1885-Serinagur and numerous vii
iages almost destroyed.
1886. August 28-Morea and the Is
land of Zante, several villages and 800
lives lost.
1886. August 31-Charleston S. C.
about 90 persons killed and property
to the amount OF $4,000. 900 destroyed.