Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
!GREAT EARTHQUAKES
The Net Results OF Loss From The Mos
Disastrous Shocks ON Record,

Disastrous Shock. ON Record.
742-Syria, Palestine and Asia; 500
towns destroyed.
1137-Sicily; $4,000 persons buried.
1158-In Syria; 10000 persisted.
126S-In CECILIA; 80, 600 persisted.
1856, December Sat Naples; 4O.-
900 persisted.
1909, September 14-Constantinople;
thousands persisted.
1881, February 26-At Lisbon; 1900
houses and 80. 900 persons buried.
1926, July 30--Naples; thirty towns
and 10000 lives lost.
1867, April 6-Ragusa ruined; 5000
persisted.
1867 Schmaki; lasted three months;
$4,000 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.
1893, September Fifty-four cities
and towns and more than 100000 lives
were lost.
1903, February 2-Aquiia; 5000 per-
ished.
17O3-,Jeddo, Japan, ruined; 200, 900
persisted.
1905, November Sin the Abbruzzi,
5000 persisted.
1716, May and June AT Algiers, 2O,-
900 persisted.
1926, September Palermo, 5000
lives lost.
1882, November 3o-China, 10000
people swallowed up at Pekin.
1882, November 29-Naples, 1,940
persisted
1746, October 2S-Lima and Callao.
$4,000 persons buried.
1754-Grand Cairo, half the houses
and 10000 persons swallowed up.
1855, June 7--Karschan, North
Persia, destroyed; 40, 900 persisted.
1855, November The great earth
quake at Lisbon. In about eight min
utes most of the houses and upward of
so, 600 inhabitants were swallowed up.
1859, October 30-Syria, 10000 per-
ished.
17S0-Tauris, Is, 900 houses and null
titudes buried
1897, February Panama destroyed
and 10000 people buriedin one second.
1906, 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.
1876, February 14--Ternate, 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.
1868. July 2 and 3-Manilla, Phillip
pine Isles, 10000 persons persisted.
1868, August Is and 15-Peru and
Ecuador, $4,000 lives lost and $4,000
rendered homeless; loss of property
estimated at $500, 000,0 900.
1875, May Is and Islam Jose de
Quota, Colombia, $4,000 lives.
1881, March 16-Ischia, 289 houses,
ia 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, 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.
S5-Andalusia, 745 persons
killed, 1,485 injured, and 1900 build
ings damaged.
18S5-Serinagur and numerous vii
lagos almost destroyed.
1886. August 28-Morea and the Is
land of Zante, several villages and 500
lives lost
1886, August Charleston S. c.
about 90 persons killed and property
to the amount of $4,000,000 destroyed.