Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-03
FLOODS IN HISTORY.
The Record Of Fatal foundations
In This and Other Countries.


The terrible disaster In Pennsylva-
MIA has awakened In thousand Of minds
recollections Of similar deyastations in
! this and other countries. and also OF
the stories that have been repeated
from time to time regarding events OF
horror by inundation as far back as
the third century. To readers who
like to preserve such records. the
chronicle herewith presented will
prove unusually interesting Here is
a record dating its FIRST event in the
year 245:
An inundation Of the sea in Lincolnshire
laid under water many thousand acres, A
D. 2I5.
Another occurred in Cheshire. by which
bOOO persons and an innumerable quantity
/ Of cattle persisted, in 353
An inuDdation at Glasgow, which drowned
more than four hundreI families, occurred
/ in 75s
The Tweed oYeraowed its banks and laid
waste the country for thirty miles round
in s36.
An humiliation on the English coasts de-
molished hunter Of seaport towns IN
1V14
Earl Goodwin's lands exceeding 1000
acres. were Oyerfowed by the sea, and an
/ Immense sand bank was formed on the coast
| OF Kent now known by the name OF the
Goodwin Sands, in 400.
Flanders was inundated by the sea. and
the town and harbor Of Ostend totally i'm
Elersed IN llUS
More than three hundred houses were
overwhelmed at Mincheissa by an inunda-
4 lion OF the sea in 1851
There was food al the TexeI, which first
| raised the commerce. of Amsterdam, In
| a4D.
The sea broke ia at bort. and drowned
seventy-two villages and 10000 people,
| April IL, l44i
The severn overlooked during ten DAYS
| and carried away men, women and chill
dren in their beds, and covered the TOPS of
many mountains; the waters settled upon
the lands and were called the Great " at
ers FOR 100 years after Richard III, in
| 1883. Again. during the time OF James !,
| 1865, the waters rose above the tops OF the
houses, and above one hundred persons
persisted IN Somersetshire and Glouces-
iershire.
A general inundation by the failure OF
the bikes ia Holland occurred in 1880: the
number Of drowned is said 70 have been
| 4OuD01
At Catalonia 5000 persons persisted in
the floods of lol7.
AT an inundation ia Yorkshire, q rock
opened and poured out water 70 the height
OF church steeple ia lno1.
Part of Zealand was over1owed, LOB
inhabitants were drowned and incredible
damage done at Hamburg in l7i7.
AT Madrid several of the Spanish nobil-
ity and other persons OF distinction per-
isned in lib
In Yorkshire dreadful inundation,
called Ripon Food. occurred in III.
| Ia Navarro, 2.OJJ persons lost their Ives
by torrents from the mountains In Septem-
Der. 1851
An innndaiion Of the LiiTey did immense
damage ia Dublin, November II 1851.
Again il occurred December and Z. Is05.
Lorca. "A city Of Merc.a, in spain. was
destroyed By the bursting of a reservoir
which inundated more than twenty leagues
and killed more than one thousand persons,
beside cattle, April -, lS9e.
At Pesth. near Presburg, the overflow OF
the Danube swept away twenty four villa
ges ana their inhabitants IN April ISL.
In the vicinity of Salop, by the bursting
Of a cloud during a storm. m any persons
and much stock persisted in May. 1871.
There were dreadful foundations in Hun
gary, Austria and Poland in the summer Of
ISi&
BY the Overlooking OF the Danube Turk
ish corps Of 2,OJl men, on a small island
near N iddin, were surprised and met IN
slant death on September IL 1912.
In Silesia 500 Inhabitants persisted. and
the ruin of the French army under Mac
donald was accelerated by the foods also
in Poland 1000 lives were supposed 70 have
been lost in the same year.
AT Straoans. Ireland. by the melting OF
the snow on the surrounding mountains
most destructive foods We're occasioned
January =, 1915.
many villages were laid undar water and
great damage was sustained ia March q,
1916
In England 5000 acres were deluged in
the Fen countries in June, lsla
By an inundation at Dantzic, occasioned
by the Nlstuia breaking taroagh some OF
its bikes, 1900 head of cattle and 4,0a1
houses were destroyed and numerous lives
| lost April q. 1922.
AT the time OF the sMoray Flood" Au.
gust 2, ls2s, when the Spey and Findkoru
rose in some places nifty feet above their
ordinary level, anu caused great destruction
OF property, many lives were lost and whole
families who took refuge on elevated places
We're with difficulty rescued.
AT Vienna the dwellings OF 10000 of its
inhabitints were laid under water in Feb
ruary, lS30.
Ten thousand houses were swept away
and about one thousand persons persisted al
| Canton, China, in consequence OF an iuun-
dalton occasioned by incesSant rains in
October, 1881. Equal or greater calamity
was produced by the same cause in other
| parts OF China
The River Saone. ia France, poured its
waters into the Rhone, broke through its
bank and covered tOOJ1 acres; Lyons was
inundated; in Avignon 100 houses were
swept away; 2lS houses were carried away
at LaGulllotiere and upward of 30j at
| Naise Marseilles and Nismes. The Saoae
| had not attained such a hcighth for 2Ss
years October IS to November 4 1910
In the lamentable inundation at Brent.
ford and the surrounding country, January
&, iSll, several lives were lost aud an i'm
neuse amount OF property was destroyed.
In a disastrous inuudatiou which occurred
In the center, west and southwest oil
France, October %, ls4i, numerous bridges.
with the Orleans and Nirzon viadGct were
swept away. The latter mad cost 6,00)O0l
francs. The damage done exceeded 1000.
900 The Loire rose twenty feet in one
night.
BY the inundation Of the Mississippi a;
New Orleans, MAY IL. 1912, l61 squares and
600 houses were flooded,
A lamentable catastrophe from floods oc-
CURED at Holmhrth, February I, lSS2,
The inundAtion OF the valleys OF Severn
and Teme, after a violent thunder storm,
occurred September b lSS9.
foundations of the basins Of the Rhine
ana the Rhone overlooked the surrounding
country to a great extent, September ~
1851
Hamburg was half flooded BY the Ellie
January l, 1852.
Inundatiou in the south of France, with
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