The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-06-15
Great FLOODS Of History.

The loss oflife by the Johnstown, Pa, food
il frighsful, indeed. but it will be seen by this
list all the great foods Of history that there
have been many that were nearly or quite as
destructive In the year
245-Lucolnshire, Observation-Disclosures OF
the sea. Flooded thousands Of acres.
Cheshire, Experimentation Of
he sea. Five thousand lives lost.
75s = Scotland, Glasgow Inundaiion.
More than 400 families persisted.
sss-The river Tweed overlooked its banks
for thirty miles round.
10l4-EngIish eoast-Iaundation destroyed
a number Of seaport towns.
HOO ent, England -Four thousand acres
of coast overfowed by the sea. Sand bank
formed.
llos-Flanders - Inundated by the sea
ostend totally immersed.
1880 -winchslsea--s0o houses Overwhelm-
: ed by the sea
1400-The Texel-A food first raised the
commerce Of Amsterdam.
1446- bort, Holland-The sea broke in
and submerged sevensy-tWo villages and
100000 people.
14ss-The Severn overaowed. Many lives
lost.
HOlIand-Dikes broke. The nun
Der of people drowned is said to have been
4o0, 600.
l6o7-The Severn again rose over tops Of
houses; 100 lives lost.
1617,-Ca talonia-Floods; $4,000 lives lost.
Yorkshire, England-A rock said TO
have opened and poured out water to the
height of a church steeple, producing an
inundation.
l7I7-Zealand = Overlooked; 1900 lives
lost.
I72S-Madrid, Spain-A number Of promi.
nent persons persisted.
17T1-Yorkshise, England-An inundation
called .Ripon food"
ITsT-Navarre, France-Torrents from the
mountains; 1900 lives lost. DubIin-An
inundation Of the Lifey did great damage.
ISO2-Lorca, Spain Reservoir burst, more
than 200 persons perished. Dublin again
inundated by the Lifey.
1sll-Pesih = Overflow of the Danube.
Twenty-four villages swept away, with their
inhabitants. At Salop, cloudburst; many
persons and much stock persisted.
Isl3-Dreadful foundations in Hungary,
Austria and Poland At Widdin-2,000
Turks we're surprised by an overflow of the
Danube and persisted. In Siiesia 5000 in
habitants, and in Poland 1000 lives lost.
1876 - Germany = Vistula overaowed.
Many villages submerged and great loss of
life. Strabane, Ireland-Melting of snow
occasioned destructive foods.
1919 = England = Five thousand acres
deluged in the Fem counties.
1S29-Danizic--Y istnla broke its dikes.
Many lives lost. Four months later the Spey
and Findhorn rose 80 feet above ordinary
level. Many lives were lost. Called ''the
Moray floods"
Iss0-V ienna-Dwellings containing So
900 people submerged.
as3S-Canton, China-Incessant rains pro
&ueed foods; 10000 houses swept away;
1000 lives lost. Same cause produced worse
results elsewhere in China
is40-Lyons, Marseilles and Nismes-The
Soane rose to greater height than in 23s
years. Lyons inundated and from other
cities many houses carried away.
1871 rentford-Property destroyed and
several lives lost
1876 France. centre, west and southwest
Many bridges broken away. The Loire
rose 20 feet in one night
Is49-New Orleans-1 900 houses flooded
by The Mississippi.
foundations Of the valleys Of the
Severn, the Rhone and the Rhine. Ham
burg flooded by the Elbe. Hoimfrth-
Catastrophe from foods.