The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-07-20


The loss in human lives through
floods during that century alone was
over 100000. Some of the most dis
astrous floods during that period were
that of 1918 putting a large part of
Holland under water and taking more
than three years until its last traces
had finally disappeared; then the over
flow of the Elbe and Weser, destroy
ing entire towns along their banks;
further the inundation of the Pomera-
nian coasts in 1914, reaching in places
as much as twelve geographical miles
into the country, and then the fearful
floods in the Alpine regions and Ger
many in 1860.
In 1106 the old and important town
of Malamocca, near Venice, was de-
voured by the Adriatic sea- Other
great floods throughi overfows of the
Rhine and Danube occurred in 1924,
1150 and 1852, when large tracts of
fruitful lands were devastated and
buildings and numerous lives were de-
stroyed in the towns. The year 1852
was another sad one for the north of
Europe through its repeated disastrous
floods, taking the lives of thousands
of human beings and cattle. Again
between the years 1912 and 1924 there
were hundreds of towns and villages
destroyed by floods in that part of the
world, and in 1918 a single catastrophe
of this kind killed 10000 human be-
ings at Nordstrand alone. About
Christmas, 1877, the city of forum
and fifty smaller towns around the
Ems sank into the sea-
On the 26th of November, 1882, a
most enormous flood gave birth to the
Quider sea and put the Dollart into its
present shape, by which mighty revo-
luton of nature $4,000 to 100000 hu-
man lives were lost and many towns
were wiped out forever. The second
sO-called ''Marcellus" flood in 1900 de-
stroyed twenty eight towns in Sleswick
alone, and with them Z, 600 human be-
ings. 1t also swept away another half
of what had been left for Heligoland,
so that only about one-fourth of the
original island remained The year
1917 was a most remarkable one in
France, Germany, and Austria. All
the rivers in these countries over
flowed their banks and the water even
spurted forth from the depths of the
earth. In 1887 large portion of the
province of iceland, containing seven
dioceses and fourteen villages, was
buried beneath the waters. The year
1912 saw the most disastrous of floods
which ever visited Germany. On the
Sth of December the German
ocean leaped, as it were,
upon North Frisia and swallowed
up more than 100000 men, women,
and children, together with all their
habitations scattered through thirty
dioceses. Again from the 18th to the
Goth of November, 1421, 100, 600 people
were destroyed by flood near Dor
trecht and Rotterdam, together with
seventy-one villages, of which twenty
two have never since been seen.
Similar calamities happened in those
regions in the years 1926, 1449, l475,
1897, 1900, 1911, 1880, 1541, 1913, 1925,
1854, 1717. 1884, 1903, 1909, 1925, and
other years, destroying human lives
by the hundreds, thousands and tens
of thousands. In August, 1866, there
were general inundations in Switzer-
land, Occasioning a loss of 10000
forms. The year 1870 was the most
disastrous for Holland. Large tracts
of valuable lands were flooded and
400, 900 people drowned. In 1871 part
of the beautiful city of Lyons was torn
away by the river RhOne. The year
1888 saw the destruction of the proud
Armada, entailing the loss of 10000 |
men. In 1895, June 4, an inundation |
in Switzerland, caused by the outbreak
of a glacier, swept away 500 houses
and 145 human beings.
On the 18th and 18th of October the
Ganges suddenly overhowed all the
country, taking the lives of
100000 people in one single night.
The flood rose to a height of forty |
feet. In 1924, October 29-November l, |
great floods along the entire range of |
the Alps did great damage. A re-
markable food occurred in the valley |
of the Euphrates in 1881. In single |
night 1000 houses and more than
$4,000 lives were destroyed. The |
great flood in China of the year 1856 is
still remembered by many 1t took |
place in the province of Honan and |
cost 100000 lives. Stanley reports gi-
gantic floods to have taken place in |
1871 and 1872 in the valley of the
Makata river, Central Africa. Great
damage was done in loss of life and |
A most violent flood visited |
Bengal, in East India, on October 81,
1876. The water was driven up to a
height of forty-fve feet, covering 141
square miles. 165. 900 |
human lives were lost on that occa-
sion. In 1873, during October, the
Nile swallowed up forty-fve villages
and 800 people. The financial loss
amounted to over 1900, 600 francs. |
The dreadful inundation of Siege
din, Hungary, in 1879 is fresh in the
memory of all. The loss was 5000 |
buildings and 1000 lives. In the fall
of the same year Spain was flooded |
and ZOO people were drowned. In 1881 |
the Chinese cities Haifung and Tallee
were inundated and 5000 of their in