Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-06-20
THE WORLDS FLOODS
foundations That Have Occurred
,,om the Beginning Of.Recorded
history.
,uful CatastrOphes Which BlOtted
out Great Portions of the Earth's
Surface.
ni,ed States Is a nation.

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no other time is the fac. more
s+,ikiusly shown than when great ca
Iamitv befalls any part OF IT, Inc
80 o0i 600 hearts beat with one throo OF
,oathy. II one member suffers all
-:!sn'bers suffer. But when we stand ap
-ausd nc such dire disasters as the one
lri,b has turned the beautiful and fertile
linn of the COnemaugh lHto valley OF
5ae,o and are 10th to believe 1t III all Its
s-ga5ful and heartrending details, while
ne involuntarily ask ourselves, Can 1t be
- '" history tells us that others have suf
fared ID equal and greater measure.
Nrmerous are the traditions coming to
~ from prehistoric periods concerning
r-est floods Everywhere in the annals
81 the various nations we meet with SINH
u, aceeruts as that contained in the bibls.
T. ia .erefore most likely that at GER
.oin time, several thousand years before
the beginning of our era, extraordinary
aoods occurred in various portions of the
earth simultaneously.
Strabo and Diodorus speak of gigantic
snrlpg foods having broken upon Egypt
~ an early date, and Pnnius and Iaoitus
,erort such of the north of Europe about
the time of Christ, hich IN terrible mag
ritu5e and 1estructiveness had not their
toual. The oldest reports concern the
HIods in the region of the Red sea, along
the peninsula of Suez. Strabo chronicles
the destruction of many armies OF the
aucients in this dangerous locality, and
Diodorus relates the drowning of part
of the hosts of Artaxerxes az the same
Mace. Here, too, the passage of the
Jews through the Red sea and the destruc-
ton of the Pharaonic hosts find the ex
PLANTATION.
Reliable accounts of disasters by wafer
begin a century or two before our era.
They treatl until comparatively recently
almost exclusively of floods in Europe,
owing TO the imperfect connection be-
tween the nations up to our own times.
About the year 100 b. G. the powerful
nation of the Ceits, after having suffered
for long time great losses in posses
sious and lives, were forced by continued
destructive floods to forsake their abodes
along the shores of the western ocean
and euigrato to Italy, the upper Rhine,
and the Danube. Likewise about the
year ll3 B.. c. Ieutonio tribes were driven
further south from the northern settle
towns Of the world the Eternal city, Rome,
suffered frequently and extremely from
foundations Of the T1ber, which to fill the
cup of the suffering OF the people we're
generality accom- ranied by death and
pes'iIence. Notable among these floods
al Rome are those of the years A, p, %,
- and 10 B. c., and 3, 10, SO 81, 90 and
~ A. d. Ia the year the city was nav
gated by boats for over week and q
large number OF buildings were destroyed
by the food, Is were also hundreds of
lives.
In the year GOA. d. great 70 DDS mum
dated many miles of territory along the
French and English coast. H,stor caliy
4 remarkable Is the disastrous inunca ion
caused by the Rhine in consequence of
destruction of the dam of Drusus at Il m
vss u, Il the Netherlands, by the rebel
q Eou' BatGyiaus under Civiis to stop the
n advance OF the much feared Romans. This
d famous dam had been commenced b.
y DrusQs G-rmanicus III the year B. O.,
d but lad only been finished twelve years at
n ne time Of this catastrophe.
a. d 10 the fert e tabla-land of March
\ in Arabia vas turned into a permanent
| NN""lH ny fAt blEdhLhk Vi u hdLu duN Aut
inhabitants we're forced to emiRrate. In
y Ia large tracts of Italy and adjoining
countries were under water. The year
a 55b Jaw the greater portion of Germany
" inundated. In 444 the city of IL, on the
{ bank of the bay of Douarney, France,
formerly quite famous, was swallowed by
,ae Hoods. In 5S7 and $50 Germany suf-
tered immense losses by water. The
rhine, having always been 2 source of
X great and frequent disasters, again did
enormous damage in 694. Ninety years
II after even Charlemagne was stopped on
one Of his victorious marches by the
waters ming the lowlands everywhere
lA 1913 the sea flooded the whole of cast
fFsta. hs year 800 witnessed the swel-
to".LS up of q very large part of Helgo-
t1uA ny the Unsuitable element. In Sl5
ANlt og another overflow did more dam.
'ss .aan yer before, and in 8S6 its waters
1,''7 a'ed all the adjoining regions along
"a t-4'e course, During tbs ninth CEN
,-'s NE English coasts suffered terribly
from foods, and in $50 all the rivers OF
.,-.Fsl E-s9ps overlooked their banks and
caused grea. loss.
Ile eleventh century had no less than
.'..!-5.'sa great floods. At one time
-i! --' geographical square miles Of the
5-na- we're laid waste. At this Tins
a5' a'.' disappeared a number OF the
-ld7 near the southwest coast OF
9"le. making the entire number
/ --.s*e1 ap by Hood on the same coast
.he time Of the Roman occupation
re eo-eof the eleventh injury, fifteer
large Islands.
n -7 -os7 10 human lives through food.
.-t century alone was over 1000
some Of the most disastrous food.
n -s ,aat period were that OF 1918, put
sarge part Of Holland Under water
MI ls more than three years unit
races had finally disappeared
ae overflow Of the Elbe and Weser
ls entire towns along their banks
1z 'uGudation of the Poneran
10 lo44. reaching in places al
WE'VE geographical miles int
\ j. and then the fearful food
n pine regions and Germany il
~ old aud important town O
near Venice, was deEoured b,
81 'a.c sea. D.her great food
o'e'nows OF the Rhine and Dan
NJ ea u ll2+, 100, and 1852, whei
OF fruitful land were devas