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many in 1860.
In 1106 the old and important town
of MalamOcca. near Venice, was de-
voured by the Adriatic sea- Other
great floods through overffows OF the
Rhine and Danube occurred in 1924.
1850 and 1852, when large tracts of
fruitful lands were devastated and
buildings and numerous lives were de-
stroyed in the towns. The year 1862
was another sad one for the north of
Europe through its repeated disastrous
foods. 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 Goth 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 80, 900 to 100000 hui
man lives were lost and many towns
so-called '.Marcellus'' flood in 1900 de-
strOyed twenty-eig 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
Franco, 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 a 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
9th of December the German
ocean 1eaped. 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, 1921. 100, 900 people
were destroyed by food 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 1925. 1449, 1875,
1897. 1900. 1911, 1880. 1871, 1913. 1925,
1854, I'LL. 1884, 1908, 1909, 1895, and
other years. destroying human lives
by the hundreds. thousands and tens
of thousands. In August, 1866, there
were general foundations in Switzer-
land, occasioning a loss of 200, 900
forms. The year 1870 was the most
disastrous for Holland. Large tracts
of valuable lands were flooded and
400, 600 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 glacier, swept away 500 houses
and 145 human beings.
On the 18th and 18th of October the
Ganges suddenly overfowed all the
adjoining country, taking the lives of
100000 people in one single night.
The flood rose to height of forty
feet. In 1924, October 29-November 1,
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 a single
night 1000 houses and more than
1 900
great flood in China of the year 1856 is
still remembered by many. 1t took
place in the province of Honan and
cost 200, 600 lives. Stanley reports gil
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
property. A most violent flood visited
Bengal, in East India, on October 81,
1876. The water was driven up to a
height of forty-five feet, covering 141
geographical square miles. 165, 900
human lives were lost on that coca
sion. In 1873. during October, the
Nile swallowed up forty-fve villages
and 800 people. The financial loss
amounted to over II, 900, 600 francs
The dreadful inundation of Siege
din, Hungary, in 1879 is fresh in the
memory of all. The loss was $500
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
habitants found death in the waters
The year 1882 was an extraordinary
year for floods. There were great and
disastrous ones in Spain, Italy, France.
the Tyrol. Germany and Hungary,
causing fearful loss in lives and
property; it amounted in one locality
of Germany alone to fully 5000. 900
marks. nearly 81, O0O,000.
The floods in our own country in
1888 are still well remembered. 1t
was Pennsylvania at that time. too,
which suffered most. The same year
witnessed another great flood in India.
demanding many thousand victims.
In the following year it was again our
own country which suffered most from
the destructive element. Each of the
wears Since, then had ono oy- mora die