The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-10
THE OLD WORLDS FLOODS,
WILD WATERS HAVOC THROUGH
SEVENTEEN CENTURIES.

SEVENTEEN CENTURIES.
Rome a Great Sufferer from the Tiber's
overfows-A Million Lives Lost in the
Eleventh Century-The Rhine and the
Danube Have Also Added to the Horrors.
About the year $50 B. c. the powerful ma
ton of the Celts after having suffered for a
long time great losses in possessions and lives,
were forced by continued destructive foods
to forsake their abodes along the shores of the
western ocean and emigrate to Italy, the ur-
per Rhine ard the Danube. Likewise about
the wear l13 B. c. several Teutonjc tribes were
driven further south from the northern set
Elements by like causes Among the older
towns of the world the eternal city. Rome,
suffered frequently and extremely from IN
uudations of the Tiber, which to fill the cup
of the sufferiogs Of the people were generally
accompanied by dearth and pestilence. Nota-
bic among these foods at Rome are those OF
the years -, 81, 2S, q and l3 B. c., and >, 10,
SO. 81, 20 and 70 A. D. In the year the
city was navigated by boats for over week
and large number Of buildings were de-
stroved by the food, as were also hundreds OF
lives
GERMANY INUNDATED.
A. D. 10 the fertile table land of Mareo IN
Arabia was turned into Il permanent desert
by the breaking Of dam and the inhaoi-
tauts were forced to emgrate. In la largo
tracts of Italy and adjoining countries were
under water The year 3G6 saw the greater
portion of Germany inundated. In IA the
CITY of Is, on the bank OF the bay OF Douar-
ney, France. formerly quite famous, was
swallowed by the floods IN 3SI and 5.0
Germany suffered immense losses by water.
The Rhine, having always been source OF
great and frequent disaster, again dld enor-
nous damage in 65i. Ninety years after
even Charlemagne was stopped on one OF his
victorious marches by the waters filing the
lowlands everywhere. In 793 the SEA fooded
the whole OF East Frisia The year 500 wit
messed the swallowing up Of very large
part of Hcigoland by the Unsuitable element.
In SIS the Rhine by another overflow did
more damage than ever before, and IN $50 Its
waters devastt..ueti ali the adjoining regions
along its entire course. During the Ninth
century the English coasts suffered terribly
from foods, and in SSG all the rivers Of ecu
tral Europe overfowed their banks and
caused great loss.
The Eleventh century had no less than for
ty-seyen great floods. At one time fully l25
geographical square miles Of the Netherlands
were laid waste At this time there also dis
appeared number of the larger islands near
the southwest coast Of the Baltic, making the
entire number swallowed UP by floods on the
same coast from the time Of the Roman occu-
patton to the close Of the Eleventh century,
ffteen-all large islands.
The loss In human lives through floods dur
ing that century alone was over 100000.
Some Of the most disastrous foods during
that period were that d 1915, putting large
part Of Holland under water and taking more
than three years until its last traces had
finally disappeared; then the overflow OF the
Elbe and Weser, destroying entire towns
along their banks; further, the inundation Of
the Pomerauian coasts il 1044, reaching IN
places as much as twelve geographical miles
into the country, and then the fearful floods
IN the Alpine regions and Germany in 1860.
In 1lO6 the old and important town OF Ma
Iaa,occa, near Venice was devoured by tho
Adriatic sea- Other great foods through
oyerfows Of the Rhine and Danube occurred
in 1924, 1l5O and 1852, when large tracts Of
fruitful lands were devastated and buildings
and numerous lives were destroyed in the
towHs The year 1852 was another sad one
for the north Of Europe through It's repeated
disastrous floods, taking the lives Of thou
sands of human beings and cattle. Again,
between the years 1912 and 1924 there were
hundreds Of towns and villages destroyed by
foods in that part Of the world, and in l2ls a
single catastrophe of this kind killed lo,OOo
| human beings at Nordstrand alone. About
Christmas, 1877, the city of forum and ttty
smaller towns around the mouth OF the Ems
sank into the sea.