The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-04
ao,rnr1sr MAKES AsPRoPAECY.
Tho Coming Cetaclysrn of America
and Europe.

and Europe.
T, the Arena for August Prof. Joseph
podas Buchanan, NJ D., has an article OF
-vbicb the following is an extract:
IT, o,raat mass of our continent, and
..,lac;afIv its northern portion, are compare
80 safe hut our Atlantic Seaboard Is not
7. ,fe to say that our Atlantic coast is
1.odI Whatever / am on the Atlantic
t t.aar a strong forebOding comes to me
81 onr countrymen living there only Few
&c. obove the ocean level are in perlIous
1osition. A tidal wave might destroy the
Po+ira nopulation Of our coast, and a slight
en'no az the shore would be still more
s sum For ten years have been looking to
la lSI possibilities, and their immineuce has
Soud 49, me to study the question pro-
loI IT, we are floating In a perilous prox-
- m death was shown in the New Mad
~ earthquake Of 1911, and the recent
CharIeston earthquake, which sent us vi
brations many hundred H!les. 40 not
thint that any able geologlst would dare TO
tuina tbe safety Of our Atlantic coast, and
$40 t,,ere will be no crazy investment of
Ii;0ns in forts and cannon on that coast,
ihlI. .LaI- Iyonld line the bottom of the sea
ioI w bsfore any hostile feet shall appear
MS ITleot Shall become of the millionaire pal
oceS is not distressing question. except to
.neir owners, but the huge build
Us for manufacturing industry
nrs public concern, and l
- the enterprising will not be tempted
~ fooate any more on the dangerous low
Ionds have not been seeking geological
So On this subject, but believe it is con-
5~d tbat New York or Manhattan Island
= verv slowly sinking at present, and the
cuhsidence is greater on the Jersey coast,
as an intelligent citizen OF that state, an Oh
A-ll has ,has
danca of three feet had been recognized at
NtisOtic City.* But it will be no such slow
suhsidence that will destroy the coast. 1t
will be sudden calamity.
parmiU me now, without giving my chief
6ond nr1vate) reasons after showing the pos
sibilties and probabilities | have mentioned,
70 ANNOUNCES my firm conviction that in the
midst of our coming civil war. the Atlantic
coast will be wrecked by submergence and
tidal waves from the borders OF New Eng
LAND 10 the southern borders OF the Gulf OF
Mexico. There Will Dc no safety Delo" tne
hills.
Ii is with great hesitation and reluctance
that have consented TO present this horrld
panorama but truth should be our para
mount aim, and if there be, as l maintain,
any science which can look into the future,
its proper presentation is by the statement
of the future so far IN advance Of the event
10 constitute u u6ClSlN6 LcoO. IloIc, buOu,
is my statement:
Every sea ooard city south of New Eng
land that is not more than fifty feet above
the sea level of the Atlantic coast is destined
TO a destructive CONFUSION. Galveston,
New Orleans Mobile. st. Augustine, Savan-
nah and Charleston are doomed. Rich
mond, Baltimore, Washington, Phladel-
phia. Newark. Jersey City and New York
will suffer in various degrees, in proportion
Il
lyn will suffer less, but the destruction at
New YORK and Jersey City will be the
grandest horror.
The convulsion will probably be lin on
the Pacific coast, and perhaps extend in the
Pacific toward the Sandwich Islands The
shock will be terrible, with great loss of
life extending from British Columbia down
along the coas, of Mexico, but the confor-
nation of the Pacific coast will make its
grand tidal wave tar less destructive than
on the Atlantic shore. Nevertheless, it will
be calamit us. Lower California will suffer
severely along the coast. San Diego aud
Coronado will suffer severely, especially the
latt r.
1t may seem very rash to anticipate the
limits Of the destructive force Of foreseen
earthquake, but there is no harm in testing
the pr phetiC. power of sciencs in the com
pick relations Of nature and man. These
predictions will be very interesting in les,
than twenty-five years, and, if quite sue
cessful, they will give powerful impulse
to the development of that long neglected
anddespised faculty-the divinest faculty in
man, which initiates omniscience in grasp
ing the future-a faculty which, when
manifested by the humble, is treated by
ignorant legislators as an int ltional
fraud and inpossibility, though the very
same persons will listen with profoundest
reverence to what some ancient Jew pre-
dlcted would occur after time, and time
and half time. If there be any material
failure In these predictions the cause will be
sought and future predictions made with
greater care. The We ture now is not rash,
Ior past experience and success of prior pre-
dlcuons Justify this holder venture. | hayea
record OF many successful scientific mot
aSIroI glcaI predictions Of earthquakes and
epceinlcS by others, but do not understand
tne basis Of their calculations.
AS to predictions, a volume might he
nlled with examples of the successful and
exact exact previslo1 by individuals of their own
IuVure' zen. BEN of Hungary over forty
ysafS ago mad provision OF the exact date
VI MS own death, which was verified when
Ie died. | published the provision in the
To"I7Sat OF Nan long before its fulfillment
W predictions or provisions of earth
~ dia GAYS, vney are very numerous, and some
y oCLoItlllC. Inc near approach
VI an earthquake has often been felt bv
human Ina 1o,eing' and by animals 1t is stated
N tne philosophical Transactions that the
1", " England earthquakes from 1927 to
~ ~ were often recognized by persons as
we, Icy approached by the peculiar sensations
cso1 Ieit. In South America the approach
w W GgarIaquakes las caused dogs and horses
ny from the locality, and in one case
W Nv uocSs OF seabirds came flying ia land.
aIauy successful predictions have been
tL, and Prof. Milne maintains that nv
ra-otaougn Investigation we may be able to
p ptUa'cv Ine approach of earthquakes and
eve pubic warning, as is now done for
lives - b., me Bishop of Ischia saved many
1919 o1 pIeu4ctlng the earthquake shock Of
inc, - anu tL Vhe Capuchin fathers gave warn
Welo " 'ne approach of the shock of 1850 at
Ti TaCNi, Inc great earthquake shock at
co ,rta was predicted by one Viiuari. then
sLii itaea as prisoner. But predictions are
Wano1 made on scientific data. Prof
far I h "aIHed his friends at Yokohama a
d.. nouT Is before the shock of Feb. % 1880
praat t'. hudof Falb of Vienna has gained
The 49, EQUATION by scientific predictions
destr,, ot great success was in predicting the
sff isotclI'e shock at Belluno, June % 1S73
were i ass. northern Italy, when fifty lives
errntia he also gave warning of an
as nraI ma VI hsna, which occurred in 1874
cbi ptqIulcUe1. These predictions were basad
T uniSsny upon astronomical sc;enca I =.
t;o ot established by very extensive inSrn
trolIad az earthquakes are largely con-
moon II Tue positions of the sun and
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