Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-21


recently that the people of Galveston
intend to rebuild their city, in the face
of the great disaster that is liable to be
repeated at any time. The popular
feeling seems to be that it is foolish to
locate ones home in the presence of
such danger. But science and history
do not call the people Of Galveston fool
ish. These great guides say it is dan
gerous to live anywhere on this earth,
and give facts and Ls-.c - to D.Cve it.
From pole to pole danger abounds, and
frighful catastrophes are liable to ov-
ertake humanity at any spot on the
globe Science proves that not a
square mile of the entire earth but has
at some time of the ages been swept by
flood, fire or glacier or buried by vol
canic eruption, or violently shaken by
earthquakes SO that all human life
there must have been ended.
There are prosperous cities where
thousands throng today that have been
wiped out repeatedly and as often re-
builded, says writer in the New York
Mail and Express There are cities
that taye never known disaster in his
toric times that are constantly threat
eued by nature. Their are cities that
have builded dangers of their own as
public improvements,
An example OF this state of affairs is
The city Of Quito in Ecuador, where
there is an earthquake shock every
day. No. a day has rassed since the
city was discovered by the Spaniards
but tie caO,k has been felt Some are
merely l'ya lHt salutations, but others
throw lie people out of their houses
and tumble their roofs after them.
Many cidcs are fully as much exposed
TO wind and wave as Galveston. In
addition 10 coast cities, towns in the
Clio ara Mississippi valleys are built
below water level and are liable to
destruction by frashets, as the disaster
at on&wnseJcwn recently proved.
Others court ne fate of Johnstown
with big resegYoirs on high places
where q broken wall would send mil
Eans o' gallUns of water over hun
G.,-a u, -ouses. Austin. Texas, re-
Gently ..oved the reality Of this dan
III, aDu Cincinnati has a death trap
iur many Of ios residents in its huge
Reservoir on the eastern hills, under
the She. er Of which many house
stand, New Orleans lies low behind
Ar- 'a"s, that are liable to break in
,-s gd.
Alan seeking refuge from the floods
ia .je fountains, places himself in the
path Of ayalanches and landslldes, or
r1.'d his home on a volcano. As to
earthquakes, there is no place that has
a-- i-.- them. There is an erroneous
an' popular belief that only the tropi-
cal ions are liable 10 severe earth
or7fe-. Even the chilly plains Of far
T7raDy have heea torn by these
ehaha. Earthquakes have visited the
city o .ew York within this century,
f.a,, were lhey to come today, might
toppis over The -ky-scrapers and kill
thousaa~a on the streets. Tornadoas,
igDarantly called cyclones, are liable
TO strike anywhere south of the polar
regions and where they cannot live
the BLIZZARD takes up the work of scar
I4s Ma4End.
There is no reason why the Atlantic
ocean should not sink into yawnlng
gulf some night and set the great lin
ers high and dry a thousand miles
from port. There is no reason why the
Rocky Mountains should not give
place me night to a vast inland sea.
These ,Aings are ever imminent. but
as they happen 50 far apart men forget
ana actually seem surprised and con-
founded when the thing expected for
centuries comes to pass.
1t Is well known fact that the en-
tire Atlantic seaboard is sinking at the
rate Of two feet century from Cape
God to Cape Hatteras. If it can sink
that fast it certainly has no very solid
uIdelpinning and some day the props
may IeL so all at once and where will
New York be? Vast tracts Of Holland
are already far below the surface of
the sea, and the waves are kept out