The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-03-02
RECORD OF DIS 4 Sc ERS
Terrible Things That Have '',s Hap
pened il the Last Century.
Earthauakss, Famine and Floods
HAVE. Made Their MARX In gHor-s
rable Figures Upon the Z
Pages OF History. 75siSr ya9l3S

The nineteenth century has made an
ineffaceable mark upon the world.
The march Of progress in civ cation,
in invention and in science has been
rapid, and future generations will
yield acknowledgment to the fact.
The age Of romance has not left great
er impression upon the literary and
milf aary history Of the globe than
will the, century just closed upon the
general advancemen ct the human b %
race: u, This. very sadvance b has,
however, 4 multiplied the dangers
which accrue to humanity, since
greater civilization has added perils
peculiarly it's own to those which al
ready. existed, says the Philadelphia
North American. ,<s ..~, =. -2-> = -.
The nineteenth century has been
particularly unfortunate in disasters
which in their very magnitude have
appalled, the cyyentire human lls race ace
Earthquakes haget cost the lives of
thousands in VAR ouust ountriess of the
civilized AM Smins. e tidal
waves, fires and DDS AHaSe added hor-
rors sto tire small er sastera, while
death by OF srai 1wa acct gci
dent has become . ffaniili ART tarEors fs 1
j. Some$of the most disastrous sarth7;
quakes of the century have been. he
one which befen India in 1879, when
1900 persons were killed; the one
which caused loss Of 5000 lives in
Canton, China, in. 1890; that which.
. buried 4 900 personsin Calabria intthe
year 1888, and thezone in ;1s42,,sw when
5000 were killed in San Domingo
More frightfuN still was the earth
!, quake in southern Italy, when $4,000
persisted, and the one in which 10
900 residents OF; ,Calabria. lost their
olives in 1857. >. Two years +later, il
!. Quito, there were 5000 deaths from
! the same cause; in 1850 THE III eye
~, 900 in South America, and IN Ma
nila, in 1868, 1000. .s1~s j.,~-,
Indeed, the SOS were particularly
prolific in deaths by earthquakes, for
in 81 1000 lives were lost in Nifty
lene, and in 1868, in Arequipa and
that district, there was total Of 49,
900. The next appalling disaster Of
the kind was in San Jose, Colombia,
in 1875, when no less than $4,000 died,
In Icio there were 1900 deaths iih
1881, and in 1883, in" Cassamiccioda,
1890 were killed. With 1887 came the
well-remembered horror in Charles
ton, S. c., when only As livesewere
lost, but s5,ooo,ooo worth of property
was destroyed. In Japan, in 1891,
5000 died and 5000 were injured. i
In 1887 came the first great famine
of the century, that of India. It was
followed by the great famine which
devastated Ireland nine years 1ater,
while IN 1860, z'65, 'es, sTe, '97 and 200,
respectively, India was again laid
waste by far-reaching. famine, p ]
Nor did these vast tragedies finish
the list of widespread disaster iif fiji b e
century. In 1871 the great fire al
most wiped out the Chicago of that
day, and in 1889 the breaIing of the
Conemaugh dam destroyed the -four
ishing municipality Of Johnstown. In
the same year a tidal wave. in Japan
swept away $4,000 houses and killed
2,419 persons, while the similar dis
aster in Galveston in September, 1900,
is too fresh in the public mind To re-
: quire mention. ! %,.$>:<~ ]" ="