Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-09-19
DISLlKED BY NATURE
Towns That Seem to Be Chosen
Marks of the Elements.
where Rain Falls Heaviest, snow
Lies Tbickest and Thunder ana
Lightning Exhibit the
Greatest Violence.

This site is not meant to build upon.
Laagtcft, a little place OF some coo
- uie in the East Riding 81 AofAshlre,
England. is one OF these Over and
oyer again has the weather all round
been fine and clear. yet the valley in
which Larg;oft stands has been
shrarGed in heayy clouds aud drenehed
with rain. The snow in winter always
seems to lie thickest on the wolds
above the town, and TO cause Hoods
more or less disastrous as it melts In
the spring.
The climax came on Sunday even
ing two summers ago, says the Chicago
Tribune.
After hot day a violent thunder
storm broke. Then there appeared in
the west an inky cloud, from which
hung four long, twisting black col
umns.
Suddenly, just after six o'clock, wall
OF water came roaring down the hill
side above the village. When il struck
the ,ip'er end of the street il was seven
feet high. In a twinkling ii had demol-
iyhed u number of houses. and torn par
titions from others, and swept away
everything in its path What was left
was so plastered with mud and earth
as to be almost useless.
No one was killed. but the destruc-
ton of domestic animals, of houses.
property and roads was complete. Gar
dens and grazing lands were ruined.
Even the parish we'll was utterly
i. cholled with mud and dead animals.
Southbourne-on-Se four miles on
the east Of Bournemouth, has far bet
ter air than the latter town and looks
as If it ought to be just 4 site for a
health resort. Tens of thcusan have
been spent in the effort TO make it so,
yet nature had said no, and mans eff
forts have proved unagailing.
\ handsome pier was built, support
ed on the shore by immense cement
walls. The pier is now only APP
preached Ivy a single plank. is center
supports are gone, and it is the resort
enly OF two or there fishermen. The
cement wall looks like a waveeaten
cliff. Further along the shore a neat
row of houses was built in a great re-
cess, cut back at vast expense in the
cliff. The sea cut in below them, and
the owner was forced to raze them
and carry the material away.
There is no great city in Europe
which nature SO evidently wishes to
be rid Of as st. Petersburg Built in
the first place on a low lying swamp,
which was filed in at cost OF hum
dreds az lives and hnndreds of thou
SANDS IF pounds. fevers reduced its
Formulation and gave il a death rate
higher than any other furcpean cap
ital. Failing so to Dust It's builders ma
tgre iiss3 new weapon. TIE ice came
down in spring out of Lake Ledoga,
and, pi.irg against the new wharyes
and bridges, damned the Neya and
fnnded the city. Every spring saw
repetition of these disastrous floods.
W, .-li, . ;en after they dried away left
The streets mere quagmires. The st,
retzvslGrgers now defeat the food
by setting to work thousands of men
at the Grst spring thaw, who cut and
bias, The river ice, and leave free pass
ages fer the lake ice to sail down
stream unhindered.
ct still the struggle goes on. For
some wears past it has been apparent
that St Petersburg is becoming city
NJ toothless people. Dentists sseribe
this curious fact to the el'luvia from
the rotten vegeta ton deep buried I'M.
der The new suburbs OF the city. So
serious is the matter becoming that
there is a strong q Sitation in favor of
once moro removing the capital of Rus
STA to some other site.
Russia has another town against
natural forces are waging a terrible
war. This is Schemacha, in the Cau-
casns. When Schemacha wSs founded
1t was fer long impossible to set sup
ply %. drinking water. The difficulty
was overcome by bringing water from
a distance. Next came series of ter
rihle epdcmics-first smallpox, then
cholera, and then smallpox again. Yet
the city grew, helped to prosperity by
the petroleum trade. and began this
year with $4,000 people.
In February last the town was hum
ming with industry, when one dull hut
warmmoruing came suddenly a terrific /
crash Ct thunder. The solid ground be-
gan to vibrate. A few seconds later
there was horrible cracking sound.
and the whole of the NOLAN medan
quarter was thrust upwards bubble
like. till its houses were reared high
upon a hill. The bubble burst, and in
stead of a town there lay formless
heap Of ruins, from which red flames
leaped and cracked toward the gigan-
tic pail of dust which hid the sky.
Within week Sehemacha's survivors
determined to rebuild their ruined city.
They had hardly reached the decision !
when once more the ground began to
trelnhle and the night sky grew rudy |
with fame. News came that new
volcano had burst out in the noun
tains nearby. No palmer warning
could be given. Extinct volcanoes have /:
often burst outafresh, and with shock |
ing and terrible results, as in the case
u,