Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-25
THE EMPIRE EXPRESS AFLOAT.
AN AWFUL LIST
OF Seismic Cataclysms Which Have
Buried Cities and Their Inhabi-
tants from the Earliest
Times 20 the Martini
que Horror.

AAI AAOhAOAs
Among the manifold disasters which are
constantly overtaking the human family,
says the Chicago Tribune, there is none so
tul OF awe and terror as the earthquake.
From the beginning Of history land long
before 1.-THE habitatious Of men have been
leveled or buried underground by earth
quake shocks and volcanic eruptions and the
numbers Of human beings killed in this
way passes comprehension. In seventy
hye iyears-that is, from 1888 to I857-the
Kingdom of Naples lost III 900 inhabitants
by earthquakes. This is at the rate Of more
than 1850 per year out of a population of
5000. 600.
The most disastrous earthquake of re.
cent history was the great Lisbon shock on
November 1, I7S5. In less than eight min
utes almost all the houses of Lisbon were
overturned, $4,000 of the inhabitants were
killed and whole streets were buried The
cities of Coimbra, Oporto Braga and ST.
Ubes we're destroyed. Malaga in Spain was
largely reduced to ruins. One-half of Fec
in Morocco was destroyed and Il, 900 Arabs
killed. The island of Madeira was laid
waste, and the ruin extended to Mitylene in
the archipelago. where half the town was
laid low. The shock was felt 5000 miles
away, and even Scotland was given a slight
upheaval Following is list of the prin-
cipai earthquakes of history:
34S B. C.-Twelve cities in the Cam
pana buried and Duras in Greece destroyed
with immense loss of life.
285 B. C.-Lysimachia and its inhabitants
buried.
70 A. D.-Pompeii and Hercuiaueum
destroyed.
100 A. D.-Four cities in Asia, two in
Greece, two in Galatia destroyed.
I57 A. Done hundred and ifty cities
in Asia, Pontus and Macedonia buried.
5o7 A. D.-COnstantiuople partly destroy
ed-thousands perished.
742 A. D.-Five hundred cities in Asia.
Syria and Palestine overturned immense
loss of life
936A. D.-Constautinopl again destroyed.
All Greece shaken.
1889 A. D. England thoroughly shaken.
1887 A. D.-Cauiauia, Sicily destroyed;
$4,000 lives lost.
IIS8 A. d In Syria, 10000 lives lost.
1868 A. ID. In Silesia, 10000 perished.
1918 A. DIN England-greatest known
there.
I456, December S-Forty thousand perish
at Naples.
1881, February 2o-Lisbon, 500 houses
destroyed and $4,000 persons killed. several
ueighboriug towns swallowed up in Sc a
1880, April 6-St. Paul's London, partly
destroyed.
1S96-Japau cities destroyed aud thousands
persisted
I6a6 July 3o--At Naples, thirty towns de-
sroyed, %, 900 lives lost
1907, April 6--At Schamaki, So, 600 die.
1904 June AT Jamaica, 5000 killed.
1895 September-iu Sicily, 100, 900 lives /
lost
I7o3-Jedod Japan, 100000 dead.
I7o6-Abruzzl, Italy, 5000 persisted.
I7I6 May-Algiers, more than 10000 lost. /
1881 November GONE hundred thousand [
people uried at Pekiug.
G73a-Naples, 1910 lives lost.
i746, October 28-Iima, Peru. and Cailao
1900 persons buried
1851, November 2I-Sah Domingo over
whelmed- Immense loss Of life.
1854, Cairo, loss Of 10000
lives
G745, June 7-Kaschau, Persia, overturned
40 900 people killed
I7S5, November Great Lisbon shock.
$4,000 people killed at Lisbon, 1000 Arabs
in Morocco buried, 1000 houses in the Gre
clan archipelago overturned.
1850, October 3o-Baalbec, Syria, destroy
ed; 10000 persons killed
1873, June Santiago, Guatemala, and its
swallowed up.
1888 February 4-Towns in Italy aud
Sicily destroyed, thousands perish.