The age-herald., 1902-05-12

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 The Tallasse Manufacturing Company operates a large cotton mill at Tallassee using water power fer the work. Part of tho plant was built many years ago but during the past few years many addi- tiors have been built. MT. Watkins has lad charge of this work, and he claims he was never paid for 1t.
 He alleges also that he built 150 houses at Tallassee for the company, and has received no pay for this work either. He also includes in his statement of dues 1500 cords of wood which he claims to have furnished the company
 The papers were served on Secretary W. H. Micou for answer. This answer will be filed within the next few weeks -<>><-<%A<%-<%-~-%~% quake which cost the lives of more than 160o persons That was the greatest dis aster in the history of the island previous to this now reported There was an earth quake in 1889 that destroyed nearly half or Port Royal. the present capital of the island. and killed 700 persons. The dam age resulting from that shock extended all over the island.
 History's pages are full of disasters which have befallen the human race, but no calamity of it's kind Tn recent years
 
 life which has made notable the destruc- ton of St. Pierre on the island of Martinique. Of events which have shocked the world by the enormity of the destruction which followed in their wake, none but the battle of Gettysburg can approach the recent disaster for loss of life. Instances Where whole towns and communities have been wiped out are comparatively few. but all have heap In, hoiv quences. St. Pierre has been no excep- tion.
 Among the calamitles which are most notable, the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the year 79 stands as the most ancient of which there is a com plete account extant Strangely enough, the destruction of these cities is the near est approach in history to the disaster which befell the ill-fated St. Pierre. The work or Vesuvius on this occasion was as slow as 1t was complete. Herculaneum was literally swept from the earth by a stream or molten lava, while Pompeii was sufrocated by the cinders and ashes. The eruption lasted for days, and covered the two cities to depth of from eighteen to twenty feet. and so changed the topoR- raphy Of the country that 1t was centuries perore topographers were able to locate the lost cities The loss of life on this
 
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 Tidal Wave at Lisbon.
 Not until 1755 was the world again shocked by catastrophe of similar pro- portions although there were many throughout Italy, Sicily, South America, ana the Orient where the loss of life has been estimated at much higher figures, which were impossible of yerihcation The great earthquake and tidal wave of Lisbon In 1755 was one of the most far reaching and destructive phenomena of nature which have come down in his- tory.
 It was festa1 day in the city and all Portugal was there. Late In the after noon giant wave swept over the doom- ed city, and in eight minutes, when the wave had receded 1t carried with it 50- QUO people into the sea. The survivors crowded the stone wharves along the wa ter front. many only to be carried away by the tremendous swell which followed the movement of the first gigantic mass of water. The disturbance reached the shores of Spain, Morocco, Madeira, and many other islands in the archipelago, carrying death and destruction with it wherever it went. The shock of the earthquake was felt over a territory 5000 miles long.
 About the beginning of the seventeenth century Central America was visited by an earthquake which killed 10000 people scattered over wide territory Naples at the same time began to feel a series of earthquake shocks which continued intermittently for seventy-five years and eventually amassed a total of Ill ,000 peo- pie slain.
 Great Losses at Gettysburg.
 Not until the battle of Gettysburg was reached, however, has such a tremendous list of casualties occurred in such a limited space of time and territory as at St. Pierre. In the three days fighting before Gettysburg in July, 1863, the Union loss was 23,19O of whom 23S4 were killed and 13,713 wounded. The Confederate loss for the same engagement has never been of ficially stated, but was approximated 36,000, of whom 5000 were killed and 23 30O0 wounded.
 By far the worst of recent seismic shocks, however, occurred in the region of the Malay archipelago In 1883. It ac- companied the explosive eruptions of the volcano Krakatoa, on the island of the same name, in the strait of Sunda, be- tween Java and Sumatra. The eruption which began in May, continued for nearly four m months. Nearly the entire island was destroyed.
 The wonderful phenomena which follow ed this disturbance are still well remem- bered. The ashes and dust were thrown | so high as to mark the upper air cur- rents and be carried completely around | the globe, producing a peculiar effect in | the air, like twilight glow that contin- | ued for many months. The sound of the | explosions of old Krakatoa was heard at distance of 2250 miles, and 1t was | estimated that the air wave travelled four and half times around the earth Be- tween 5000 and 37,000 lives were lost. and 160 villages were destroyed Two years later the first earthuuake in the United States of worldwide import ance occurred In Charleston On the night of August 31 an earthquake shock was felt along the entire Atlantic coast of the United States and several hundred miles into the interior. especially in the Southern states. Before morning 1t was unusual visitation. and when the final news was known 1t was found that forty one lives had been lost in the falling walls of the city, and property to the amount of $5,0O0, 900 had been destroyed.
 Disaster In Apla Harbor.
 In March, 1889, the great storm in the harbor of Apia. Samoa, electrified the world with its appalling loss of life. The German gunboats Olga, Eber and Adler, and the United States men-of-war Nipsic, Trenton and Vandal went to pieces on the reefS and fifteen merchant vessels either went to the bottom or stranded. One hun dred and forty-two men from the war ships in the harbor were lost.
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