Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-06-18
DESTRUCTION AND LOSS OF LIFE WROUGHT BY MONT PELEE INSIGNIFICANT AS COMPARED WITH
 OTHERS.
4 List of Ruined Cities Together With Approximate Loss of Life By Vol canoes and Earthquakes in
 Past Ages.


 continent accompanied by the list ot disasters of the past ages in the the worlds history:
 We have all been very much horrl- fled at the loss of life at Martinique hut the fact is there have been several previous disturbances of this sort since the days of Adam. A few
 thousand years before Mexico was
 discovered" by Cortes this whole
 southern country was revised and the
 map changed. According to Profes- sor Nivens, the distinguished archae- ologist. the state of Guerrero rose
 up one calm morning, then it dropped inty the bowels of the earth. At the
 same time there was tidal wave
 from the sea. and the mountains top
 pied over. destroying some fifty mll-
 lions of humans. This seems to put
 the Martinique disaster slightly Tn
 the shade. Here are few more ill.,
 stances for the sake of comparisons: ?. 345 B. C.-Twelve cities in the
 Campana buried and Duras in Greece
 destroyed with immense loss Of life.
 2S3 B. C.-Lysimachi and its ln-
 habitants buried.
 l 79 A. D.-Pompeii and Hercula-
 neum destroyed.
 IO6 A. D-Four cities in Asia, two
 in Greece and two in Galatia de stroved.
 157 D.-One hundred and fifty
 cities in Asia, Pontus and Macedonia
 buried.
 557 A. D.-Constantinople partly
 destroyed-thousands perished. 742 4. Dive hundred cities Tn
 Asia, Syria and Palestine overturned
 immense loss of life. 936 A. D.-Constantinople again
 destroyed. All Greece shaken. r 1O89 A. D.-Eugland thoroughly
 shaken.
 - II37 A. D.-Cantania, Sicily de
 stroyed-15,OOO lives lost. 1l5s A. D.-In Syria, 10000 lives
 lost.
 $ I26S A. D.-In SiIesia-6O,OOO per 5. ished. e ISIS A. D.-In England - the G greatest known there. z 1856. Dec. 5.-Forty thousand per r ished at Naples. e 1880. April 6.-St. Paul's, London l. partly destroyed. r 1896 - Japan, cities destroyed
 thousands killed. I. 1926. July At Naples thirty D. towns destroyed, 10000 lives lost. }. 1867, April 6-At Schamaki, SO, st coo die, oo, le 1892, June At Jamaica, 3,OOI ]. killed. .oooo, re 1893, September-In Sicily, lOO,OC' of lives lost. e. i703-Jedod, Japan, 100000 dead le l7O6-Abruzza, Italy, l6,0OO per
 ished. e. TIC, May-Algiers, more than 20, n, GOO killed.
 Ig ssI73I, Nov. 3O-1OO,OOO people bur S jed at Peking a. I732, Naples-1,9 ,940 lives lost. if l746. Oct. 2S-Lima, Peru, ant V Callao destroyed, 1S,000 person ,h buried.
 is ss175l, Nov. 21-San Domingo over d. whelmed, immense loss of life. nt l754. June 7-Kaschan, Persia ,h overwhelmed, 10000 people killed. n- I755. Nov 1-Great Lisbon shock ed 5000 killed at Lisbon, 12,000 Arab d in Morocco buried, 2,COO houses Il " Grecian archipelago destroyed. it. I759, Oct. 30-Aalbec, Syria, de; h. troved. 20.O00 persons killed. N IT73. June 7-Santiago, Guatema he la, and inhabitants swallowed up. a. I7S3. Feb. t Town ill Italy an lv Sicily destroyed, thousands perished li- i7Si. July 23 Ezinghian, nea TIT FTTzaroum. destroyed. 5000 killed. or I7SS, Oct. 12-St. Lucia, near Maj a- unique, 900 killed. lg I197. Feb. 4-Panama, 4O,OO >I people 5ur.,;: >uidenly. cal i5GS. iSi2 Great shocks wit lis awful loss of life. UT Holland. Naples, the Azoress, th or Mississippi Valley, Caracas, lndi. ,st Genoa, Aieppo, Chile, Spain, China be Martinique and Guadaloupe. !, nd 1868, Aug. 13-Cities in Ecuad( he destroyed, 25,O00 killed and propert of loss $500, ,O0OOOO. for 1883, Oct. 2O-Island of Ischia a te, most destroyed, 2,000 lives lost. cy 1883, Oct. 20-Krakatoa eruptlc ,se in Java and Sumatra, lO6,OOO live he lost.
 he 1884, April 22-Earthquake gen gre ral throughout England. of 1886 Aug. 3l-CharleSton ;. { es, fortv-one lives lost, S5,0OO,OO0 pro of erty destroyed.