Arizona republican., 1902-05-16

earthquakes IS that Ot the year A. II. 63 which resulted in the partial de- struction of Herculaneum and Pompeii. sixteen years previous to the time when those cities were buried under the lava and ashes accompanying an eruption of Vesuvius.
 The earthquake of 1851 in the king dom of Naples is the most noteworthy that occurred there during the century just closed. In the city itself compara- lively slight damage was done, but in the provinces great loss of life and property resulted. The volcanic wave started from near the town of Potenza and spread in all directions with ve- locity of about 775 feet every second.
 In the United States in 1Sf1 occurred the famous earthquake of New Madrid, Mo. Humboldt remarks that it pre- sents one of the few examples of the incessant quaking of the ground for several successive months far from any volcano. Over an extent of country stretching for 3GO miles southward from the mouth of the Ohio river the ground rose and sank in great undulations, and lakes were formed and were again drained The ground burst open, leav- ing cracks, in many instances over half a mile long. From these Assures mud and water were often thrown as high as the tops of trees. The dis turbance ceased on March 26, 1912, the day on which a great earthquake visit ed Caracas, the capital Of Venezuela. Charleston, S. C., was visited by an earthquake on August 3. 1886, resulting in the loss of sixty-one lives. The most recent disaster in tic United States was visited upon the city of Gal weston, Texas, in September, 1900. The loss of life has been estimated at 10, 900. A tidal wave rolled across the gulf of Mexico from the direction of the West Indies and struck the city, wrecking buildings, crushing out many lives in the twini1ling of an eye.
 The city of Caracas, Venezuela, in South America, was entirely destroyed | in fifty seconds on March F, 1872. In Ecuador the city of Quito was almost | destroyed on March 22, 1859. Callao reru, was destroyed in 1856, and a sea wave ninety feet high was dashed against the Peruvian shores. Tie city was again destroyed in 1746 A great earthquake visited Chili in 1922 and raised 1G0O00 square miles of land lying between the Andes mountains and the coast from two to seven feet. About midnight on Fberuary 20. 1885, the city time Over 3C0 shocks were felt in two weeks. The accompanying sea wave was thirty feet high and is said to have | originated near the island of Juan Fer nandez, where there also simultaneous | ly broke forth a submarine volcano which sent up a fiery column through 4G0 feet of water. In the Argentine Re- public Mendoza was overturned in March, 1861. The shock was felt over the entire confederacy and 12.OO0 per- sons are estimated to have perished. | In 1883 Asama of Japan exploded. It was one of the most frightful explosions of modern times. It sent down SeG9 feet 9 torrent of mud and fire from five to ten miles broad that over Whelmed forty-two villages. Historians have never been able to determine how many lives were actually lost by this explosion. The total ran into the thou sands
 | Bandaisan of Japan blew up July 15, 1885, and sent 16,0O00 600 cubic yards of rock and earth into the valley beneath. The lava stream from it's head travelled at the rate of forty-eight miles an hour and was hundred feet deep. Its width ran from five to fifteen miles. But only 401 persons lost their lives.
 By an earthquake in 1919, in India, a
 tract of 2,O09 square miles of country
 at the mouth of the Indus was sub
 merged and a neighboring region ele- vated into a mound. Another great earthquake disturbed India on January 10, 1869. The origin Of the shock was a point under AsalCo. Sand and hot NdtSI SGSitu up through assures Tn
 the earth. The entire lower valley Of the Ganges was embraced in the field of disturbance and the shock was felt de-
 cidedly in Calcutta
 Pert Royal. the capital of Jamaica,
 was destroyed by Q volcanic wave June
 :, 1892. In less than three minutes the city sank into the sea to the depth of
 fifty feet. The buildings, still standing
 as they had sunk, were visible in clear weather as late as 1885, 143 years after
 the catastrophe. The Assures produced
 in the earth opened and closed So quickly that in some instances, it is said, the lower parts of the bodies of
 persons were buried while the upper
 portions remained above the ground.
 The city of Lisbon was visited on the morning of November 1, 1T75, by enc of
 the most remarkable earthquakes re- corded in history. The rumbling sound that precedes most earthquakes was
 immediately followed by the great shock which threw dcwn the principal