Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-15
AND FIRES
GREAT cATAsTRoPHEs THAT HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS
 AND DESTROYED MUCH.
San Francisco Disaster overshadows
 All O. Them in Amount Of Property Lost-5o,o ,ooo Perished in Lisbon.

sSulS lue lOlloWlnS llSt OI me Worlds Greatest Earthquakes"
 63 A. D.-Herculaneum and Pom peii partially destroyed by violent shock.
 05-Four Asiatic,. two Grecian and two Galatian cities overturned.
 35S-Nicodemia destroyed, with alt it's inhabitants.
 557-Thousands perish in Constan- tinople.
 742-over 300 towns destroyed in Syria, Palestins and Aasia; awful loss of life.
 1137-At Catania, Sicily 15,OOO bur jed in the ruins.
 115S-In Syria, 10000 perish.
 1186-A Calabrian city and all its inhabitants overwhelmed in the Adri- atic.
 12GS-In Ciliia, 6O,OOO perish.
 1456-Naples, 10000 killed.
 15S1-Lisbon, 30,000 buried in city's ruins.
 1596-Thousands perish in Japan.
 1626-Thirty towns near Naples de stroyed; 10000 killed.
 1667-At Schmaki, S0,000 perished in shocks within three months. 16S2-Port Royal, Jamaica, destroy ed; 5000 lost.
 169S-FiIty--our cities and towns and 300 villages destroyed in Sicily; loo. .000 lives lost.
 1703-Jeddo, Japan, ruined; 100000 dead.
 1716-At Algiers, 10000 dead.
 1731-At Picking, 100000 swallowed up.
 1746-Lima and CalIao demolished; 1S,000 buried in the ruins
 1754-At Grand Cairo, 40,000 per ished.
 1755-Kaschan, North Persia, de- stroyed: 10000 killed.
 1755-Lisbon, practically wiped out within eight minutes. Upward of 5000 perished in the ruins and by being ingulfed by a tremendous sies- mic wave. The shock was felt as far as Scotland. and many cities suffered severely. Tn Morocco more that 12,. 900 persons lost their lives. ..-. ...
 1759-Baalbec, in Syria, destroyed; 10000 dead.
 1797-All the country from Santa Fe to Panama shaken: 10000 dead.
 1S12-At Caracas, 12,000 lives lost
 1S22-Aleppo destroyed with 10000 or US lnnaDlLaQtS-
 1S42-At Cape Haytien, Santo Do- mingo, two-thirds of the town de- stroyed; 5000 dead.
 1S57-Over 10000 killed in Calabria
 1S6S-Many towns in Peru and Ecuador wiped out; 25,000 persons perished.
 1S96-Northwest of Japan 1000 per ished by earthquake and over 10000 by attendant seismic wave.
 19O5-Northern India, 400 perished
 1905-Several towns in Calabria Dis trict, 800 killed, thousands rendered homeless.
 19O6-Formosa, 1000 killed, s45, ,OOO,- 900 damages.
 Following is a list of great fires in the United States:
 Richmond, Va.-Theater, governor and many leading citizens perish; De- cember 26, 1911.
 New York City-6OO warehouses de- stroyed, loss 10000, ,0CG; December 16, 1885.
 Washington, D. C.-General post office and patent office burned; De- cember 15, 1886.
 Charleston, g. Co.-1,15S buildings consumed: April 27, 1888.
 New York City-46 buildings burn ed, loss s10,0O0,OOO; September 6, 1853. ...
 Pittsburg, Pal, ,OOO buildings, loss S6, 900, 900; April 10, 1S45.
 New York City-1, 200 dwellings de stroyed; June 2S, 1S45.
 New Ycrk City-302 storeFs four lives, loss S6,000,000; July 1S45.
 Albany, x. Y.-600 buildings, steam boats, piers, etc., loss s3,000, 900; Sep tember g, 184S.
 St. Louis, Mo.-15 blocks of houses, g steamboats, loss s3,000,000; May r, 1S49.
 San Francisco. Cal.-5O0 buildings, loss 5000, 900; June g, 1851. -..
 Washington, D. C.-35, 900 volumes Congressional Library burned; Decem- Der 24, 1851.
 Syracuse, N. Y.-100 buildings loss S1, ,000, GOO; November 8, 1856.
 New York City-Crystal Palace and exhibits destroyed; October 5, 1858.
 Portland, Me.-Almost destroyed, 1 900 people made homeless, loss Si5 ,000, 900; July 4, 1866.
 Chicago, Hl.-Great fire, 17,450 buildings and 200 lives lost, 98,750 people made homeless, loss over S200,. 000, 900: October S-9, 1871.
 Michigan-Forest fires. 1S,000 per sons made homeless, villages destroy ed, 1000, ,0o0, 900 feet of timber de stroyed; October, 1871.
 Boston, Mass.-300 buildings de stroyed, loss sS0,000,000; November 9, 1872.
 uoholyep N J-Steamshin D;ers 250 perished; 1900.
 Paterson, N. J-26 business blocks burned, loss SIG, 100000; February g 1902.
 Cincinnati, O.-Pike Opera house loss, S1,500,00o; February 26, 1903. Chicago, nl.-Iroquois theatre, 572 burned; December 30, 1903.
 Baltimore, Md.--20 lives lost, 55C buildings destroyed, loss s45,000,00o; February [, 1904.