Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-04-25

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| l746-Lima.. .. 49,, .. -. $4,000
l754-Cairo.... .. -. =. -. 10000
i755-Lisbon.. .... $4,000
| l773-Guatamala.. .. $4,000
1797-Quito $1,000
! lS22-Aleppo.. .. .. -. 41.000
| 1S61-Mendoza. S. America 10000
| 1S6S-Arica.... :. .. -. 5000
| 1SSO-Mauila.. .. .. 5000
i lSS3-Ischia.. -. =. 1000
This is 8 total Of 521, 900 lives lost
by earthquakes in 175 years. The
greatest loss in history was at Yeddo,
Japan, i'll 1903, when $4,000 lives
We're lost. The next greatest was at
Pekin, China, in 1871, when the loss
was $4,000: The earthquake at LIS
Bon, Portugal, occurred III All Saints
Day, Nov. I. 1876, when within eight
minutes most Of the houses III Lisbon
were destroyed and $4,000 lives were
lest, though Mul!lall puts the number
at $4,000. Nearly 5000 persons who
had taken refuge Oh 4 quay on the
banks of the Tagus, were engulfed
by q sea wave forty feet high. The
| damage was estimated at 90 600
| pounds sterling, or about 100000
GOO. According to Humboldt the en-
tire surface disturbed by this earth
quake was equal to 1nur times The
area Of Europe. The shock was felt
as far as Scotland on the north, Asia
Minor on The east, Morocco on the
south and the West Indies on the
west.
The heaviest earthquake That ever
occurred III the United States, INIT!
the recent one, occurred in Charles
ion, S. c., Aug. 81. 1856, when sew
cral hundred buildings were shaken
to pieces and three-fourths Of the
whole number in the city made unin-
habltable. Scores of people were kill
ed and the loss Of property amounted
to $S,000,000.
II will be noticed from the above
table that earthquakes have been
widely distributed over the world.
China, Japan, Peru, Egypt, Portugal,
Italy, the Philippines, South Arneri-
ca and he West Indies have had yisi-
i%ations, and two notable disturbances
have occurred in the United States.
Various explanations as to the causes
Of earthquakes have been made by the
scientists, but nobody can furnish abb
sclute knowledge on the subject. We
only know that they occur, that they
are exceedingly unpleasant visitors,
and we suppose that they are the re-
suit OF internal fire or heat and ~ass-
es, such as bclch forth from the
earth s volcanoes at irregular periods.
Millions for Relief.
From the incomplete figures of the
contributions which have been made it
IS estimated that the San Francisco
fund is rapidly nearing the total Of
$4,000, 900 and will have passed that
figure by Monday, when the United
States Congress, it is announced, will
add 81, 100000 to the $1,000,000 ap-
pfopriated from the Treasury at
| Wash ington. In the burst of 2ener-
Gus contributions, New York City
ranks next to the government itself
and bids fair to far exceed the Fed
eral contributions. The New York
fund amounted to approximately 81
100000, with contribL lions coming in
fest.
The State of Massachusetts has I'M
dertaken to raise 5000, 900, and with
Boston's generous help is we'll OF The
way TO the goal.
Clicago's fund, spontaneously sub
scrlbed, IS approaching $1,000,0O0 and
promises to go beyond that srnn. Phil
adelphia has sent 100000. These
are but a few Of the larger sums. A |
score or more cities are contributing
100000 and more, while hundreds of
municipalities are sending all their
means will allow. From London.
Paris, Berlin and wherever Ameri- |
cans are congregated, a generous in
flow Of gold is reported.
Pittsburg has given 100000; COM
mercial men Of Cleveland, 100000;
ST. Louis, $200,000; Sacramento,
100000, and Seattle, 100000.
Throughout the country theatrical
performances are being planned, the
proceeds to go to the relief fund.
In addition to this all the larger
towns and cities Of the South are
giving from their treasures and rails
ing enormous amounts by popular
subscription. Never before have the
whole people responded so generously |
and so promptly to the cry of need. |
Due to Pent-up Energy.
DR.. Phillip R. Uhler, provost Of the
Peabody Institute, Baltimore, said, in
the absence Of details, the causes that
led up to he earthquake could not be
explained.
He seemed to think that on both !
sides Of the earth there is a great deal |