The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-06
The U0RSTlYEI
Late Earthquake Destroyed More
Lives and Property
Than ANY OTHER one
1t Is Now Estimated That at Least
Three Hundred Thousand People
Were Killed and Millions Of Dol
lars Worth OF Property Was De-
stroyed by the Earthquake.
stroyed by the Earthquake.

lars Worth OF Property Was De-
stroyed by the Earthquake.
a fearful convulsion of the earth,
which devastated Southern Italy and
Sicily on Monday Of last week, wip-
ing out the lives Of 100000 people.
and Overwhelming TWO large cities
as well as a score Of smaller towns,
will go down in history as one Of
the most terrific disasters that have
ever visited this planet.
There is 10 record Of any earth
quake that wrought as much fright
full damage and caused greater loss
# life than the earthquake that Wis
u the lower part OF the Italian
peninsular and its neighboring isl
ands, last week. Few regions OF
, the world have suffered more heavi-
ly in the past than the province ol
Southern Italy and the beautiful.
island Of Sicily, which are now stag,
gering beneath the weight Of anoth-
er blow even more terrible than any
which preceded it.
Of all known earthquakes Of an.
tent and modern history the most
destructive up to last week was tha;
which visited Antioch, the capital OF
Syria, in the year 526 A. D. It is
said that the streets Of tfo ancient
city literally opened and hat rot
fewer than 250,000 human te,
ings, as well as innumerable tenn
pies and houses were engulfed It
the yawning chasms. In 115 B. c..
while the city was thronged with
visitors, who had come to attend :
celebration in honor Of the Emper.
or Trajan, another earthquake oc,
cured, less destructive than the one
which was to come some six hun
red years later, yet violent enough
TO cause the death Of thousands
among them being many Romans o!
;istinction, the Emperor himsel!
barely escaping from the ruins o.
his castle.
In yeddo, Japan, IN the year 1903
an earthquake occurred, in which
100000 people are said to have
lost their lives; and just twenty
eight years afterwards the city o.
Pekin was practically overwhelmed
by a similar disaster, in which i
is believed that nearly 100000 Of the
inhabitants persisted. OF othel
earthquakes in which the lost Of liz
was so great as to render them mem
orable for. all time, there are 81
many as to forbid enumeration. Sew
eral Of these, as remarked above
took place in the same region which
was affected by Mondays appallinE
disaster, and in the other countrie:
pf Southern Europe.
In 1887 seismic disturbances caus
ed the death of $4,000 people il
Sicily IN Lisbon, in 1881, 1,50(
uOUSSS "SIS "4eChSO cuO oV,VVN
ives were lost, and again, in 1855
q the same city, $4,000 people per
tshed as the result Of earthquake, ani
large portion Of the town sunk
beneath the waves. IN 1888 Mes
sina, which has been practically OBJ
liberated by this most recent disas
ter, was almost entirely destroyed
by mighty shake, which at ths
same time, caused the death Of man!
thousands. The same Inflated cit,
suffered heavily from seismic dis
turbances in 1894 and 1895.
In 1851 the South Of Italy, tht
: same region devastated by the earth
q1ske Of last week, was visited BY
an earthVuake which blotted out 10,
100 souls, anG-asain, in 1857, ther.
we're other convulsions. the death
coll Of which amounted rc about 10,
~ The most famous OF all seis
VIC o-saster which have visited Italy
that In which the twin cities ot
Herculaneum and Pompeii were de.
stroyed-was not an earthquake, but
an eruption OF the volcano Vesuvius
Some OF the Great Disasters.