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gio. Native and the other places where
damage or fatalities occurred are small
| towns.
Italy in past years has had numerous
| Visitattons from earthquakes In which
thousands of persons have perished
and millions worth of property de-
! stroyed.
II fell to the lot of Italy to suffer
| what probably was the greatest disas-
ter from an earthquake that the world
ever saw. This was in December. 1908,
! when in Sicily and Calabria 76.4S3 per.
sors were killed. 95,470 injured. and
100000 made homeless. In this dis
, turbance Messina. Santa Teresa Seal
leta and Faro, In Sicily, and Reggie,
san Giovanni. San Ufemia, Calico,
Palmi. Pellaro and Cannitello in Gala
| bria, were destroyed.
| The financial loss never was accu-
rately computed, hut it ran into many
| millions of dollars
| UP to the time OF this catastrophe
the earthquake Mt Lisbon, Portugal, In
lI56. which cost 10000 lives, caused the
greatest number of casualties.
WORST EARTHQUAKE
PERIOD on RECORD
Nineteen hundred and six was the
worst period for seismic disturbances
OF record 1t was during this time
that great disasters occurred the world
over. The destruction Of San Fran
CISCO ana Valparaiso and the razlnG OF
eighteen villages in Calabria occurred
In the spring and summer OF 1906 The
Province of Esmeraldas, in Ecuado
was shaken in the following January,
and great tidal wave followed, drown
ing many persons and devastating the
city Of Esmeraldas. Colombia also
suffered in this disturbance, about 400
persons being killed.
month and a half later on the
Island OF Formosa, the village OF Kagl
and three other towns were DESTROYED
with the loss OF thousands Of lives and
material damage estimated at sac, 000-
900 month later Kagi again was
visited. with additional loss OF life and
much property damage.
Then followed the San Francisco
disaster, In which 500 were killed and
100000 made homeless, with a prop
erty loss of 100000, 900
few months later Valparaiso was
destroyed by earth shocks and con-
Migration. Two thousand inhabitants
were killed, and monetary loss of
$3.50, 100000 resulted. Within four DAYS
from the first earth shock, the region
for hundreds of miles around Val
paraiso was visited by 3S2 ouakcs. In
which the towns of Los Andes and
Mclppilla with an aggregate popula-
ton of 1900, were destroyed with their
Inhabitants. Santiago, Chile, lost fiftv-
i've persons killed and suffered 81, 500, 900
damage. while the towns Of VIVA del
Mar, Quirinuc, Linache and QuiIlota,
with total OF $4,000 inhabitants. were
completely destroyed
Later in the same year there were
| disturbances I'm Porto Rico. German
| New Guinea and again in Chile.
In 1907. came the disaster to Kings
ton. Jamaica. in which over 1000 lives
| were lost and 250OO,O00 damage was
done. Carriage, Costa Rica. lost / 500
lives in 1910 from an earthquake, and
In Turkey in 1912, 5000 persons per-
ish"d. while 10000 were made homeless
in similar disaster
Last year. Sakura, Japan. was visited
by an earthquake and the eruption OF
volcano which caused much property
damage put did not result in n large
loss OF life. Last MAY In Sicily 900 nor
SONS were killed and 1000 injured