The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-06-10
GREAT DISASTERS
FLOODS, QUAKES, ETC.
Pueblo Flood Worst Disaster Since
Sinking of Eastland.

Flooding of Pueblo and other Col
Grad towns with report of $50 live
lost is the worst disaster that hal
befallen this country since the sink
ing of the steamer Eastland at Chi
/ cago in 1915 with a loss of S12 lives
| With the last ten years more thar
1000 lives have been lost and mil
/ lions of dollars worth of property
destroyed by floods of American riv.
ers. The most memorable were:
The overflow of the Mississippi in
April 1912, with loss of 500 lives
and the destruction of 100000
worth of property in scores of towns
and cities in Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee.
In March, 1918, the Ohio and it's
tributaries overflowed with serious
effects upon large region including
the cities OF Dayton, Hamilton,
GAINESVILLE. Columbus and Cincinnati.
About 700 lives were lost in all, 212
of them at GAINESVILLE in one day and
$50 at Hamilton. The property loss
exceeded $4,000, 900.
More than 200 persons lost their
lives in a flood which overran the
Valley of the San Luis Rey River in
California in January, 1916.
The Rio Grande overf1owed its
banks following heavy rains in, July,
1916, and several hundred persons
persisted, mostly on the Mexican side
of the river. There were rs deaths
at Ell Paso and hundreds were made
homeless.
The greatest American river flood
occurred when virtually the entire
city of Johnstown, Pa, was de-
stroyed on May /, 1889, by the
breaking of the Conemaugh dam just
outside of it. The exact loss of life
was never determined but reliable es-
tmates placed the number of lives at
about $4,000.
A great part of the damage to Gal
weston, Tex, in terrific hurricane
of September, 1900, was done by wa
ter blown in from the Gulf of Mexico.
More than 1900 persons died and
pro,' rty worth $2O,oOo.O0O was
destroyed.
Other disasters of the last two de-
cades in which the toll has been
heavy, include:
1902-Eruption Of Mount Pelee,
10000 lives lost.
1903-Iroquois theatre fire, Chi
cago, 575 lives lost.
1904-Burning of steamer General
Slocum in the East River, New York.
400 lives lost.
19O5-Japanese steamer Mikasa
sunk by explosion, 500 lives lost.
1906-San Francisco earthquake
and fire, 452 lives lost, property loss
estimated at $3.50. 100000.
1906-Valparaiso, Chile, earth
quake, 1900 lives lost, property dam
age about $100,000,000. a
1907-Kingston, Jamaica, earth
quake, LOO lives lost, property dam
age about $25,0O0,000.
1908-Earthquake in Sicily and
Calabria, 76,483 lives lost.
1912-Sinking of steamer Titanic
in midocean, 1,517 lives lost.
1912-earthquake in Turkey,
8 900 lives lost
Sinking of Spanish steamer Pfin-
cipe de Asturias off the coast of
Spain, 500 lives lost.
1912-Sinking of Japanese steam
er Kicker Maru off the coast of ia
pan, 1000 lives lost.
1914-Sinking of steamer Empress
Of Ireland in st. Lawrence, 1924
ives lost.
1915-Earthquakes in central It
aly, 29,97S lives lost.
Torpedoing Of steamship Lusitania
1915-Torpedoing of steamship
Lusitania, 1,19S lives lost.
1915-Overturning of steamship
Eastland at Chicago, 812 lives lost.
1916-French auxiliary cruiser
Provence, sunk in Mediterranean,
1870 lives lost.
1916-Chinese steamer Hsin Yu
Junk off coast of China. 1000 lives
ost.
1917-British warship Vanguard
blown up at her dock in British
tort, 500 lives lost