Evening star., 1921-06-05
W0II|'S'' WORST DISASTER
!. MUS. Since 1915
Pueblo Flood as Great as Any,
/. Since johnstown Dam
:. -"aa Burst in 1889.
" i.niIiT
EQUALS 1912 CALAMITY
Arkansas Takes 500 Lives as Mis-
lssiYpi Did-0ther Terrible
F.; IT. III World Tragedies. !
EQUALS 1912 CALAMITY

Flooding of Pueblo and other Colo.
RADIO towns. with a reported loss OF
500 lives. is the worst disaster that
has befallen this country since the
sinking Of the steamship Eastland at
Chicago in 1915 with loss Of s12
lives
Within the last ten years more
than 1000 lives have been lost and
millions of dollars worth Of property
destroyed by foods of American
rivers. The most memorable were:
The overflow of the Mississippi. in
April 1912. with loss of SEQ lives
and the destruction of S3.0OO,ooo
worth of property in scores of towns
and cities in Louisiana. Mississippi
Arkansas and Tennessee.
In March. 1913. the Ohio and its
tributaries overfiowed with serious
i effects upon a large region. including
the cities of Dayton. Hamilton. Zanes-
vile, Columbus and Cincinnati. In
Ohio 49, lives were lost and the prop
erty loss exceeded $s0.oOO.0Oo.
zoo Lost In Califsrnia.
More than zoo 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 it's
banks following heavy rains in July.
1916, and several hundred persons
perished. mostly on the Mexican side
Of the river. There were seventy-nve
/. deaths at Ell Paso and hundreds were
1 made homeless.
!: TIL greatest American flood occurred
{ when virtually the entire city of Johns
town, Pa. was destroyed May 81, 1883,
by the breaking of the Conemaugh
dam just outside the city. The exact
loss Of life was never determined,
ber of lives lost at about $500.
A great part of the damage to CAL.
, weston. Tex. in a terrific hurricane
of September. 1900. was done by
Mexico. More than 5000 persons died
and property worth s20.0O0.000 was
destroyed.
Other Great Calamities.
Other great disasters of the last
two decades in which the loss Of life
has been heavy include:
1so2-Eruption of Mont Pelee. 10000
lives lost.
1sos-Iroquois Theater fire. Chi
cago: SIS lives lost.
1904-Burn;ng of steamship General
Slocum in the East river. New York;
1.40e lives lost.
1so5-Iapanese steamship Mikasa
sunk by explosion. 59S lives lost.
1s06-San Francisco earthquake and
Are, 4s2 lives lost; property loss es-
Minated at $3.50 600. 900.
1s0S-Ealparaiso. Chile. earthquake;
1850 lives lost: property damage;
about 500. 100000.
1907 = Kingston. Jamaica. earth
quake: 1.1o0 lives lost: property dam
age. about ss5,o00.00
1sos-Earthquake in Sicily and Ca
labria. 7S.4s3 lives lost. - 70
1916-Cartago. Costa Rica., earth
fquake. 1900 lives lost.
1912-Sinking of steamship Titanic
in midocean. 1.517 lives lost.
lives lost.
1s12-Sinking of Spanish steamship
Principe de Asturias off the coast OF
Spain. 500 drowned. :,
ls1e-sinkfng of japanese steam
Japan. 1000, lives lost.
1914-Sinking of steamship EN-
press of Ireland in st. Lawrencs~1.02A
lives lost. : : =.
1s15-Earthquakes in central, Haly,
39.97S lives lost i.
1915-Torpedofng of steamship
Lusitania. 1.19s lives lost. =. -
1915-Overturning of steamship
Eastland. at Chicago. S12 lives lost?
191S-French auxiliary cruiser
Provence. sunk in Mediterra mean.
3,27O lives lost. ~
1s16-Chinese steamer Hsin Yu
sunk of coast of China, 1000 lives
lost.
1sIT-British warship Vanguard
blown up at her dock in a British
port. 500 lives lost.
plosiop Of the French munitions steam
ship Mont Blanc, in which 1925 lives
were lost with 400 persons missing.
Estimated property lass. 81. .008, 600.