CATASTROPHE.
■TOWN'BURIED; EARTHQUAKE AND MOUNTAIN SLIDE; . HUGE LOSS OF LIFE.... •., BT TELEGEArn—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COr-YRIGUT. (Reo. Oci. 31, 10.10 p.m.). ! .■' ■ London, October 3], > Routor's correspondent at Tnshkand, the capital of Russian Turkestan, states [hat aii oarthquakc .on October 21 caused a great mountain.: slide, .bnrymjr the Bokharan town of Kanatagh, 100 miles south-oast of Sainarpa'nd. '...,'■.' -/ The bulk of the. inhabitants, numbering 15,000, perished. Somo, including the Governor, escaped. V •,■■."• ~ , ■■{ If thtv death-roll, is naything like (ho-figure stated, it -far- exceeds that of the San Francisco or other notable earthquakes of the last two or three years. According to records, the' biggest earthquakes—as • far as loss of lifo is concorned— are as follow:— :■ Sicily, 1137 a.d. ■ .;.' ... ■ 15,000 killed; ■ Svria, 1158 a.d. . ~.. ... 20,000 „ ; Cicilia,- 1208 a.d. ... ... 00,000 ,; ■.' Naples, 154G a:d., '..: ... iO.OOO ■;," ..Lisbon, -1531' a,d. .... .-... 30,000 „ ;■,.. , Schamaki, 1C67 a.d. 80,000 „ Sicily, ICOS'Ain. ' ... ...100,000 „ Japan; 1703 ■■■ a.d;- ... ... 200,000 •:;„■- ' Pokin,- 1731 a.d 100,000 „ ... Peru, 1746 A.D 18,000 „ : Grand Cairo, ..1754 a.d. ... 40,000 ; „.. Lisbon. 1755 X.D ... 50,000 „ Syria,' 1750-a,d. ■...'■ ... 20,000 Panama, 17,1,7:1 a.d. ... ... 1-3,000 ~ , ■: Aleppo,-. 1822- .a.d. ■-. ..... ... .40,000 „. . i ' South'ltaly, 1851 a.d.' ... 14,000 „" ' ■'•Peru,-•■ 1868 a.d.-. , v. 25,000 „ : ! ~ Colombia, 1875 a.d. , ... ...,,14,000 .„..;. , Martinique, 1902 a.d.', : ... .30,000 „ "Northern India;-1905 A.p; ... 19,000 Of Persian and-Turkestan.earthquakes, the records affirm the following:— • Kaschaii' (N- Persia), 1755 a.d. 40,000 killed. ,•■ Tabiiz (Persia), 1780 ; a.d. large number „ Kuchan:(Porßia), 1893.a.d. ... 12,000 "; „ 'Andijan- (Turkestan),l9o2A.b: 1 10,000 ■•:,',- ■'■' ' >. lia > -724 a;d. ■ more than 500 • towns in Syria, Persia, .and; Asia wero destroyed,.,and the loss of; life was'beyond calculation.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 7
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