CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 312, 31 December 1908, Page 2

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not previously *'' itll <' ,s «i,. *i generation, "xiiell fil 'l oK , P™"* ll ' great that soumlof IhET Wltß 80 crushed by tlie „*igl.l. T°" 8 " S we f« . I «« appalling Ore, .« ;., lWta "udsoi lives H,,e\st.,f *»al thous«f H'operty was osX>4a %& 1 000. On August 17b it f Ulpa,;u,o sutlcrcd .\4 *'£ I w its terrible rcsult.Y K* o I Place, including Santiak lin fact !■ ui \ alparuiso, was in ruflte.% , The year 1907 will be li& s ttMOcl . | "ted with the moiuombl? dE.JJTrt X Kingston, the capitiil of JioX whm , there was a terrible loss o|T/ e "2 '- , property. , V e ams \ ,\X ! V \T iCn **• « lwn * «rter of 4*' I iinti! as follows: v jSp» - ■ villages overturned. OftdMMT"'W ) and its 18,000 inhabitanSWta 1 l j™''« remained. More tharl 100,- "'M 1 000 lives were lost. . -%f . 1731, Pokiii-100,000 people swallWed up. ■ \ 1732, Naples—lo4o perished. l(sa-Gr«at earthquake at Lisbon. • In eight minutes most of the and 50,000 inhabitants were svEfr i lowed up. ; 1783-Messiua and other towns ia Italy ; and Sicily overturned; tuousartis perished. T

1805—At l'rosolone, Naples—oooo live* lost. 1822—Aleppo destroyed; above 20.000 pcrised. 1829—1n Spain; Murcia and numerous villages devastated; 60,000 live* lost. 1830—At Martinique, half of Port Koyal was destroyed and nearly 700 people killed. 1857—1n Calabria; Montenraao and other towns destroyed —IO,OOO lost. 1857—Qinto; about 5000 people killed and immense, amount of property destroyed. 1807—Several cities and many small towns destroyed in Peru and Ecuador. About 25,000 livis were lost, and 30,000 rendered nomeless. 4375 —San Jose de Cucuta and other towns on the boundary ot Colombit (Centrul America) destroyed: 14,000 dead. 1881—tievcre shocks in South Italy. Much destruction and loss of life at Casamicciola, a town in the Isle of Isehia. 1883—Casamicciola and several villages almost entirely destroyed; 1090 ■ . lives lost. 1888—Destructive shocks at Costa Blca, with loss of life; cathedral and palace destroyed. 1892—San Cristobal, Mexico. Every building destroyed; thousands homeless. 1902—Martinique. St. Pierre destroyed; 30,000 lives lost owing to fearful eruption of Mont Pelee. 1902—Souffriere volcano ia St. Vincent in eruption; 2000 lives loßt. 1905—Severe earthquake in Northern India; 19,000 natives killed at Lahore. In the course of seventy-five years, 'from 1783 to 1857, the Kingdom ofl Naples lost at least 11,000 inhabitants by the effects of earthquakes, or more than 1500 per year, out of an average population of 0,000,000.