New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1923, Page 12

WANY EARTHOUAKES HAVE TAKEN TOLLS "~ Disasters Date Back to 265 A, D, Have Caused Great Losses Sept. 21.—"The have des n Washington, D, €, earthquake and fire that siroyed Tokyo and Yokohama large part seem lo constitute greatest calamily, measured by the reported loss of life, that has ever fallen on any of the great cities of the world," says a bulletin frem the Washington D, €. headquarters of the National Geographic soclety, “Hut there is a long string of disasters 1 sulting from earthquakes that have visited great cities in the past tinues the bulletin, “that are at least comparable, and that loomed hig enough in the minds of the world at the time “The next greatest calamity of the sort in modern times was the earth- quake that in 1908 shook a great slice of Messina, Ficily, Into the sea and killed on both the Sleilian and Ital. {an side of the straits more than 76, 000 people. In this case fire played no important part in bringing about the destruction, practically all the deaths resulting from falling mason- ry or from drowning. Lishon Disaster Stood Out, “The disaster which long stood out &8 the greatest and most destructive of recent centuries was the tidal wave which swept over the city of | Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1755, | The loas of life in that catastrophe | was probably between 50,000 and| €0,000, | “America’s outstanding calamity to & large city resulting from an earth- | quake was the destruction the con Francisco in 1006, severed the water supply lines, and when fire broke out immediately ur-‘ terwards it soon spread over practi-| Although only | cally the whole city, | loa, excepting those of Honduras and of San l destruction in Rome as a result of An earthquake | earthquakes, so far as history shows;| Charleston, but resulted in the Joss of | curved in Antiosh and nearby ipwas only 21 lives in Byria in 838 A. D This was Thea A and Gomorvah. | & oty of some half & million or more Modern Sodom “In the West Indies the most dra-|inhabitants, the capital of the Easl matie eanthquake incident that has|and save Rome itaelf, probably the | ocourred was the slipping of & large| most important eity of the Roman part of old Port Reyal, Jamalea, inte | world the s2a In 1682, This was in the Cays of the huccansers many eof whom frequented Port Royal and gave it the name of one of thel world's wickedest ecities. The super- stitious saw in the destruetion of the town a modern version of the wiping out of Sedem and Gomorrah “The chief eities of Central Amer. of the eity, large crowds were galh ered for a Christian festival, The great convulsion that shook the eity and the aclghboring towna, and the fires that followed are said to have eaused the death of more than 200, 000 persons. Nicaragua, have repeatedly heen de- siroyed by earthquakes since the ad vent of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century The principal sufferer has Leen Guatemala City which has heen practically destroyed more than half o dozen times, the latest ealamity he- falling It in 1917, But Gautemala has Why had no menopoly of disasters, 8an Sal- hy vador, capital of the republie of the MArry a worthless prince when you | sume name, and Carthage, capital of | can buy an island principality to Costa Riea, have been shaken into| gether with the title, and bestow 1uins on more than one oceaslon them on a hushand of your own | Ancient Earthquakes Poorly Neport. | cholee® is the argument an enter od, | prising Bardinian realtor has used ln: trying to sell a Megiterranean island Small Sum of Money Will Buy Land and Title Sayps Pnterprising Sar- dinian Realtor, Cagliari, Sardinia, Sept. 2) “The city which has suffered most greatly in South America is Valpa.| !0 An American woman, | raiso, Chile, Great damage was in-| The woman was not in the market flieted by earthquakes in 1780, 1822,| for & title, either with or without a 1839 and 1873, and most recently m‘ prince, but she promised to mention | 1906, As early as 1586 earthquakes the alluring prospect to some of her | were bringing destruction to the Pa-| friends, and thus extracted further in. cific coast of South America, Callao| formation about the property from heing destroyed in that year, |'hn enterprising real estate man., He “The seeming lack of great earth. Withheld the name, but assured her | quake calamity in anelent times may | the island is well located and is high- be due more to the absence of tem~l ly desirable both as a summer and | plete records than to the |,|"p||“h|,: winter residence, It has an old castle escape of the great eltiea of the past. which s In need of repalr, several It is worthy of note, however, that|hundred acres of vineyard and farm. because of the types of buildings in|land badly in need of modernization, use, usually low and often with roofs| and two villages, also badly in need of of straw, no great loss of life would | repair, with about 500 mhabitants, result normally even in congested| The entire property Is offered for cent $10,000, the princely name included, with & guarantee that the present holder of the title will legally sanc- | tion its transfer, era, Antloch Next to Tokyo in Loss, “There was never any outstanding PRIDE ADDS TO RAILROAD Berlin, Sept. 21.—Loud appeals are | made from time to time in the press | for the abolition of the class distinc- | but Rome did have its quakes, and some students of history assert that thé large number of Roman palaces and temples belleved to have been de- between IPREHISTORIC *SKULL" NOTHING BUT SANDSTONE In addition to the vesidents |Dr, 4. G. Welfe's Discovery Sald To He Huenos Alres, Bept ion of Argentine scientists that the alleged tertiary human covered by S10.000 FOR ISUND |t M S |sil, has been confirmed here by Pro. fessor Elmer K. Riges, paleontologi- be |in skilled hands have been kpown to be useful for other things than writ. ing, They were waved Lo drive home arguments. They were flourished to distract attention from some specially obvious flaw in reasoning. Stubborn and timid witnesses often were im- pressed by & quill twirled in time with the legal twitch of the eyebrows, The last quill pens have been remov- ed from the court and cheaper stesl pens substituted, [eal explorer for the Fleld Mwu-.‘nplnfll-u in Patagonia whea | Chicage. received instructions from the Fleld “That," said Professor Riggs, turn- | Museum to investigate Woife's re- ing over In his hands the oblold | perted discovery, following the re, slone object curlously impressed with (ceipt by the museum of & letter human-like features, and which for lasking employment in Patagonia as the past two months has served 4% [an anthropological researcher, For & paper-weight on the desk of Pro-/this, says Professor Riggs he gave fessor de Benedetll, an archacologist, the sclentific credentials whieh frst “that, as & fossll, is certainly a plece | won eredence for his elaim, which of bunk, As a geological specimen it | included letters from American, Can- is a piece of solid sandstone, & nat- | gdian and German authorities ural concretion, queerly shaped, but not so queer at that, I've seen others | like it, It's only one of nature's little | jokea." ~ C heen abelished at Southwark county Professor Niggs' examination ended |court, This breaks a tradition of 160 twe months' pursuit of the “skull" years and deprivgs barristers of an whieh began during his fossil hunting lmylemrnl.nl many uses. 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