Show solo AND EARTHQUAKES I I Scio or na it is commonly called Ohio has been the scene of terrible earthquakes for the pad three weeks in which it is estimated that from 1000 to 8000 persons have been I killed and nearly all the cities and hamlets on the IsUnd destrnjfd Solo is an island of Asiatic Turkey situated in the Grecian archipelago f off the coast of Asia Minor from i which 1 it isseparated by the Strait of Scio about seven miles wide in its jo narrowest part The island some ten yean ago had a population of 160000 souls Ita area is about 500 square miles tbe surface being rocky r and uneven but with many alleys I remarkable fertility and with the 1 mountains nearly always covered < by verdure presents a very beautiful j beau-tiful and picturesque Appearance Owing to the recurrence every few k f dayatif these terrible earlh spasms 1 i I hastening fee destruction of such places as have e so far withstood the F i shocks and causing the death oft Lt of-t manyidditional beings together with t I I r the partial subsidence of portions of 11 E the island to a = depth of a mefre the T l inhabitants are fleeing for their lives 1 t j but owing to the destitution which fr f L t prevails consequent upon the enorm I i f one loss of life and destruction oft of-t property escape ia very difficult fi However persona are contributing t Y liberally to the numerous snbacrip I il i t tion funds started in this country and II I I JI Europe for the assistance of those H tli j stilldestitute and on the ill fated r4 f 4 I iT1 Island Their sufferings must indeed I tr I j vJ have of been I great aDd probably have I t 1E not yet reached an end yet while the i I I t I a shocks have been terrible and de slrnctife they do not begin to compare com-pare with many recorded and doubt Less with thousands which have dt strayed cities and people eo completely com-pletely that no vestige remained to transmit the history to succeeding generations Eecorda of 6880 earthquakes which have been more or less destructive de-structive have been collected by Mallet These occurred within 8456 yeara prior to 1850 but of tbe total numtrer of which mention ii i made 3240 or nearly half occurred in the fifty years since 180 the average of the last four years of his record giving giv-ing two earthquakes per week Ao cording however to a catalogue by Aleris Perry from 1843 to 187 in elusive there were 17249 earthquakes earth-quakes or 575 each year There is according to scientific autboritits a close relationship between earthquakes earth-quakes and volcanoes and innumerable innumer-able instances are given where immediately im-mediately after a volcano ceases erupting earthquake follow Thus when the wreath of smoke disappear from Ootopaxi Ecuador the inhabItants inhab-Itants of Quito anticipate earthquakes earth-quakes For the first time in the memory of man tbe volcano of Strom boli ceased erupting during the great Galabmn earthquake la 1797 a great earthquake destroyed Rio bamba by which 40000 souls perished per-ished and this took place immediately immedi-ately after tbe activity of a neighboring neighbor-ing volcano had stopped On the 18th of August 1S68 an earthquake desolated tbe whole coast of Peru In tbe great Cttlabrian earthquake in 1783 perhaps 100000 Italians and Sicilians were killed It was felt nearly all over Europe while another shock which occurred on tbe 6th of October 1870 swallowed up several villages and their inhabitants In the year A D 63 or about sixteen years before Herculaneum and Pompeii Pom-peii were buried beneath the ashes and lava from Vesuvius they were partially destroyed by an eartnquake Toe city Lisbon on the morning of November 1st 1755 WA the scene of one of the moat memorable earthquakes earth-quakes recorded in history The great shook that followed the rumb hug sound generally preceding an earthquake threw down the principal princi-pal portion of the city The sea retired re-tired leaving the bar dry and returned re-turned the next moment as a greet wave or breaker fifty feet in height landing the city It id believed that fully GOOOJ parsons perished inside of six minutes The earthquake earth-quake that devastated Judea at the time of the battle of Actium 31 B 0 caused the death of 10000 percone The ancient city of Antioch has been the scene of numero e earthquakes It was almost destroyed in 115 A D it was again visited by an earthquake in 458 while in 526 occurred the most disastrous one ever recorded i when the city was destroyed and it is i I estimated that 250000 person ppriahfil sixty yeara later 3000 were killed Port Royal the capita of Jamaica on June 7 1692 na sunk beneath the sea in less than three minutes from tbe time tbe earthquake begun So rapidly did the fusurea in the earth open and close that tbe lower parts of the bodies I of persona were buried while the upper portions remained above the ground March 191873 Saol Salvador WS utterly destroyed though the los of life did not exceed 500 owing to the inhabitants having been warned The city of Caracas Venezuela was entirely destroyed by three earthquake earth-quake shocks all coming within fifty seconds on the 26th of March 1812 Csllao Peru wm destroyed in 1586 the earthquake being accompanied by a sea wave which must have been 90 feet in height The same city was again destroyed in 1746 It does not follow that an earthquake is i destructive only where it originates Some of the moat fatal and destructive recorded have originated in mid ocean and traversed utmost the entire circumference circum-ference of the globe causing terrible eawaves which while tile earthquake earth-qUAke itself hag caused but little injury havo frequently devastated thousands of miles of land destroyed untold property and been the cause o the death of hundreds of thousands of persons For instance the city 01 Concepcioa Chili about midnight on the 4th of February was for the fourth time destroyed by an earthquake earth-quake there were felt over 300 hocks witbin two weeks The accompanying ac-companying sea wave was nearly thirty feet high and probably originated near the island of Juan Fernando where there alto broke forth simultaneously a submarine volcano which sent up a column of stnee lava and the like tbrough a depth ot 400 feet of water about the city Of Oanoopoion be lieD wag black and had an offensive odor The earthquake mentioned above which destroyed Lisbon sensibly disturbed a vast area of tbe earths circum erenco It was felt in the Alps and on the coast of Sweden in Bohemia many towns were destroyed in northern north-ern Africa passed beneath Scotland and almost simultaneously with the extraction of Lisbon the great ruptionof the volcano of Koetluggia Iceland began The earthquake probably originated under the ocean some distance west Portugal and raveled at the rate of about 2000 feet per second Tbe report that a portion of Ohio had subsided a metre is nothing new in earthquake record Islands have been known ij disappear entirely from sight almost in a moment and forever afterwards remain submerged while other islands which in the knowledge of man had never been seen before have been raised op in midocean and remain permanently In 1835 after a great EarthQuake which shook the coast of South America an area of over 600000 square miles tbe whole coast of Cmli and Patagonia was found elevated from two to ten feet above the sea level In 1822 after a similar earthquake earth-quake in1 the game region the cbaet line was found elevated from two to seven feet In this very region old beach marks 100 feet to 1800 feet above the seas level and extending extend-ing 1200 miles along the ccast on I each side of the southern end of the I continent plainly show that in very recent geological time the whole southern end of South America has been bodily raised out of tbe sea to that extent In 1819 after a severe earthquake which shook tho whole region about the mouth oftbe Indus a tract of land 2000 mile square was sank and became a salt lagoon while another area fifty miles long and ten to sixteen miles wide was elevated ten feet in commemoration of which wonderful event the raised portion was called Uilah Bund or the Mound of God Again in 1811 B severe earthquake shook the valley ot Mississippi In the region about the mouth of the Ohio where it wat severest large tracts of land were sunk bodily several feet below their former level and have been covered with water ever since It is now called the Sunk Country It is therefore seen that while the earthquake shocks which are destroying destroy-ing the towns of Scio or Onto are severe and while the inhabitants are deserving of sympathy their destitution destitu-tion being due to perhaps the most unavoidable un-avoidable of all causes their case presents pre-sents nothing new and their calamity is slight in comparison witn that suffered suf-fered by other places in former times Being an island it would not be without with-out similar occurrences should it sink beneath the sea altogether While there may be features connected with the Scio earthquakes which may be of value in scientific regards they give so far no evidence of anything new and aflord no opportunity for the drafting of conclusions that they possess pos-sess anything but natural aspects |