Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 3 | Disasters of Late Years have been Appalling

DISASTERS OF LATE YEARS HAVE BEEN APPALLING Nineteen hundred and six was the worst period for seismic dlaturbancaa on record. It wa during this lima that great disasters occurred the world oer The destruction of Kan Fran taeo and Valparaiso and tha rasing of eighteen vtl la gas In Calabria occurred in the spring and summer of 101 The province of Earner Iris In Ecuador was shaken In th following January and a great tidal wa followed drowning many persona and devastating the city ot Earners Id aa. Colombia also suffered In this disturb a nee. about SM person being kl led A moatb and half later on the Island of Formosa, tha village of Kagl and thr other towns were destroyed with th In of thousands of Uvea and mate rial damac tlmted at .0oo ooo A month later Kagl again was vl tod with moon loss of Ufa and property damage Then followed tb Ban Francisco disss ur In which MO vfr killed and 10 0O0 mad homslaaa. with a property loss of ! aaa nee aaa a fear mootha Later V al paralao wa destroyed by earth shocks and a onnflacraUon. Two thousand In habitant were klOod aad a monetary loaa of ttsAOM OOD resulted. Within four days from the first "earth ahock th region for hundrd of miles around Va! paralao wa visited by Ml quak. In whfch th towns of Los Andes and WehpUbl with an aggregate population of 1M00 ware daMroyad with thetr Inha htunta. eoatia go, ChO loat fifty Ov persona IrtlkadTnd suffered ILMOOOe oanag. wbtts the towns of Vina Dei Mar Qulrl hue. Unach and QuIUota. with a total of rJ e InbabtUnU were completely de- lLter In th snm year trier were dls-tarbanoa dls-tarbanoa In Porto Rico. Oerman New Oalneo and again In Chile. In IttrJ came th dimeter to Kingston. Taiaalaa la which mora than 1000 Ive were loat and 1.00M damage waa don. Cartago. Coata Rica, loat 1M0 Urea In ll. from an ertbquak and ta Turkey In Un iwreoa perish-, whit 40. SM were made homaieas In a similar dlaaater . Iat year Sakura. Japan, waa vtattod by an earthquake and tb eruption oi a vokatno, which caoaad much property dsunsc. but did not result In a large loss of Ufa Last May la Bleity V0 perm were kill ad and 100 Injured.