Show earthquakes the alio earthquake in the indian archipelago chi pelago 0 O which occurred two tit 0 months ago was one of 0 the hie greatest disasters to human life that has occurred since since the christian ern era and bet the leading newspapers of the countr country y hac hall very little to say sar about it ami lit in not ono one of our exell mi cs have we ile seen a detailed account of 0 I 1 it wit with ill anything like complete statistics of tile loss ot of life and properly occasioned by it one account places the loss of life on oil the island of java laid and cond contiguous 11 islands at two tell led islands sunk stink out of sight eight in in nil an instant it the population on oil tile habitable portions of laud lit iu that port part of the indian archipelago is il so very dense that in an enith so vastana vast and terrible lit in its and effects could not but destroy it a great number of liv lives es but the facilities tor for obtaining statistics are arc so 80 ulca meagre gr 0 that rna an than thing nearer than it fact c kit ap proximate roli aito ck estimate of the number who perished is impossible to obtain so ho nith tho the value of the property properly destroyed tile earthquake of ischia ill an island near alic lie CO t of naples destroy destro 1 ed 1 a I number of lives variously estimated at 2000 to but lie accounts of this tin s calain ity ns as published lit in life le ailing alling nn journals IN were ere singularly meagre and incomplete ten times the epaty in their columns would 1 have been cell devoted to 1 I fenian murder This sarito of the press pres sto the details of such appalling events its 3 disastrous earthquakes has been again within the past fen days the earthquakes on oil the island ind of cities lit in tile alic greek Ardillie lag go still and nt at smyrna an aga important turkish port immediately opposite on oil the ina mainland laland are arc cry slightingly treated cited tt lit in the press dispatches and bet ct they have been very extensive disasters one dispatch informs us that the turkish government had furni blied ast lumber to construct shelter for people left homeless hj b tile the disasters while still others lead us its to infer ahat thotis audi of human lic ile ingi perished |