Show 0 destroy abst FOY ed h quakes tokyo and yokohama hold mod ern record for loss of life messina second washington cli D C alio earthquake aind fire that have destroyed tokyo and lo kohama in large huge part seeva seem to constitute tile the greatest calati lity measured by b the reported loss of af life that lius bus ever fallen on any of the great cities of tile the world says bays a bulletin frocil tile the washington glon hindquarters of the rational national geographic society dut but abere la Is it a long string of disasters re sul till 11 front earthquakes that have visited sited great cities iv ID the past continues thu the bulletin that are at least and that loomed big enough buom h in the minds of thy the world at tile time the next greatest calamity of the tort fon t ort in ili modern times was the earthquake hill in IDOS 1008 shook a grout slice balco tit of messina i sicily into the sea and a nd killed on oil both the sicilian and italian side hide of tile the straits more than 75 ow people in tills this case ire fire played no important part in bringing about the destruction practically till all the deaths resulting front from falling masonry or from 4 li 11 own owning ing lisbon disaster stood out tile the disaster which long stood out us its the greatest greit cst and most destructive 1 of it recent centuries was the tidal wave which swept over tile city of lisbon of portugal in 1755 tile the 10 loss sa ii if life in ili tint that catastrophe was bibly between and americas Amer Anie icis ricas outstanding calamity to it large elli city resulting from an earth jua le e was the destruction of san Pran francisco cisco tit in 1000 1906 an earthquake severed tile the water supply lilies and when lire fire broke biake out immediately afterwards it soon spread prend over practically the he whole city alt although only about 70 00 people lost their lives lacs the prop erty erti daniago ge amounted to some wo charleston b S 0 Is tile the only other do city of importance in the united states A that lias has suffered from an earthquake in 1880 a revere feero quake shook down lili iines and houses in charles ton but bill resulted in tho the loss of only 27 llos lives A modern sodom and gomorrah in tile west indies tile the most dra dia it atle earthquake incident that has oc burred was the slipping of a large part of old clort royal jamaica into the yea in 1002 1092 this was in the days of atlie bucca buccaneers many of fre port royal and gave it tile the name q 0 one of the welds wick wickedest edest cities the I 1 he superstitious saw in the destruction of the town a modern ver stall slon of tile wiping out of sodom and gomorrah the alef allief cities of central america excepting those of Ilon honduras duras and nicaragua have repeatedly been destroyed by earthquakes since the advent of the spaniards in tha th sixteenth century the principal sufferer has been guatemala city alt which has been practically destroyed more inore than a half dozen times tile latest calamity befalling it in 1017 but guatemala has had bad no monopoly of disasters san salvador capital of tile the republic of the anine name and cartago Cart ngo capital of costa rica have been shaken into euln on more inore thai one occasion no records of ancient quakes the city dt which has suffered roost most greatly in south america Is valparaiso chile great damage wita was inflicted by earthquakes in 1730 1822 1839 1873 and more recently in 1900 1906 ab early as li 1080 ise earthquakes were bringing destruction st to tile the pacific coast of south america Ani erlen callao being destroyed in that year tw the seeming lack inck of great earth quake in ancient times raa may ile due more to the absence of complete records than to the inexplicable escape of the lie greit great cities of nt the past it li Is worthy worth v of note however hm eer that because of the lie types 4 peg of buildings in use visually lisua usual lly iv low and often with roofs of straw no real loss of life would result normally cen in congested centers antioch next to tokyo in loss there was never any outstanding des destouet truet lon in ili altime us its A n result of earthquakes so far as history shows but rome did have its quakes nod and some students of history assert that tile the large number oi of roman palaces and temple teal ples believed to have been destroyed by the barbarians between the fifth and ninth chith centuries were really shaken en down by earth tremors tile the earliest eari lest historic earthquake which caused it 11 tremendous loss to of I 1 life fe and the most destructive if the statistics can be accepted save perhaps tile recent quake la in japan occurred in antioch arid and nearby towns in syria in A D 1 this was then a city of some soma halt half a million or more inhabitants tile the capital of thelast the East and save rome itself probably the most important city of tha roman world in addition to the residents of the city large crowds were gathered for a christian festival the great convulsion that shook the city and the neighboring towns and the ferem that followed are said to have caused the death of more than persons |