Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-10-08 | Page 47 | Great Floods of History

GREAT FL FLOODS FLOoDS OF HISTORY I Oll One of or he Ilse First of as In England Eng Eng- I I land lanil In A. A D D. D The following were somo some of or the great Cloo floods s of ot the past not mentioning mentioning- tidal I waves ayes Incident to earthquakes and volcanic volcanic vol yol- canic disturbances that have destroyed thousands of ot lives from time to time In Inthe inthe th the worlds world's history In A A. D D. D nn n Inu inundation of the sea aea I 1 I I I In Cheshire Britain drowned per- per sons conti In A. A D D. cOO families s were drowned at Glasgow Scotland and In In I- I tho the Rh er r Tweed overflowed overflowed over over- flowed Its Ils banks and Inundated the tho country for a distance of at thirty thirty miles At Dort England In H 1421 14 J tho the sea aea broke In and anti swept awa away four seventy villages drowninG persons In 15 1530 0 the tho dikes In Holland Rave gave wa way and a general flood resulted In which human beings perished There Tharo la is a brief record of or an nn Inundation inundation tion In Catalonia In 1617 when drowned In 1717 a flood In Zealand killed 1300 1 zoo soo Mountain torrents torrent In Navarre In 1787 swept away 2000 o of the tho Inhabitants By tho the overflow of or th the Danube at near In 1811 twenty twenty- four tour villages and their Inhabitants were destroyed In 1813 the Danube again overflowed o that time timo overwhelming o a fI small mall Island near hidden surprising and destroying 2000 Turkish soldiers encamped there Six thousand persons persona In Silesia also were drowned In 1813 and persons met death In the tho same came manner In Poll Poland nd In that year Fifty thousand houses were ere Inundated In Vienna In 1830 1530 In 1833 floods In Can Canton lon China swept away houses and ond drowned 1000 persons and th thero ro a was WIlI heavy loss joss of or i life UCo In other parts of or the tho empire A breaking dam flooded the tho Mill 1111 Ely Riv River er or valley n near ar Northampton t Mass In May 1834 swept away a several so villages and drowned 14 1 persons A thousand lives 11 were lost at Toulouse Toulouse Toulouse Tou Tou- louse In is June 1875 1876 when whon tho the Garonne loft left Its tte banks Six thousand houses house wore were destroyed when hen the dams of ot th the tho River Theiss at Hungary broke In 1379 and seventy seven lives were lost that same name year 1000 persons persona perished In floods ls In Inthe inthe the tho Spanish provinces of or Andalusia All Ali canto Almeria and Malaga In 1898 and 1899 thousands perished In China as a result of ot the overflow of tho the Yellow river and a storm at S Samoa moa In March 1899 wr wrecked war ar vessels and caused the loss lose of ot hundreds of ot lives c