While the record as given above is by no means complete, it will serve for all purposes of comparison. It embraces the most important disasters of the rushing waters on record, and shows what a destructive force the same element has proven which babbles in noisy brooks and sings merrily as it courses down the mountain sides.
DEATH-DEALING STORMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES IN FORTY YEARS.
1864—Calcutta, India; 45,000 lives and 100 ships lost.
1881—Haifong, China; 300,000 lives lost.
1881—England; great destruction of life and property and many lives lost.
1882—Manila, Philippine Islands; 60,000 families rendered homeless and 100 lives lost.
1886—Madrid, Spain; 32 killed, 620 injured.
1887—Australian coast; 550 pearl fishers perished.
1888—Cuba; 1,000 lives lost.
1889—Apia, Samoan Islands; German and American warships wrecked and many lives lost.