"there started" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "There started an ever-growing buzz about the new restaurant in town."
Newspapers and bloggers there started covering Kevin's story.
His brother's death there started a destructive pattern.
Job losses there started last year, also because of El Niño.
Options for employment were limited, however, and before long placements there started again, she recalls.
Ms. Lau, who is from London and is based there, started Style Bubble in 2006.
To beat the approach of winter in Tibet, the census there started in September.
Then I noticed that there started to be three generations coming, twentysomethings as well.
He went back there, started drawing and painting what he saw and the result was "Lentil".
Similarly, the Israeli soldiers there started the day with obvious orders to use their fire sparingly, Palestinian witnesses said.
President Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, had deployed the military to protect the city when the protests there started three weeks ago.
