THE EARTHQUAKES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1839, 21 August 1906, Page 2

THE EARTHQUAKES.

FURTHER DETAILS,

ERUPTION

I’RESS ASSOCIATION COI’YRKJifT Received 12.22 a.m., August 21.

T , . Sydney, Aug ist 20. lets believed at Newcastle that the disaster will haye an important effeot on the coal trade with South Amerioa, There are at present fifteen eteamers and sailors awaiting ooal cargoes for wsst ooast ports. It is likely that some will have their destinatione changed.

SYDNEY RECORDS.

RKESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received 12 22 a.m., August 21

. Sydney, August 20. Iho seismograph at the Observatory recorded a shock at thirty minutes past six on Friday morning The maximum amplitude was fourteen millimetres. The shock lasted four minutes. At 5.15 on baturday evening a second shock was reoorded, lasting twenty minutes, but was not so powerful as tha first.

WATER MAINS BURST AND WATER SOAROE. RENTS IOOi-r WIDE AND £orx DEEP. I'IUSSS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT Received 12 13 a.m., August 21. London, August 20. News from Chili is of a fragmentary

It is feared that the 1033 of life in the tosvns between the coast and the Andes wid exceed that of Wparaiso. An unconfirmed estimate from Valparaiso declares that the loss of property at Valparaiso will probably be fifty million sterling.

Military ore impressing laborers and others to do rescuo work.

There are rents ous hundred feet wide QDtl fifty feofe dorp in tho couitcy. His Msjiety King Edward is much distressed at tho calamity. . A Router’s correspondent nt Santiago in a moissg) on Sunday, slates that the bursting of tho mains fl :o ded Valoaraiso and now tboro is a lack of drinking water. Latest arrivals thence miniaiiso the loss to I one hundred lives.

A Modern Digestive. Ons r.f 1)-. D'gostfvo Tabl-f. .v.i. d.g., at 150 t» guns of in a . | oibci- wbi.Lsoai I Tney , lr „ genuine tonic, h ems- .hey i)n„ K about i " s “ e ivfxy a res to ation of Q*rve powor, a building up (J f ] t j s , ua BQd appetuo by the. uigrarion oc 1 assimilation of wholesome food. They can’t help but do J'O'J qood. P\>r solo by A * W. I* MANN, Agent, Chemist.

J>ItEADFUL EXJ’ERIENCES. e'-e—H CHESS ASSOCIATION —CORYRIGHT Louden, August 19. Private messages received in London stale that business lias been resumed at Valparaiso, the fires having been subdued, The nitrate grounds are undamaged. Pouter states that tbo shocks at Santiago, beginning at H o’clock on Thursday, were the severest in living memory. Many houses fall. The streets were (ilied with hysterical people, wailing and praying. The electric light failed. Firebells were ringing throughout the city. It is reported that Quillota, Siinach, and other small towns were destroyed.

The chief shock at Santiago lasted three and a half minutes. Several persons were killed. The firemen promptly extinguished several iircs. Heavy showers of rain followed the earthquake. Half the population spent the night in the streets The disturbances were felt at Taena. Loud subterranean rumblings were heard at Serena. Slight shocks were felt at

Jamaica and St. Lucia A tidal wave live feet high occurred at Hawaii.

The seismograph on the Isle of Wight recorded the earthquake twelve minutes after it commenced at Valparaiso Further shocks were experienced on tho Chilian side of the Andes on Friday evening.

Mounted mccsongcrs from Valparaiso are arriving at Quillota

It is estimated that live hundred people have been killed in Valparaiso. Falling walls killed many' and injured hundreds. A number of pillagers were shot Every bridge and tunnel on the Andes railway was wrecked.

Thirty people perished at Santiago, The damage there amounts to two million dollars.

Losandes has been almost totally destroyed.

Now York. August 19. The New York Herald's Valparaiso correspondent on Saturday telegraphed stating that the dead and injured there will number thousands. Most of the damage was done on Friday, the worst shocks occurring in the morning. The panic was appalling. The lire is still spsading, there being a lack of water.

Auckland, last night. Neither the South British, New Zealand, National, nor Standard Companies have any risks in Chili.

BUPPOSED EFFECT OF VOLCANIC

WHOLE STREETS DISAPPEAR,

I'KESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT Received 9.37 p.m., August 20. London, August 20. Aq eruption of a volcano near Junen Deles, io the Andep, is supposed to be the cause of tha eartbquako which spread over a zone of neatly two degrees, Parliament buildings, the town hall, and the President’s resideocs at Santiago woro badly shaken,

Heaittrendering scaces occurred in the hoepita's.

At the gaols the prisoners mads a wild rush to escape. Warders fired in* the air in order to drive them back.

Toe villages 0! Flaillai, Casablanca, Quillota, Viodelcnar, Melipilla, Sanantonia, Qailpue, Raneagus, lUopet, Valtenar, and San Felipe are in rums. Most of the damage in Valparaiso was done in the centre. Whole streets have disappeared. The arsenal, naval school, customs, and naval offices and seyeral banks have oollapeed.

The dead included mmy prominent residents.

Eight were killed and many injured at Talks.

Tbero were several fatalities at Rsneo and San Fernando.

The sboeks continue! on Saturday. Numbers from Valparaiso took refuge in vessels’ bolds.

There were num rous fires in Almandral quarters. EIGHTY SHOCKS IN ONE NIGHT TWO THOUSAND DEAD. PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received 9,87 p.m„ August 20, London, August 20 Mauy firemen at Santiago have gone to Valparaiso. New Yoik advices state there were 82 sbocHs on Thursday night at Valparaiso. Two thousand is considered a fa ; r estimate of the dead.

Food is scarce, and the nights cold and windy, adding greatly to tho people’s sufferings. The conditions are worse than in San Francisco.

Active relief measures are beirg taken, and monoy intended for festivals through* out Chili in honor of the election of Don Pedro Montit, the Prosident-elect, is beiog used as a nucleus.

PROBABLE EFFECT ON THE COAL TRADE.