EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1840, 22 August 1906, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

FATE OF PRISONERS.

TRUSS ASSOCIATION'—CorYKIUUT London, August 20. P.isonors at Santiago gaol worn tinging a hymn when tbo oattequaka shook occurred. A wall feb, burying ono hundred and forty of them. Porfcct ordar now prevails at Valparaiso owing to tho ptesenco of troops. Mililaty ambulanoos aro oollcciing the 1 injured. Groat darkuoas was experienced after tho first 6hock. Many thought the end of tho world had oomo, Several sufforingfrom weak hearts died from fright. Tho Chilian Legation in London has rrcoived an official telegram which miniarses tho amount of damage and number of deaths. Private telegrams sfcato that heavy damage at Valparaiso was confinod to tho oastorn section of tho town, composed of second-class roßidcccos.

Berlin, August 20. Tho seismograph at Hamburg showed a gcoa'or and more prolonged disturbance than during tho 'Frieco earthquake. Melbourne, August 21,

Tho seismograph at tbo Observatory recorded a sorios of shocks, ranging for three hours twenty-eight minutes on Friday morning. Too severest was registered from II 85 to 11.40.

TRUSS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night. Earthquake shocks, believed to bo connected with those which caused so much damage at Valparaiso, have boon recorded by tho Government seismograph ip Wellington,

200,000 HOMELESS CHILIANS,

SHOCKB FELT AT MARTINIQUE,

TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received II p.m., August 21, London, August 21. A great part of Wiaadolmar has been burnt It is reported that Atiea inß been destroyed. A correspondent who rode from Santiago to Valparaiso estimated that two hundred thousand Cbiiian3 were homeless. Tho ruin is universal, It is impossible yot to estimate the number of fatalities. . An eeonomio crisis is imminent. Some railways have ro opened sections. Subscriptions for tho suffsie s have been opened in Loudon. Shocks wero felt at Martinique on Sunday and yestorday.