EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1843, 25 August 1906, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

THE DEATH LIST. PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT

London, August 23. Advices at Vaiparaiso siato that the first shook lasted four and a half minutes. Between two thousand and throe thou* sand people were killed. Fires are still raging. Several islets have i ppeercd in the bay. 8 xty thousand peoplo are homeless. Valparaiso, August 23. Telegraphs and telephones between Valparaiso and Santiago have been re-> stored. STARTLING DETAILS. IIE4.VY BAINS BET IN. j| PRESS ASSOCIATION—pCOPYRIGIIT Received 10.26 p in , August 24. Valparaiso, August 24. Dynam'tiog of the ruins at Valparaiso released a man and his wife, who had been entombed for four days.

During the shocks the Catomon copper mines oollapsed. and thirty-six people were killed, Thirty-eight out of forty telephonist at Valparaiso were k lied. When the residence of Moutt, the President elect, collapsed, his wife, fell from the baloony to the street. Thieves cut off her fingers and ears to seeuro the' jiwellery she wore. Apparently dyiDg, she was oonvoyed to a warship. Heavy rains increase the campers’ hardships.

London, Aogust 24. The London relief fund amounts to £23,265.

SHOCKS REPORTED IN IRELAND AND AUSTRALIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11.50 p.m., August 24. London, August 24. An earthquake has been experienced at Carrsgart, Donegal.

Sydney, August 24. Several shocks of earthquake have been experienced at Clarcoar, causing dishes to rattle, and creating a good deal of alarm.