THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN MANILLA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 239, 30 November 1880, Page 4

THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN MANILLA.

1 "'*"""'. " " . " \Japan, f Gqzette.'\ ! 1 $ujsh^~^asieuja£9 >in (connection ■ witn the series , of llerxible. ewthquakas • wmch'laid Manilla m rums last July 1 r con^nu% } t/a;,,ieach-7 >jf?"O¥"i r \ \. ' >$QQrqess •:^ From •;? Spanish t papers -^re., ; lleata several things^\»hidh t '<Sa'ntft»t r ftil '■ be ijf^g^ilera^ interest. " iJ DP lappears 1 that at the time of the great shock ( n |„ „the- rlßtb,iifc, V«s ebb tide,iand/tb« viot 'i iin otbe ? rivers suddenly..' rose ttbree- arid {'. Ja-halffeeti anH almostas suddehly fcjir. L again.-' .ifHbusands. pf fipH' were 'found ', iyin^ bii tH© surface of the wa£er e in the ■ bayr-dead. The severest shoc k eeeme|d -: to have been felt over the whole islarid 1 of Luzon — about four hundred mil^s 1 north and south and two hundred miles l east and weiit-eindi.from observations ' taken it seems that the difference in tbje 'n 4imeibetween the, extrepe" points^ w|s i' abfc more 'than tin minutesl The onW large church tbatjdoeß not appear to I- have suffered is that 9i r St. Y^onc^go, \ !b^tijt oi vyood;i $lleC\ j q 3s}W _ _____—— - - ■ — ■ — . 1

shriek ;„ .and. _ihe. jmly.\ houses - which have escaped are." those built; I of jgpod and coVfj^ii witlj, cbrrugajted iron, the? rojpfs "\-\hf which rest jon vppodenv pillars ,siin)i: into the gfcoutid. The effect of the earthquake on houses thus built appears to have been much less severe than on houses built! of heavier materials, the articles of furnir ture having scarcely been moved. ' A singular tfact" ia. that .'some I6f the he^vy stone buildings* have hid their walls broken close off-wiiH the i?Btri;h, which will necessitate their;beii)g fulled down, though- they aye not $ other respects injured. As in the severe earthquake of ' 1868", heavy rainsT fell a few days after the shock: on the 18th. It jaas been calculated that, the top of a building thirty feet from the ground was thrown five feet put of its perpendicular, and one of the towers of the cathedral oscillated over twenty feet It is said that in one of the provinces the native houses, which, are built of bamboo and thatch, were sent flying that canoes were thrown ont of : the water, and the growing rice torn out of the ground. The earth sank in many places, the bed of one river Birik..irig, quite six feet. Great- chasms, - tjen to twelve feet wide and of immetise depth, were rent in the earth. Some of the large wooden, pillars of the cfiurch, which was in course of erection, ,wer« ; thrown, down : , others 1 were buried a depth of ten feet. ■ :