THE CHILIAN EARTHQUAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8182, 21 August 1906, Page 3

THE CHILIAN EARTHQUAKE.

BUSINESS RESUMED AT VALPARAISO. DISTURBANCES ELSEWHERE, THE SHAKE AT SANTIACO. SEVEREST IN LIVINC MEMORY. FIRES SPREAOINC AT VALPARAISO.

London, August 19. Private messages received in London state that business has been resumed in Valparaiso, the fires being subdued.

Tbo nitrate grounds are undamaged. Beuter states that the shocks at Santiago, beginning at 8 o'clock on Thursday, were the severest in living memory.

THany houses fell, and the streets were filled with hysterical people wailing and praying. The electric light,failed.

Firebclls were ringing throughout the city.

It is rrportcxl (bat Quillota, Simache, and other small towns have bein destroyed.

The chief shock a t Santiago lastci three and a half minutes.

Several [wrtons were killed. The firemen promptly extinguished several fires. Heavy showing of rain followed the earthquake.

Hall the population spent the night in the streets. Disturbances were felt at Tacna. Loud subterranean rumblings were heard at Serena.

Slight shocks wore felt at Jamaica and St. Lucia.

A tidal wave, five feet high, was experienced at Hawaii.

Tho seismograph at the Islu of Wight recorded the earthquake twelve minutes after it commenced at Valparaiso.

Further shocks were ex[>erienced on the Chilian side of the Andes on Friday evening. Mounted messengers from Valparaiso are arriving at Quil'ota. It is estimated thixt live hundred persons were killed at Valparaiso. Falling walls killed many and injured hundreds.

A number of pillagers were shot. Every bridge and tunnel on th; Andes has been wrecked.

Thirty persons perished at Santiago. Tho damage is estimated at two million dollars.

Los Angeles is almost totally destroyed. The New York Herald's Valparaiso correspondent on Saturday wired thut the dead and injured here will number thousands.

ITost of the damage was done on Friday, the worst shocks being in the morning.

The panic was appalling. The firo is still spreading through lack of watef.

CAUSE OF THE DISTURBANCE. ERUPTION IN THE ANDES. • WIDE ZONE AFFECTED. Received 20th, 0.37 P-m. LONDON, August 20.

The eruption of a volcino near - Junen Delos, in the Andes, is supposed to be the cause of the earthquake. which spread over a zone of nearly t vo degrees.

DAMACE TO PUBLIC BUILDIMCS.

HEARTREHDINC SCENES IN t' CAOLB AND HOSPITALS. 1 r, VILLACES IN RUINS. Received 20th, «j-37 P m - LONDON, August :o. The Parliament buildings, Town Hall and tha President's residence at Santiago were bally shaken. Heart rending scenes occurred in the hospitals and gaols. The prisoners made a wild rush to escape. The warders fired in the air in order to drive them back. I The villages of Flailla'', Casablanca, f j Quillota, Yindelniar, loclipilla, Sm- a tntonia, Quilpue, Ranea-jua. II! opet, (l Valtenar and San Felipe arc in ruins. CREAT OAMACE AT VALPA- t RAISO. t WHOLE STREETS DISAPPEAR. COLLAPSE OF LARCE BUILOINCS. MANY PROMINENT RESIDENTS KILLED. FREBH OUTBREAKS OF FIRE. Received 20th. Q. 37 p.m. j LONDON, Außust 20. Most of tV damage at A alparaiso is , in the centre, where whole streets have ] disappeared. I The arsenal, nival s-rhool, customs ( naval offices and several binks collapsed. The dead include many prom'aent residents. Eight were kills 1 and many injured at Talka. Several fatalities a-c reported from Eengo and Sin Fernando. The shocks continued ou Saturday. Numbers at Yalpanso reused in vessels' holds. Numerous fires have broken out in the Almandral quarter. VALPARAISO'S DEATH ROLL. TWO THOUSAND KILLED. REFUGEES SUFFERINC n» CREATLY. CONDITIONS WORSE THAN AT 'FRISCO. ACTIVE RELIEF MEASURES. Received 2..1b. -,..: 7 p.m. LONDON. Many firemen from Santigo have pone to Valparaiso. New York advices stale there were e ; :;lily-two shocks on Thursday niglit .it Valparaiso. Twn thousand is considered a fair estimate of til" dead Food is scarce, and the niahls are cold and windy, addinz grc.tly to the peoples' sufferings. Tlie conditions are worse than at San Franei-eo. Belief measure; are being actively taken. Money intended for festivals thronghon' Chili, in honor of the election of Pedro Montt as Presidentelect, is being used as the nucleus of ti» fundi,