NEWS STILL FRAGMENTARY.
LATEST. CABLE NEWS. C.VITED PRE-S ASSOCIATION —IST BLECTBZC TELEGaAI' J.— COPYRIGHT. i
FEARED Loo 3 OF LIFE UNDERESTIMATED, THE VALPARAISO LOSSES. ESTIMATED FIFTY MILLIONS BTERLINC. HUCE EARTH FISSURES. Received 21st, i2.!3 a.m. LONDON, August 20.
News fro;a Chili is fragmentary. I 1 is feared the loss of life in the towns b.'tween Ike coast and the Andes wil exceed the Va'pa-aiso unconfirmeci estimate.
Valpariso declares the loss to property in Va'pariso is probably fifty millions sterling. The military are impressing laborers and others in the rescue work. There arc rents one hundred feet wide and fifty deep in the country.
SHORTAGE OF DRINKINC WATER. A MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. LOSS OF LIFE MINIMISED. Received 21 st, 12.13 a ' m - LONDON, August 20. King Edward was much distressed it the calamity. Beuter's correspondent at Santiago m a message on Snaday, slates thn the bursting of the mains fio dec Valparaiso, aud there was now a lack >i drinking water. The latest arrivals thence minimis! the loss to a hundred lives.
EFFECT ON COAL TRADE. PROBABLE DIVERSION OF VESSELS. Received 21st, 12.22 a.m. SYDNEY, August 20. It is believed at Newcastle that thi disaster will have an important effect on the coal trade with South America There are at present fifteen steamer; and sailers waiLing coal cargoes foi West Coast ports, and it is likely some will have their destinies changed.
SYDNEY SEISMOCRAPH RECORDS.
Received 21st, 12.22 a.m. SYDNEY, August 20.
The seismograph at the Observatory recorded a shock at 10.36 on Friday morning, with a maximum amplitude of fonrtecn millimetres. The shock 'asted four minutes. At 5.15 Saturday evening a second shock was recorded, lasting twenty minutes, but not so powerful as the first.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8182, 21 August 1906, Page 3
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285NEWS STILL FRAGMENTARY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8182, 21 August 1906, Page 3
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