THE EARTHQUAKE IN CHILI.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8220, 25 August 1906, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKE IN CHILI.

SIXTY THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS.

FIRES STJLL RAGING AT VALPARAISO.

TERRI3LE LOSS Ob 1 LIFE.

Received August 23, 7.35 a.m. LONDON, August 23. Advices received from Valparaiso state that the first earthquake shook in that city lasted four aDd a-half minutes, and the second continued for two minutes. Between two and three thousand people wore killed, The flres in the city are still raging. . Several islets have appeared in the bay. Sixty thousand people are homeless.

COMMUNICATION RESTORED

Reoeived August 24, 8.51 a.m. Valparaiso, August 23. The telegraphs and telephones between Valparaiso and Santiago have been restored.

COPPER MINES COLLAPSE

THIRTY-SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED.

A DASTARDLY DEED.

Reoeived August 24, 10.26 p.m. VALPARAISO, August 24. Dunne the dynamiting of the ruins at Valparaiso a man and bis wife, who had been entombed for four days, were released. During the shocks ' the Katomon copper mines collapsed. Thirty seven men were killed. Thirty-eight out of 40 telephonists at Valparaiso were killed. When the residence of Senor Moutt, President-elebt, collapsed his wife fell from a balcony into the street. Thieves cut off her fingers and ears to seoure her jewellery. She was apparently dying, and was conveyed to a warship. Heavy rains have increased the hardships of the refugees.

LONDON RELIEF FUND.

Received August 24, 11.23 p.m.j LONDON, August 24. The London relief fund amounts to £23,165.