The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1906, Page 3

s Greatest Damage Is Caused by the Fire. ) L Flames Break Out Imme: diately After First Shock Occurs. THE ASSOCIAT PRESS. Capitol Cable of Fifty Gather Today Schmitz to Call Body Together to Discuss Fund for Valparaiso. has rot yet called to- ee of fifty to start ean suf- esterday have matter consideration.’ He news fromi the republic. He will prob- e call for the meeting to-| Amer} issue th Il |¥ f | il Al “ 4 ] [l Il 1| Plunged Into Darkness. Light of Flames Wel-i come Relief to Ter- rified Populace. ANTIAGO The CHILE, Aug. 19.— brought Valparaiso con- the first exag- th but catastrophe Senor Groz, one latest in here from at the heavy relat st of the ond shock into ter- d of the world had ldings destroyed were eater, the Bella Vista 2 ae mage re- a large part of ria street were blocked the not ex- best esti- rse dead is the wife en refuge there, on of the city where are customs-house. and the City Hall s not seridusly damaged. A large rity of the houses are not fit for bitation. The storehouses of the toms-house are -almost totally de- water pi r were roken and the rrough \e streets. There is &ven lack of water arinking purposes. Pro- visions are lacking and hunger is be- ng to make itself felt. ernment has ordered its war- at Talcahuano to bring yaraiso the most needed life ships statie Rt - pe of Valparaiso are uttérly are awaiting the re- t way service ishment of 2 eity Fifty-Five Perish in City of Santiago! LONDON, ' Aug. 2 n a dispatch from Santiago de Chile ted August 18, the correspondent of Tribune ay Consternation reigns here All iness has been suspended. The peo- e bivouack ip the public squares It is announced officially that “fifty- five persons have been. kilied and hun- dreds wounded. Buildings in every block have been damaged. The prison- ers in the jails mutinied, but were overpowered by the troops. C Santa Lucia, a precipitous hill in the center of the city, has partly col- lapsed. The Archbishop's palace, Ministry of the Interior, the Palace of Congress, the buildings of the munici- | pality, the national library, the uni- versity and the military barracks were all severely damaged, as were several churches. The cathedral, however, . was not injured. The damage here is esti- mated at $6,000,000. The people have Seen. forbidden to enter the churches, |#he schopls or the theaters. Montt s surrounding Valparaiso suf- igh More than 60,000 ] — CEWTRAL PLATA JSANTIACO! | JQHOWING HOTE X FRANGE laws controlling the recurrence of earthquakes, Sir John continued. S X X 3 Santiago Heavy = | Loser by Shake All Public Buildings Injured and " Eight Persons Killed. % o= - ‘MoreThanOneThousand | Lives Are Lost in | th¢ Cataclysm. Continded from Page 1, Cols. 6, 7 and & ANTIAGO DE CHILB, Aug. 191t | 1s ‘known that eight lfves were in. this city. by the earth-| quake, but it is_believed that| many pergons/ weré killed by the fall- buildings and that their bodies will lost of Chile re- | discovered. later. Several persons| Neéws from the south became so panio-stricken during the |ports severe shocks at Talcahuano. tremblings of the earth that they threw Concepcion and Taica, but the damage themselves from the balconies. of their | in these places was not great. No| homes and were killed. The fires which | news has been received from Santiago. followed the earthquake in. this city |although a eourler is expected soon. ere promptly extinguished, but while | All communication been destroyed T D e adaoa teetitly to the and the rallroads have suffered great terror of the people < = loss by the destr of tunnels and Y 5 bridges. The only wire working is the As all telegraph and telephone lines were moré or less damaged the exact sitvation. throughout the country is not t known, but advices have been re- ceived to the effect that the towns ‘of Virlage and Casa Blanca were entirely destroyed, and that San Felipe, Rad- cagua, Milpilla and Llaillai were se- verely damaged. At Concepcion the shocks were ‘severe and_a number of persons were killed or “injured. The towns of Rengo, San Fernando, Quil- lotta and San Antonio and many Vvil- subterranean and sea cable of the Cen- tral’ and South American '~ 'Company, which marvelously escaped unhurt. There were few casualgies among the foreigners. Foreigners Escape With Little Injury. Gables Tolling: ok*the Safety -of| Big Firms and Employes Reach Lfll'ld()fl. : i LONDON, Aug. 20.—Most of the pri- |vate dispatches received in Londoh conf- | |cerning the disaster in Chile give the,| impression that the lages are in ruins. ‘All railway service in the i either interrupted delayed and com- practically at a standstill city. of Santidgge much damage was done. Many public bulldings, par- | ticularly churches, were idsmantled The buildings of Congress, the munici- | pal buildings, the Nermal Schodl, the courts, the: Peruvian Legation, the re: idence of President Reisco, the Cen tral Market, thé Prefecture of Police central zone ¢ or greatly » ati hquake ‘was anc ‘the national telegraph office all eart re i od. The lines of less serious than at ~first reported. were seriously damag: THey are, however, all very brief and the glectric tramway system and elec- | tric light wires were short circuited;| Mostly of a personal nature. The Chilean legation has reeefved no i et car trafie and rl-g’<nrr'l:‘!)r!insp ;::";’nmfd”kn‘;“: official advices, but over a scare of tele- |2 n{ Scenes at the hospitals ama Srams from residents of Valparaiso and Santiago have reached the *legation Do A e fame.. The prleefers | (hrough friends of officials living In hiea 15 ‘eschpe from the jalls in tite|London. All these ere cheerful In tone hepe that they might reach.a placs’or | 2nd Indicate ‘that the loss of life was leste and prison guards were obligea | POt as serious as the initial reports pei |indicate. to ¢ into the air in order to Intimi- = The, same may be said of dispatches | e quiet. their panic-strickén| . .iveq by business houses, though in X A {some cases. they give serlous reports. Voo L Hies O, sadane the |Dusiness” staffs ol foralgn firms are | safe-and that the companies’ buildings | are not much damaged. This is partly explained in a dispatch to Foelsch & Co. of Hamburg, which says: | “Barthquake and fire was confined practically to Valparaiso. Damage to state of public alarm ‘and a staté "of | panic still prevails. The astronomical observatory, has given out & statement to.the effect that/ it dees not appear | possible that there will be a repetition of the seyere shocks, Last night many persons slept in.the tramway cars, in carriages and in the open air in the public squares and inthe streete. The Government has -taken steps :to .restore | order. An inspéction of all houses left | standing has boen ‘ordered gnd ditee- | tions have beén issued for the distribu- tion of relief supplies to those in need. | A troop of cavalry has-bcen sent to re- | establish communieation "{llh Valpa- raiso. i The alarm'nz news first received by the Government from Valparaiso: as to the sitnation in that cfty.bas not heer | confirmed, but it is known#numerous:| buildings in the vicinity of the port were destroyed hnd ‘thatithere have been severe fires. in- the. Almendral | quartér. The Mayor of Valparaiso Sent ¢ all European houses will prove slight, as the properties for the most part are located in the harbor quarter.” The Valparaiso Electric Tramways Company has reported to Berlin that its water-power plant® rolling stock and | tracks were not damaged, but that the | repair shops, reserve station, wires and Iighting system were more | or less seriously damaged. ;i The Norde Deutsche Bink of Ham- | burg has received the folfowing dis- patch from Valparaiso: @ “All- well. Inform ‘families. Bank buildings in fair ordert Many houses destroved by fii Telegrams = réceived by steamship s o came here by expréss train tells that I the | word that he did not know.the number | when the train was near Las Vegas, | of killed and wounded. but lie believed | about half way between Valparaiso and:| they were numerous. . Eiremen left San- Santiago, the cars were shaken yiolent- | tiago yesterday for Valparaiso to aid | ly and the enging nearly left the track. in extinguishing-the-fires there, - The A stop was made and the terrified pas- customs-house in,Vaipdraiso. is report- | sengers alighted. Later they proceeded | ed to be burning. 5 | to Llaillai, which they found i almost Several travelers who have just ar- | total ruins. < rived here from Valparaiso say thatre-| All'lines of railway to the north and | ports of the situation in that eity were the iiné to Tacla are greatly damaged. exaggerated.. “An employe of the tele- | In ‘the gity of Santiago a majority of | graph service, sent word from Salto, | the yictims of the disaster were resi-| near Valparaiso, confirining the news of | dents of the poorer sections of the city, | the serious Mres in the Almendral quar- | where many small houses ware thrown | ter. This employe also sent hews th 5 to the ground. Several deaths from ner- | the Spanish Italian .was destro; Jvoul.excn.enunl and heart disease are fby the earthquake.. A travéler. who. reported. - A cable from the Valparaiso corre- spondent of the Daily Mail, without date, says: “Sixty per cent of this city has been completely destroyed. is very heavy, 3 There were eighty-two companies show that the shipping in Chilean waters is safe. According to a dispatch sent out by a news agency here, ernment has received a message from the Consul General at Valparaiso fully confirming the reports of great losses to life and property. Sir Joseph. Norman Lockyear, direc- tor of the Solar Physics Observatory, Kensington, was a remarkable fact that the earth- quakes at San Franeisco paraiso synchronized with a sun spots maximum, and that in 1894, when there were many. same conditions obtained. vet fully - 'shocks during Thursday night and The tremors still continue. One hun- dred thousand people are homeless and destitute. Water is giving out” Sur- rounding towns have been destroyed and the railroad has been cut.” ROME, Aug. 19.—The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has telegraphed the Italian Minister at Santiago, Chile, in- structing him to express Italy’'s sym- pathy witu Chile for the earthquake disaster and also requesting the Minis- ter to send detailed information con- cerning the catastrophe. The Foreign Office is in receipt of a dispatch from the Consulate at Valpa- raiso saying that the destruction of there “was considerable and the British Gov- in an interview said it and Val- serious earthquakes, the It was not known whether there werel The death roll| there have been 300 more since then.| | Reports_fieceived From the South Confusing. Late Advices Indicate First ‘Messages Are Exaggerated. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. EW YORK. Aug. 19.—There con- tinues confusion of statements as fp the magnitude of the disaster to Valparaiso caused by the | earthquake shocks which began om ‘Thursday. August 16, and continued at | frequent intervals throughout that and the next two days. Dispatches from Valparaiso to the Associated Press received last evening state that a moderate estimate of the fatalities is 2000 and that the property |loss may be as high as $250.000,000, which latter is as great as the loss sustained by San Francisco in conse- quence of the earthquake and fire which devastated that city last April. A refugee who has arrived at Santi- | ago places the known dead at 100 and other messages indicate that the first reports of damage and casualties were greatly exaggerated. Dispatches to the State Department at Washington place the fatalities at about 300. These conflicting state- ments cannot at this time be adjusted. It is evident that evem yet confusion and panic prevail at .alparaiso and until order is restored it will be im- | possible to ascertain with accuracy the | loss of life and property. The dwellings in the city haye beem | practically abandoned by the inhabit- | ants, who are existing as best they can in the plazas and streets of the | city and the hills adjacent to it with- out shelter from storm and sun, and famine confronting them. Food is al- | ready scarce and high, water for drink- Ing purposes is lacking and disease i feared. The Government is doing all | to bring in relief. it can The crippling of t! rallroads into Valparaiso constitutes a | serfous factor in the situation, as for | an indefini_e period rellef suppiies can only be ordered through other means | of transportation, the seaboard offering the best of these. | At Santiago many of the best public and private buildings were wrecked. | The loss of life there was augmented by the panic which seized the people, many of whom rew themselves from | the balconies of their homes. . 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