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Show pun) Is DOWNJN RUINS City of 10,000 People Nei Valparaiso is Destroyed by an Earthquake. 8erloutnets of Catastrophe at 8antlJjjo Can Now Be Appreciated, as City Resembles a Camp Awful Shocks Continue. Lima, Peru According to tho latest lat-est reports received hero from tiio Fccnu of tho enrthquake, tho townf Qulllotn, situated about twonty-ftx miles from Valparaiso, and having n population of somo 10,000 peoplo, has been completely destroyed. At Limn Wednesday morning thorf was a slight shock nnd Huacho .tfas shaken by nn earthquake Tuesday. Only now can tho seriousness of the cntnstropho begin to bo appreciated. Tho greater part of tho modern houses nro unsafe for habitation nnd tho authorities au-thorities have organized n special corps to pull down tho tottering buildings build-ings in most of tho streets It Is cot safe to walk on tho pavement, owing to falling debris. w Santiago resembles n camp. TJio public squares and tho principal avenues ave-nues are crowded with peoplo sleeping In tho open. All kinds ot carriages and cabs have been requlsltloncdjto sleep In, or oven under them. Buenos A) res. Tho Naclons-wb-llshed n special dispatch from lirPcz, Bolivia, announcing that 2,000 persons lost their lives as a result of thu earthquake sharks and tires nt Vnlpa rulso, that 170 deaths from tho same causes occurred nt Llmnche, fortynt Qulllotn, thlrty-llvo ul Conchnll, cloven nt Petarda, ninety nt I.n Placlltn and six at Ln Cnlera largo parties of convicts who escaped es-caped from the prisons In Chile have been committing robberies nnd other crimes at Valparaiso, Cnsa Illnnctinnd Vina Del Mar, but Iho majority of them hao been captured and summarily sum-marily denll with. Upward of (fifty have been publicly shot, nnd thNiHe-vero thNiHe-vero action on the part ot tho nuJJ. tics Is exercising a snlutnry 'PHH" tho convicts who nro still nt wHHf All tho public bodies In 'HHHr co-operating In the relict HHHv thn sufferer from tha dlsastcrHHh gaged In .repairing tho datnagcifHHT-Inrpf datnagcifHHT-Inrpf and tho t1egrnph nmf rJHBP HF It Is reported that tho rhllcanHv rrnmrnt will Introduce a bill InHfc grrss providing for the remlssloHJt 180,000,000 In paper note. Tho HR-ect HR-ect also pro-Kites n now national Mn to enable Iho government to meetTnll emergencies. ' |