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Show CHILE VISITED BY i tAHTHOIJAKE Shakes Down Many Buildings in Valparaiso, Causing Fearful Loss of Life One Hundred Thouiand People Are Homeless, Sixty Per Cent of the City Being Completely De stroyed Death Roll Is Heavy. Vnlpalralso, Chile. At 7fj2 p. m Thursday. August 10. this city was visited by an mrthqunko of great severity, se-verity, and during that night eighty-two eighty-two shocks were felt. Most of the buildings of the city are either burned or damaged Th" lo will be enormous, probably renehlng $250,000,000 Two thousand perbons killed Is considered to be a fair estimate esti-mate of the casualties Vlena del Mar, three miles from Valparaiso Val-paraiso and hnvlng a population of over 10.000; Qulrlhti, 22! miles to tho southward with a population of 2C.000; Santa Llmnche, fifteen miles to the northwest with a population of 0,600; Qulllota, twenty-five miles to the northwest north-west with a population of 10,000, and village) all around wero destroyed. Most of tho damage was due to fire, which started Immediately oftcr the first shock. Tho whole population Is Bleeping in tho hills, tbo parks or the street. Food Is very scarce. Milk cost two Chilean dollars n liter, and It Is almost al-most Impossible to obtain meat, even nt high price). Tho railways are all destroyed. Bain, which began to fall Immediately Imme-diately nftor tho first shock, stopped nn hour afterward. Tho nlghta nro very cold and windy, nnd the people slocprag In tho open aro suffering groatly. The captain of a steamship which has arrived from San Francisco says tho situation hero Is worse- than that following the disaster at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Valparaiso Is a fortified seaport of Chile, and tho most important commercial com-mercial town of tho western coast of South America. It haa a population of about 150,000. It Is the capital ot the province of that name and It sit uated on a largo bay In the Pacific ocean teventy-flvo miles wett-north west of Santiago, with which It la connected con-nected by rail. Tho bay ot Valparaiso, which Is woll sheltered on throe sides, Is bounded by ranges of hills rising to from 1.C00 to 1,700 feet high, on Uie slopes of which a considerable portion ot the city of Valparaiso Is built. On tie south side of tho bay aro the spacious suburbs of Nuevo, Malecon and Grnn Avenlda, from which pass la cut ono of the finest of thoroughfares of Vnl parnlso the Avenlda de lat Dellclas, Tho lowor central section of tbo city la constituted by tho Almendral, having hav-ing regular nnd nttroctlve streets and containing tho principal business houses, tho Plain Victoria and the National theatre. To tho northwest of this section, In the quarter of tho city known as tho Puerto (or port), In which are sllunted the greater number of public buildings nnd tho vast warehouses which lino tho quays and docks. In this portion i -1 rrnn- of the city, however, narrow and crooked streets aro still a fenturo, but J tho newer sections of Valparaiso havo J an nttractlvc, modern nppearanco, tho K buildings In tho business quarter be J Ing massively built. J The port of Valparaiso is the ter- I minus of many Important lines ot M steamers for Kuropo by way of the flj straits of Magellan and Panama, and m Is the center of the South American. coasting serviccB, K It contains n numerous foreign ool- S ony, composed chiefly of British, Ger K man nnd French merchants, There la a custom house wharf alongside of B which a steamer of any tonnage can l! moor, but most of the loading It dons Hf by lighters from a quay surrounding B the (own. The harbor Is defendodbf K modern, well mounted batteries. Be- K vcru Btormn nnd n tidal wavo at Val- Ml pnrnlso, Juno 30, 1899, wrecked tho m railroad and did grcnt damago to tho K city. K |