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Show Reports Received From Yari- !V:H ous Sources Are Not in Haiv ;w ) mony; All Are Bad. irH ESTIMATES OF THE DEAD : j H STILL VARY GREATLY 4 Government Is Now Taking ' ' Steps Taken for Organized , of the Refugees. 1 The earthquakes in Chile I have ceased, the resultant fires have been extinguished, and people of the two cities, Valparaiso and Santiago, are jM taking organized steps to 1. , relieve suffering, care for J wounded and bury the dead. ' The neriod of succor has en- , tereiL ; I Dispatches received from 1 Chile today tend to show that . the first estimates of casual- ! j ties and material damage 11 had been greatly exagger- j ated and that the people of j Valparaiso are becoming calmer. The fear of further shocks has been removed by ! a statement issued from the ! observatory, and today it be- j came possible for the first ; time to organize relief work j and begin a systematic j search of the ruins for the ! dead. Santiago is coming to tlie 1 rescue of her suffering sis- j 'M ter. Public subscriptions have been opened for money, ) clothing and provisions, and the capital is caring for all ; refugees from Valparaiso j' fl who make their way across i the mountains. j The Government is putting r down pillage wherever it breaks out. with troops. It is still impossible to reach any correct estimate of the dead and injured. The t 1 reports from Chile are most i conflicting. A large section ; of the country, however, was visited by the catastrophe of last Thursday, and cabled es- 1 timates of casualties refer in ! some instances to particular imm localities, notably Valpar- i aiso, and in others evidently , to the entire district which ; suffered from the shock. Tho number of dead in Valpar- k aiso doubtless will run into ,,; the hundreds, an'd for the en- : ; tire country probably into ' thousands. The property V damage is estimated at from ; $200,000,000 to $300,000,- u 000. 'r- NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Startling but '( !, MM conflicting reports regarding the fatali- tics and monetary losses attendant upon tho seismic disturbances in Chile on August .16 nnd 17 continue to reach ( this citj". Details from Valparaiso di- ((S root are still meager and aro confusing. From Santiago, whero the stories of ' refugees from tho stricken city aro ') heard and compared by a less excited '. ' populace, come moro consorvativo esti- F1 mates Of the dovastation wrought. Tho latest news this morning is con- ts tained in a cablo dispatch to tho Asso- cialed Press from Santiago. Tho corre- ! H spondeut estimates tho doad at Yal- . I, H paraiso at 500. The money loss amounts 'H to millions. The steam railroads and street, lines remain tied up, while tole- J graph and telephone service i3 para- i )y""i- . Mm The known dead in Santiago number twenty. Tho wife of Admiral Mont, I1 jH who was reported killed, is not dead. J but is seriously injured. It is expected f, MM that tho street traffic lighting sys- terns in Santiago will bo restored to- ' m Cable dispatches from South Amorica i priuted in the morning pspers hero, .i'ti under yesterday 's date, intrude tho fol- Mmm lowing': ' n MmM Panic Is Subsiding. M- IH "Lima, Porn, Aug. 19. The latest i MmM news from Val paraiso is to tho effect M sl that tho panic is subsiding. Tho man- i j H t mm 1 1 lil Ision of Jrt Edwards is about tho only building remaining on Victoria street. "It is estimated that tho number of dead in Valparaiso will ronch 1000. Tho , dead in other places aro: "At Qnilloia, 30; Limaeho, 170; and Petorcia, 31. , "Among, tho killed at Valparaiso i wero tho director of tho Lycoum, Charles Hosselan, and family." , "Buenos Avrcs. Aug. 20. 'Tho cut off in tho Santiago telegraph lino has been repaired and hundreds of private pri-vate messages have been received. They report everything in a satisfactory con-i con-i dition (hero and say tho peoplo aro not I alarmed. "Refugees who are arriving at Santiago Santi-ago from Valparaiso on horseback, and who left there during tho worst panic, ' bring wild stories concerning the nuin- ber of deaths by tho earthquake and i fire. These refugees say the deaths i number 10,000, and that there arc u'O.- i 000 refugees in the mountains. Many Have Gone Mad. , "A reign of terror prevails and there 1 are horrifying scenes in all parts of tho oity. The squares are full of pooplo who have been driven from their homes, i Thousands arc praying in the streets and, many have gono mad. j "The only name yet given of any of the dead is that of Senator Frederic j Varela, a prominent leader of tho Radical Radi-cal nartv. I Ictii party. "Only one smnll section of the port works .vas saved. The buildings of f the Chile and Tarapaca bank and the newspaper El Tertiero aro known to havo been destroyed. The report aoems to be confirmed, also, that tho Custom-house has been destroyed. I . "Tho Government has declared an indefinite period of mourning. "One rumor, which is not confirmed and is believed to bo untrue, is that tho dead number 11,000 and the injured in-jured GOjOOO. J 'Public relief subscriptions were ; opened in Buenos Ayres today. The Jockey club gave 30,000 pesos. Tho 1 Argentine Republic will pass an appro- i priaticm, for the relief of the suffer ers. ' ' I Dynamite Checked names. 1 "Bio de Janeiro, Aug. 19. The free , use' of dynamite, according to dis- , patches received here, was very effec- ive against the progress of the fire I at Valparaiso. The firemen were thor- ! oughly exhausted when the flames ' were finally subdued. Hundreds of I persons took refuge on the ships in the j harbor. ""It is stated that a new danger is i threatened by the volcano Wonin, which has become very active." There are indications from the reports re-ports received that the earthquake i caused great damage throughout the Andean recion. It is nrobablc that I there has been considerable loss of life and destruction of property at ( remote points which have not yet 'been heard from. All of Chile was appar-1 appar-1 ently affected by the shocks, as well as numerous points in Argentina in the vicinity of the Andes. "Paris. Aug. 19. A dispatch from 1 Buenos Ayre3 confirms the reports of i the destruction of Valparaiso. It savs 11.000 persons perished. The fire that i followed the earthquake prevented the rescue of the victims. The Hotel In-i In-i gles collapsed, burj-iug all its occu pants." A cable dispatch to the Herald from i Lima, August 19, sa3s: , "A subscription has been started at Iquique and will be started at Guaya-I Guaya-I quil and Lima for the victims of the earthquake in Chile. Among the vic tims at Valparaiso arc Rector Lyoclo, 1 Charles Hossellan and family, Deputy Ramon Leon Silva. Enrique Blanco and I Robert Courts and faniil'." |