Show UlllOTA GOES DOWN IN RUINS City of 10000 People Near Valparaiso is Destroyed by an Earthquake Seriousness of Catastrophe at Santiago Can Now Be Appreciated as City Resembles a CampAwful Shocks Continue Lima Peru According to the latest lat-est reports received here from the scene of the earthquake tho town of Qulllota situated about twentysix miles from Valparaiso and having a population of some 10000 people has been completely destroyed At Lima Wednesday morning there was a slight shock and lIuacho was shaken by an earthquake Tuesday Only now can the seriousness of the catastrophe begin to be appreciated The greater part of the modern houses are unsafe for habitation and the authorities au-thorities have organized a special corps to pull down the tottering buildings build-ings In most of the streets It Is not safe to walk on tho pavement owing to falling debris Santiago resembles a camp Tho public squares and tho principal avenues ave-nues are crowded with people sleeping In the open All kinds of carriages and cabs have been requisitioned to Bleep in or even under them Buenos Ayres The Nacton published pub-lished a special dispatch from La Pez Bolivia announcing that 2000 persons lost their lives as a result of the I earthquake shocks and tires at Valparaiso i Valpa-raiso that 170 deaths from the same causes occurred at Llmache forty at Qiilllotti thirtyfive at Conchall eleven at Petarda ninety at La Placllla and six at La Calera Largo parties of convicts who escaped es-caped from the prisons In Chile have been committing robberies and other crimes at Valparaiso Casa Blanco and Vina Del Mar but tho majority of them have been captured and summarily sum-marily dealt with Upward of fifty have been publicly shot and this severe se-vere action on the part of the authorities authori-ties Is exercising a salutary effect on tho convicts who are still at large All the public bodies In Chile are cooperating In 6the relief work and the sufferers from thedlsaster are engaged en-gaged In repairing the damaged buildings build-ings and the telegraph and railway lines It Is reported that tho Chilean government gov-ernment will Introduce a bill In congress con-gress providing for the remission of 80000000 In paper notes Tho project proj-ect also proposes a new national loan to enable the government to meet all emergencies |