Show CHILE VISITED BY AN EARTHQUAKE Shakes Down Many Buildings in Valparaiso Causing Fearful Loss of Life One Hundred Thousand People Are Homeless Sixty Per Cent of the City Being Completely Destroyed De-stroyed Death Roll Is Heavy Valpalralso ChlleAt 752 p m Thursday August 10 this city was visited by an earthquake of great so Vorlty and during that night eighty two shocks wero felt Most of the buildings of tho city aro either burned or damaged The loss will bo enormous probably reaching 1250000000 Two thousand persons killed Is considered to be n fair estimate esti-mate of the casualties Vlena del Mar threo miles from Valparaiso Val-paraiso and having a population of over 10000 Qulrlhu 225 miles to tho southward with a population of 25000 Santa Llmache fifteen miles to the lortlnvcst with a population of 0500 Qulllota twentylive miles to tho rrth west with a population of 10000 and vlllagos all around were destroyed Most of tho damage was duo to fire which started Immediately after the first shock The wholo population Is looping in tho hills the parka or the streets Food Is very scarce Milk cost two Chilean dollars a liter and It Is almost al-most Impossible to obtain meat oven at high prices Tho railways are all destroyed Rain which began to fall immediately imme-diately after the first shock stopped an hour afterward Tho nights are very cold and windy and the people sleeping In the open aro suffering iroatly The captain of a steamship which has arrived from San Francisco says the 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 has a population of about 150000 Itis tho capital ot tho province of that name and Is situated sit-uated on a largo bay In tho Pacific ocean seventyfive miles westnorth west ot Santiago with which It Is connected con-nected by rail The bay of Valparaiso which Is well sheltered on throe sides Is bounded by ranges of hills rising to from 1600 to 1700 feet high on the slopes of which a considerable portion of the city of Valparaiso is built On the south side of the bay are the spacious suburbs of Nuevo Malecon and Gran Avcnlda from which pass Is cut one of the finest of thoroughfares of Val paralJKt o Avonlda de las Dollclas ThoMlbr central section of the city Is cqnSt uted by tho Almendral haying hay-ing regular and attractive streets and containing the principal business houses the Plaza Victoria and the National theatre To the northwest of this section In the quarter of the city known as tho Puerto or port In which are situated the greater number of public buildings and tho vast warehouses which line the quays and docks In this portion of the city however narrow and crooked streets ore still a feature but the newer sections of Valparaiso have an attractive modern appearance the buildings In tho business quarter bong bo-ng massively built Tho port of Valparaiso Is tho terminus ter-minus of many Important lines of steamers for Europe by way of tho straits of Magellan and Panama ands Is the center of the South Amorlcan coasting services It contains a numerous foreign colony col-ony composed chiefly of British Gorman Gor-man and French merchants There la I t 1 i custom houso wharf alongside ot i which a steamer of any tonnage can moor but most of tho loading Is don h by lighters trom a quay surrounding tho town The harbor Is defended by 1 modern well mounted batteries So yore storms and a tidal wave at Valparaiso j Val-paraiso Juno 30 1899 wrecked the railroad and did groat damage to the city |