| Show b lr ISO IS ALMOST T I IN RUINS UI Nearly Half the City Has Been Destroyed by Fire Following The Earthquake MANY PEOPLE LEFT PLACE I Holocaust Continues in Business I Quarters But It Is Decreasing Instead of Increasing I Shocks Were Followed FolIo by h I Tremor of or C In Ju I bind Is Still Unknown Hamburg Aug Au North orth Oer Ocr r 1 bank today toda received from Us cor correspondent respondent the tile Banco Danca de Chile y yAle yAler Ale Alei i r alla aa it at Valparaiso the following dt All well ell Bank Dank building only slight slightly ly y 1 damaged Many houses hous destroyed y tire fire We W lire ire unable to state stale extent f damages Hanks Banks closed Tex lex Aug IS The man manger ger gr of the cable company here reports h cable able working to Valparaiso this but Unit there Is no at lIon Ion via Ia the land laud lines tines to Santiago de do denie delie doUe nie lie Ue or Buenos Ayres ArC Sew ew York Aug l Duval DUal to Io which h does u IL L larGe largo business In Fouth Americ anti and particularly Chile received the following dis i jU as just ath from Valparaiso Tow Town n 11 nearly nearl destroyed Particulars later iter when hen shakes lIakos hak cense e Thin ri dispatch dl was timed 36 35 a am in ini i ut H It Is II not 1101 known whether It II was Ii filed nied yesterday morning or this morning New Nev ew York Aug AU and South AmerIan Telegraph reports that the tIny in Is similar to ih t which occurred In San ian cO Their manager reports that nil all of C business have been dolled closed and an the delivery deller and operating op staff start Is III much de demoralized have hare report reported moralized No n 0 messengers ed NI it for duty and deliveries can only oni be made lOaM on application to 10 the office omee people have left leU the city elt London nug IS It 36 35 I p mA rnA private able dispatch received this afternoon mm om Valparaiso says the tire fire there COil con mues In the business s quarters but Is Ining London Aug ug 18 1 ZO O p I nj Another I vale v te cable dispatch received ut at IG 15 n S i afternoon nays Ims business has ha been blen at t l lall l Aug Au to n a an all by b a bank here hero from Valparaiso half hair of the city etl from Aim iral to ralle alto aile Bella Delia ita containing and ware houses houas business i 1 I ato and nn muses has been destroyed FOLLOW New e York ork Aug 18 The earthquake shock thock severely felt throughout the re region region gion of If Valparaiso Chile Ight were werl followed by b n I t series serbs If f earth tremors that continued at lit In Interval throughout the duy dey The fhe first to 10 this effect erfet was Willi brought m t tills this lIl early carl tOOl In Ill the th As All lre dl from rl Gilves ton tol Texas where whre the thi cable bl operator oper tor dd tt been In It recent communication with Ith me 1 ia able abl operator at Valparaiso 11 1 The tier itter added that numerous buildings B Ball Mad all ad been 1011 destroyed and lId expressed the 1 Miff that In It had occur I 1 although h anything like a of the dead df ul wa was WU Imp OF 8 n series erle of quake were II I by hv h the In tIle the g 1 nt observatory 10 1 at Kii it a i pronounce hork shok k being I In timed ai at 7 7 fIlock Friday morning Thin t leport of Ine OM of or life lifo and I I IfO I in II s with 1111 advices dl es re N NId r rI I Id I tl lo II I cable and hUll busl in Jes ID here Sith 11 ih h It IL Abrain h Ill manager of ot the theW W I Coast division of If the thc South Am rt tude of or the Ihu American Trading TrAit III I paid said that his firm hail had been lieen n that a erre rf ke had bed bedi i in 1 and I th tIIt t imrU Parts of tile the Ity were Ile in iti Manager of nt f the Central mill l ll It American A n Telegraph pit com l I I fl Mid ld that he lie Ii was 11 not In a n tOsI 1011 position tion I 1 I in ti I gy out Olt the tl his hes 11 received reci ed from their iK at AI t and an other points ii long the Chilean enact rul OK oF t CITY ON IN I c van n tell lel you 0 that thai UNI there tt has h been ben restful fearful lie he II Mid I Id and stal andi MAndI i IMS of the city I are arr on fire ON What re r rt rl h hata hM received up iii II to in II date ie ti In the Ihl of ut mN t tn ii 11 irl tr tI II Individual IIII in lit II tills thin city 1 It and w we tie e eI e I 4 not nat It lo to give these t In tl 0 the thet ll l t Our there tl re are II M so 1 soT iv T and thIn the confusion lon Is II no so 0 great it at t we its cannot them to 10 make full ful ul 1 conditions there for forme me tile time to tome iK as n restored by II our or operators In II Chile ChilI ami now nw our wire Is I work wok I K g Perfectly erfe Irold Valparaiso al IIO 10 never and through the Inland die dl I 1 lets there Is II not n a wire Ir up UI No Noord ord OI has hall jet et t been bon received from Siti go o 1 Li Herll or hlll i III ie We cannot toll tol what the extent f f the Ih earthquake Is I nor at lt what time 1 will he be hl to In restore at io Wili tile tho Interior Barly today lodl the company received this UK from ron Its Il at I Valparaiso t 1111 all al business UI do e No o prospect NO of an early r of If the Ihl lines line to Santiago or rI The which In Is nl al II a closed at 11 foo Id no 10 thin t ki lant lut night It Iti night b lne I 4 Still anie through the We Wh ni lImed Ird onice as lul Manager Keen of or the lh Western Vestern Union mien office off wild said 1 early ly In Iii II the evening nothing In Inthe Ih the he way wy wa of or details of at Ibe earthquake f had i me mt through to any Al one It Many Private were r re hear Ivear Mr hll ing the single word safe Mfr rf hut but noth I ing that would wal III ghe a line on the ex u tent of thu tho disaster diluter I Karly today Irl underwriters liero i had hI no iio good 10 Information ns as to whether there I was any an all large Ir c lire Irr losses at Val nl al Tho Jim nt at I I In Iii II loon local and ao foreign corn com l None of It Is I by h 1 the American A companies and there Is II no ins of knowing here how hw heavily heMily involved In loul I any of a the Iho companies art C It Ii is 1 s of course ur thought possible that gins ome of the companies thet have tn ht e had losses 10 la at It tan Han Francisco may mat iso haw have large commitments at Val 11 al but this I is h of lr course merely merl Un WA O ew York York Aug u l Thc Herald Itral to 10 Car dr prints the following Valparaiso al I Chile yIa I GI Gal GalL l L eston veston the slightest of waring an Sit 1 earthquake vis viii visited Is lied Hed this city cl nt Rt S last night night i instant death to 10 hundreds hundres of or persons Ild leaving 1 I many lalY hundreds more Imprisoned In the ruing morl 11 many ia I of whom t hol were wee horned burned lurne to death doth before aid could rull reach roch them Fir ire started Immediately after Ur the first shock chock and an every evert branch br of or the cl service ervIce wa was wal zed Panic And an consternation on Indescribable II followed and Ind those who escaped death Ic th and Ind Injury became fren frenzied roil with wih fear and Ild could render teller little assistance to the victims The Tho hu ness section of the th city Is almost entirely destroyed and fires tire are le still raging We Wo are suffering here a 1 repetition of the horrors of oC San Fran Francisco deco cisco JEA ns IT UI 11 As night comes on the city el l Is every everywhere everywhere where aglow with unobstructed anti and clouds of at choking comko and 11 vapor settle F I It Into Inlo the streets and houses where throngs of homeless ones are lr wander wandering jog InK about abut crazed by h the awful calamity It I Is it almost Impossible to how ho wide an arM aresi of country the visita Ilta visitation lion tion has laid waste Nothing has hl been heard from Santiago the capital city Ill of Chile Chie and ald It Ix In 1 feared reAred that the fat fator fata of or that city Is as bad bd or ur worst worse vors than thal of Ut Valparaiso Telegraphic communication Is 11 cut oft off offIn of In every direction and Ind every Ier one her heN herIs heris Is too much depressed by b the calamity ut Nt home to seek k Information of of other places No o trains have han arrived In th city el or left lef It I since the first shock came AS all al of n the railroad tunnels are aro tilled filled Ile and miles mies of track on the surface are twisted and rendered useless u elc It I Ix Is I only known from general accounts account that thal death and destruction are on all sides Ide There were two tWI distinct and terrific the second one following allowing almost Instantly In after aHer th this first frt and completing ing lug the work of destruction BUILDINGS GS LIFTED AND A D OVER The day had been b n unusually calm and pleasant At 8 S the whole city t seemed suddenly to swing backward back anti and all forward and there therl came canto a sudden Jolt of such mighty might force forre that ro rOi rows 8 of buildings toppled to 10 the earth uth as lS If It I made of brittle brite plaster While hIle rows rOn of buildings went down Iowa In a few fei seconds Soon as the th second shock had subsided lub It became beame known knon that the business part of or the town was doomed From the tho Bella Vista section little Ile was heard but before midnight tires were seen sten stel burning there and It was nas learned that that section reton of the city el also ailo was wal doomed The rhe city rl stands upon a formation forma lon of granite granle gneiss which seemed scented to 10 accentuate bate the force rore of the shock shork Before IMore the tho th stunned people POPl were ver given leim time tnie to re ro realize roo alize the magnitude JIHn of ot the calamity again agall the city Il was shaken hakon with wih a vo rio vol l lence nce greater than thiat before b fore The earth Irth In iii II places lifted and pitched the buildings forward In III other places there was a terrible tremor that shook every structure structure structure ture to 10 the ground This shock con continued continued longer that than the first nr t When hell It tires Ire were blazing up and thousands of or terrified l persons on 8 were praying and panic swept tile the city et etIA MANY IA LANDSLIDES Many landslides have hare hl e occurred currell around arund the city Cut and scores of oC lives le have been lost lost At A present It I Is b cubic to 10 state Male the number of oC dead ded In Inthe Inthe Inthe the entire city but It Is 1 believed bellel there are arc several hundreds many mal of whom art are still tl In the ruins It 1 hIss has ha laid waste wale the bet best pert part of or the business of the hO oily city 01 and has ha doubtless put pu Chile Chie back baek many man years farS In iii II the th scale aral of civil civilisation The captain of the German vessel n s 1 Vian ln which arrived today at Co Coquimbo stated 1 that when 0 miles mies at sen IIa he ho could see set the tIme IRmes raging r In Valparaiso Many Man Inhabitants are ter rifled with wih fear car of o other oilier shocks hoks and nn the work of rescuing the th bodies bole Is pro proceeding et very rr slowly 1011 The hl Bella Vista I ista IR district referred to toIs Ix Is on oil 01 the Mn hl behind b the city el and III apparently suffered IUN the f same amo fate that overtook Nob ob hill bIll h In iii San Sin Fran Francisco deco cisco o NO 0 OFFICIAL NEWS General Adolfo for Chile In lii II this city el i su J the following statement regarding tas t e situation In Iii II Valparaiso V to the present nl moment we te are ar without news as to the proportions 10 of oC the earthquake which occurred In tho the of the Andes II hail had hal upon IlliOn Valparaiso The failure of corn com cm was wu due to the th iii fact that tha the telegraph lines hues which unite Chile ehle and Argentina have hae been bel cut In the t laM leras of oC the Andes and und this Is the rca rea reason r a aon son pen why h we te 0 lack noire news lell My 1 personal opinion Is lii I that the accident hiss hus hiS not reached the proportions which have be h tJ ii credited 1 to It I Special al cables receIved by h the house hou e of oC W It Grace Grac Co to by byway b byway way 1 of Limn Peru Ieru stats state Iatt that thaI their th I building nt Ht Valentino IIO IH tafe Ie and has haH not suffered FUtH the least shock Thin Titia Thil building Is In II most central part paI art of the i dt Ity and besides sl 11 It I Is I an old on one make inake makl me ate sup I that thi thih th h x lk k although has lias not hot had the thu terrible consequences n which have hA then been The central point of 01 tin thi th cataclysm must mu 1 have been h el situated In inthe th the of or from whore h r Val r o In Ii Chile and It Mendoza In Ar Argentine Argentine r gentine have hav received strong shone hilt but hl not of as 1 great proportions W It Grace A k ACo kh HI II 8 has h I beNt been be reported I race Co 0 hae h I In II Valparaiso and ud up to tH th the Ne ft time lime 11 according to their I r telegrams everyone of er them U Is I rl DAMAGE IA Im MAY MA IA 1115 HR lx Aug 1 IS 1 1 u Private telegrams II from nun South today told dd little littleto to what II ha has already ArNd teen been rallied cabled about the earthquake in Chits Chile Chil The manager of the bank Informed the that from advices hl he lie re Ic received reo Ild he hid had bd rt o In to believe that the damage done at II Valparaiso 11 1 1 was 18 not as I serious is as reported The start stall of or the bank was Wil safe fe and an the building hul hud hitI been only ol slightly damaged The 1111 Steam NavIgatIon com cam has hu received the following allowing cable from RII II o Violent earthquake Heavy 11 loss IO of property and lives Ih I chives olet partially destroyed Floating fleetIng property The eastern rattle cable 11 company reports report that direct vail lM with th Valparaiso hat has hf not MI yet I been teil bl rees reestablished ree re et I hN Cable dispatches II received by h two tI Inn here my IH 55 that tbt wily Hii two squares at t and the surrounding avenues J have hiI been heen destroyed On the theother other hand the Chilean Trading com coat eor 11 ln say ray 1 that a great amount of damage accompanied by I severe loss lose 10 quake of life has hu resulted from the t earth earthquake rth OS SAFE Aug A 1 directors of tb tb the electric Street railway tall of or Valparaiso Have cabled to the German Oversee Electrical J company m 11 owner of the t ma majority of elC f the stock that Its Ill water rater and anal an power plants machinery equipment tracks track ears cars and Ind car sheds hb Ml at II Valparaiso also aiso hare hII not been hern Ilen Injured by the earthquake or flee The Te dispatch aids add to that the Ihl of the concerts concern flem the reserve power buildings the storage toru stora batter batteries If s station IRton and the art arc lamps and Mires have ben been L n considerably damaged Injury The TIie officials of or the company escaped SHIPS NOT OT DAMAGED D IMan Hamburg Jambur Au AUf It The Cosmos Cosmo Steamship company com today to teds received n a from rein Valparaiso announcing that three of Its Ia steamers er the Uarda Vara the H and ll which were Ww lying In ha th the harbor of or Valparaiso have hue not hot bH been bH damaged all f and thit the build lag ing of the tho arr at that I ort rt is I not hot Injured SHOCKS S AT T LIMA 11 1 Lima Peru Aue Aur UI IK 1 lO earth earthquake quake shocks kl at Valparaiso at al Intervals during Thursday night and lt damaged a number of o buildings tonic Him of them falling Into the streets stat rendering traffic dangerous The troops were M retied 11 out and an shot ht all al pillagers Many persons were killed by II falling SI The Te survivors camped on o the hills hll and In open opel spaces pats I A number of or people also sought refuge on Oi board 1 vessels ls In ill the ha harbor r of Valparaiso IM Del 11 Mar I a town about abut three |
