| Show FATAL earthquake DETAILS OP OF THE GREAT DISASTER INT IN the peking correspondent of toe north hina daily meaos meios under date of march gives the first authentic details ot of the great earthquake at cunnan meagre particulars of which came by cable about a month aso ago the killed and wounded according to the memorial me murial in the ther peking ekin gaselle Gase tle is omela officially 2 given as 00 a and g the government nta nt a count account r aake the and and loss load by bt the disaster wit greater ter than how the he private the e iret loU of owing Qwing is the story of the alews slews correspondent the earthquake that mas has just been reported to the emperor as laving baving taken place on january in cunnan is the most severe found in the chinese records it commenced at 6 in the evening and lasted till 4 in the morning during that time there were twelve or fourteen principal shocks and the destruction st of houses bouses and human life was very great the locality is mountainous and dotted with beautiful lakes fakes the fine kind of tea called poo ercha er e rc cha comes from the neighborhood also the copper for which the cunnan is famous not far away are toe tile silver mines of burmah it is inthis in this favored spot a few miles south of the cunnan lake known as chih chib that this dis aster the centre of fit the earthquake was w s at t ath ft chou the whole extent d I 1 country A t ry disturbed ily by t the e earthquake e is about aboa mi miles es in len length gah frore roo esat east to west und 60 miles fro from M noi th to south shih pang lies in a sort of cef central itral position of the three sorts of earthquakes the circular the linear and the vertical this was of the linear kind and the direction east west southwest this we may judge to be at darly right angles anglea to the prevailing direction of tile the valleys lakes and rivers in ID that part from the centre of intensity a little to the west of the city of shill ishia ping there was a decided extension of the earthquake wave northward in the direction of the lake as well as westward to the city of wei yuen yaen miles nothing is said inthe in the peking gazette cassette ot of guy any staking sinking as in the case ot of the earth quake quake in hansu and northern Sze chuen tour years ago on oa that occasion casion ac a yamen in the city of kial kiai chen went down clown under the earths surface judging by the woods of ane memorial which described that earthquake it was by no means so destructive as the present one on the same day as the cunnan earthquake there was one also in Sze chuen aeri so we are t told of d in a native newspaper at luchau this however nas not been authenticated by a report in the peking gazette ga ette lu chou is english emilei northeast of the locality x baere the cunnan earthquake occurred the report says that persons lost lest their lives and that at 2 pm two great shocks ol 01 of earthquake were felt fek at wan hau and ana lusheng lu PAus saeng lieng A warning is appended in the nati native newspapers rs ag dinst accepting tuese reports as true without official confirmation fir mation among the events of the anih S 11 lb ping pir earthquake the native newspapers say that the chief mandarin of the city cily had a leg broken they also say that the land subsided at lu chou choa and became a lake this place is ou on tile the upper ab yangtze an and only eighty miles 4 hoove hoove clung g king so that we shall soon soan learn leara whether this report is a true one on hearing of earthquakes in western china we matui ally think of the hot hat springs sp riDs 0 o and oil wells of those regions as also of the deposits tt it is known that the metals h have ave man many Y ages ago been poured up ia a a molten form tisou through h fissures in the earths crust toe the crust of the earth is likely t to b be thinner in those localities than ey ethere elsewhere and hence the frequent volcanic disturbances which we hear ot of in those parts of the earths surface surf ace where the metals ere are found the inhabit ants of those regions re buas have some corn com sensation pensa tion for the alarms to which they are often exposed by great botanical and mineral rul ueral richness and variety and remarkable fertility of the soil the medicines and chemical waters that cure human maladies are there in abundance and all sorts of productions grow readily in response to the hopes odthe of the husbandman T the he abstract of the imperial gazette casette of may 7 says the governor of cunnan reports the occurrence of a very serious earthquake in the south of the province toe disturbance commenced between a 5 and 6 pm on the of january last and lasted till 4 aam am on the following day ahrin during period there were ten or more serious shocks which by a noise as of thunder in iii shill shih ping 1 and other district cities cites the town als were either thrown down or cracked while the public offers J and temples shared tile the same fate ate at shih aluk in the ipuh of the city eight or er nine tenths of tae private houses fell in the east as ag many ps as a half in the north and wet rather less i i but still even bere more than a thousand room yere were I 1 att 0 ctt tt with raol sed or slant lug lu walla IV 11 a two hundred persons of al all i ages agea were basked to leathand death deat hand and more than RW permanently crippled there was much loss of life and limb in the surrounding villages namely i in those to the east lulled killed and vo or wounded to the south WO and to the west and to the north and making a to total inside and outside the city to getner of more than killed and wounded but this does not represent the whole of the suffering caused for a large majority of the people rich anti and poor alike are left without homes all provisions and other property being buried beneath the ruins of their houses in the town of chien shul shui itself seven or eight people were crushed to tg death and some scores were ip aured in the nei neighboring 2 villages la 24 people weye killed billed aria 0 ar or hart hurr tile the suffering there us is of a similar nature to that in ping and its neighborhood in view of tile the magnitude of the disaster and tile the vast amount of misery it has caused the has instructed the baota and the prefect of the locality to lose not an instant in providing funds and aad in dispatching special officers to assist the regular authorities in discovering those who are in want and distributing charity to them in ami abai A mi bai chou hsin hein hsing chou and wet yuan ving though fortunately no lives were lost a number of houses wet e thrown down one of these was the district jail at wet wei yuan ving ting from which all the prisoners consequently escaped among the all fugitives that have not b been P en recaptured wi are ebur four men accessories to the wr murder lder of f three persons in one a muy orders have been luedi to receiver the crimi ron ata and further to fl hold an la investigation cpr pr the purpose of disco discovering vering if vh he escape of 0 T the prisoners was w as due to any aay connivance on the part of the I 1 jailors jailers jai lors also accounts will be made up and sent in showing the exact amount ot of money disbursed in charity and the number humber of persons relieved tile the declares that t he emper or Is much distressed by talk t serious calamity and orders that loB ures Bures be taken to insure the relief of ery single one among the sufferers |
