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Show CHILE VISITED BY All 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 De stroyed Death Roll Is Heavy, Vnlpnlrnlso, Chile. At 7:52 p. m. ThurHday, August 1C, this city was visited by an enrthqunko of great severity, se-verity, nnd during that night eighty-two eighty-two shocks wero felt. Most of tho buildings of tho city aro either burned or dnmngod. The loss will bo enormous, probably reaching $250,000,000. Two thousnnd persons killed Is considered to bo n fair estimate esti-mate of the casualties. Vlena del Mnr, three miles from Valparaiso Val-paraiso nnd having a population of over 10,000; Qulrlhu, 225 miles to tho southward with a population of 25,000; Santa Llmache, fifteen miles to tho northwest with n population of 0,500; Qulllota, twenty-live miles to tho northwest north-west with a population of 10,000, and villages all around were destroyed. Most of tho damage was due to fire, which started Immediately after the first shock. Tho wholo population Is sleeping In tho hills, tho parks or the streets. Food Is vory scarce. Milk cost two Chilean dollars a liter, nnd It Is almost al-most Impossible to obtain meat, even at high prices. Tho railways are all destroyed. I tain, which began to fall immediately imme-diately nftor tho first shock, stopped nn hour afterward. Tho nights nro very cold and windy, and the people slocplng In tho opon aro suffering BToatly. Tho captain of a steamship which has arrived from San Francisco says tho 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 ot tho western coast of South America. It has a population of nbout 150,000. It Is tho capital ot tho provlnco of .that name and is situated sit-uated on a largo bay In tho Pacific ocoan soventy-flvo rallos west-northwest ot Santiago, with which It is connected con-nected by rail. The bay of Valparaiso, which Is woll sholtercd on throo sides, is bounded by ranges ot hills rising to from 1,000 to 1,700 feet high, on the slopes of which a considerable portion of the city of Valparaiso is built. On tho south side of tho bay are the spacious suburbs of Nuevo, Malecon and Gran Avenlda, from which pass is cut ono of tho finest ot thoroughfares ot Valparaisothe Val-paraisothe Avenlda do las Dollclas. Tho lowor central section of tho city is constituted by tho Almondral, having hav-ing regular nnd attractive streets nnd containing tho principal business houses, tho Plaza Victoria and tho National theatre. To the northwest of this soctlon, In the quarter of tho city Known as tho Puorto (or port), in which aro situated tho greator number ot public buildings and tho vast warehouses which lino tho quays and docks. In this portion of tho city, however, narrow and crooked streets aro still n feature, but tho newer sections of Valparaiso hnvo an attractive, modern appearance, tho buildings In the business quarter being be-ing massively built. Tho port of Valparaiso Is the terminus ter-minus of mnny Important lines of steamers for Europe by way of the straits ot Magellan and Panama, and Is the center of the South American coasting services. It contnlns a numerous foreign colony, col-ony, composed chiefly of British, Ger-nun Ger-nun and French merchants. There ii a custom houso wharf alongside ot which n steamer of any tonnage can moor, but most of tho loading is done by lighters irom a quay surrounding the town. The hnrbor Is defended by modern, well mounted batteries. 8e-voro 8e-voro storms and a tidal wavo at Valparaiso, Val-paraiso, Juno 30, 1899, wrecked tho railroad nnd did great damago to tho city. |