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Show I :'i ONE THOUSAND I DEAD IN QUAKE 9 Estimates of loss of life in Chile i place the number at more than 1000, 1 g ilh many thousands in distress. Reports received tell of tidal waves I kLI covering 1200 miles of coast. The ran was drawn away from the shore I an.4 then thrown back with great vio- H 'Nearly every year during the past enty years there havo been fatal!- j i j from oarthquakes in some part ot I world, The most disastrous of! (ate ears was the earthquako at Mos-J -Ina where the city was destroyed. At Messina and on the tip of Italy the number of deaths were estimated at I 1C0.000. But the most tremendous Jarring Jar-ring and fracturing cf the earth's tur-frce, tur-frce, of which there is authentic rec-' nrd, occurred in 1883 when the island U Urakatoa was blown out of tho Indian i icean. Dust and uehes from the ex-(OSinn ex-(OSinn were carried by air currents It m pvpn beyond Utah, causing the most I ' 1 m 11 mmmmn lirorgeous sunsets ever witnessed in 'ihis state. I r i.bon's earthquake in 1755, csue ing the death of 60,000. hss been described de-scribed In greater detail than any other seismic disturbance, because Lisbon at the time was a city of com jmercial Importance and a place of beauty and luxury. Much of the city was destroyed. San Francisco, in 1906. was wrei - all fornlans will tell you the wrecking was from tho fire following the quake, ibut the damage from the tremors ex-jfended ex-jfended all over the city and. had then been no conflagration, the destruction would havo run Into the millions. The loss of life was comparatively low, be ing estimated at 500. In 1906 Chilo had an earthquako which did much damage to Valparaiso and caused 1000 deaths. Like Japan, Chile is known as an earthquake region. The pushing np of the Andes mountains, liko the lifting lift-ing of Japan out of tho sea, points to the fact that tho earth's crust there Is wreak, and the repealed tremors indi-j cate instability of the surface. |