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Show ITIRE EARTHQUAKE ZONE TOWN DISAPPEARS Chilean Coast Towns Shaken and Flooded Again By Upheaval Pacific Ocean Still Agitated By Forces of Nature and Ships Are Shaken, Scientist Gives Explanation of Quakes OANTIAG0, Nov. 14. (By the Associated Press) Reports of ban-kJditiy ban-kJditiy end disorder in the earthquake district, together with news of additional earth shocks end indications that the calamity has reached appalling- proportions caused the Chilean government today to consider con-sider the advisability of sending troops to Coquimbo and Atacoma to reinforce the rejula:- gar:i:on3 which are too small to cope with the situation and aid in relief work. Outlawry broke out Monday r.ig'nt I In tho town of Vail . nar, the chief sufferer suf-ferer from the earthquake, where It lis estimated 1000 of the Inhabitants perished, while reports of robberies and holdups came from other places. jTho arrival of war vessels at the northern ports of Chile brought wireless wire-less report- of disaster from towns and vlllupcb not previously huardfrom 1 including' the U rge t -wn of Krelrlna. augmenting greatly the number of reported re-ported casualties which ar.3 now variously var-iously estimated at between 1000 and 1 2000 dead with numberless Injured I and homeless. Tho tpwa of Carrlzal. consisting , mostly of underground dwellings and j copper mines, is reported to have disappeared, dis-appeared, but no mention of the loss I Of lhrs in mad.- The inhabitants 1 number about 200 and there are 350 othi m r ions Ih ing at I as port ot , Carrizcn. Advices from Antofagasta filed at 9:30 Monday night said a strong earth shock had just been felt at Taltal, a S' 'a port ol several thousand population popula-tion only a few miles from Antofagasta. Antofa-gasta. 1 La Serena was one of the cities severely se-verely stricken by the earthquako Of last Saturday morning, which took a I toll of more than 1500 lives In va- rious parts of Chile I The extent of casualties and property prop-erty damage wrought by the tremors and tidal waves three days ago has not yet been fully learned, as communication com-munication lines still are out of order In many regions. Schools and public buildings at Palguano are also in rums and neighboring neigh-boring villages In the province of Coquimbo have been greatly damage 1. OCEAN STILL SHIMMIES. The Pacific ocean seems not yet to have fully recovered its equilibrium as the result of last week s terrific disturbance, or else there have been some new movements under the ocean bed Antofagasta reports say that Monday the sea ebbed and then came booming back up on the shore three times, much In the same manner ;. the tidal waves of last Saturday. Property losses amounting to millions mil-lions of dollars which resulted from the earthquake and tidal waves of Saturday morning will be a severe economic blow to the country'. It Is feared. The town of V.illenar seems to have Buffered the most. Only throe houses remained standing and 700 of the Inhabitants are dead. The dea I counted at Uopiapo so far number 10 and the Injured 110. There are no lights in the town nnd the Inhabitants are camping out. Even the telegraph Is operating In the open air. SCENES UtE PI riFI L The- telegraph ofrices at Santiago present pitiful scenes. Crowds gather about all day seeklmr Information about the fate of frie nds and relatives in the devastated regions. Such messages mes-sages of Inquiry are transmitted f reo : b the national lines. SHIP Is SHAKEN. The steamer Ayscn, which reached Antofagasta Monday from Valparaiso reported that .arly Saturday morning morn-ing a storm arose suddenly and tho pea was strangely agitated. The ship was shaken violently, causing a panic among those aboard, but no damage was done. REASON FOR QUAKES. VALLEJO. Cal , Nov. 14 Causes which he said effected the earthquake and tidal waves In Chile last week were outlined Ln a Statement given to the Associated Press here lasl night by Captain T. J. J Set government astronomer at the Mure island navy station. Captain See for years has made a special study of earthquakes and seismic sea waves. Captain See said that the waters of the ocean, leaking through the earth's crust to the heated lava below, be-low, produced steam, whose pressure moves lava from under the ocean to under the land, raising the land and permitting the floor of the ocean to pubside, causing the earth shocks anJ disturbances ln tidal waves. He said: , "Scientific Investigation has shown that the order of events described in cablegrams from Chile, indicates a sinking of thc sea bottom over a considerable con-siderable area. II may be a subsidence subsi-dence 'f several hundred feet over! (Continued on Pago Two) t CHILEAN COAST TOWNS SHAKEN (Continued from Pago Oi I an area as large as a small state, like Rhode Island. In an earthquake. "The dropping of the block of sea bottom lowers the level of the overlying over-lying water and the ocean flows in to restore the level in this movement move-ment the water near shore drains away, but when tho currents meet j over the sunken area they are forced up Into a ridge or mound by the momentum mo-mentum of the Impinging currents from all directions. In an hour or less time, however, the ridge of water collapses and the first great seismic sea wave comes ashore. It Is the same process by which the Andes were gradually built up. Tho ocean leakage slowly Introduces steam into the lava Just beneath the crust The power accumulates untd It finally moves the local blocks of the earth's crust and adjusts tho pressure by allowing the lava to expand ex-pand toward the land. It Is to be noticed that steam accumulates under the deep sea. but scarcely at all under un-der the land." |