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Show I DEAD PLANET'S PULLING POWER HUB SHOCK Astronomer Priest Declares Sun Spot Also Played Part in Catastrophe SANTA CLARA, Cal , Nov. 15. Although Al-though eun spots had omethtng to do with the disastrous earthquake find aonaequent tidal waves In Chile, the moon W(lh also a contributing factor, in the opinion of Father J. n Ricard f tli University ol Santa Clara ob-- sjsrvatory. H l"ath-r Ricard is n leading exponent H of the theory that sun spets have a H direct rotation to the weather and Ifftues a monthly publication known' H as ' The Sun Spot." H ' In our observatory at Santa Clara B e have always hold that great sun H spots on becoming entral arc ai H partial cause of er r' hguako." said; Pother Ricard When the Chilean H terthquake occurred a great sun spot, j H latitude six degrees south, was in H nlBxe to strike t!ie earth. For nioro! man yeara tins co-inciiient oetween inalignant sun spots and earthquakes H ijas been repeating itself. A co- H incidence thus ImLrflnti ly maintained H if In itself a proof H "On the othr hand, It cannot be H denied that the moon acts at an angle of 4 5 degrees. Where unopposed H BJ gravity, it lifts not only the wa- tar a of tho ocean but also tlx- earth j ThH opens fissures In the sea bot- I torn where the water, filtering In abundance, is turned Into su steam and explodes, thereby lifting H enormous masses of solid material H Which begin to oscillate, and that is! H the earthquake " PI HOI BES LEFT, SANTIAGO. Chile. Nov. 15 (P.y I Associated Press.) Searc ly a house nemalna standing m the Vallenar volley in north rn ohllc as the resull H of the earthquakes and marine dis turbances of last week. The full ex-lent ex-lent of the dictaMr. which centered H Upon the provinces of Atacama and H joiuinibo became more fully known! H today with the re-opening or tela-1 H rfraph communications wltji north' H Chile. In these iwo provinces, the - i Ima number 1500 so far as known' H rtu! It Is expected the number of dead H xy i 1 1 bo substantially increased when LbbbbbbI wKL doin municatlons are resumed with many small villages In the Interior H vyhn.se fate remains unknown. B . Dispatches today from La Serena H iobl of serious damage whloh the H Earthquakes Inflicted upon the Topo mines. Martial law has hern declared I Vellenar and in Coplapo, owing to the ' looting by bandits. VIIiLAOES DESTROYED. The removal of debris In the nf-fJicted nf-fJicted regions have been started with Oia help of soldiers Eighty per cent of the buildings are down and the cithers are greatly damaged. Tho state H, of slego Is being maintained Many small Inland villages near Coplapo Weer destroyed. 8an Fernando Is In ruins. Twentv-threo Twentv-threo persons were killed there. ,t Tlerra Amarallla four persons are dead and half the town Is in ruins. ! At San Antonio seven are deud anil the town Is a wreck. Casualties so fori Represented from Coplapo number the dead at 60 and the injured at 110. . Travelers arriv.r,:; from ( hanarclllo. a mining town m tho province of Atacama, cays tho earthquake was felt there with great Intensity. The shnrl-d nnonerl flnn fu.,.,r.. i . - - ""-'- imuici in m(; J hills end caused frightful noises COXVF.XT MRLS HI II I . ' The correspondent of the newspaper news-paper Mercurl, who has arrived a! I Coplapo snya that when tlv i&rth- uake was felt there. Friday nlgnt tho eastern eky was Illuminated by an intense red light in the shape of! great flames This phenomenon could1 be seen for a gre;it distance. The tremors continued Intermittently alii night and Saturday morning Just before be-fore midnight Sunday another prolonged pro-longed quake was felt and It was re- peated Intermittently until davhrcnk' Monday During the tremor young girls at a convent and school jumped ! jut of the windows. Many were seri-i oulys injured when the second floor tagged down. on- |
