The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-03 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

MADRID, Septrniner 27.

he nmrgents at Ferrol have sent a ves,el to a port In
p..rtugsi to enileavonr to tiny rifli,n. Intelligence from ,cvil le
1111Votailas that the provisional (hi i ti Mora t.stmbli•tind tl...re
has decreed that Cadiz i a henceforth a free port. 'the
pl,ll,4ol•iontie Woo lit Seville and Cadiz were not ace ~,,, panted
by the loas oft single lif'.
Intelligence from Carthagena announces that three
insurgent frigates have arrived tiff that port, and had called
upon the town to Juin the M. urrection. The Ouvernur of
the town refueed to comply with this demand.
. .

The Queen still considers It unsafe to c 1111 l e to Nimbi&
A Colonel named Cabanas, belongine to the army of
General IC ovaliclies; ha. ordered a homier prefeet, oh,, Is a
member of the Liberal Union, to be shot without trial.
The news of this affair has eau.ed notch limissiation in
Madrid.

-
t;encral Prim' proclamation, issued at Seville on the
.20th lust ,says

,
Spaniards, You cannot resign yourselves any longer to
the present state of things without Iseconsing degraded. The
lour of revdtstion has struck. The Government by per-
sisting in its evil course has, unfortunately, rends red tartly
concessions impossible. Let us avoid coming prematurely
to a decision nom the questions betore us, which circum-
stances aunt events might resider impossible of realisation,
and shish ssight prejudice the judgment of the people."

General Prim proceed...l to advise universal suffrage, ad-
ding that Marshal aerratio Duke do la Torre . with General
Ittilce and others, were to have cot ttttt owed the movement
before with the s.inadron. but hail been dehoed at sea.
After stat ng that he speaks tad In his ovvti name only, but
in theirs, he concludes with the words .—" Long live Liberty !
I..anc live the novereigtitv of the People t"
. .

A revolutionart leteelfeeill 11.11E41 et Seville proclaims uni•
versal suffrage, the al. dote liberty of the Per., freadoni of
cancan ~,,, of religious trelief, awl of • •r and trade :
a prudent and liberal reform of the tariff laws until the state
4.f the country shall permit of the introduction of complete
commercial liberty ; the abolition of thintal punalinit rit ;
the inviolability of domicile and rd letters ; the repeal 4il the
Articles of the Constitution raiding to the religion of the
State snit reigning dynasty, and of the regulatirna restart:t-
ine the succession to the throne ; the organisation of the
army and navy on the basis of voluntary enlistment ; the
equalization of the taxes; the decrease of the esti- e duty
upon wilt and tobacco: and, lastly, the election of the Cortes
by direct universal suffrage. This manifesto conciliate with
the words Long live liberty' Pettll with the Dyeeety ! Long
live the Sovereignty of lite People'"

A STATE coUNCIL St3IMONED.

l'Asis Sept flto

The Sleek of to-day states that the brothers • Concha
Manuel Marquis del Duero and Jose Marquis of Havana ,
have Jointly athlres,e,l a letter to the Queen, declaring that
out itug to the retteal of iltr Majesty to proceed to the capital
without being aireompanied by Sen, Mafori, they were
unal de any longer to guarantee the situation.
en receipt of this letter, the Queen gave galimr, to General
Teruel* to feint a new and oonplete ealdnet at -t Sebastian,
anti to sun nion the member,' of the State (Outten.

This step Is considered to liolkate resolutions of grave
Import.
The Moniteur of this nor. says:—

The city id Grenada has made a protioneni in lento, where-
upon the garrison withdrew. The same fact i 9 Elaid to have
occurred at earthaurna, where the appearance of the three
frigates has deterniincd the otticer in 0 and to evacuate
the las.ll with his tr.oops.
" The encounter believed to be imminent between Marshal
Serrano and You qui. de Novaliches has not yet taken place.
It is agreed on all hands that such an event will have lin-
portant consequences."

DEFEAT OF THE ROYAL TROOPS,
31anatn, Sept. 29, Evening.
General Novaltches, having been defeated by the intim. ,
gents, and being wounded, re-entered Madrid yesterday.
The rising at the ca, ital has heel. of a peaceful character,
the troops iralerninoig with the people to the cry of ff amt.
with the Bourbons,"'• Long live the sovereignty of the
People."
General Concha has resign el his functions, and a Junta
has been nominated provisionally to carry MI tile 41tatirs of
government, composed of four me,, hers of the Progressionist
party, four Unlouists, and four Democrats.
Marshal Serrano. Duke de la Torre, is'expected here to-
morrow.
The Royal arms ffu all public buildings have been removed
iv the people.
Everywhere music is heard.
The streets are illuminated.

_
from swaying walls and broadly rent buildings, just on the •
use of crumbling bite pet fect mitt Some wnet struck down
dead by the falling materials, and others weremaimeil, white
all were wade to stagger trim side to rile like people in a
state of Intoxication. Many of hoth sexes carried children
in their arcs, and those w lin had wit these carried articles
of value. The avarice it mimic was stronger than fear, even
amid this terrible confusion, and hence there were those
who dallied to collect valuables, many of whotn suffered
for their temerity, either by the sacrifice of their lives or
otherwise. As the rush fee the hill, continued, and stones
and inaterials of all kinds were falling, aryl louses and parts
of these were crashing, nunierons people were struek tiliWit,
and either killed or dangerously hurt. The water In the
harbour was now receding from the shore, hearing with it
all tile shipping at rapid speed. Then the current changed,
and bettire till almost overhanging, tremendous wave, the
vessels tacit back, tossed one way and then another, or
whirled about as though they were only floating logs, RIM 1111
the very summit if lids immense volume of water rode the
United States steanier ll'u,eret. 'The huge wave dashed
against the stone le or pier. and shattered it all to pieces,
then swept from its path what was standing of the Cunt
liot,se, and almost every vestige of the nuns of other
togs. It rolled over tire already destroyed loonies it the
city, and set a myriad of articles afloat, eti.lll,l
in every direction, while at the sonic time the ve.els
and floating material; wore furred ahead of the Wave, at
this time curling and foaming eunuisil, Everything which it
encountered in its eiit&eao WAS swept away hi an imbed
Even great Masses of shine were rolled over and over. When
the force of the wave Was spent it retired, oral iit a short
tittle the eiinilibrium of the water was restored, and then it
occupied about flue same line, and presented nearly the sante
appeararce, RN it tlid before the earthquake. The vessels
carried inland were a terrible sight. The most of them a ere
bott 1111 l upward, Their meats hall been snapped like sticks.
.5,11 this dreadful picture the reitagees tilt the bills were now
beholding Many of Clem did so with the most marked midi
thence, id fear, because quake. of the earth were still felt at
short Intel vats. The Water.. was grounded inland at a
quarter of a mile from the beach, Oil the line of a railroad.
As far as heard from, only line tife was list on hoard. Near
the Water. e 0 Peruvian war vessel was also gri led, awl
SII grit t 4 that tome of lie rtggimg 1111 r any of its timbers were
impaired, on board the Pet tivian win' steamer A in, ',ea,
which is a total wreck, eighty lives were reported to tittne
beCII lost. The United States store ship Fredoiart st tic
upset, and all her crew except three drowned, liCettlilillit
lit report. Those who es 1811C11 were Ille captain, surgeon,
nod a parnaster, will, were 1.11 shore when the earthquake
occurred, and sought refuge on the hills. A British vessel,
called the Chaaaecillo, lint many of lier crew, who were
Mumbled overboard. A United States brig, name unknown,
foundered with all on hoard. The vessel, it is reported,
tweeted.] with guano. The rest of the shipping destroyed
were South American coasters. The fatal ciestialtiea in the
city were ahoUt 50, and the other casualties about tio The
total loss on shipboard was about WU, principally tatal. 'rite
refilgeeslitillillilleti Olt the bills for two days, during a hich
time they suffered greatly for total; at the same time the
quakes continued lit before, at intervals. in time their
sufferings becatine stn intenie that the males Inell to go iti
search of food, shissite,l quantity of which they found in a
damaged lition, and with this they succoured tlieir
families. The second nonillion after the earthquake, a
' light-draught coastin4 vessel entered the harbour, but ilia
not romanu long at illlttitkt. As 64111 as the captain lweanie
aware of what hail happened, he took on board a number it
people, and left with them for Callao ; thence one of the
parties got to Panama.

It is gathered from the reports that the principal
part of .Arica was Iry lied by the tirst shock, and that
the second completed the work of destruction. Many
penile who could not get out of their homes were
crushed to The wife of Lieut. eCeetninander W.
1.. Jelly son, of the Waterer', was killed by a piece of
timber falling on her, vn hile with her husband in the
streets of Arica making their escape. The number of
tile killed in Arica is not precisely known, but is
calculate el at 200. The completeness of the destruction
and the desolation is awful. Not the buildings only,
lent the trees are gone ; and MI living thing is seen m
the streets, save 114,W and then the searcher for spoil or
for a dear lost one.

In different places the shocks lasted fnon two to !
seven minutes, and caused greater ravages than any ,
similar calamity that ever befel the same country !
before ;for not only were whole towns shaken down,
and their destruction cotupletwl by tire, but the sea,
retiring to extraordinary distances, returned on the !
roast at the rate of ten miles an hour, and with a wave
fully fifty feet high, that covered the towns and swept
away in its reflux everything within its power, leaving
big ships high and dry. The places where the convul-
sion was felt twist severely are Arequipa, fifteen leagues
inland, and Moquequa. ten le.igues distant. The first
these cities is built in the lap if a wileano called '
Misti, which opened and threw forth earth awl ashes.
Tana awl Ica, distant from the sea six or eight leagues, !
have buffered little in proportion. The city of Are- .
quips, completely overthrown, was one of the most !
beautiful of the cities of Peru. It was solidly built if
stone, its hal aala3 giving shelter to a population of
50,000. In Ar 'quipa the loss .4 life is reckoned at the !
same number as in Arica. The neighbourhoods of
Tiabaya and Vabanilia, and all the outlets lif the
beautiful city have shared her lot. The earth his
opened in all the plains around, and water has alb
peared in many planes.
Iquique, the most inqs.rtant city in Southern Peru, !
was almost totally destroyed. "A few minutes after
five p.m, on the 13th inst. the inhabitants were terrified
by loud subterranean noises, presaging the approach of
an earthquake. The slowk immediately followed.
Every building was shaken to its foundation. The
population rushed into the streets, awl those who were
wit buried by the falling walls made their escape into
the country with all speed. Hail they remained in the
eity the entire Isupuil:ttio,i must has e wrisho I, as, in 111
dnitely after the passing of the first shock, the sea retired
, for some distance mid then returned with a great riish
awl a roaring swim! noire terrible than the loudest
thunder. The wave was of dreadful height and tome,
iuiil it swept irresistibly over the town, c pleting the
ruin begun by the earthquake. Not a mercantile
establishment has escaped, nor does a vestige remain
of the Hoist opulent awl handsome section d the town.
The massive building. belonging ti the nitrate iner-
. clnknts, mostly omstructed of stone and lime, have
entirely disappeared. Buildingsconstnicted of timber
, were swept away at once, leaving nothing to mark the
! lice • y Again, the Inlires 200
; are given as the proximate calculation of lives lost
l here."

THE EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH
AMERICA.
The following extract froth a letter dated the 214
• at., received by 51 r. .1. flan ia, 25, Old Jewry,
'sinilon, from is friend resident in Lima, has been sent
o The Times for publication : •
Ere this telegram will have informed you of the awful
eternity which has fallen on Iquique and the other rout
..wus, an earthquake has swept Iquique into the sea, and I
very vestige 41 our boa e out works. I have had a hard 1
ight for life, anti, though badly wounded in the thigh, am '
,rogressing towards recovery God be praised for Ills ,
tert,y ! The catastrophe occitrred on the evening .4 the I
3th at 5 a I bail jest relorne.l from the work, and watt
thing to air 5.—. the engitieer, when very loud rumbling ,
oise was heated. act larded by a shock of earthquake. A
• aond ("Moved, overtuniing the tables and smashing the
' Atte,. the. We ran out into the coral at the back, but so
lent was the shock that we were thrown down headlong
. our hands and knees. We got into the street 011 the
each. Mr s—ran to his engines, and myself, min s—, mei
Ir. Billitighurst, my neighbours. with 0111. poor 01.1 servant,
°fleeted with tenor outside In an natant the sea moaned,
ad retired hundreds of yards Nth the bay, leaving all the
hire exposed.
I saw the whole surface of the sea rise as if a mount,iin
hie, actually standing up. Another shock, accompanied
vuth a fearful ma. now took place. I called to my tam,
motions to run for their lives on b. the Pampa Too Lite !
With a horrid crash the seat was on its, unit at tate sweep—one
terrible sweep—dashed what was Inquhme or, to the Patmet.
I lied my companions, and in ail Institut was fighting with the
dark water. The mighty wave surged alai netted ai .1 leaped.
The cries of human beings and anneals were dread il A •
lowa of wreck covered me and kept the down, and I was fast
.11:11WIlilla when the sea threw me tai to it laaint, but a nail •
piercing my coat the timber rolled me again under and I
lost all sense I Suppose, as In all such ease,, I must have ,
si toggled utter sensation had left me. for a ben return. !
log consciousness came I was grasping under one a in a !
hirge plank. Lookin a nutlet. all aas wreek and desola•
tin In a I was hy it reternia..; it aye
swept into the bay, 1111,1 meeting a MASS of broken a
timber I was struck a fearful blow on the chin, and the
broken mot of the plank hassled through my thigh I knew
more until I f I myself On the Pampa and all dark The Timex, in a leader on this terrible Earthquake,
around me. I was without trousers, coat, shoes, or hat. writes :
Trying to collect myself I thought of another earn and i riot e English pity only Eng-
el aw led away to the mountain stile, wormed a hole in the ni • wadth, .•114.1 eitieriene
ground, and got In : here, wet and shivering, I spoilt the l!nal in is '
gives ine f ..! • wait lite good or evil
night. My 111 bled freely. In the oing II eated out • •
toritme lf ' I ••: .• The sante E tnlemake
l Viand Iquique gone all but a few houses round the whielt bort- .1.. !e • • a • •.- Peru dashe English ships
11, church. A clean sweep of all the immense stores. etc , . not 0„ our inertirdit... We
VeStige of our engine, boilers, itc. I follad nty p.a.r !
' 1-v for this dl.aster N't e
servant dead, andjoor Dr. 11,—, —.
""" : 11115.01 feel • II 0111.11.1 1/C all .11.ri-
,,thers. I timnag bi find a hat on the allure, further on a : call rather than an 'vs'a.el a Melt has cart hal help to
pair of shoes and an 4.1.1 pair .4 trousera. The havoc has , the thousands sif 11.111Ieless fugitives huddled, without shelter
I fearful. All the inadtinery WaS dashed It pieces, and lor on the hillside, looking 110W11 011 " a Ilyaell
niter two days' ead suffering I got on board the steamer and , formerly their town." But the sympathy the people of [hie
came here to have medical assistance. air. 11. hail previously' I -
mitry can be conscious of is sympathy with the misery,
come hens, and after seeing me properly attended tii co
I rat! er tl al with its cause A•• three manatee," at most a
tautened to Iquique to see the state a affairs, and send •• ,•, .t • • '
Sc nontues, mite ims is an experience Bo relkitife f any
v atter to the sufferers. they can have 1.1. Nature with us is cold and sluggish by
1 feared starvation, ere leaving a the quantity of wine and the side of Nature the' e. 'to attribute personality to Nature
braudy floating about caused the lower orders to drink to here ian figure of speech, last it seems there to be the recogni.
madness, awl the scenes of iirmikennesa and plunder which Lion Ma fact. It is Into with its as with them that "drive out
~,ued were fearful. The Government has sent 3 vessel ilf as you nay Nature at the mind of a pitchfork, yet come law mite
..r down with watsr and fl (tie the survivors. The will." But her persistency with us is • the perversity
dinter which has pa,sed through my thigh was about the of a sullen child, she will give us her weeds a tame as
-ze of a broom handle hut made a very jagged wound, allot soon as the weeder has tursied his hack. She has an infinite
a lie pain is very great. us is also tny hand, which was crushed capacity for benefiting us: but we must be pall lit with her
acnas nty fingers. Never nl i 11l 11 I have my life. Poor Dr. and must prompt and °verb eik her. Among the voltam.s of
he went by my window one minute before the shock the Andes oil the contrary, she is not a servant but a mistress.
place; he must have been killed immediately after- 1 Site eniwits and leads to execution. Site punishes loan there
*anis. 1 never knew suffering until I had passed two days • as capriciously as she enrich. hint; the clue to her smiles
withal water and food, and lay \Yolanda.' in the nand. Gal and frowns is in her own temper, and not itt his merits or
He praised for my life Of course I am much hurt demerits. The Earthquakes and the metallic and vegetable
and shaken. We have lost everything a not even a scrap exuberance of Pent and Ecuedor are effects of one saute
of clothing saved I tun too ill to add more, but will write agency. But, stranger still, she fashions men's minds, too,
.3' next mail to accept her moods a. it matter 44 course. 'the meet eh]-
, quent of art critics has weighed man's hardihmal in the
latlatice ci ith that of a e,ttontoit bou,edly, and finds main
wanting. Ile asks 11.. W 111. p 11111111111 I Willi: Wiallll
bear to see a liar of earth myriad-fold his tip_it
sire tooldenly upheave Buff front the ground on which he
lit was resting and hurl itself at ititt, But this is the very thing
the afternoon of the 13th of August. about five o'clock,
se were visited with a IllOrt tral111:11.1o118 eartliquatke. I Mat a I,l,llthe peoples of Chili, and Peru, and Ecuador may ex-
perietwe any ilay. Their cities, heautitted a fib cathe Irals
,arcely time
wled to
it get mywall wife
se ffmy h and children inn/ the street It alaces; thei r soil, salt is unit ewarded them far beyond
viten the e .he s 4.0ue11, sr rather were
tlieir labour ; the Sta, the ir highway, at :111Y ~,,, arat
town out, as if jerked at us At the sante time the earth
, may cry out and el., up at th. and try to overwhelm them. ,
P etted probably tw oor three Inches. end helched out oust lett they take it all :dead as easily as the fly. They lire I
econipasiled with a teenble mei overpowering stemb ; the scared for the instaut, slid Miner away. But they soon '
lir 'oafs darkened as midnight sind I cotMl led my see aria 1, .
, contented enough to feed off the hand
and children, who were within two .eet if me. If thia bad
:vitich'it'ould tie:ern:lied them. Another or two will
laded any time we natal liave been suffocated, but in almut
tell us that the survivors are rebuilding their ruined cities
couple of minutes it cleared. Collecting my hotoehold gods,
on or close to the irl.l sites. in yet anotner year .1r two
i then started over the trenthlina ground for the hills. We
tlii summer's baleful portent will be catalogued and put
aseed nnhurt ththugh falling houses, where we saw men stru ck s
away on a shelf with i ts predecessors, and the great earth-
'own stone dead ; them maimed, appealing for help, which we
quake of 1311.5 Hill have as litilell or as little significance fo
or
uot give. A memiful Providence was over tie, and,
Ecuador and Peru ea that of PUS.
%tense to sey, Whell all was fear I never lost my presence of
the phiMsophy or Apathy which can enjoy life at the foot
I. We wended our sad way. lilt well as we could, towards f a voathniralcano on a olain seamed with earthquakes, excites
the
lie hills Sly wife, close to her confinemettt, could not push ° - • • tioil of an I,llgliallnlan. We, with our less
at. I was carrying dear lathy, and
ll supporttiing her with the
spasmodic physical conditions, may. perhaps, be as acrinies-
nigger like drunken people, whe a great cry titer arm. the earth shaking a the me,
went u making us
cent. often without knowing it, In slates of nature nearly as
ti p to
tars, e But when we Mel ourselves unatlile to atillect
1550011 such as few have heard—" The sea hi retiring !" I g
natural forces, we are more careful to I.k out nor the
hunied On and had larely got to the outskirts of the town .
when I baked back. ot getting out of their way than seems compatible with
topical temperantehts, even where it is ale 'ins winter, as in
Gracious God, what a light' I raw all the vessels in the terra the Pasco. Whet the reason Is why the furnace shnA
lay carried 011 t inesistibly to *Ca .111.'11019 awl chants were as is always smouldering me lereienth 811011141 at lala timmeut
packthread probably with a Weed of ten miles an hour. In . rather than another Maze ep laid rive the crust of the
few minutes the Sri at outward current atopped, sten ~,,, ..1 earth may not Ile discoverahle. But all earthquake, Me
by a lnagltiy rising wave, I alioabl about t hiivalt, raltrytlithiif else, will kt :onto token of itsapproach i•seale; it
which Calllt ill with an awful 1.111111. Petry km all before it in , may lie a peculiar With lit Oa at111i0,1.11t.112, it may la: the ocailas
atati'erilitto'.'' in.1..111.4111,1 1111` whole of the shipping with ;thoo,if the smoking of a crater. It ci ill Dever be directly coo-
n, ~,,, dMic, nit-Most hi circles,. it striving to elude their , troll:0,1e by m.o. Th. y may he nimble to ascertain Its
late Means Idle the wave bad plill,ell4in. atruck the mole I eauses. put lu- symptom* might be noted and watched for
atiaus aud destroy...l toy illiac, which was ailja. at • more vigilantly than they usitelly linen been. Alen
nsilohit
to it, Sail oli iMalloweil lip !lie 4'ai.iiirhi'hit,ulsn I adapt their swele of life better to the danger. They might,
ititehuw slow, the xame stir' it tarried everything later, for inetance, hlu dead of prepolog ~,,,, Its for themselves in
it in Its irressitible colas, the rem nis of Ito dwelling.loara. the slispe of te iii stone houses, muittre to live in wooden
ill.fortunaty.y to a goat es tent toy ow n icohort), faster chalets, a hal. SIC the ohly sthauihOncs. it seetns, now cr. a
it
liao a clial,ge il awe. is it i 'to is, nil. patitmiiime. Slimy the city it Ate.itima, abbe the stone houses, though to their
lattochea la.l ere ad disappiared—th fruita of twetity•two inaseivebess a survivor attrilmtes his and others escape, are
y•eet..' hard work goas la a moment—mid my r was coin- all thein 1111,11R1+ hems. Account even might he taken,
pitied. I stood breathless. I...king at the awful sight, but though ever suspiciously, of a non of natural equity of
thanking inal that life hail lawn preserved to me. Slid lily Fatrtltt,ttakoa iii giving every region its turn, being an this
loved ones, but each seColui was a lifetime bmking era- , occasion c partitively merciful to Quito, which lost 5,40)
wards I saw the sldpa atilt httrrYing to their doom. In a lives no longer ago than nine years, while the shock has
law nitwites all 05* I ompluted ; every vowel was either o,mpletely deetr..yell Arequipa, which was visited last in
ashore bottom upwards. The Pet uvian vetted of war 1725. I•nhaNdlY, exemption from his neighhour's calamities
A merial lost about eighty-five hands; the Iroteres United makes the inhabitatit 1•It Sollth America confident, and use
Stat.s ilf earner of tear , a vessel witli a small draught makes hint venous. Ile call, 1114 ill 1.1.41Vi11a against an evil
$ water was carried 1... My on the top of the wave, alai a high he c es to believe himself predestilied either to
l'atiJeal about it mile Inshore with the loss of one man. escape or to endure. But, after all, if he did care, bow petty
hurt Fredonia I- nititil States' trattstmrt eat, bottom up- is the sum 4.f all that Man .111 lit to sound the alarm against
wards, every perso on hoard perished. The remains of the the incelebee at any given pond of forces such as Nature
British bark Chnnareillu name uncertain) were lying high Carl mass for the tilt .ek, where he has to defend a line ..f
up Isey card the heack, a la.rti hull, &boat half her erew twelve hundred miles against her, and she has at any allil
I...rished a but as yet I know not the particulars An Ante- , every mile 44 it mines always ready to be sprung upon him
bark. laden with guano, has not left a vestige to tell and his sentries '
bei fate. We lay out ist the hills all night without food or ,
watehing end praying for daylight. When morn-
ing ealaus I walked into the outskirts of the turn', and out of
cue got a few bisetrts, a packet of tea, seine sugar, and a
kettle I then .1,1,111111e1l 1.. .dart for 1.. y shed among lite
bills, the num and I carrying the children. So we trudged
sail undue, nip wife bwiring ep with great spirit. We
found the shed ; attother eight .41 the plain.
eeterday I Mall..geol it, tenet n shed with sticks and
mat, and tittle I left nip 111 l ily.

A witness lif the tlisastroutt effects at Aries war
The hour was that when by enstom most if the Inha-
bitants hail pint closed their daily labors and were at their
homes. The instant the startling indications of an earth-
quake woe felt there wee a general Mail for micovered
1,11410514 which vv ere reached by many uninjured ; Int not by I
all. The streets became a scene if terror. All the houses
the city trembled like a person effected with the ROW.
Then they surged, and some of then, fell to Mee, with crash
liter vi ash. At this juncture, when the mohilations WO,
active, the earth opened lii several places In how and almost
regular lines. The 155111 t-a Nero from one to three inches in
width. The sensation was distinct as though something was
rolling underneath. From every fissure there I with.' fin ,11
dry earth like dust. which was followed by a stifling gaa.
lining to this demolition Mina iings and the geneml ilestrue-
ti-oi of all kinds of property, awl the dust bridled forth
well as tied ut in motion by tile iiiiii It, Ii
devise cloud was formed over the city soil obscured the
light. Beneath the cloud was the gas, which severely
uppre.eil every living creature, anti woul.l have suffo-
cated all these if it hail lingered I iiii ger htationa, y than it
which was only about ninety seconds. Thetituttilatlimtd
sieve three in windier. End, sin•ceediii.4 one was of emit.,
inagnitiele than the former. When the unditiations ceased,
the ClOll.l of dust nseended wu,h ;liveried, and light was
red.-wed Then quakes at short intervals succeeded, aa
ltaalah subterranean explosions or collisions were taking
plaaa. At this tinie people from all parts of the city fled tit
ernht fulling stones and timbers, which descended