New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-06
Earthquake in Cuba-L.oss Of Life-Vast
Amount of Property Destroyed.


By the arrival at Mobile of the steamer Black Warrior
have dates from Havana the 3sd ut and accounts
of terrible earthquake at Santiago de Cuba The shocks
commenced the 10Th, and continued the 21st and
22i. At last accounts the shocks still continued and
half the city was in ruins. ..s- ..s
An extra from the Order apapef published at santiago,
Of the 2lst says:
All the streets blocked up with rubbish, cornices
runs Of edces All the houses have suffered.
or less and large number Of them are irhabtabIe.
The Inhabitants have taken refugain the estaids and
in the country houses Of the vicnitycn board OF tho
vessels upon the public squares and promenades flying
from the houses which threaten to fail and crush them
The city presents rendng spectacle husbands
wives fathers children brothers and sisters searching
for each other and only meeting to or their prayers for
their preservation Signs tears and wanss are all that
heard and
that have and heard for fear of Reverhe
iess will fail TO observe that notwithstanding the
terrible calamity, thank heaven but few lives have been
lost.
An extra Of the I'D from the oice of The Rsdaetor,
also published at Santiago. adds
when We took our pen on the day bege yesterday TO
give nj I @ m win s , on
visitation which had fallen upon had not ceased
Since the shocks have been repeated r'ore or less e.
yerey and with grea destruction Of property. But the
which CREATED the greatest aarm by its fearful vic
lence occurred at thirtyfve minutes past three in the
morning and which Was repeated in two HiInutes DUE
with less force Indeed may say that the earth
which stand has been in continual motion shocks with
sound like thunder of battery felt and heard
regularly at intervals Of about half hour Such ths
condition Of cur aghtsd population that at the noise
Of anything like it, at cries Of mercy and
s5ayfr' e4 to the Most High burst forth in fearful
Yesterday when we hoped that our prayers had ap-
peascd Divine wrath another shock feIt though
less severe and distinctly heard by all the inhabitants Of
Cuba It repeated few after but with less
severity
The afternoon calm, hut the atmosphere had not
as We had hoped after 50 hard rain ana & q
morning have felt two slight oscillations which makes
still fear that the penalty for sins is not yet paid
Grry ammo Y,y aTld
streets and public places and large number Of barracks
and stores have been established in the country.
The shipping in the port is occupied by crowd OF
sons who refuge board for savety in the Bean-
hoy state of affairs and treated with every kindness
by the captains and upon whose hospitality tney
have thrown themselves.
The shipping in the bay whether Spanish or the
steamer Cardenas included rode the storm brayey
The captain of the English vessels moored OF Punts-d
Sase FASTENED to come to quay in their boats ana
begged every body they saw to come Oh With them 70
tion witnessing the conduct of the captain OF the
American ship John stroud who although ne saw wnoie
to east off the panks that afforded the means Of reaching
the vessel.
The writer indulges in bitter reflections On the
Yankees generally calls the Guban fools to look to
them for sympathy aid. The Redactor adds:
1t is painful duty to state that the damage done
in the city will take one million and hail. or Two mL
lions dollars to repair it, So far have nothing more
than conjecture on the amount OF the devasa
ton in the country.
.Letters just received from satadcro state that the
same terrible disaster extended to that village.
presume that Baracoa shared the fate as ths
steamer General Armero from Havana which was to have
Baracoa last Friday has not yet arrived here although
due yesterday "a
The Mobile Tribune of Saturday has the following frou
, | Havana: a..
The authorities had at last farreted out the place
publication Of La Foz del Pac4o Some four hundred per
supposed to be concerned in its publication and dis
tribution. had it was stated been apprshended and
thrown into prison. clerk in the house of Drake. Bros
& Co had been arrested and young man employed il
another mercantile house implicated in the matter man
! aged to escape on beard of a vessel.
"A great deal of sickness prevailed in Hayana-nostl,
yellow fever-and the mortality unusually great
The however taken out by the steamship Cres
cent City to NewYork were greatly exaggerated.
Business very du and the shipping in port muc
e reduced'