The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-17

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000, 900 TO 81, 000, 900.
The number Of bodies recovered from ruins ia different
quarters Of the city is about twenty 1t feared that all
OF the dead have not yet been excayated
KfrEcrs PARTS OF THE VALLEY
The shock appears TO have been equally heavy in the
villages scattered about this valley. At Tacubaya the
shock severe, but owing TO the rocky foundation
upon which that place ID built no serious accident
red We believe no houses thrown down nor any
lives lost The shock scnsiby felt by everybody
and seems TO have been pretty much the here
Ia point OF strength, but the motion was more regular
and hence little damage Several fountains ia the
place were half emptied Of their contents and the water
thrown SIX or seven feet out on the ground
cuYAcAs.
In this village the shock felt severely II seems
to have bsen quite m strong in any part Of this city
Several houses badly injured The country scat Of
General Gadsden late United States minister to Mexico
was broken in many places and the walls almost entirely
thrown down. The house is no badly injured that we
LEARN it is not considered safe for residence The stables
completely ruined for the present The entire prem
ises which lately the pride Of the late American
minister are, we learn little better than pile Of ruins
ANITA IsrAcAIoo.
These towns. which are situated in the Chnampas or
Floating Gardens frghtully rocked to and fro by
the earthquake In Isacalco several houses were broken
to pieces and number Of persons seriously injured The
church at Santa Annta badly cracked We learn of
no person being killed at that place. The water in the
canal of Chalco which posses by these towns was thrown
some five or ak yards out over the banks.
The farm house OF Henry Aej!a, esq, situated the
bank of the canal, shattered from top to bottom
The tiles on the roof dashed down by the violence
Of the shocks In fragments like hail upon the heads Of
the people employed about it, The house itself has been
male almost complete ruin.
AND PATzcuARo
Letters from Morea say that the earthquake was felt
there the 10th instant at five minutes past clock
and was considered the strongest known The
shaking lasted over and half minute, and left the
cathedral and temples of L., Compana and San Augustn
In ruins. Some private houses fell and most of the
others have remained in very dilapidated state From
Patzcuaro which is fifteen leagues TO the west of More
a learn that in this town it even more severe
The temples of La Parroqua, La Compana San Juan dc
Dios, and the sanctuary of Guadalupe have all been
shaken to the ground, well as number of private
houses from the ruins Of which sxeen dead bodies have
been recovered and sorry to say that Don
Sotua is amongst them. The adjacent villages of linda
parapeo, Charo &C., in ruins. The earthquake IL
here attributed to the volcano Of Jornlla
GuADALAJARA.
The houses in this city have all suffered more or less
damage from the earthquake on the 10th Instant
JALAPA.
According to private letters from the above place the
earthquake Of the 10Th inst very severe there and
slight shock felt the following day at the same
hour-quarter past nine, a. m.
cnILpANcINdo
In this town Of Chlancingo sixty houses were thrown
down by the earthquake Of the 10TH The streets were
heaped with ruins.
ErTEcE OF THE EARTHQUAKES BIRDS.
Several persons who in the country on the morn
ing of Saturday the 18TH at the time of the earthquake
have mentioned to the singular effects produced by the
shocks upon birds Contrary to natural superstition
that they would have taken wing and flown away those
that in the air suddenly aighted and appeared to
be perfectly staggered and benumbed by the shocks One
person that in of the roads this city
where he at the time, he might have easily picked
number from the ground If he himself had not been
much overcome by what was transporting, completely