The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-06-15

HE EARTHQUAKE AT MENDOZA - Tal-
paralso, Nag |, 1861. All the accounts re-
ceiyed from Mendoza SO beyond the state
ments at first made concerning that fated
town. Every letter that comes giving details
shows the horror Of the calamity to Be more
and more complete Ruin, desolation and
death characterize the scene At the most
moderate calculation it IS now judged that
ten thousand lives have been lost. The town
was all peace and activity. Customers were
IN the shops. visitors in the parlors, loungers
about the corners-a bright moon shone-
series Of heaps Of ruins
The cloud Of dust from the fallen walls
was so dense that for half an hour the moon
vas invisible, an intense darkness adding to
the confusion and dismay Of survivors. Ere
long the lurid light of burning buildings or
remains ofbuilding7 began to gleam Three
different shops took fire from the lamps. 80
Some persons who had been buried under the
walls, but were still alive, were burnt. On
every hand rose cries for help. But those
buried under the ruins were actually more in
number than the survivors Few remained
to render ala fewer still were disposed to
render it.
Robbery then set in. TIE shops, the hou-
scs. were scenes Of unhinderel pillagc The
earth At intervals was still trembling The
savage robbers would rob ana then kneel in
prayer, crying IN loud voice for mercy and
up and at the work Of depreciation once again
Al! the time cries for assistance were assailing
their ears "a every hand; here a woman 5
voice, there the feeble cry Of an old man, but
din vain. They would not hear.
From the town Of San Juan two hundred
soldiers come with spades and picks, but the
Governor Of Mendoza actually forbade their
entering the town. Troops from Mendoza
had attacked San Juan recently, and he af.
feeted to fear that they had come for ven
gcance. 1t is currently thought that many
lives might have been saved had proper cx-
ertions been made At once.
One man, who, at the time Of tho shock.
was away from his home, returning after a
few days found His children anininred under
a bedstead, that is to say without scar Or
bruise; but Efeess probably from sunocaton
Y nun was taken out alive who had been IN
,er the ruins eight days She was ina state
Of extreme prostration, but still living; how
ever, she did not survive, such had been the
shock to her system, and such hereNhaustion
\ man was actually taken out who had hcen
sixteen days buried under the ruins. He had
sustained hlulse On the head, and his hip
had been injured 80 that decay had commcnc-
ca u i, and yet he was alive. Hopes were
entertained that he might be brought round
However. all failed the poor fellow died six
days after TX was taken out a man named
Gos,oy, with his wife, were for some time bur-
led iii their own dining room ruins As they
had little bread and wine they sustained
lite till relief came a man ninety years Of
a9e vas partly covered III bg the ruins, even
~ to his neak. H. was released by 1 serving
woman, to whom hc offered an immense re
ward il she would cxtricate him.
The probability i tEat Mendoza VIII never
be rebuilt Certainly It will not % the for
mer Site From all sections Of thc country
AID ior Mendoza has>been sent forward The
total amount from Chile will not he les than
$4,000
4 PRESIDING ELDER, who vas holding
meeting without assistance. was ovcrjoyed
w ! Sabbath morning, To zee brother King,
who i : good preacher ride III and At once
he insisted that he should preach the NOR