, 1861-06-07

Correspondence cq@ns.stsl H. Adss,t,'essl s14
All the accounts received from Mendoza go
beyond the statements nt first made coQceru-
Ing that fated town. Every letter that comes
giving details ehows the horror OF the calami-
3y to be more and more complete. BUN des.
olation and death characterize the scene. At
.tha NEST moderate calcu1atto ion It is now judged
that ten thousand lives havc been lost. The
town was ali peacs md activity. Customers
were in the shops, visitors In tho parlors,
loungers about tho corners-a bright moon
Bhone-when in five seconds the whole town
wns inst htap. or rather q series Of heaps Of
ruins. The cloud Of dust from the fallen wills 1
was 80 dense that for half IN hour the moon
Wus invisible, an Intense darkness adding to !.
! The confuslon and dismsy Of survivors. "
Era long the lnrid Light OF burning buitdlugs
different ahops took fire from tbs lamps Some
persons who hsd been buried under the walls,
but we're still a1iTe. were burned On every
hand rose ~cr1es for help. but those buried.
under the ruins we're actually more In mum.
Der han s It'll Tcre az dspose to 1oR.
der it. It is eaid that some .were 90 terrified
ss to 20 away from the tho town BY the raat-
in Of Jesuit, that tho world was coming at
once to end, and the day Of jugment was at
taad Ihs spPes55GSns RToph's1 1en na
and they left the vicinity:
Robbery then set: IN. The shops, the hons
es were scenes of unhindered pi11aga. The
earth ct intervals was still trembling. Tha
earago robbers wou1d rob, and then Eneel IN
I1ayer, crying In loud >volcc 1or mercy, and
p and ct the work OF depreciation once again.
AllEthe time cries for assistance were assail
ing their ears on eyesy hand; here Woman'a
| yoice, there the feeble CRY Of an old man, but
| al In vain. They wonld not hesr:
| From tho town Of San Juaa two hundred
| wI& and $nt~t 11Y7k$ "a
| Governor OF Mendoza actually forbade their
| entering. the town! Troops from Mendoza
| hadattacked San Juan recently, and he affected
to fear they had come for vengeance. It 1s
currently thought many lives might have been
eayed had proper excavations been made at
'. one man, who, 1T the time Of the shock,
was awnJ frem hone, returning after q faW
days, found his children uninj1red under a
beadstead, that Is to say without scar or bruise,
but lifeless, probably from suRocation-
under T tbe mi runs eight days. shs was IN STATE
Of extreme proatrsiion, but still living; how
ever, abe did not survive, such bad been ths
shock to hereystem, and such her exhaust
l'1 I man w.a actually taken ont who had beer
sixteen days buried under the ruins. He had
eausta!ned bruiee On the head In which
worms had bred. His hip had been injured &C
that decay had commenced in it, and yet hf
Was xliyet Hopes were entertained that he
might be brought round. However al failed
the poor fellow died six days after ho wss tax
en- out,
i 4 man named GodoY with his wife, were
for somo time buried In their own dining
room ruius, As they had 8 little bread aul
wine they sustained Life TIL relief came.
/ 4 man 90 years Of age Ras partly covered vi
: 1,y the ruins, even mp to his neck. BE VII
rescued by serving woman to whom he Of
| farad ar fTnrnensa rauar6 If aha would aftri