The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-01-29
THE APPALLING DISASTER IN
CHILL!
Full and Latest Particulars of the ter
rible Conhagration IN Santiago!
Prom the Valparaiso Mercury, Dec II

Prom the Valparaiso Mercury. Dec II
A catastrophe gigantic, horrible unex-
ampled in the annals of our country and
perhaps Of the world has absorbed every
ones mind Tor man, DAYS past.
We will use ibe utmost brevity ia res
| laiB0 he calamity to our foreign readers.
Ever sine. the newly invented mystery
OF the irnaacul~'e Conception of Mary
WAS declared at Rome. IN 1857. the church
Of the Company. formerly belonging to the
Jesnits had become the focus of devotion
Of vast Sis.erhood called The Daughters
Of Narv in which. on payment Of 80 much
a vear almost all the women of our CAPT
tai were enrolled
| Everv wear from the 9th of November
to the 8;h t December the day of ,hs i'm
macnIse conception, ls.,sd . splendid
festival, in ohich orchestral music, sing
ing. AVID astonishing ptodivalsv "f;""A--
of lights Of oil, Of liquid gas. wax and e,-
erv luminou. coDbus,ih's in the world,
gi'tAred ard flsred in every part. in the
rornir-s in ,hs ceiling. and particularly
on he high altar Every nigh, ,le church
with cosi, Of muslin and game drape.ies
IT cnnld only be lighted MP in time bv be-
ginning in the middle 81 he afternoon
and iha work Of e1,inguishinc vas only
epde@ when the nigh, WAS far advanced -
Ia 1853 they thought "f adopting HYDRO.
gen gas, but the engineers plan. though
convenient and safa. WAS rejected
The church Of "tha COMPANY" bull.
in the lnter half Of the seventeenth cen
tnry, possessed spacions lave bnt roof
'hs, only dated from fifteen wears ago. Of
pain'ad timber. The only door Of easy
acress to the congregation was The princi
pal ono in the centre. tha sma(l doors
les1ing into ,ha .is'ea. heng only or4nad
half ~av snd ohstrncted bv screens Near
m" high sl:sr there WAS li,,le door com
munics'ing With the sacrstv.
EiI.gurr. the Apostolic Nuncio and
favori,e Of Pine TX the founder Of the
American college ~ ROME wa t" preach
s'-.,. l. is s.id shs' Ugsr'e. wonndel in
his feelings ~ chap'ain nf the Dauyhrars
Of Mercy" because Eizsgnrre had tod
him that the illumina', Of his church
cruh not he compared with what he hal
s--' in Rom. -xclsimad with en'hn.ia.,n.
will give him when le comes 10 preach
such an illumination "a the world has nav.
.r Aaan Nobody can deny that Uyarte
has kap, good his word
! fnd--d he lighting of a'l the lamps and
candle. had n.tdl, Hni>b.d. When t,e Ii
auh ess in transparency on the high Al
tar So, on &c Us snndwnrk. aud ~r~pr-'
in fame hind of .harn4c'- wholly COM
po~Sl of canvas tA>tehoard and wood -
" less 'hsn 'xo miuuies the Altar nhcn'
% v.ris high AMI 10 broad. as IN nex-
'irgui-hah'e hnr,ir-.
Tho advance of the fra was parhans
even move rspid th.a NJ p.ni,. If the s,I-
.ii4nc. Wien 'ie e.. hal faun iown
fnn 'h@ atSr to he rot Re whole fnck
"f h-vnteas rnah~,i to the urinr;psl door
Those near III. 's'erpn' dnars were shle 70
e-xspr ~ the hr>, AlsrW--efh-r- snd par
ticnlsrlv thu men. gained the little door OF
the sacria'v-and. Ias,lv. those near the
chief outlet forced ,hair vsv through the
,hrong. even sril' s,rugyling 30 oe, in and
indaad part Of which did get in oven in
: the face of the fir. Then. the flames
having crrpt along the whole roof and
con. qnnn'Iv telaas-d the lamps Of oil and
liquid ga from the cnrnices to which they
were ..rnng rain of liquid. blue Are
p ured down upou the en.sngle! th'ongs
, haoS.
A rev and more horrible conhagra'ion
. broke out then in 'h.r dense living mass
appsllinQ the atfryh'eH gaze With pictures
, tenfold more awful than ,hos. sherein the
: Catholic imagination has Iahor-d to give
; nm idea Of tbs torture Of tn. d.nnad -
Ir lea. than aGnar'ar Of an honr two thou
sand human beings hai peri-hed nclud
ing many children. bnt very few men
Although many heroic men performed
pro.ligies Of vs!or ard at myth in tearing
some from the death cra.r of the halanr
of d4a,h that choked he door in .on.
cases literally 'e.rinp If their arms. with
ont being able 10 -xlrcsae shem-,he num-
har Of tbs ssved by this means fall. short
Of fftiv. More than five hundred persons
of our highest society have per.hed-
the greatest par Young girls Of fifteen TO
: twenty wears One mother has peri>ked
with her FIVE daugh,er. Two ,lird, of
the vic'ims were snrvants ard .here are
many houses in which not one escaped -
Several houses have been noted bv the
police a. empty hecnuse all their inhabi>
tahts have peri>hei
The people think Of nothing but the
victims and heir ohse9uies All with
one voice demand he demolition of the
:, rnlnouS wall> Of The fatal temple. and ,he
offering Of a monument TO the dear memo
rv of the msrtvrs The municipal hndy
solicited tbis hv the medium Of arommis-
.ion on the II h. and he government :,
resolved on compliance
During The last week the tribunals and
the 90, ernmeh. Itself has snspende3 their
labors.
The people onfv weep. and their public
writer's could only I, ffer tears to the ma
tior's mourning.