Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-26
A City Shaken Down by an Earth
quake-DescriPtiOn of the Ruins
of MyaheIeue r- "a

% NJ yAneAene.
Correspondence of the Boston Transcript
All our glasses were turned upon the
shore as we neared it, but we could not make
out the reports we had heard of its destruc-
tion and supposed it some exaggeration-
Dut alas when we had landed we saw such
scene of horror as l had never seen be-
fore, and never wish to witness again. For
hall an hour we scrambled through the
ruins. Therewa not single house but what
was hall demolished or thrown down en-
tlrely We could look into the gaping
rooms where their furniture was strewn OIL
the noor, trunks, chairs, &C.. in confusion,
ana their terrified owners had fled in dis
may to the mountains, leaving everything
20 It's tate. During all our walks only two
or three men were seen. They were exca-
Vatlng magazine of corn, sitting it from
the bricks and mortar, and were only in
duced to enter the town by dire hunger
besides these there was not single soul to
be seen. a -
In our passage through the streets we
were obliged to climb over piles of ten or
fifteen feet of rubbish, from the fallen
houses. In one place we saw above the
ruoDlsh the ears of donkey, which with
the rider had been buried there. In an
other place child of few years old was
found, after five days, still alive, though
lnsensible. The mass of human beings
lost is still below the fallen fragments, and
hO OnN Ouls Iucy arc dll
undoubtedly now dead. We also entered
the Catholic Church, once very fine
structure. 1t was mass of ruins, the only
thing standing being the great door of en-
trance, and this was rent in twain. The
priest of the Church was one of our party,
and was saved by the earthquake happen
ing at the moment when he vas entering
under this door. He, crossed himself and
wished me TO go with him down to hevault,
but / had not his faith in his crossing, and
looking around at the tottering walls, l
declined. After scrambling through the
town found myself in the marino, and
there got boat to gotinto the port where
our yacht was anchored, no one daring to
go through the ruins of the town, as walls
are continually falling.
Had the earthquake happened during the
night, instead of six o'clock in the evening,
as it did, nearly the whole population of
the island, some $4,000, might have perish
ed-been buried under the ruins of their
dwellings during their sleep. AS it is it is
supposed the killed will number from four
to five Thousand; some time will elapse be-
fore this can be accurately ascertained.
l took walk toward the castle, or open
space covered with tents, and as / was 60
ing up, woman with her hair disheveled
and her foot bleeding, passed us, sobbing
out, TO ena tutto, to ena tutto %" Oh,
God, what is this, what is this ?" and then
another, crying out, II am starving; give
me an onion;" and then another ran by,
screaming out, ''Lost! lost! lost!" They
were horror stricken, and were from the vii
lagos that have suffered equally with the
town, and no doubt they had lost their
children or relatives in the universal ruin.
What to be the end of this no one can
tell. The earth is still trembling, and there
are shocks at intervals, some severe and
some light,