The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-14

Mount MIST is actually throwing out lava, smoke
and and Quantities, Of mud. The river emits sui
falling from the mountain crater. No one dares to
60 where the city was, and the survivors are living
Hundreds of persons were killed by the falling
houses oceasioned by the earthquake, r-,ta,.r.,
From Guayaquil, under date of August 2Gth we
nave brief accounts of the earthquake in Ecuador.
In the city of Guayaquil but little damage was
done. Inc towns of lbarra, in the province of
lmbalura, San Pablo and Altuntaqui are In ruins.
Ihe entire population of those towns, and of Oto-
tato, amounting to 30 goo souls, have perished.
AT Quito the earthquake commenced at 1.20 A..
M. on August 10th, and continued at intervals of a
few hours, up to the last dates on August 10Th.
All the churches. public buildings and private
dwellings are already in RUINS and the people are
living in tents in the great squares. The towns ad-
joining Quito, named Verucho, Puellaro and Ca
chuguango have almost entirely disappeared, with
their inhabitants, the few left alive being Obliged
to flee to escape the pestence arising from the pu-
tretying bod bodies. The towns of Yenicho and San
Antonio also disappeared. The number of deaths
in the city of Quito is not yet known, but large
proportion of the wealthy inhabitants had died
IRON pestilence or disaster.
Valparaiso letter, of August II, says; Advices
received there from Talcuapano state that at
second of which raised an immense wave, which
swept away fully one-half of the town, and rem
dered the other uninhabitable.
AT Tome the same thing occurred but being
higher up but little damage was done. The port of
Constitution suffered from the wave, but was not
much damaged. Several small vessels were
stranded and five men drowned The town of Con-
cepcion was also much damaged. Cobia, the Me-
rllOnes lslanuS, Ilsaqua ana all the cities and
towns, in fact, from Cape FrancinO i'm Ecuador to
to the Magellan Straits, suffered more or less from
the terrible vistations.
One report states that an American barque laden
with guano, name unknown, was swallowed up com
pletely in the harbor of africa, and nothing more
was seen of her. Terror, hunger and depopulation
reign where africa once was. The town of Choquega,
nine leagues from Arequpa, was destroyed. Tao
quin, in the same neighborhood, lost sixty houses
and 100 lives, mostly children who were returning
from school. The town of Chejiat?) was swept
away, and only 20 out of 800 Inhabitants escaped.
The earth was opened in several places on the
plains and pampas, and dwater has appeared in some
places In some places hot water has poured forth
from the chasm. All the habitatons at Tilo were
destroyed, and twenty lives were lost. Three YES
sels with their crews also lost. All the nitrate
works at 1quique were destroyed, as we'll as those
in its suburbs, entailng great loss. Among those
killed at 1quique was the British consul, Mr.. Bill
nnghurst.
The American barque Condor was lost at Megil-
lones, but the crew were saved. The losses at
Iquique are over $2 ,OOO, 900. At the Chincha
Islands there was first hurricane, next an earth
quake, and then a tidal wave. Several English
vessels were damaged, and Prussian barque was
wrecked. -Four hundred tons of silver ore with all
the expensive works of the Peruvian Mineral Com
pany, owned in London, were completely swept
awayat Iquique.
The towns of Coneta, Chancaz, Capara, Charna,
Cabacera and other smaller places were also de-
strOyed. The port of Los Joonas has been united
to the islands in the bay of Callao by the action
of the earthquake. Over 100000 persons are with
out shelter or bread.
Commissions are being formed and the ladies
are making clothes, and the government of Peru
is straining its utmost to alleviate the distress
General Fitzpatrick left for home on August 7th.