Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-23

Sla alQ tue lCatO4 lbaS. IL is Couiputeu sluhe
30O, 900 persons faro homeless aud wan
-deripg throughout Peru, destitute Of shell
ter; andJr food. Z The nnnb.r of lives lost
is calculated as extending from 10000 to
6O,O00. A correspondent of the New York
Times writes -on the 24.hsof August, as fol
TIE EARTHQUAKE AT AFRICA.
africa is the;central point from which the
effects Of this disaste-. must be traced. It's
seaport town OF Peru, with population of
about. thirty thousand. 1t WIS nearly des-
trayed iby an earthquake in 1895, and now it
has ceased To exist.
About live o'clock in tile afternoon, in the
most moun;ainUuS par. of the country back
of Arics, q sensation was experienced like
the collision os TWO heavy MASSES. and from
this point radialed north and s. nth to the
dstancesI nave already indicated, with con,
s qusncts US terrible as they were immediate,
2 Three nndulations Of the earth followed this
u-i>eeii cni.vul>ioG Of Nature, and each undu
fation was accompanied hy 4 tidal wave-the
second Of greater lateral extent than the
first, and the third greater than tae second.
A correSp ardent gives the following descrip
tion ot the scere:
The hn,ir was that when by custom most
of the Inhabitants had Just closed their daily
: labofs aud were at their homes. The instant.
tile; startling Indications of an earthquake
We're felt there was Il general rush for une1v-
ecad spaces. which were reached hy many .un-
''.inrrd, hut notify all. The streets became
scene of terror. An the houses in the city
-t:embled like pcrscn aifected with the aguc
Taen they s;,rged, and some of them fell to
pieces with Crash ,aiter.cnAsh. At this june.
.tnre, when The npdulat ohs we're, active, the
7 e:r.a oi.pcd in several, places III long aus
: most regular lines:f The fSS nres were from
o e to t5see inches in width. The sensation
: was distict, as though. something was rolling
: u Underneath. From every -tissure there belch-
: efforth dry earth, like dust, which was fol.
.l13ed By. o sitting gas When the 1ndula
tons ceased, the cloud, of dust. asce.ded .and
dispersed, and Light was restored. Then
: ,quakes at s6ortinterYas succeeded, as though
= 'slbterranean explosions. or collisions were
stalking place. AT tbs tine, people from all
sinsrts OF the city fed to hills amid falling
s ones and .timbers, which. descended from
: s@aying; walls and broadly=rent buildings,
: isf On the eve. Of erumbling into perfect
rdin. Some were struck ,down dead by, the
iaiiing materials, and others were maimed,
while all were made to 'stagger from side to
side like people in q state ofiutoYication.
70 TIiE, SEA DESTROYS WHAT WAS SPARED BY THH
- /'.a EARTHQUAKE.
- The water in The harhor vas now receding
= from the shore, bearing with it all the
: saipring at ra id speed. Thcu the cur
= rent charged, and before an almost over
h,nging, tremendous wave, the vessels came
back, tossed one way and then another, or
whircd about as though they were only
floating logs, and on the very summit of the
imme,,se vSlume OF water rode tie United
States steamer Watcree. The huge wave
d.shed against the stone mole or pier, and
slattered it all to pieces. then swept from It's
path what was Standing Of the Customhouse,
and almost every yestige Of the ruins Of other
> buildings. It rolled over the already des
-t-oged houses of the city, aud set myriad Of
articles aHoat, which eddied in every direc-
ton, while at the same time the vessels and
shoating materials were forced ahead of, the
Z waves at this time curling and foaning sum-
INIT Everything which it encountered in its
COurSe Wds,SWeps away III tu Itiothut. G'S.n
2 great masses of stone were rolled over and
over When the force Of the wave was spent.
il retired, and;ina short time tue equilibrium
of the water was restored, and then it occu-
ped about the same line, aud presented near
'1ly the same appearance as it did before the
earthquake The vessels carried inland were
"a a terrible sight. The most Of them Were
b tom upward. Their. masts had, been snap.
; 'pSd like sticks. Al this dreadful picture the
r,fdpees on the hills were now beholding.
Many of them did Sc. with themost marked
eridenceso Of fear, because quakes of theearlb
were still felt ut short intervals. The Wa
t,ree was grounded inland at q Q.arter Of a
mile from hebeach, on the line o! arailroad.
As far as heard FROM. only one life was lost
ON board. Near the Wateree Peruvian war
.svcSsul wasSaiso grounded. and SO gently that
E more o. lis rigging nor any Of its iimbers
were impaired. On board the Peruvian war
eamef America, which is a total wreck
es.f;ty lives we've reported 10 have been lost,
! Tha Uniitfed Statee. storeslip Frelonia was
upset and al her crew except three drowned,
according To- report. Those who escaped.
were the captain, surgeon, and aspay master,
who were on shore when the earthquake oc
CURED, and sought reiugeon the hills.
A.Briish vessel, called the Chanarcillo, lost
many of her crew, who were :umbed over
board. A United States brig, name unknown
was fonndered with all OH board. The YES I
5ssei Il IS reported. was laden With (guano. The
rest of the shipping destroyed were South
Ancricsn coasters. The fatal casualties in
the city were about fifty. and the other casu-
allies about one hundred Tue total loss on
shipboMrd was about three hundred principal
ly fatal. The refugees remained on tie hills
for two days, during which lire they
suffered greatly t,rt f,od at the same time
the d'lftkes cnatinned as before ut intervals.
In i'm, th,ri sr,:fcrirgs hec,,rne so intense
t tat the m,.'es had 10 60 in 81 arch of food a
:iilnled quantity of%hich they found in il
Iamas.1 condition, with this They succnre,l |
their fainilies. The second morning after
th,. earthquake light draught -oas.ing vessel |
entered the harbor, but did not remain long
at anchor. Az soon as the captain became
aware of what had happsned he took on
hoard q number of p opie and left WITT. them
for Callao; thence one OF the parties got to
Panama.
THE EARTHQUAKE IN PERU. -.
Arequipa. the mos. beautiful city in Peru,
was completely overthruwl by the earthquake
of the 18th. It was solidly built Of stone, and |
contained about 10000 inhabitants. With
ou, exsggerstion, | may say that notone stone
has been left upon another. Not church is
left standing, not house is habitable. The
sodity OF the buildings enabled them to re-
-. ,La fire. s,,nrks = nd payp time to thu IN.