The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-30
THE EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Horrible Stencil from the Ruins Families
Literally Annlhilated in Ecuador
Names Of the Leading Victims.

letter from Quito states that the stencil from the
ruins Is almost insuerable. Don Pedro Perez Pareja
was killed, leaving twelve sons. His family lost
! over 100000 worth Of property on their Quinta
hacienda. The ground is rent in all directions and
most Of the pastures are converted into mpassab,e
marshes and lagoons; hills burst and thrown In
| all directions. Some Of the notable persons zone
are:-Jose Maria Gomez ana sons, +. Salvador de
sanqurico, Rosario 8. de Reboedo Mercedes and
Antonio Ribadanera, the Mena family those Of
Senior Maxine Rocha, DR.. Pefaherrera senora Bue-
naventura Calisto and most Of their family. DIR.
Modesto Paz, Revs vialobos and Suarez, and hosts
OF others.
The province OF Camana, about ninety-four leagues
In extent along the coast is entirely ruined The sea
swept it after the shocks had thrown down twenty.
two churches seventeen prisons and nearly all the
houses, &C. The distress in that province is heart
rending.
| Colonel Chacano, the Project OF Arequipa had to
threaten the pagers with 500 ashes each when
caught stealing. 1t was the only way to deter them
from robbng the unfortunate people of that city and
province after the earthquake
The people OF AFRICA and the artillery battalion are
at oggerheads, the accusing the Other of demon
! aZatlOn and rapine and these in turn calling the
people OF that city vile and contemplate The com.
| mander OF the stranded Peruvian corvette America
had to divide his men into detachments to protect
the citizens from the insults or the artil-
lersts There were fewer shocks about
August 81, only three having been felt
on that day. One hdciendado writes that from the
18th of August to the 18th he was on his hacienda.
All the buildings were destroyed. He states that
the hills and the wales were thrown up in immense
quantities. The rocks were hurled abont like SO
many cOcOs, and such the terror inspired by the
scene that all imagined the day of judgment to have
come.
II appears that the shocks were not felt at Hua-
nuco. At Puerto-a-Mar they were felt on August Is
at hafpast five +. NJ.
Rear Admiral Turner was experimenting the dis.
mantng OF the Wateree and had distributed all
her stores to the needy citizens Of africa. Up to
August ~ the earthquakes still to be felt and
kept the people in disinay Although the cities Of
the seaboard well provided for, thanks to the en-
ergetic action OF the Peruvian. Chilean and Bolivian
governments as well as Of the foreign naval officers
still In the Interior there is great suffering and dis
tress, owing to the difficulties OF transporting pro-
visions and other means OF relief,
Tncre was another very violent shock felt on
Saturday, August 20, at 1898 min. 90 sec. r. NJ Many
regarded 1t quite as violent that OF August 10.
Stll another was felt at four O'Clock on the morning
OF sunday, August 30.
g. Agular of the jesuit Order TO the Minister OF the
INTERIOR
DEAR MINISTERIAL the road from OtivalO to
lbafra is sown with ruins and the dead. The open
Ing and trmbling In OF raylnes are frequent espe-
San Lorenzo. on the slopes OF the Cuicocha, besides
the tumbng OF huge pieces, enormJus new cefts are
being opened the old ones made wider. The roads
that joined the farms and towns OF the western slope
! are impossible, owing to broad and deep ravines
| The Ambi buns gave way, carrying all the cane
fields and houses along. The formidable masses OF
stone and earth that were hurled from the Cotacachi
rolled down into the lower plains CARRYING ruin and
sln nI.tin aln Ernr
| slope has started torrent Of mud that has formed
hillocks, after destroying some fields of grain near
| Ibarra and killing great number OF cattle. inc
! mud now was followed by less one OF water, which
| Is daily increasing. -
was, for must leave such matters and the explora-
ton OF the ground till have attended to more press
ing wants. Nevertheless 1t Is thought, with reason
apparently. that the focus Is Mount Ocarnpo, Tor IL
aa few have got safe rom cotacachi, Urcuqn. Tum
bibiro salinas and sone other towns. we nave
no news from any OF these places, as
the roads are entirely destroyed. Yesterday
we reached this unfortunate place after having WIS.,
| tied the ruins OF Ibarra and some OF the places
| where The people have taken refuge and gathered
| the dead taken from the ruins The whole town Is
nearly leveed but not so thoroughly as Oiavao for
few walls are still up and some ruins OF church
walls six or seven metres higher, as well as few
houses that are badly damaged The least Injured
those the southeast side on the Carangui road
but they are all untenantable. Tue population OF
Ibar has spread out to different places, but the
larger groups at Carangui and Lulungui. IL Is
contemplated to bring all together To this end,
early this morning the GOVERNOR, captain
rera and myself went to choose ground. We chose
an inclined plain, quite level and solid 10 the south
east Of Lulungui on the bank OF the Ta,uanio and
clear OF the presidential wind that watts miasina
from among the ruins OF Ibarra. We have already
laid out the plan OF the settlement whittier all
| the population Is to be brought. We shall watch
the result The shocks and the showers OF earth and
storm continue. The few persons who have
escaped the fatal shocks are IN complete terror
| and expect death at any moment either from the
shocks or the pestilential levers that are engen-
| dered by the smells arising from the ruins and the
ravines. The state OF the whole republic y lanenta
bic and deserves the confederation OF ali truly ca
thOlic people, The calculation here ~ that al least
5000 souls have been LOST IN ts we nave r
lance must rot there. 50 the stencil ~ intoIer-
able, and we smell at distance OF nan q
nicied il most mOurufu and terrifying The e isoies
that marked the history OF that night of August 10
! belongs to the record OF lamentations. Almost
every person saved wonders at the manner IN which
he got out Of the ruins; and most OF those VINO es-
capped death had to be dug OUT OF tne iing Dulia,
barra we had 10 work assiduousy and carefully Tor
about two hours 20 get an unfortunate Fellow out oil
the heaps OF ruins. took part IN the work To give
courage TO Others. The poor fellow had been buried
six DAYS alongside Of his wifes corpse. The decom-
position OF the latter aud the horrors that lay before
| ms ewes were indispensable, believe.
! Worst OF ALL we have mad TO guard against theft;
for heartess wreLchs eli upun Ilc 'ueu Say WIZ.
/ the determination to get what the convulsOn hdd
left within the reach OF abe-bodied men, Even the
Indians thought that the time OF vengeance mad come
for them. Had there been men enough 10 dig out
/ the victims at any time for the last SIX days napy
lives could have been saved; but some were unable
/ to aid-we had but u few on the grOund--and some
chose rather to steal There Is scarcely family that
has not many things or many friends 10 lament.
some families have entirely disappeared Four OF
the CaTmelte nuns are gone, among them the prior
esq Niue only remain Of tire der Of the Conceptions;
thrtcen were killed, including the abbess. Tue
bodies OF the four Carmelitcs killed st remain un
buried hut the latter thirteen have been Inferred.
The fo owing eccles astIcs we're killed:-lev Canon
yialobos Fathers Aloinias, Trejo. o. = p, and DR..
Al Quiiumbiia were lost Drs Andradc Marin aud