The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1868-09-25
Terrible Earthquake. Appalling 1sesult.l

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= A New York dispstch, Of The / s,h. ,.v.:
on The 18th August q terrible earth.
: quake visited the cities along the coast, of
' Peru, and Ecuador: $4,000 lives were lo.,.
and property valued a. three hundred mil.
lions OF dol'srs destroyed.
Efequips. a city Of 35, 600 inhabit,u,s
passed sway. 80 that scsrcely . ve.,ipe 10
'eH only four hundred lives, were Jos,
here. -'i' .h 6A HCT7
africa. town Of %, 900 inhsbi,s n,.. -.
also destroyed, leaving not house s,.ndino
Five hundred perished here. A tidal W. ~
forty feet high rolled with terrific rosr or ,hs
shore carrying chips farther on land than
ever before known. 4-t.,,..
Ihe United States store.ship Fredonis.
capszeds and all on. board were lost. The
ffeoonis had one million eight hundred
thousand dollars worth Of nsvsI stores
aboard. The vessel was rolled over and
smashed 10 atoms. The United Slate.
steamer Wsteree was carried half 4 mile
'"'"ho' and Iett high and dry, t
The towns o.! Iquique. Noquega, Lerumbs
ana PIssqua were utterly destroyed. Over
SIX hundred perished at Iquiqoe. i.,.l.a
IN reference to this most sppal.ny and
hesrt'rending disaster, the Louisville Demo.
crst remarks: ttNJiM
From The accounts furnished by teleer.ub.
u 10 evlden, that the most extensive cslsm.
ny Of history has occurred Ia Ecuador. Per.
and Chill. Several Pompeiis ana Heron.
'aoeums may sstosish and Interest xplore,.
centuries hence. When the full record il
made up the Evidence already before us in.
aca'es that the ruin that overlook those
famed cities d~iodles before the m. opi,uds
81 that which has jos, been wrought
Imagination attempts TO sweep ,be 6sId
'nd the nature and variety and ex,sn, Of IN.
10 vain. No mortal can con.
'e've the swiftness Of the destruction Of m.
thousands who perishcd, or the seoni,. ~
ne hundreds of thousands who survive. \.
me limited district alone. the dispa,che. tel,
Is. thirty thousand people .perisbed in ths
w'nkling Of an eye, for -four Or five min.
'es was The extent Of the duration Of ,bep
hooks. The towns afflicted seem 10 h.vs
a"ged from hsmIets Of a few hundred 90 10
even or ten 'boussod, and 10 those 8 9Th
'meficsn coon!ries the towns sre numro,.
20 no w"hin lew miles Of each ,o.be,-
nen We are told that. 10 one, district. ,h,es
'ndred thousand stand shei,srlvss .na
We can form some dim eoossp-
on Of tho cssirophs. n a-t - TinB"''
africa, town OF seven ,hous.nd ;,k.k;-
ne, seems 20 have lost but sbo.s ,b,..
'oorcd by the earthquake. bu. the civ
ok totally out Of eight. and i,s wrs,cbsd
n'oi'sos stood dhelpisssly bega.rsd Sd ths
scn. II will turn out. ws ins gins, that tho
mediate destruction Of life was uueh
ester than the estimate nov given. IoI{
II we.'urn to The destruction Of prons,,v
w'n ind that history records 90 es,ss,,o.
approaching this 10 i.s gigan.ic propor.
ns' No estimate probably ever viii 30
oe o. 'ns vs'ue Of buildings and personal
perry destroyed. That thousands Of mil.
ne were thus swept away is we'll i!iusy..
10 The account Of the millions Tia, ven,
vn 10 isolated casss. -Four million, of
la'' worth Of goodsis me Coesom House
Ar'ca alone. the two millions of sso,e.
10 us in The United States, tia, went
70 10 the F,edonis. tho million los, b. tho
ofGibbs & Son. lie four huudred ,uo.
'i'ver ore: the two million, I. Tquioue-
's are but scs.,sring iilustra tioos Of the
nth thsthss dissppesrsdi 3i'a s'hn'r
'pd 70 add 70 The horrors Of he vhol.
Hence en- ''i STALKS override riysn land. spring.
rom decomposipg bodies which nsns
buy, and from, which sJl ,hs i've mus,
? ''ve themselves from psri.hiug. Take
xxsens.i diree. and eopasquea, horrors.
world hss never before hsd - ,ppalIipg
'i'ssI0n. The history will be coming 10
descriptions Of ef-eys.wi,nesses. some
rpisias biosraphe will have pms,eri.l
wo'k Of history and detsiIs which evetv
e library N rhtiste6dom viii need for
'mission TO future aaes .ni1i sif''
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