The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-16

vians for liberal contributions, which have
been readily RESPONDED to, over million dol
lars having been raied.
The business houEs of Lima having connec-
| ton on the coast hive suffered immensely
one house, Gibbs & Son, losing over o million
of dollars. Nearly al the towns and villages
in the mineral Province Of Huanca havo been
DESTROYED and reduced to shapele5s masses.
The port Of Mollenlo, where are stored the
materials for building MIR. Meiggs' railway,
was completely destpyed, nearly all the tools,
rails and provisions being ruined by the earth
quake and the succeeding tidal waves.
From Guayaquil, uder date Of August 26,
we have brief accounts. of the earthquake in
Ecuador.
In the city of Guyaquil little damage was
done. Ibarra, capita Of the province Of Imba-
bura, San Pablo and Aturtaqui are in ruins.
The entire population OF those towns and OF
Otovato perished, amounting to nearly thirty
thousand. At Quit the earthquake COM
menced at twenty minutes past one o'clock
A. NJ, August 16, AMI continued at intervals
for few hours. Up % the last date, the 18th,
the churches, public buildings and private
dwellings were already in ruins, and the people
living in tents in the great squares. The towns
adjoining Quito. named Verusso, Puelloro and
Cochuquanjo, have almost entirely disappear
being Obliged to flee to escape the pestilence
arising from the dead bodies. The towns OF
| Vinicho and San Antonio have also disappeared.
| The number of deaths in the City of Quito is
not vet known. A large number of wealthy in
habitants died from pestilence or disaster.
A Valparaiso letter, dated August II, says ad-
vices from Talquahano state that at nine
O'Clock on The night ofAugust 14th three earth
ouakes occurred. The second caused an i'm
mense tidal wave, which swept away nearly
one-half of the town, and rendered the other
half almost uninhabihbe. Four lives only
we're lost, the inhabitants fleeing to the hills.
At Tome the same occurred, but, being high.
little damage was done. The port OF Consti-
tuein suffered from the wave. but was not
much damaged. Several small vessels vera
driven ashore, and five men drowned. The
town Of Conception was also damaged by the
same cause. Cobra, Merillones Islands, Pisa
oua. and all the cities and towns, in fact, from
Cane Francisco in Ecuador to Magellan Straits,
suffered more or less from the terrible vista
tions Of the earthquake
at Callao the sea burst over line of houses,
skirting the shore, at 1e o'clock P. M. on the
18th, completely cutting them of their con-
was then done, nearly all putting to 8 q. The
next night fire broke out, ard ffLy-seven
houses in the business portion OF the place
were DESTROYED, entsilmg loss Of o million
and a half OF dollars. No lives were lost The
Chincha Islands felt the earthquake and wave,
but not seriously as yet known.
The cities Of lca aud Pisco also suffered
heavily, forty houses being overthrown and
twelve lives lost at the former place. Nearly
all the population of Calleo fed to Lima.
The steamer Santiago, bound from Callao to
Valparaiso, put in port of Chala, when, on the
18th, she was seized by the great wave, her
chains snapped, and the vessel carried to sea-
In few minutes the wave returned towards
shore, earring the steamer with it, and carry
ing it with all her passengers safely over high
cliff, leaving it safely inside the channel IN
the port OF Chals, completely covered with
water.
At Caldera the wave and earthquake COM
pletely destroyed everything. former dwellings,
being left heaps Of rubbish. No traces OF
streets are to be seen. The inhabitants fled TO
the mountains, but many were drowned or
killed. Thirty-seven dead bodies had been dis
covered at last advices.
At Inquois the shock lasted four minutes,
after which the wave c4ne and destroyed about
three-quarters of the place, with many lives,
nearly all the provisions, and the condenslng
machinery which supplied the inhabitants
with drinking water. . .h
Provisions and wator -h.-e Deen sent tnere
nom Valparaiso. One German house at lquique
lost over $400, 600 worth Of property.
Four hundred tons of silver ore, with all the
EXPENSIVE works Of the Peruvian Mineral Com
pany, owned in London, were completely swept
away ar Iaulque. The towns of Ceneta, Chan
choy. Capana, Charha, Hobacera and other
smaller places, Nere destroyed. Los Lomas
has been united to an island in the bay OF CAL
lao by the action Of the earthquake.
The following extract from letter dated
Callao, August IA, gives faint idea of the hor-
rors of the night Of the 18th, en- which day, ac-
cording to one of the above dispatches, the
terrible earthquake occurred:
Last night was the most fearful night OF
horrors that Peru has ever known. The sea
was rising until midnight, aud, actually came
in tifty feet over the mole. and submerged all
the lower floors of tho stores and buildings
on the streets nearest the water. Ships lying
at anchor broke their moorings and drifted
into each other. The American man-of-war
Powhatan lying here, was run INTO by ship,
breaking the iron j'b-boom OF the Powhatan,
and the Powhatan, as we'll as oil the Peruvian
men-of-war lying her, steamed up and went
away out to sea. There seemed to be regu-
lar under current of whirlpool, 80 that ships
went whirIing round and round. Thousands
Of people walked the streets all night, and this
morning the stores are closed, and Callao
seems deserted. feeling OF terror prevails
that this may be second st. Thomas affair,
and If there should be another earthquake 90
day affairs would look dangerous. Ships are
torn and battered, and the sea ut the present
writing boils and bubbles like great whirl-
pool.