The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-11-27

lo How slowly the hours of the night drag,
ged along only those that sat in the midsl
OF that fearful desolation can tell. At last
day dayned, and then terrible scene met
the eyes Of survivors The city was gone
but the bay was completely filed with ths
Debris of houses, vessels, and the remains Of
men, women, and children. vItwase stima-
ted that at least five thousand bodies COW
cred the watefs So. completely was, the
harbor choked up with these fragments Of
dwellings, and dead bodies, that for several
daysall attempts ofinconling vessels ereach
the quay were futiles 4 The work of bury
ing the dead deyolyed almost exclusively
upon the Americans present. Mr.. Brown
| labofed hnfd fer twelve days at this terri
bic task. The sailors and marines Of the
Wateree didpobie,wor In this lcause.---
Because of their miraculous escape from
what, under ordinary circumstances, would
have been certain, the man,ofwar's men
were looked upon by the natives as saints,
who worshipped thun as dernilgods AL
though food was plenty from otherstranded
yesseis,l they would touch nothing that did
neticome from the charmed d vessel Mr.:
Browns history Of. the burial Of the dead
IS a fearful one The natives refused to-
touch single body, and sat about their
ruined houses in a.stupid, 9thunderstruck
sort fway, until driven away from the
city blythe suffocating stencil ofthe decoma
posed bodies. When the work of interring
had progressed for several days, and the.
stencil had become truly horrible, the burr
al party with which Mr.. Brown had con;
nected himself came upon d ruined man.
sion, and, while viewing the scene of desoi
lation,i they heard faint .groans. - While
searching forthe cause, they came upon the
PROSTATE from of q beautiful Young girl,
both. of whose feet had BEEN crushed and
hemhed inlby two enormous ubeuleieraocr1
When she saw the men she held up her
hands in agony, and begged that an end be
put her existence While the men were
engaged in relieving her from her terrible
position she expired, Tins is but one ola
hundred instances that could be told of the
woe aud terror of those days. Mr.. Brown
confirms the story of The skeletons which
many people have Seen fit to discredit.-
An old graveyard, located about d mile
from Iquique, near the waters, II the pSss-
encel of the tidal waye, gave up it's dead,
andon the following day several hundreds
OF perfectly preserved pttgifld remains,
with hands elasped over their knees, sat
upon the surface Of the ground. The ground
above them had been entirely washed away.
A number of ancient trinkets were found
upon their bodies, and it is believed thai
the remainsare those ofthe native Peruvian
Ind iapss " atgf Il, .j- Ia Z, fia,y,s + f
These Peruvians refused to learn wisdom
through experience, No sooner were the
bodies all ktried than the work oferecting
new abodes was begun on the very sites
where their predecessors were destroyed,
although there is plenty of building ground
a few hundred feet up the mountain. nI
Mr.. Brown lost his entire cargo of -four
in the crash of the tidal wave. When he
had performed his, duty to the dead, he
started for his former home and arrived
here a few days since, - '-'sii1-'l eal