The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-09-25
The Great Earthquake.

Anc 0Iodt 0aI tu4uaAo.
The later stories about the Peruvian
earthquake add to its horrors, and the
frightfu destruction of like and property
and the unnumbered sufferings Of those
who survive. The last reports are, that it
destroyed all southern Peru. Some of the
stories are drawn with tremenduous long
bow. One of them is that five hundred
Indian mummies were resurrected from
their graves, on the shore near africa, aud
that those mummies are set up in row.
grinning ghastly and horrible at the travel
ers passing on the sea. This Is rather
tough story, but as it was brought by Gen
e-al Fitzpatrick, the United States Minister
to Chill, it will be credited by those who
can swallow a large dose. Arcquipat is
now represented to have been city of from
10, 600 to 100000 inhabitants. 1t is not SO
large. 1t is the second city of Peru, but
nevertheless its population did not exceed
35, 900 in 1860.
INCIDENTS OF TIE EARTHQUAKE.
In many places the earth opened, and all
the level land WAS submerged by the sea.
The valuable silver mines, twenty In mum
Der, in the interior we're completely sunk.
The solid earth opening, and huge water
spouts come up. In Lilo the earth opened,
aud as the houses sunk down . solid col
umn of water came up full fifteen feet in
height. CobUa suffered lightly. As tae
houses, which are built st a height ct afty
feet above the sea, to.tered aud tumbled
over the bluff into the sea, the peolpe ran
for safety back to the high hills and SO es-
capped.
One of the most extraordinary stories In
the later reports, relates to the fate of the
city OF Puno and Cerro d Pasco:
But the most horrible calamity befell the
two cities Of Puno aud Cerro D Pasoo-ths
former containing 10000 inhsbitants.
These cities are built near and over the sill
yer mines, and it seems that the very
| ground on which they stood was one hol>
low cavern. These caves opened at one
wide schasm, aud swallowed up the cities,
and the ill-fated population, at one deep
aud awful opening They literally tell
down into this immense hollow. A num-
Der of horsemen rode into Luna and re-
ported the catastrophe, and as the mines
themselves are entirely destroyed, we shall
probably hear of other towns being destroy
ed Cusco has not 'ene stone left standing
upon another" and most of its population
were killed.
Puno is l30 miles northeast of Arequipa,
l2,S70 feet above the level of the sea.
The correspondent has exaggerated its
population. The Gazettse, says that in
1850, its population was 5000. Cerro D..
Pasco, is l37 miles northeast Of Lima, its
population is about $4,000 Cuseo is 9
city two hundred miles north Of Arequipa,
IL $50 feet above the level Of the sea Its
population in 1880 was Al, l52. In many
localities, there was such strong smell oi
sulphur in the air and the clouds Of dust
from the falling buildings was SO thick tha,
one could not breathe only by throwing
him or herself hat upon the ground, and
burying the face Fat In the very earth
which groaned and opened around them.
Parents were crying for their children
mother, screaming to their husbands ! and
! a binding cloud Of dust and brimstons,
! and the crash Of tumbling houses, the roai
of the terrible incoming sea, and the
shrieks of the wounded dying in the falling
ruins In Moqua the ground opened, and
as it closed again instantly 1t caught the Ill,
tated people, leaving them partly projected
from the earth. Here sre to be seen hands
[ protrudiHe, feet aud toes sticking out above
the earth The top of . head, and even
the whole head and neck of some OF the
people, fingers aud arms, With the bodies
to which they belong, shut into the gaping
earth What horrible deaths must these
have been
In Iauique, Mr.. Reider, well known ci,i
zen, was riding his horse, when the ami
nal felt the rumbling of the earth and re
fused togo Trembling in every limb and
unmanageable, he stood as if paralyzed,
and at that moment the ground, scarce
fifteen feet in front of him, opened, an I'm
rlense column Of water and ashes came up
to the height of fifteen feet, and the
ground so suddenly closed again. A gen.
tleman, his wife and Jchildren, took large
launch or 1atboat, and succeeded in get,
ting clear of the falling houses, tut an i'm
mense tidal wave lifting the boat on its
crest, took them inland full three miles,
behind the church, and on the side hill,
where they were firmly embedded in the
mud. A large piece of adobe struck thu
gentleman in the face, breaking in his nose
and stunning him, but not killing him
but he and all his family we're saved.
The earthquake destroyed what was call
ed Old Collao, the seaport Of Lima, il
1867. A Spanish Frigate was then carried
By q tidal wave two miles inland.
Indian Hostilities,