The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-10-28
THE TRIBUNE.
EARTHQUAKES.
NsF a.sd Fearful Expeence-A Terrible
IA! ut seattle Fab Prediction.
Correspondence of the NY. Tribune.
SER LIMA, Sept. Is, 1869.


s 1s LIMA, Sept. ID, 1869.
On the oath ult, when the steamship |
J. Ia was III latitude nlneteen degrees
4 seventeen inmates south, and longl- |
Il. seventy degrees and tweDlyonc |
Ii sJItes west, about iitiy miles south OF
!. .s,, aud three miles from the coast, |
sssle encountered a fearful earthquake, the |
J. ar being LIS P. II. The SENSATION ex-
sarsenced ON board was as If the bottom
81 the sea had risen up and struck the
i,ateom ot the ship with tremendous force
The conclusion was great as to cause
The destruction OF more than halt OF the
glassware Oh onard the ship and hit heavy
we. gf. s seyers inches from the deckoand
prostrate nearly all on board Inc sea
appeared 10 be boiling as far as the eye
could reach, and the shock which lasted
about tit,y seconds, WAS accompanied by
appalling supterranean sounds. The coast
wnIcn in the vlc.nlty of the steamer was
of great attitude, seemed shaken to Its
base, ant. TOR a considerable time was OBJ
scured 10y a vast cloud of dust which was
disludged from the ground by the violence
of The seuck.
Ihe iii-st great shock was succeeded by
fully twenty Others of inferior force III
quick SUCCESSION. The passengers and
o. iiel+s were excessively alarmed, and look
Ell ieiward WITH much anxiety 10 their ar
rival at lqdlque, port distant hfty seven
mites south vi the locality where the first
great shock Vas felt. At that port, how
ever, it was found the earthquakes had
not been by any means 50 severe or nu-
merous, and again at Cubija. eighty-seven
miles further south than lqulque, but one
or twaIiicuilsiderable shocks had been felt.
TINS. combined with the tact that at the
latter places the earthquakes occurred
Setne time later. shows That their move
uent was from north to south, All per
son, on board the ship. for some time
after the first great shock, experienced a
ya-uG aud Endehnable feeling OF discomfort
aud uEea>lneos. almost Apr aching the
sensations OF Sea-SIckueSs- My last letter
VIII nave informed you OF the great earth
quakes of the 10Th ult: from that date to
the 9th the country between Chaia and
Ionlt,ae, upward Of 800 miles III length,
WA, continually shaking, many severe
earthquakes occurring between those
dates which were scarcely mentluned, but
which al any other time would have been
OF sufficient force TO have caused universal
CONSERVATION, independent of the two
great shocks on the 10th and oath, AT
Pts tsua the sea was observed to recede
I5f,, md attcrward tn rise 10 feet above
It's ordinary level. As these movements.
n1.ys.,.cf, were gradual, the sea did not as
sumo the dread power of tidal waves, and
no damage was occa5lUned. 1arapaca,
Cuzco Puno, Tacua, Aaequipe. and AFRICA
AZ c,suie InIor full share of the earth
quake>, especially those OF the 24th ut.
The. two latter places did not suffer pro-
portionabiy to the time ofthe great earth
duakes of 1868; but this is readily explain
ed by the fact Of neither city having been
since rebuilt. The inhabitants, however
mite in agerring that the two great shocks
of he 10th and n til OI last month were
fully equal to that of last year, and ex
press no doubt that had it been possible
for the cities OF africa and Arequlpa t"
have been rebuilt between each OF the
thr e terrible commissions, both cities
wo l. inevitably have been three times
de royed. Every family IN South Peru,
an even in Lima aud Cal,ao, is prepar-
lng sar the still. more formidable cataclySm
~. .ftic-ed bv Falb. to happen at the end
of this or the beginning of next month.
" ,td- fail to depict the universal terto'
caused by his prophecies, combined witt
the effects fthe serious phenomena WI. CHI
have already seemed to partially verli!
his progno~tlcatlons.
VALPARAISO, Sept 3.-The steame,
Pay,a which arrived here on the % th ul'
brings intelligence of a series of earth
qlakes experienced off africa, in her voy
age from Callao to his port These. OF
rather some at them. are described tn have
been equal to the memorable convulsions
of ia,l year, but IA they occurred III the
same sections OF the country where the
cities are already entirely ruined and razeo
to the ground, the same amount of dam
are has not been caused as at that even
full period Throughout, this country tn,
people are agitated by the great earth
quake question but not so much, however
on account of fears for this Republic, a.
for the sister Republics OF Peru and
Ecnaeor.
PALAMA, Sept, .27-Further than the
mention of two or three sh ocks of earth
quake. there is nothing whatever of inter
est from this Republic. On the date ~
the violent earthquakes in Peru. no seri-
Gus shock WAS felt either in Guayaqu;l or
Otto \ few slight earthquakes have
been OK erienced in Bolivia.