The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-04-18
The California Earthaualzs.

Every vestige of the Town of Lone PIN
MsS. & VW1; Womsn and Gysd cSgfd:en Kiiisd Sns
Thirty Wounded. Over One ThousaIl,
and Herculsneum RiSaled.-A Survivor
Experience.
The following particulars of the
great earthquake in California on thu
26th ult., are CLEANED from the Sar
Francisco Journals. of the 3lstult:
/ ao.'ss4 g 6 VIsALIA, March 30, 1872.
By the arrival, at p. M.qof Colone
| Chas. Whipple, by the stage, direc
from Long Pine, am enabled to for
ward the particulars of what is un.
| doubtedly the most destructive earth
quake, considering the theater of the
damage. which has ever BEEN expert
ence in the United StaIes, and, ,proba
bly,, for a great number of years any.
where on this continent. The shock
occurred at 2 :25 A. NJ, of Tuesday, the
26th, and, so far as l can learn, Lone
/ Pine was pretty near 1si.t
THE INITIAL POINT
|. Of the disturbance. judge so, al
least, from its being the point where
the agitation was most violent aud
the greatest damage done: hslsal
- 4 SURVIVORS, EXPERIENCE.
CoIenel, Whippie, lis the, only person
who has yet arrived here from the
| Owens River Valley since it occurred
and he, has been interviewed ever
since, He was sleeping in two sto-
ry adobe house, up-stairs, when the
earthquake occurred. He sprang out
| of bed, caught his pants, and had pro-
ceeded about ten feet into the hall
| when he was thrown upon his. back,
| the walls and the roof coming right
down, upon him, and he was knocked
| moment ntarily insensible. AS be went
| down with the crash of the building
he says: II thought ofrmyj wife and
children, and then this is -death.1 AS
soon-asr he game to, aaa was able to s.
Il 4s5 Die .ouT FROM nHE RUINS, 40
He went down the street to the CEN
ter Of the town, where the most ap-
palling sight awaited him. Fifty-two
houses were thrown down, and 81
persons, or more than one-sixth of the
.pnTailatieA of: the town, usveee buried
Beneath the ruins The cries of those
who were 4 3iafE -saezsf II l,,45i
CRUSHED n THE. FALLEN BtILDIgGs
We're borne upon the, clear mountain
air with terrible. distinctness, and
struck terror and dfsmay to the hearts
Of, the relatives and friends, who were
more fortunate and had escaped. The
most terrible upheayals were still go-
ing ON, threatening every second to
destroy the few houses that were still
standing, The citizens Immediately
COMMENCED the work ofremoYing the
shattered and wrecked structures to
liberate those who, were only wound
ed, and find the; dead; Itis horrible
to have to. say that at this fearful time,
when the air was rent with. shrieks of
the suffering. and dying, there were
some so base as to carry on the work
ROBBERY AND PILLAeE.
Yet such is; the case. A man who
was, sleeping, Ybaeito, "a butcher, es-
capped with his. life, while his compan-
ion was killed at his side, and he stole
alfthe money and vaiuables of his
dead friend before he lett him. The
effect ofthe heart rending calls of sur
vivors-"Oh, where is my wife I" Oh,
where is my brother !" "Oh, where are
my children ~ may be better imagin-
ed than described. Every man who
was able to stand worked at digging
them out wherever there were cries
for help until long after daylight.
,,s,lf D., A FIRE BROKE OUT as-'
In Mr.. Loomis' store, beneath which
there was known to be powder stor-
ed, but Mr.. Covington, Mr.. Lyman,
and Others, at imminent peril of their
lives, worked at the fire until it was
subdued, and the danger of an explo-
sion was averted. The work of rescue
went on until nine O'Clock, at which
hour s=5...fe ff a..e..t
IL TWENTY-THREE CoFFINs
Had been constructed-twent
dead bodies were prepared for their
final rest in the troubled earth. Thirty
of the wounded had been extracted
and cared for, of whom 1t is feared
that five may yet die. Colonel Whip
pie says Mr.. Goldman told him about
6 A. M, he had counted 361 separate
and distinct shocks. There were
FoCB DISTINCT KINDS OF SHOCKS.
The effect of one he describes as if an
enormous monster situated exactly
beneath the town had been exploded
and came up almost 10 their feet with
q dull thud, and, as it reached the sur
face, produced a, terrific vibration; an
other was quick, violent oscillation
of the earth, without any noise or sign
but its motion the third was prece-
ded by sound like the ,...-
LONG ROLL WHICH DRUMS BEAT BEFORE
tr BATTLE.
Then the noise died out and the
chill came on. The fourth was like
Parrott fired from
the noise seeming to
scale the mountains to their base, and
when this passed over
A TERRIFIC TREMBLING
Commenced. The profoundest sym-
pathy is felt here for the sufferers. A
of onr citizens is now being
held at the Graham House, and about
$3.50 have already been subscribed, and
pro visions, blankets, etc., will be at
once forwarded.
IN THE TOWN WAS DE-
.,f-.-. sTRoYED
That was perishable, such as food and
all the goods in the stores. send you |
q list of the killed and wounded, and |
also the proceedings of meeting held
by the citizens of the lost town. Ex- |
aggerated accounts had preceded Col |
ouel Whipple's arrival here about an
enormous aperture being opened in
the earth, s ft
VOLCANOES BURSTING OUT
And kindred reports. We had sto-
" that a gulf was opened two hun
ired feet wide; it is not twenty. A
crack is made through the valley some
thirty miles long, northward from
Lone Pine, but it is not very extern
sive. There has been no volcanic DEM
onstratlon.
SUFFERED SEVERELY,
But no one was killed there. The In
uO TodeDPDHenf office was badly MED |