Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-21
The Ground Under and About San
Salvador still Shaking
Latest Particulars.
Condition Of the City and Sur
rounding TOWns-ExpOsure
of the Dead ad-Epidemie
Feared.
le-Hearted British Tars-The
Shsky Site of the City too
Uncertain-PeOple
Leaving.

PANAMA, April 5.-Reports from San
Salvador state that the authorities still
persist in rebuilding the city on the
same site, although this is the eighth
| time within one hundred years that that
city has been destroyed. Most of the
people, nevertheless, have removed to
Santa Tecla. The building that
stood the shocks with the least injury
was building erected of timber. The
! impulse at present is to i'm
port timber from California for
the construction Of such earthquake
proof houses. Aid and money have
been rendered and sent from all parts OF
the republic. Everythinglhas risen to ex-
orbitant prices. The prisoners in the
jail were removed to other places, and
| the sisters Of charity have been assidu-
GUS in their attendance on the sick and
wounded Captain Kennedy, of her
Britanic majesty's ship Reindeer, gave
all the assistance he could, and offered
her for the use of Biddle, United States
minister. The latter, as well as the gov
eminent, returned letters of thanks to
Captain Kennedy. Great fears
are entertained that the stop
page Of the sewers, and exposure to the
heat of the dead bodies unrecovered
from the ruins, and other conditions,
may bring on an epidemic. A fine
bridge, lately built across the river on
the road to SayapOngo, was thrown
down. Other roads have been rendered
impossible by immense blocks of stone
being thrown down from nights, of
some one hundred tons in weight
Owing to a continuance of shocks more
than forty bodies were displaced from
out the inches, in which they are placed
in the cemetery. The earthquake
is supposed to have been caused by
the suppressed volcanoes of st. Thomas
One of the seven volcanoes within a ra-
dIus OF thirty miles Is at present in full
blast, throwing down its sides constant
stream of lava, visible at night along
the whole coast of the Balkan region.
The officers of the Reindeer report that
the United States consulate was a mass
ofruins on the inside, though the walls
were still standing. Mr.. Biddle, United
States minister, with his five little ones,
had a narrow escape. During the two
days these officers remained IN San
Salvador, they felt light shocks.
In some places the ground was cracked
foot wide and very deep. At every
shock all the cocks in the place began to
in the air. The English visitors con-
slider it temptation of Providence to
rebuild the city on the same spot. The
crust below it is evidently a mere shell,
the ear placed close to the ground hears
a noise like running water, and the fall
of heavy stone produces a hollow
sound. The Indians would never build
on this site.
NEW YORK, April I9.-The Herald
has letter from San Francisco of March
oath, giving the following particulars:
" The ground is still shaking slightly at
intervals on the road out of the city to
a place called CedrO. There are
large tracks where the ground looks
as if it had been newly ploughed,
while in other parts there are
cracks and assures. Layopango and
HopangO, two neighbOring villages, were
entirely down; even straw houses shared
the fate of more substantial edifices
AT San Martin only the church and
couple OF old houses are down, while on
the road to Coiutepique almost every
building has been destroyed; Cojute-
pique escaped injury. Shortly after the
severe shock fire broke out in ruined
drug store, and had it not been
for the energy displayed by the
president, who directed the work which
resulted in its extinguishment, and took
charge of one of the hose, it is more
than probable that what the earthquake
left undestroyed the flames would have
consumed. No foreigners have been
injured. In some few cases some few
walls were left standing supported by
the uDrights, butinevery case roofs were
shaken of. A couple of thieves, who
attempted to ply their vocation while
the ruin was rife, were promptly shot by
order of the president. A great deal of
the material will be good for rebuilding,
and for this reason the government has
issued decree that the capital will not
be removed. Many had supposed it |
would be. A decree has also been issued !
permitting the people to squat on all |
vacant lots in San MIGUEL, Santa Anna, |
and other towns which did not feel the |
effects of the earthquake. Liberal sup
plies of money and provisions were
forwarded.