The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-05-01
The Destroyed City.

TflETERRIBLE CALAMITY THAT BEFEL SAN
SALVADoR-DEATH STARING THE POOR
PEOPLE OF THE TOWN IN THE FACE
DESTRUCTION THAT CANNOT BE
AVERTED.
PANAMA, April 10.--Further reportes
of the earthquake at San Salvador state
that, fortunately, owing to the first shocks
having frightened the people FROM living
within houses, the loss of life has not
been so great as it would otherwise have
been. Out of a population of 10000,
which the city of San Salvador was said
to contain, the number reported killed
and wounded varies from so to 500 In
the midst Of the dust and CONSERVATION
fire broke out in drug store, but it was
soon got under.
The government fuuctionaries stood to
their posts and did their duties in
highly creditable manner. The President
sent his family to Santa Tecla and estab
lished himself in the principal square of
the capital in tent, repressed all at
temPts at disorder and robbery, and
rendered assistance wherever it was most
needed. Any one found carrying away
property was shot. The authorities still
persist in rebuilding the city on the same
site, although this is the eighth time with
in 100 years that the city has been des
troyed. Most of the people have never.
theess removed to Santa Tecla.
The only buildings that stood the
shocks were Of timber The impulse at
present is to import timber from California,
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houses. Aid and money have been tender
ed and sent from all parts of the Republic
Everything has risen to an exorbitant
price The prisoners in Jail were remov.
cd to other places, and the Sisters of
| Charity have been assiduous in attending
the sick and wounded. Captain Kennedy,
of the British man, Of war Reindeer, gave
all the assistance he could, and offered
his ship for the use of Mr. Biddle, United
States minister. The latter, as well as
the government, sent letters Of thanks to
Captain Kenndy.
Among the heavy foreign sufferers
doing business in San Salvador are re-
ported to be Moses Levy q Co of London,
katteugall & Campbell of Manchester,
G. b. Keford & Co Of Liverpool, and
among the resident merchants are Herford
d Keogh, Carazzo Il Duke, Dorankcs &
Ojerda, Blanco 4 Figueras, j. NJ Peratte,
Demetrlus Ruana, and Jose Rossales,
though every one, of course, suffered
more or less.
Great fears are entertained that the
stoppage of the sewers and the exposure
Of dead bodies unrccovered from beneath
the ruins, and other morbifc conditions,
may bring on an epidemic The fne
bridge lately built across the river on the
road to Sayapango was thrown down, and
other roads were rendered i'm passable by
immense blocks Of stone thrown down
from the heights, some one hundred tons
in weight. Owing to the continuance of
the shocks, over forty bodies were dis
placed from the inches in which they
were placed in the cemetery.
The earthquake is attributed to the
suppressed volcano of ST. Thomas, one of
the seven volcanoes within radius of
thirty miles. lzalco is at present in full
blast, throwing down its sides constant
stream Of lava. The officers of the
Reindeer report that the United States
although the walls were standing The
United States minister with his family
had narrow escape. During two days
three officers remained at San Salvador,
and they felt eight shocks In some
places the ground cracked a foot wide
The crust of earth under the city is
evidently mere shell.
PANAMA., April ll.-Inteligence re-
ceivcd by previous mails from the north
weast is not only confirmed, but brings to
climax with the entire destruction Of
the capital of Salvador and the ruin Of a
population Of forty thousand people. The
! first really violent shock occurred on
March 4, about p. NJ, destroying many
houses. The quaking continued until the
morning of Mach 10, when, at 2 A NJ,
two light shocks, succeeded by a strong
one, destroyed the entire city
Popanonago, Jlapalango, San Tomas, and
Santa Tecla, have all suffered to lesser
extent, as well as every city within a
radius of twenty miles.
Fortunately, owing to the alarm of
March 1, such residents as had not left
the city were living in tents, or 10 the
public plazas, aud hence tie number of
lives lost, though great was diminished
Only two buildings, the Hotel del Plaque
and the government palace, are left stad
ing. The loss is estimated at Sl2 000,
900, and the aggregate loss of life
amounted to five hundred.
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occurs at Sheriff sale. The Sheriff Of