New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-26

| GARuNNE-PROBABLE INUNDAlI0N OF THE
ADCUR. - --
PARIS Friday, June %, 1879.
| The damage to property and loss of life by the
food the River Garonne greater than the previous
| reports have Indicated
The loss of life b. the food at Toulouse is appalling In
the st. Cypreu quarter 2l5 corpses have already been
found violence Of the torrent frustrated efforts to
rescue the unfortunate inmates OF the houses. Several
men were drowned in the attempt Twenty thousand
persons deprived VI the means OF subsistence In lou
| louise alone.
The disasters elsewhere OF almost equal magnitude
The lower part of the City OF Mosssc the Tarn is hid
den under wafer At Tremoullet in the Department OF
Arege five houses only remain standing out of 400 In
the District of Folk, Department. two villages are
completely submerged and many bodies have Seen found
Crops Of all kinds throughout the inundated districts
have been destroyed. The troops and authorities are
doing every thing I'm their power to life and property
The rain las ceased but is feared that the melting OF
the mountain SHOWS will raise the waters Of the Adour
still higher President nacMahon and Minister Buffet
have left Paris for the scene Of destruction.
The Journals opened subscriptions for the re-
lief OF the sufferers, and benefit performance 10 an
nounced at the opera
The Southern Railway Company has sent 5000 10 inc
Mayor OF Toulouse for the destitute.
THE EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AMERICA.
THE STORY AZ TOLD IN PRIVATE LETTERS-DHsofA-
TON AND DESTRUCTION IN CUCUTA BY EARTH
QUAKE SHOCKS AND A VOLCANIC ERUPTION
THE DEAD AND DYING RoBBED-THoUsANDs or
BODIES LEFT UNBURIED IN THE PANIC-DE-
sTRucroN OF THE COFFEE CROP.
Private letters were received in this city yester
dy doing business with the United states OF
Colombia and by persons who have relatives living in the
region which was lately visited by the earthquake,
whereby 5000 persons lost their lives These letters
reveal a terrible condition Of affairs in which desoa-
tion ruin, and death abound IL appears that after
the earthquake had shaken down houses and buried
their inhabitants in the ruins balls OF molten lava
we're shOwered down from the crater OF the Loboaro
Mountain, setting the ruins on fire and consuming
many Of the inhabitants, who were struggling
TO extricate themselves. pane seized the few sur
yivors they fed from the o! dcsoation to Mara
cabo last accounts they had taken shelter in the
houses OF any who would receive them. No persuasion
could induce them to the place Of their former
residence and as consequence thousands OF bodies
living unburicd amid the ruins filling the atmosphere
with odors from decomposition, and rendering the
region the uphcava for many miles in every direction
unfit for habltation.
Among the persons in this city who have commercial
relations with persons who resided In the des0laed re-
gon and Of whose relations perhed by the earth
quake il Edwardo Gogorza OF No. 81 Pinest. In
yersaOn yesterday with reporter OF THE TRIBUNE he
gave "a very interesting history OF the earthquake az he
CLEANED it from numerous letters which he received yes
terday from the OF disaster His statement Is In
substance follows:
The locality where the earthquake occurred IN tho
great coffee district OF South America and the quantity
of that article which already know has been de-
soyed. in stores and warehouses, amounts to 100000
pouuds This Is serious blow, and must greatly affect
the supply in this country it WAS this years crop,
which was awaiting shipment TO this country.
What loss there has been 10 the growing
crop In the interior Is not yet known but 10 is hoped that
the coffee have been spared otherwise the supply
will be affected for years 10 come. The losses on
merchants In this city, however, will be email as
they do not make advances until tile merchandise has
left the and in transit and has arrived at Mara
caibo. The coffee Ia usually shipped In December or
January and II the earthquake had happened at that
time the to merchants engaged Ia that trade IN this
city would have been undoubtedly 0ay great The
region affected by the shocks i've degrees OF lat
tude, and is 500 miles wde The shock extended in
north east direction along the northern range OF the
Andes 1t was felt fret very perceptiby ut Bogota she
capital Of New Granada, thence seemed 10 travel north,
gathering intensity advanced. until 1t reached the
southeast boundary line Of Magdaena, where the work
Of destruction began continuing a. advanced along the
eastern boundary Of Magalena following tho line 81 tho
mountain range and destroying tn part or whole the