The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-12
The Peruvian Earthquake.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE
DISASTER.
Twelve Towns Destroyed and 600
Lives Lost.
THE Loss ESTIMATED AT
$2O,OOO.O0O.
LIST OF VESSELS WRECKED.

sers and buildings OF all kinds have been swept
away.
The destruction of shipping was very great.
The subjoined list gives particulars at Pabelon
de Plea:
Lost-American ship Aida, German ship E.
f. Gabian, English bark Lady Bellean, and
Italian barks Silvia B. and PietIo B:
Badly damaged-French ship Courier de
Lima, English ships Prince Umberto and Fe-
licia, and American ship Carrolton.
Damaged-English bark Norham Castle,
American ship ST. Joseph, Norwegian ship
Nirain and English ship Maligerda.
Dismasted-American ship John Bryce,
English bark Prince Leopold, and English
ship Prince Eugene.
Sunk-Norwegian ship Drot, first on the
beach, Norwegian ship Dretsrand, second.
Safe-Englisb ship Cosmopolitan and Ameri-
can bark Uncle Toby.
Sailed-Amercan ship Edith Throop, Amer
lean bark Mary Lee, English bark Helen Mar.
vim, Norwegian bark Sommerin, and Belgian
ship Egmont and H0on.
English bark Kenilworth was in collision with
the j. Bryce and Gladam.
The following IS report of shipping disas-
tiers at Hualas:
Ship Geneva, Capt. McLoon, totally lost; she
sank in fifteen fathoms; the crew were saved.
The Geneva was loaded with guano and ready
for sea- and was to sail on the following morn
ing.
English ship Avonmoor was a total loss.
The captains wife and three children, nurse,
carpenter and steward were drowned. Capt.
Garfield was saved, though one of his chill
dren was killed in his arms. Captain Treck
of the bark Arctic was on board the Ayonmoor
and was drowned. Crew saved on spars and
planks.
English ship Conway Castle driven ashore
and filled. She was thrown back from the
shore by the receding wave and sank in deep
water. Crew and effects saved.
English ship Conference totally lost. 1t is
said that she was thrown on shore and soon
afterward crushed under mass of rock that
fell. Crew saved in boat.
Bark Gabriel Castro sank with all on board.
Number unknown.
Norwegian bark Atlantic was slightly dam
aged.
English ship William Lovett was badly dam
aged.
English bark Arctic was not damaged but
Capt. Treck of that vessel was drowned on
board the Avonmoor.
English ships Conquerer, Tlllery, Samuel,
Eliza Campbell and Duke of Rothroy were
damaged.
Norwegian ship Cleveland and Ugglan was
damaged.
American ship Resolute was slightly dam
aged.
The American ship G. f. Sergeant was
slightly damaged. Also the American ship
Theobald.
The American ship Jeremiah Thompson
on the 10th with ten other foreign ships dam
aged.
At Punta de Lobos two vessels were lost
the Havre (French) and Shamrock (En glish)
and fourteen ships were more or less injured.
The loading feet or at least the survivors,
must come back to Callao for repairs. Two
have arrived already, bringing some of the
victims of the disaster, who are properly cared
for by the authorities.
On shore the government building, water
condensers, tanks, wharf and everything ex-
q fa tc hack of tho 6pStr0v.
ed.
At Santa de Lobos two vessels were lost the
Havre (French) and Shamrock (English).
Fourteen ships were more or less injured. The
loading feet, Or at least the survivors, must
come back to Calloa for the repairs they re-
quire Already two vessels have arrived bring
ing some of the Weather victims of the dlsas-
ter who are properly cared for by the authori.
ties.
It is thought that the osses.are greater than
1868, and the effects upon Peruvian affairs will
be particularly disastrous
Autofagasta, Mexillones, Tocapilla and Ca
bija, towns on the coast of BOLIVIA, met with
same misfortune of earthquake and tidal wave
with Iquique and africa At Autofagasta the at
mosphere was illuminated by red glare, sup
posed to proceed from the volcano of San
Pedro de Atacana, few leagues in the inte-
rior. The sea completely swept the business
portion of the town during four hours. Vessels
in the harbor stood out and steamer Amazon,
about to commence discharging when the move
ment took place, had a narrow escape from
destruction. Several lives were lost.
Mexillones was vsitsd by tidal wave 165
feet in height Two-thirds of the town was
completely obliterated. Guano shoots, wharves,
launches, boats, water distilleries railway sta
ton. locomotives, cars and furniture were all
swallowed up by the sea. At Mexillones six
persons were drowned. At Tocapilla little or
nothing remains of the town. A mine four
miles to the southwest sunk in smothering 200
women, of whom 40 were conviets wives.
Cobija, the principal town on the Bolivian
coast, lost three-fourths of its houses. The
wave, 30 feet high, swept along the main
business streets and left it as level as desert
Wharves and launches were all carried out to
sea, church spires were knocked over and the
cemetery suffered. All of these towns are in
the greatest distress. Water is wanted. The
condensers, being on the very sea shore, were
the first objects overwhelmed by the wave.
Peru must attend to her own suffering.
The Panama Herald says from the interior of
Bolivia it is more than difficult to send supplies
to the coast, and we are hopeful that Chilli may
have stretched helping hand to the unfor-
tunate. Chilli has escaped without injury.
The northern parts of Peru were damaged but
little, although the sea was running remarkably
high. On the evening of the 14th Lima and
Callao were visited by severe shock of earth
quake, lasting % seconds and causing general
alarm, but little damage. Fears were enter
Southern disaster, but a telegram from Mol
lendo announced inc repetition of the catas-
trophe had taken place. The people of Callao
were so frightened that they emigrated almost
en- masse to Lima aud Bellavsta, fearing their
town might be engulfed by the wave that
generally follows these commissions of nature.
The government of Lima chartered the
steamer Copialpo, and organizing relief COM
mission under the presidency Of the Minister
of Benefciencia, loaded a vessel with provi-
sions, clothes, SC, and some $4,000 gallons of
water and despatched her on the 10th for the
South. 100000 soles in silver ccin were also
sent to be distributed among the unfortunate.
A commission of engineers accompany the
expedition for the purpose of lending assist
ance and making a full report of the extent of
the disaster, which can now only be generally
estimated. No accurate statement of the loss
of life can now be made, but it probably will
not exceed 900. The property lost may be cal
calated at $2O,000,O00, and possibly more, as
the government is heavy loser in guano and
nitrate; uninsured. On the coast the damage
is greater than that caused by the tidal wave of
1868, but in the interior the losses are COMPARE
lively small.