The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-06-16
THE TIDAL WAVE.
Further Befsiissf Tue Disaster saifered
on the Coast Of reru from gssth
auskes sad ridsl Waves. |.
Thirteen Towns Almost Totally Destroyed
and Six Hundred Lives LOST The Loss
Of Property is Estimated at
= Twenty Million Dollars.
a khsabiisg- Dtstofafed Letter from
Minister HiiiiAsssen On sbe Pro.
p0sed Nicaragua Canal

- ssiASfAhAsoA the Fro
POSED Nicaragua Canal.
PANAMA. June ? by The arrival OF
the steamer Arqya, from Callos, May
2sth, We have fuller details Of the dis
listers sutfeted on the coast from earth
quakes ahttidai waves.
The towns of Area, Iqueque. Porta-
de-Latos, Pabeiion, Depica, chana-
ranea, Hianarills, Tosopello, Conija.
MsjeIiones, Debofivar. Antofyasta and
ChsDaran were nearly all DESTROYED.
/ a bout six hundred lives were host
The destruction OF property Is estima
ted AT twenty million dollars, and is
ieontined mostly 60 the coast, although
the towns Of Turspoca, twenty-three
Leagues inland, and the villages OF
Picast Msnulia and Cahehanes, far ID
the interior, We're more or less ruined.
ShIpping Of gQaIo from the southern
deposits is indefinitely suspended, az
all facilities, in tue way, OF Launches,
chutes, gharves, water eandensers and
buildings Of all kinds are swept. away.
The health Of The isfAu.us il excel
ient. s'''" '''''' y w " 90
Re 1t Il thought the losses are r,.l greater at6
Than those OF 1868, nd,th.t tie ef.
-teets upon Perdvisn affairs VIM be par
tictiIariy .rousit'eiii sha h!'S
Q Mayor Powell, United States consul
atiI quefue, diea suddenly on the 9th
of May a eorrespondent' writes; fiis
snttmely eudUas sastSubtedIy brodgfi,
| on by hts own itnprudeHeeg 70 n aving
suffered from . slight tnaiispSsi,iou foi
come few days past, he uneautiaasly
~ IL supposed, took al overdose sither
Of morphine or striehniaa. A small
quantity OF the latter still remained M
| . glass tum bier, found On tue table. A
post mertem eAaminaiion was held Oh
the bolr sye several medical gentle
men, whose reports viii be handed {.
/ Mr.. tait, The British ,eonsul at ,ilIi,
I port. The funeral wss attended 10y
the consular corps, friends and notes
Ecitfzens.
II The Intelligence OF the loss of Ia,
City OF San Francisco reached here OF
the 31st ultinio. A fisherman from
the river Diiee, and now al Acapulco
states that he Is perfectly acquainte,
with tie existence of the rocA, and ha
been in the habit OF going there I,
1 fish, leav ing the river at g O'Clock q
m, aud arriving at the rock = bout II
4 a.nfn- asn.i1i ,-al4 Stil sztr t
/ From the 9Th Of May and up to Tn,
day of the loss of ihe City of Sal
/ Francisco, the ocean had been In /.
4 state of excitement. rising suddenly
four and a half fact higher than wa
ever known before, aud falling of
4 about The same number of feet here
4 IT Is quite posi- ole that the ship Nigh
have been passing at the faTi icula
| time when the tide. was low Tw,
i schooners have gone 10 the wrecl
4 from Acapulco. -
Il Only the spars were above waite
When the Mexico lef,, and the uppe
4 works were washetf up '-' 49,
4 A letter from United States Ministe,
Niliiafnsen, dated Panama, June %
4 Gays ths draft OF the canal which MFR
Fish submitted to MIR. Cardenas, wa.
2 90 exeelient in. las form and substance
and 30 cempletely assared the con
stTuetion Of the canal, that there eo1l,
not be the slightest doubttha at 1t woui.
be approved by ali maritime powers
I Mr.. Cardepas objected to the draft il
Il various ways, and Presented anothe
not 50 -ohjectio nahle, and with, suci
4 peremptory eopditiens that he assum
ed the responsibility, of proposing, III
terror conditions which are impracti
cable at present. Among, these con
Editions Of Mr.. ,Cardepas was one tina
the United States .honId guarantee tn,
sovereignty OF Nicaragua over all ter
| ritory, and that Nicaragua should b
fpermitted to-vuifd fortz utuug the lin,
I of the canal. The LATED States " oaI,
not do that, for any nation, aud non,
of the maritime powers weu!d per mi
I Nicaragua to control the, csaai b,
forts, however small or insigniiican
they might be. Tie. government en-
gineer of Nicaragua denies that Mr.
Fish wss opposed to the canal through
Nicaragua 10 % - ~ :" 80
II 4as-ad FI4rs sBa yss G. ae.-