Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-06-23

destruction of the principal stores added
to their hardships. It is estimated that
! the damage done in Iquique will amount
to nearly four million soles.
Chanavaya, little town at guano
lading deposit, also known as Pabillon
de Plea, with 400 houses, has only two
standing. Here the earthquake was fol
lowed by fire. There were no fire-en-
gines in the town, and
THE SEA CAME IN
and extinguished the flames, but as il
retired carried off all that remained OF
the place In one of the guano cuttings,
thirty laborers were buried by the fall
ing earth Among the shipping the
havoc was terrible.
The town of Tarapaco, two or three
leagues inland, the villages of Pres, NAL
tilla and Canchineg were more or less
ruined The loss of life is reported as
not being great.
The earthquake was especially severe
at Chanavaya.
TIE EARTH OPENED FIFTEEN METERS
in depth, and the whole surface of the
ground changed AT least 200 people
were killed. Their bodies were floating
in the bay, and a pestilence is feared.
At Huanillas, another guano loading
station, the damage inflicted was fear
full. All the houses were destroyed. The
guano pits have fallen in, and, As at Pa
billion. all loading must be suspended for
at least two months.
The wave which succeeded the earth
quake and completed the work of destruc-
vessels We're lost here, together with
several of those on board. In short,
every thing except a few huts at the
back of the town has been destroyed.
At Mexilleries the tidal wave was 65
feet in height. Two-thirds of the town
was completely obliterated. The guano
shoots, wharves, launches, boats, water
distillers, railroad stations, locomotives,
ears and furniture were swallowed up.
Six persons were drowned. At Secopil-
la little or nothing remains of the town.
TIN mine called lie Rena Blanca, four
miles to the southwark, sank in, smoth-
ering 200 workmen, of whom fifty Were
Cornish miners.
Cobija, the principal town on the Bo-
livian Coast, has lost three-fourths of its
houses. The wave, thirty-five feet in
height, swept along its principal bust
ness street, and left it as level as des-
ert.
The wharves and launches were all
carried out to sea.
As soon as this lamentable intelli-
gence reached here, the Government
chartered steamer and, organizing
relief committee, loaded the vessel with
provisions, clothing, ETC., together with
1900 gallons of water, and dispatched
her on the 10th for the South.
One hundred thousand soles in silver
coin also formed part of her cargo, to
be distributed among the unfortunate.
A commission of engineers will accom-
pany the expedition.
1t has been urged by the Government
to recommend
REBUILDING THE BURNED TOWNS
on sites which may offer greater Sc
curity, more remote from the shore,
since this is the second instance of a
similar calamity on the positions actual
ly occupied. Subscriptions are being
made in Lima and Callao for the relief
of the distressed.
The northern parts OF Peru were
damaged but little, although the
sea was running remarkably high. The
captain of the steamer John Elder re
ports that when twenty-three miles west
of Antofagasta, coming at full speed,
the ship was completely stopped by a
shock of earthquake, and she remained
almost stationary for five minutes.
believing she had struck OF
a reaf, soundings were taken immedi-
ately, but no bottom was found at TWEEN
ty fathoms.
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