Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-31
FOREIGN NEWS.
Further EARTHQUAKE Reports.


received from the district in which the
elrthCulke shock was the severest add new
horror to the great calamity. AT Nerla, q
town of 5000 people in the province of Ma
laga. the earthquake was followed by a hur-
ricane This finished the destruction of
many houses which had already been
brought to the brink of ruin by previous
shocks. The inhabitants fled in terror
from the houses and camped outside the
town Mich suffering was caused by a
scarcity of provisions. The alarm in Ma
laga is now subsiding. Affairs will soon
resume their ordinary course.
SECOND DISPATCH
MADRID, Decem Der 30th-At Granada,
to-day, the re Deum was sung and prayers
offered for cessation of the earthquake.
At Priego, province of Cordoya, the shocks
came while the theater was crowded with
people, and a terrible panic followed.
MANY persons jumped from the galleries
and from the windows upon the crowd
below Two were killed outright and
forty more or less seriously injured. At
Malaga two lofty chimneyS of the gas
works fell. The patients in the hospital
were so terrified that they forgot their ma
ladies and fed to the open air. The con-
yicts in the prisons refused to enter their
cells and remained all night in the court
ward Albania and Santa Cruz were COM
pletely destroyed. Soldiers are now clear
ing up the ruins in search of corpses, which
are found III large numbers, many of them
horribly disfigured. The number of persons
killed is unknown. Much distress prevails
among the survivors, who ask relief. At
Albunuelas 200 persons were injured from
falling of houses. and 100 bodies, so far,
have been removed. The barracks at Lola,
province ofGranada, were ruined. At Seat
farav, a town not far from Lola, fifty per-
sons perished
French Transport Sunk by a Chinese
Cruiser.
PARIS, December 30th.-A report has
reached Paris that the French transport
Brinhoa, with troops from Toulon, has
been sunk by Chinese cruisers between
Singapore and Saigon. Great excitement
exists in the Ministry of Marine. Tele-
graphic inquiries have been sent in all
directions and there is much anxiety
THE REPORT DENIED.
PARIS, December 30th.-The Government
denies the truth of the story Of the sinking
of the transport Bienhoa by Chinese
cruisers. The Bienhoa is reported at Saigon.
French Victory in Tonquin.
PARIS, December 30th.-Official advices
from Tonquin report that the French made
an advance from Tuyen Guam, met the
Chinese force, engaged and defeated them,
inhicting severe losses. The French loss
was trifling.
Mnnificent Offer.
LONDON, December 30th.-A dispatch
from Rome says An offer of Miss Cald-
well, of Virginia, to give $780, 900 to found
a Catholic University at New York, similar
| to the College of the Propaganda Eide at
Rome, has been submitted to the Pope who
intends to confer a signal mark of distinc-
ton upon the lady.
Fiendish Brutality on Shipboard.
LIVERPOOL, December 30th.-Evidence
taken in the case of second mate William
| Rauscher and boatswain Ferdinand kol-
pein, of the American ship j. +. Chapman,
arrested ten days ago on a charge of having
| murdered a Russian seaman named Jan
sen, shows that defendants daily struck and
kicked deceased that one cold morning
they dashed him to the topsail sheets for
two hours, with his hands tied in front OF
him; that he moane1 piteously to be cut
down. and the next morning was insensible
and soon died.
Three Hundred Pirates Killed.
PARIS, December 3oth-General Briere
De Lisle telegraphs that he has been fight
ing pirates near Kong Yen for several days,
aud killed 800 and captured two guns. The
French troops are i'll excellent health and
spirits.
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