Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-08
TIE KARTHQUAKE's WORK
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rerror.sssIcken People.
A Granada special TO the New York
Herald says: Your correspondent ar
rived here at 5 O'clock last evening. AS
the train drew nigh the city looked quiet
enough against its background of snow
clad mountains. Crowds Of people who
were about looked cheerful and happy,
for the day was faultless, and tempted
the indolcnt natives to the hillsides.
There they basked in the delicious beams
OF the setting sun. and appeared as II
they cared hut little what raging fires
beneath the surface of the earth were IN
store for them. But twenty minutes
later the earth trcmbled beneath our
feet. and sensation of incipient sea-
sickness told that there was another
shock of earthquake, from which the
city had been free since Saturday.
TROUBLE AMONG THE C0NvIcTs.
So far as | was able to ascertain the
real damage Of this city was slight, only
one kitchen with its lofty chimney hay-
ing fallen. At the city prison. how
ever. the convicts attempted to take adj
vantage of the excitement incident to
the shock ard escape, but two compa-
MES Of soldiers were at once dispatched
by the Governor and Gordon was
formed around the Jail. Later in the
evening the Governor Of the province,
Senior Jaudenes, received telegram
from Motril, about thirty miles distant
on the sea coast, stating that the Jail
there had been thrown down by the
same shock which was felt here, to-
gether with three other buildings which
had been damaged by previous shocks.
Those shocks had been of almost daily
occurrence since the commencement oil
Christmas night.
HAMLETs DESTROYED.
No additional loss of life was re-
corded last night. but news is still lack
ing. Several small hamlets near by the
town of Albunuelas have disappeared
almost entirely, nothing remaining visi-
bic except portion Of church-spire.
Albania was also dire distress. A
large portion Of the town was entirely
destroyed. Many Of the most-severely
wounded have been brought here and
the remaining inhabitants are living as
best they may in the adjacent fields.
Their wants are partially supplied by
the Governor. who labors under the
difficulty of being entirely unprepared
for such great and widespread disaster.
To-day he is going to Albunuelas TO
give his personal attention to the needs
of his people. and has invited me to ac-
company him on his GRAND Of mercy.
MORE SCARED THAN HURT.
The King is expected here to-day. In
this city | have found the people more
scared than hurt, for nearly all the
wealthy families are living in public
squares in hastily-constructed shanties
of the crudest description. Yet the
damage already done to property here
has been but slight. Some conSidera-
ton should be had for those who know
they are living over an active volcano.
At nearly every station on the railroad
between this city and Bobadilla | found
almost all the cars not actually engagedin
the traffic inhabited by terror-stricken or
homeless refugees from hamlets ruined
beyond recognition. The whole coun-
try is stepped in mourning by a disaster
of such a nature, and which is unpar-
alleled in duration.