The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-18
AN EARTHQUAKES EVERY DAY.
Pitiable Condition of the People in the
Town of BaVispe.

Town OF BaVlSpe.
A dispatch from Nogales, A. T., to the
st. Louis Globe Democrat says: Col
Kosterlitzliy, who is in charge of the ma
tional frontier police of Bavispe, has been IN
town. He painted woful picture of the
present condition of the earthquake suffer
ers. He said that the Mexican government
had recently sent them plenty of provisions,
but that they had insufficient wearing APP
parel. Their hutS on Refuge hill, which
are constructed of ocatllla poles and grass
offer but slight protection from the weather;
Winter has set in with sleet and snow, and
the mercury has registered lower than for
many previous years The few houses
which were constructed on the site OF the
destroyed city about month ago have
been shaken to their foundation. AT most
the survivors have but enough clothing to
cover their nakedneSs. Their sutferings are
aggravated by continued cold weather;
Apprehension, are felt that pneumonia Will
set in. fit does it will make clean
sweep Many ask. "Why don't the people
leave there's" Because all they have i'll the
world is in that vicinity. Family after
family were cultivating the suburbs or
Bavispe before last MAY, and making good
hvings, and they stay there expecting that
the quaking will cease. 1t is true the ma
| Jority have gone, but one must consider
|
Some relief should be furnished the inhab-
itants of Refuge hill at once. 1t is not an
easy task to depict their sufferings. I'M
agine hill covered with snow, dotted with
| over 100 huts, in which on account of their
Einfiammability, no fires are burned. In
them are upward Of $50 men, women and
children buried in hay, with old rags cover
| ing their shiveling bodies. The earth
| quivers, and like so many rats from their
holes, pour out the cotton and calico clothed
barefooted people, expecting to see the
earth yawn and swallow their hill. For
| hours they stand without their huts with the
thermometer at zero, fearful lest more
shocks will come. The past month has been
| one of unCeaSing terror to all. Some days
the recurring trembling would not be eX-
| perienced, but Just so sure as day elapsed
without them the following day a succession
of shocks, so strong in nature as to make
| standing impossible, would follow. While
there has been no new riffs opened III the
earth by them, heavy powders have been
| displaced from the mountains and rolled
laundering to the valleys. To this horror
add small band of numbering Apaches,
| and YOU will have some idea of the condl-
ton of affairs at Bavispe. In the past three
weeks four men have been buried who were
murdered by them At present a detach-
| ment of Federais are encamped near Refuge
hill An escort from this body is detailed
daily to protect the wood-choppers who
furnish wood to the camp. Three bucks,
among whom is the celebrated Elias, the
half-breed, and four squaws have been
seen. 1t is positively known that they eS-
caped at the time Geronimo was captured,
and have been depredating ever since, al
| though they have been chased INTO the
| United States several times.
1t is the opinion Of many that the earth
quakes will continue at Bavispe until a vol
cano bursts forth. A gentleman who has
made a study Of volcanoes and their origin
in Central America, is pronounced in the
opinion that it will not be long before one
of the mountains in that vicinity will be
vomiting fire. Dr. GoodfellOw, Of Tomb
stone, who is in the employ of the United
States government, leaves Magdalena for
Bavispe tomorrow with Col KOsterlitzky
to continue his scientific researches. The
/ Mexican Scientific Commission which thor
oughly investigated the earthquake country
in August is preparing an exhaustive re-
port at He,mOsello of its researches.