Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-09-19
MANY MEET DEATH.

prove it to have been more disastrous
than was at that time supposed. In
this city about forty people were
killed and sixty more or less injured.
Judging from the fearful results in
San Salvador the number killed
throughout the country will be
somewhere in the hundreds. The
shock began here by slight tremor,
which gradually augmented. The
duration of the first shock was ten Sec
onds The earth was shaken in most.
horrible manner for five seconds. Then
it gradually died away, until at last,
no motion whatever could be felt. Dur
ing the shock there was frightful
noise, which was plainly audible in all
parts of the city. The air was filed with
agonizing shrieks. Everywhere could
be heard the cries of parents calling for
their children and children screaming
for their parents. The PAN
demonium was succeeded by a
calm that was quite as dreadful
as the shock had been, for it was
! accompanied by the darkness of night,
No one knew what was to happen
next. Earthquakes, by turn feeble
and violent, continue at irregular inter-
vals Everybody expects the climax to
come September 81, on account of the
equinox. 1t is not unlikely this city
will be made total wreck.
The government has sent 300 men to-
deepen the outlet to Lake Ilopongo, in
order to diminish the amount of water
in it and to reduce the violent shocks.
Lake Ilopongo is 8 miles east of this
city and is 96 miles square. 1t occu-
pies the area of the old sunken vol,
cano. 1t is now filled with
rainwater and is heavily charged
with sulphuretted hydrogen and other
gases. The workmen engaged in Dig
| ging the outlet September Il were car
ried away by torrent of warm, ill
| smelling water and were drowned
| The details of the ruin of towns in
the axis of the earthquake are meager.
Of $40 houses at Comaseaqua only eight
remain standing. The loss of life there
is great.
DISASTERS AT SEA.
ATHENS, Sept. IA collision has
taken place off Cape Colonna, the most
southern point of Attica, between an
| Italian steamship, the Taormina, of
the Italian Messageries Company, and
Greek steamship, the Thessalia- The
Taormina sank soon after the accident,
drowning her captain, seven of her
crew and forty of her cabin passen-
| gers. The second officer of the Taor-
nina and a number of passengers who
were standing on the bridge at the time
the collision occurred were saved by
the boats of the Thessalia.
The Taormina left Constantinople
| Wal.aeIa,,
Thursday night near the island of
Gaiders, when it sighted n vessel COM
ing toward it. The Taormina repeat
edly whistled, but no notice was
taken of the signal The Thes-
salia which was going under full
steam, struck the Taormina mid
ships. The panic on the Italian ves-
sci was frightfuL Many of the matches
were open and the shock caused num-
Der of people to be pushed down into
the hold and killed outright Five
minutes after the ships struck the
Thessalia disengaged itself from the
Taormina and continued on its course,
paying no heed to the Taorrnina or its
signals of distress. Some of the latter's
passengers leaped upon the deck of the
Thessalia just after the vessels struck,
and in this manner many were saved.
Brave Capt. Ferroni, of the Taormina,
remained at his post .on the bridge
and sank with his ship. Capt.
Primas declares that the cap
tain of the Taormina must have
mistaken its course and must have seen
that he (Primas) did what he could,
but was unable to prevent the collision.
DUBLIN, Sept IA steam launch
carrying mont union laborers from Dub
lin to Londonderry sank in Lough
Foyle Friday after colliding with the
steamer Albatross. Fifteen persons
We're drowned, among them child of
Graeme Hunter. agent of the London
J. grain federation, who was aboard the
launch with his family.
LOST IN A HURRICANE.
HALIFAX, N. S., Sept. 12.-The two
topmast fishing schooner Georgiana is
being towed into Halifax by tugs. 1t
was found 10 miles off DEVILS island,
bottom up, by the fishing schooner
Coronet. The Georgiana was making
Halifax harbor on the night of the hur-
ricane with a crew of sixteen men and
cargo Of 500 quintals of fish. Its
dories were smashed and swept away.
! 1t was thrown upon its beam-end and
. finally turned bottom up and all its
crew drowned. The lost consists OF
. two members of family named Bou.
drot, four members of the
LIE Blanc family, five named Por-
ter and five named Surrette. All
were from Yarmouth. A dispatch from
Yarmouth says that the news of the
loss of the Georgiana caused great
shock there, and that the thriving viii
lage of Tasket Wedse, where all the
young fellows of the crew belonged, is
in deep mourning.
Vessels arriving at Canso, Sydney,
, Shelburne and all Atlantic ports bring
details of the severity of the gale. The
, fishing feet'on the western banks suf-
, fered Severely One vessel reports
having had four of its crew swept
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