Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-18
TREMoRs ON FRIDAY.
Reports at New York Tell o3 De-
struction.

struction.
| NEW YORK, August 1S.-The earthquake
| shocks severely felt throughout the region
| of Valparaiso, Chile, Thursday night were
| followed Friday by a series of earth tremors
| that continued at intervals throughout the
day. The first intelligence to this effect
| was brought to this city early today in the
Associated Press dispatch from Galveston
Tex, where the cable operator had been in
recent communication with the cable oper-
ator at Valparaiso. The latter said many
buildings had been destroyed and expressed
the belief that many fatalities had occur
red although anything like definite esti-
mate of the dead was impossible. The Sec
ond series of quakes was recorded by the
seismograph in the government observatory
at Baldwin City, Kan, a pronounced shock
being timed at 1927 o'clock Friday morning.
This latest report of loss of life and prop
erty is consistent with dispatch received
by cable companies and business houses
here.
Seth r. Abrams, manager OF the west
coast division Of the South American trade
Of the American Trading Company, said
that his firm had been advised that severe
earthquake had wrought destruction in VAL
paraiso and that parts of the city were in
flames.
Manager Robertson of the Central and
South American Telegraph Company said
that he was not in position to give out
the reports that his company had received
from their operators at Valparaiso and
other points along the Chilean coast.
II can tell you that there has been a
fearful earthquake said he, land parts
of the city are on fire. What information
the form of private messages to indiYidqals
In this city and we are not permitted to
give these to the public. Our operators are
so busy and the confusion SO great that
we cannot expect them to make full re-
port upon conditions there for some time
to come. Communication was restored by
our operators in Chile yesterday and now
our wire is working perfectly. Beyond VAL
paraiso, however, and through all the in
land districts there Is not a wire up. No
word has yet been received from Santiago,
La Serena, Conception or Iquique. We
cannot tell what the extent of the earth
quake is nor at what time we will be able
to (restore communication with the interior.
Early today the company received this
message from its representative at VAL
paraiSo:
People demoralized; all business houses
closed; no prospect of an early restora-
tion of lines to Santiago or Buenos Ayres.
The company's office, which is always
closed at night made no exception last
night. Its night business came through
the Western Union Wall street office. as
usual.
Manager Keene of the Western Union
said early this morning that nothing in
the way of details of the earthquake had
come through to any one Many private
messages were received bearing the. single
word 'Safe," but nothing that would give
line on the extent of the disaster.
Early today fire underwriters here had
no general information as to whether there
was any large fire loss at Valparaiso. The in
surance at Valparaiso is in local and for
eign insurance companies. None of 1t Is
written by the American companies, and
there is no means of knowing here how
heavily involved in losses any Of the COM
panies are.
1t is, of course, thought possible that
some of the foreign companies that have
had losses at San Francisco may also have
large commitments at Valparaiso, but this
is, of course, merely speculation.