The Mena weekly star., 1906-08-30

l but the Government Is
 Lines-.Pians for Reconstruction of the City Arc Being Formulated. Valparaiso, Aug 24.-From the Pla- za de la Victoria as far as the plaza in the section called Las Delicias, four-fifths of the houses are com pletely destroyed and the remaining fifth are badly damaged. From the Plaza de la Victoria down to the GUS tom house only about one-third of the houses sustained damage. The banks of the city and the customs warehouses were hot damaged. With the exception of Espiritu Santo all the churches in the city were de stroyed. as were the hospitals and the theaters. The number of dead is more than 2.000.
 . The offices of the Havas agency, although seriously damaged, are still being used for the company's business.
 The tragic scenes of the San Fran cisco disaster were reproduced here. There was the fight against fire, the lack of water and robbery and pill lage.
 The authorities are now beginning to get in provisions and water again Is being supplied. All the fires have been extinguished.
 The first shock lasted four min utes and half and the second two minutes Most of the houses were thrown down by the second shock. Estimates of the damage range from $25,000,O0 to $50,00O,O00. The Almendral quarter has been abso- lutely destroyed. The people are still camping on the surrounding hills and in the streets and plazas. The declaration is made that S0,000 people will leave the city. The lack of food is not yet serious. Tele- graphic communication with San tiago was re-established Tuesday.
 A number of steamers are en- gagged in moving the people of the city to points to the north and . south.
 Some of the business houses here re-opened today for the first time since the earthquake.
 Telephone and telegraph communi cation with Santiago has been re established but the lines are used .; most exclusively by the government : officials. The city is still under martial law. Traffic ceases at o'clock In the evening and everybody is compelled to take some part in tions. As first installment the government has appropriated $4,000, 900 for the relief of the destitute The custome house was re-opened to 5 day and traffic by water and by rail has been resumed. The postal ser vice also is in operation. One of the greatest difficulties en oountered by the authorities is the interment of the bodies recovered fro mthe ruins, as all the cemeteries were destroyed At the various tenn . porary morgeus heaps of collins designation of their place of burial The work of recovering the bodies Is : being pushed to the utmost in order to avoid an epidemic, in fear ol which many families are leaving Sr city. Through the whole length z, Brazil avenue and all over Victoria Square large sheds have been con structed to shelter the homeless from the severe rains.
 Survivors of the earthquake say that during the shocks 1t was i'm possible to stand erect without sup port
 A movement Is on foot to organize a company to facilitate the reasing of the money necessary to recon struct the city. It is proposed to ad vance the sums needed without in terest for the first six months. The plan is to construct the new building. ot light materials and to lay out the streets so that they will have uni form width of 20 metres. , All the provinces of the North an, South which have not suffered ] the earthquake are sending supple: of food and money to the stricker citeis and towns.
 , The department of public works a
 Santiago has appropriated $100l1y for the construction of sheds to shel ter the refugees from Valparaiso anc elsewhere who continue to arrive a the Chilean capital in large numbers The railroad line between Limach' and Quilpue, in addition to suffering
 severely from the earth shocks o . August 16, has several enormou,
 crevices, newly formed in its vici nifty.
 Valparaiso still is without stree lights but order is maintained owinl
 to the severity of the authorities Q who shoot all persons caught com
 mitting robberies
 1. Among the building which fell a
 the time of the earthquake are th' e palace of justice and tn emaritim'
 prefecture.
 Boy Killed by Pet Bear.