Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-23
EIGHTY SHOCKS IN
CHILE EARTHQUAKE
Probably 1000 Killed. While
Property Loss Will 20
to $250,000,000.
THE SCENES ARE APPALLING
San Francisco Steamship Captain
SAYS Situation Is Worse Than at
San Francisco-Several Nearby
Towns Wrecked.

Towns Wrecked.
London, Eng, Aug In as
patch from Valparaiso, without date
the correspondent of the Daily Mall
says:
Sixty per cent of this city has
been completely destroyed. The death
roll is very heavy. There were eighty
two shocks during Thursday night
and there have been 300 more since
then. The tremors still continue.
One hundred thousand persons are
homeless and destitute. Water is CIV
ing out. Surrounding towns have been
destroyed and the railroad service
has been cut off"
Santiago De Chile, Saturday, Aug
Is, ~ m-Faint shocks OF earth
quake continue. There was a shock
of medium violence Friday night. IL
is impossible to give accurate de-
tails, but about thirty persons were
killed in Santiago and hundred
were injured. There were no English
among these. Fifty persons were Kill
ed at Valparaiso.
There was enormous destruction OF
property both here and at Valparaiso
and in the districts IN which both
cities are situated. There still is no
telegraphc communication with Val
paraiso.
Valparaiso Chile, Aug. 20.-At 1852
also experienced an earthquake or
great severity and during that night
eighty-two shocks were felt.
Most of the buildings of the city
either were ruined or damaged.
The loss will be enormous, probably
reaching $250,000000.
Two thousand persons killed is con-
sidered to be a fair estimate Of the
casualties.
Vina del Mar, three miles from Val
paraiso and having population OF,
over 10000 Quirihue, Z25 miles, to
the southwark with a population OF
$500; Salto Limache, fifteen milees
to the northwest with a population of
$500; Quillota, % miles to the north
west, with a population of 10000 and
Most of the damage was due to fire,
which starteA Immediately after the
first shock.
The whole population is sleeping in
the hills, the parks or the streets.
Food is very scarce. Milk COSTS
two Chilean dollars a litre, and it is
almost impossible to obtain meat,
even at high prices.
The railroads are all destroyed.
Rain, which began to fall immed-
lately after the first shock, stopped an
hour afterwards.
The nights are very cold and windy,
the people sleeping in the open air
suffering greatly.
The captain of steamship which
has arrived from San Francisco says
that the situation here is worse than
that following the disaster at San
| Francisco.
Buenos Ayres, Aug. 19.-The Asso-
ciated Press has received authoritative
information confirming the worst re-
ports of the earthquake in Chile.
Valparaiso is partially destroyed.
Most of the damage done was in the
center of the city, extending from the
Plaza del Orden to the Plaza Prat.
Many lives were lost, but the num-
Der is not yet known.
Hundreds of persons were injured.
A state of panic prevails at Valpa-
raise.
Santiago also suffered severely and
there was much loss of life.
Los Andes, eighteen miles east of
San Felipe, and having population of
5000, was almost totally destroyed
The first buildings of the govern.
ment, houses, hotels and public offices
were completely wrecked.
Other towns on the Chilean of the
Andes wholly or partially destroyed
are Quillota, with a population OF
5000; Llai Lila, with a population of
$4,000; Vallenar, with population of
5000, and San Felipe, having 10000 in.
! habitants. Quillota is a mass of ruins
and there was great loss of life there.
From Santiago to the Andes every
bridge and tunnel on the railway was
utterly wrecked and the railway lines
torn up.
The shock is supposed to have been
caused by the eruption of a volcano
near Junin Los Andes.
1t is impossible to estimate the di.
mansions of the disaster of the pres.
ent moment owing to the circuitous
route over which the news is received.
There is no doubt, however, that the
catastrophe was of terrible proper
tions.
The disaster has cast gloom over the
republic of Argentina and all festiv-
tiles have been suspended.
WARSAW HOSPITALS