Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-08-25
TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE NEARLY
DESTROYS WHOLE CITY.
Without the Slightest Warning the
City Rocked Back and Forth-BuiId-
ings Went Down and Fires Started
Hundreds of Lives Were Lost and
Thousands Were Injured-San Diego
Also Damaged.

night, bringing death to hundreds o
persons and leaving many hundred
more imprisoned IN the ruins, man,
of whom were burned to death befor'
aid could reach them. Fire started
Immediately after the first shock an,
every branch of the city's service was
| raralyzed. Panic and CONSERVATION
indescribuble followed, and those who
escaped death and injury became fren
| zied with fear and could render little
assistance to the victims.
The business section OF the city is
| almost entirely destroyed. AS night
comes on the city is everywhere
aglow with dnobstructed fires, and
| clouds of smoke and vapor settle in
the streets where throngs of homeless
ones are wandering about crazed by
| the awful calamity.
Telegraphic communication is cut
off in all directions and every one here
is too much depressed by the calamity
at home to seek information in other
places. No trains have arrived in the
city or left it since the shock came,
as all of the railroad tunnels are filled
and miles of track are twisted and
rendered useless. 1t is only known
destruction are on all sides.
There were two distinct shocks, the
second one following almost instantly
after the first and completing the
work of destruction.
The day, had been unusually calm
and pleasant. At o'clock the whole
city seemed suddenly to swing back
ward and forward, and there came a
sudden jolt of such mighty force that
rows of buildings toppled to the earth
as If made of brittle plaster. Whole
rows of buildings were down in a few
minutes.
AS soon as the second shock had SUBJ
sided it became known that the bust
ness part of The town was doomed
From the Bella Vista section little was
heard, but before midnight fires were
seen burning there, and it was learned
that that section of the city also was
doomed
The city stands upon a formation of
granite gneiss, which seemed to accen-
tuate the force of the shock.
Before the stunned people were
given time to realize the magnitude
of the calamity again the city was
shaken with violence greater than be-
fore The earth in places lifted and
pitched the buildings forward In
other places there was a terrible ire
NOR that shook every structure to the
ground. This shock continued longer
than the first. When it subsidized fires
were blazing up and thousands of ter
rified persons were praying and panic
swept the city
Many landslides have occurred
around the city and scores of lives
have been lost
Buenos Ayres.-Most of the damage
is done in the center of the city. ex-
tending from the Plaza del Orden to
the Plaza Pratt Probably one-third
of the city is in ruins. Many lives
were lost, but the number is not yet
known. estimates varying. from 500 to
5000 Hundreds of persons were in
jured. The property losses will total
scores of millions. state of panic
prevails.
Los Andes, 10 miles east of San
Fel1ps, and having a population of
5000, was almost totally destroyed.
The finest buildings of the town-gov-
eminent houses, hotels and public of
-i~OS w Ci Z Gull wrecked.
Other towns on the Chilean side
or the Andes, wholly or partially de-
stroyed, are QuiIlota, with a population
of 5000; Llay Llay, with a population
of $500; Illapel, with a population of
5000; Vallenar, with population of
5000. and San Felipe, having $4,000
Inhabitants. Quillota is a mass of
ruins and there was a 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 Jenin Los Andes.
Fearful Earthquake at Santiago.
Santiago de Chile. The worst
earthquake ever remembered has oc-
CURED. Houses fell in the streets,
which were filled with hysterical peo-
pie. The clerks at the cabinet office
say that the telegraph lines to the
coast are severed.
The electric lights are out, and as
the correspondent was trying to file