The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-08-24
GREAT CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE
SURPRISES SAN FRANCISCO.
Lives Lost Two to Three Thousand.
Financial Damage Two Hundred
and Fifty Million Dollars
Great Sufferine-Scarcity
of Food-MartiaI Law
in Force.

Special to the Ocala Banner:
New York, August 20-As details
come rapidly in the full horror and
extent of the great Chilean earth.
quake become more clear and heart
rending.
In loss of life and property this
late disaster seems to exceed that of
San Francisco, while towns in the
sphere of influence" suffering even
more severely than corresponding
California cities. The first direct
news received today from Valparaiso:
At 1880 o'clock last Thursday even.
ing Valparaiso experienced an earth
quake of great severity. and during
that night two shocks were felt.
Most of the buildings of the city
were ruined or damaged. The loss
will be enormous. Probably reaching
$3.50 600, 900.
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 a population of
over 10000; Quirihue, 225 miles to
the southwark, with a population of
$500; Quillota, 25 miles to the north
west, with a population of 10000 and
villages all around were destroyed.
Most of the damage was don by fire
which started Immediately after the
first snock. The whole population is
sleeping in the hills, the parks or the
streets.
Food is very scarce. Milk costs
two Chilean dollars a liter, and it is
almost impossible to obtain meat
even at high prices. The railroads are
all destroyed. Rain, which began to
fall Immediately after the first shock
stopped an hour afterwards.
The nights are very cold and windy
and the people sleeping in the open
are 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.
A dispatch from the same city via
Galveston says:
Via -Proportionately the
catastrophe here is considered great
er that that which befell San Francis
CO. Valparaiso and neignboring towns
are wrecked and partially burned, and
in all the towns of the Aeonagua val
ley conditions are similar. In the
southern portions of Chile, severe
shocks were felt at Talcahauno, Con
cepuon, Talea and Zone, but there
the destruction was not appalling. AS
yet no authentic news has been re-
ceived from Santiago. although a
courier is shortly expected.
Quakes recur from time to time
but are steadily diminishing in force
| AS to the dead and wounded, an &C
curate estimate is as yet impossible
but is believed that the former will
exceed one thousand in this and sur,
rounding towns.
The authorities here have the stu
Eation well in hand, and have assum
ed control of the distribution of food
Steamers have been dispatched both
north and south, for troops and pro
visions, and with thousands OF tons
of wheat, rice and -four held in stores
here and afioat, it is not believed that
a food famine will occur. Martha
law has ruled in Valparaiso since the
first day of the shocks, and the en-
tire population is camping in the open
The only wire working is the subter
lranean and sea cables of Central AMI
South American companies, which
lmarvelously escaped unhurt.
| The money loss is. now supposed t
Iexceed s250.0OO.00O. /,
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