The Newtown bee., 1907-03-01
New Milford.

Pansy, Miss Hazel Waldrop. Violet, Miss Cornelia Jackson. Daisy, Miss Harriet Green. Sally Sparks, Miss Julie Barker Matilda Jane, Mrs Bowdy. Melvin Melrose, Roland Mygatt.
 The proceeds, s33, were to purchase small chairs for the primary room of the Sunday school.
 WORD FROM MRS ENRIQUE ERRAZU- RIZ.
 Mrs Enrique ErraZuriZ, who former ly lived in Sherman, writes Mrs John Duncan as follows:
 San Bernardo, Chilli, Oct. IA, 1906. My dear Mrs Duncan:
 From my father we learned that you had written to receive news of us after the great earthquake we had had here. So I do not think it is anything more than natural that write you few lines. have written quite few letters, as we had an idea our friends might be won dering how we had passed through our ordeal.
 It caused a topic of conversation that has left dress, crops, servants and all such subjects of talk very much in the shade. The month of August is 8 very rainy, cold month, something on the style of what November and Feb. ruary are at home. We had had about a week of rainy weather before the earthquake. Some say that we had had several shocks previous to the celebrated one of August 16; but they were such slight shocks that I do not remember them. My mother-in-law had gone to bed sick, that day, with a bad cold, so that that evening Enrique went to accompany his mother in her room after supper, and had gone to our>side of the house to our room to put Susana to bed; she is very spoiled, by the way. Isabel was in the next room preparing her lessons for the next day, when all of sudden the earthquake came on. It was an up- and-down movement, very severe, then a side movement, just the same kind of movement one would make to shake the contents of a medicine botttle; that was the way felt, as though we were the medicine, to be shaken be- fore taken. Susana was undressed and in bed, but picked her up together with some shawls, and with Isabel we ran under the doorway that led to the patio or yard. As the walls are so | thick the doorway is supported by heavy tim bers, which makes a sure place to go to, much safer than to run to the street as so many did in Valpa- raiso and were killed, 5y the falling | walls. Enrique came, across the yard from his mothers room, in the raiD, tc see if we were safe. The house up. stairs is all enclosed with glass; looked up once, and saw lightning ir l the sky and the walls of the house seemed to be meeting overhead. II lasted few minutes and then stopped giving us time to gather wrapping together and put out the gas; becaus. a second shake generally follows th' first. And the second this time wal worse than the first; it lasted nearl. five minutes, but at the time it seemed as though it would never end. II Valparaiso and the surrounding town the earthquake was much worse ant the loss of life has reached into tn thousands. All of the family of MT Errazuriz lived in or near Valparais and none of them were killed, but the have lost houses and furniture an , clothes. Some who had ample mean are left destitute, and still they ar thankful they escaped with their lives After the second earthquake, durin which Enrique made two trips betwee us and his mother, for he did not war to leave us alone, less his mother, . nearly fell going across the yard, { great was the motion of the earth. seemed to make the earth move waves. We made our way to Mrs B razuriZs bedroom, trembling for fes !. of another. By this time Mrs Ezra
 uriz had begun to dress, as this cart
 quake was the worst she had expel
 enced and one did not know what w $ going to happen. Many thought tl
 world had come to an end, and l w ee ee about of the same opinion. We sle ,g by snatches that night. All the ser e. ants came to Mrs B. $ room and Y al were all together, for at intervs
 there were earthquakes all throui
 the night. And we have had slig
 shocks nearly every day since. To-ds
 for instance, one very short but stro - shock startled us all. They will pro
 ably last some time. In the years 1S V and 1852 very heavy shocks were fe
 in which people were killed and hou
 fell, but not so bad as this one. I
 rique says the Chilians initiate
 Yankees even to the earthquak es, rd cause this has been as bad as that
 San Francisco, if not worse.
 - But you will be surprised to see
 the beginning of my letter that have moved again. San Bernardo
 in size something like New Milfo
 We are two stations by rail from $
 tiago. Mrs ErraZuriz has bOugh
 house and lot that extends from
 street to the next. We are next
 the hotel and one of four houses,
 cluding the hotel, on the block. ]
 house occupies the entire front of