The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-15
CARTAGO QUAKE HORRORS
FRESH DISASTERS OCCJ q DAILY
~ COSTA RIGA CITIES
sister Republic Giving HelT- Ameri-
can Refugees az New Orleans Tell of
calamity Prople sirichen Dead N
IfeItkr Attitudes Night % Panle.
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were killed New shocks have added 20
tho terror AZ san jose Many buildings
there have been destroyed Persons re-
fuso to G. within their homes Carriage
was shaken again New made graves
burst open. aud this adds to the menace
lgspestiIenCe
The sister republics are helping Costa
Rica with money Guatemala and Pan
ANA contributed t25.O0 The Madri1
Government m Nicaragua also con-
trihutsd The Red Gross society h doing
good work Blankets and supplies are
needed. for hundreds are sleeping In the
open.
Plans are under way for rebuilding
Carriage and II will be made earthquake
proof like San Francisco
Many Americans were in Carriage at
the time ~ the earthquake Two were
killed They were Zone Americans
Every member oi the family Of Peaoe
Court Justice Bocasgerass II Guatemala
pariahed in the earthquake az Carriage.
When BoCaSgerass heard Of the disaster
he fastened 20 Carriage When he gazed
tlpon the ruins 81 his home he lost his
reason and became raving maniac.
Reports from Carriage to-day brought
news IT bic death.
N the earthquake disaster were brought
lnpre TODAY by a PARTY Of Americans
returning from Costa Rica. They told
how the Central American cataclysm had
ntrJlrk down scores az their work and how,
later on. tn victims had been found IN
natural Dueitionz lust a. Il death had come
and gone like a lightning fash.
One e th1ss whp arrived was Mrs
Noel weldon II Pittshurg, who's hus-
hands hotel was RACED. Nc Weldon
has kent a hotel In Carriage for several
ypars To catered 10 American tourists
When the earthquake struck Carriage
90 the night at May.a hi~ hotus' vas one
q IN last buildings 10 fall and A. a result
al hi guests escaped Mr. Weldon
ana her daughter Mary left the hotel a
few minutes hefor,, Il CrIimblod into a
mas 81 mortar and kindling wood.
other Americans who returned by
vessels from Port LimOn to-day were
Misee- Iillian Walker. Altce Na~son,
Adrienne Boman and their chaperon,
Mr.. F~l .lle Nebre They went through
al the terrible scenes at Carriage, hut
~ no time were they In danger. They
cScaped 10 the city'S outskirts before
the fatal crashes hegan Il seems that
an the Americans IN Oartago took warn
ing from the earths trembling and M
10 the outskirts II the ancient town while
The natives. long acCustom, d % the
trsmor-. ignored thu <, ntle rocking Of
tho ground until tho -huck came that
killed twelve hundr,d periUns.
Mr.. Weldon tells this story. I had
gone from Pttsburg 10 visit my husband
I'M Cartago We ha1 been IN Costa Bica
only lev days whcn th" earth began %
trenh.H The natiye, gave no heed,
TheT. ,u Apnl %. the quake Increased In
intensity until an We Americans felt
alarmed Dor thrc" weeks IN" trrmOrs
continued
con the afternoon Of Nav darkness
descended earlier Than usual. About 9
O'Clock the earth began TO rock with in
creased violence and az east fifty 81 the
guests 20 the hotel made EXCUSES 10 take
drives 9long the rock roads leading from
the old city. We had prOCeeied no dis
lance az all when the earth CaTeened like
a shin n the swell II the sea. A score II
liE were thrown from vehicles
More II ~ was hurt. however and a.
We arose W. hsart a tremendous rgmbln
from tho city. II was the falling AMI
CruncEirg OF buiiiings. The awful quiv-
erins continued for three o. four minutes.
We hast,rei hack to town. On our way
We mt hundreds d persons who verc
madden 81 with fear. A We got lrtO the
city ~ had 20 drive around cracks IN the
Old stone paysments Then "" reached
a poipt where the carriages could no
longer prCCeed The streets we're blocked
With the ruins ~ homes ard public build
nRs. and bareath thom we're hundreds
Of persons. mary of whom might have
he"l spared death u they could have been
rcscgeI al once
-Rsscuiug plrties were hastily or.
gAniE,d among the survivursand the rude
implements 90 hand were used ~ Try
tho victims out u the ruins The night
WA one at terror There Wa little
orEaniz'd disorder. and there was no
lnoiing hut the natives were struck F..
helpless with fear end tho continued I
qIRking 0f earth added Q, conditions
that made fOr actual insanity
Va waz not until the newt day when hight Z
revealed the nights horrors that W.
reahzsd the Cnhmity We had survived T
nv morning re-cIing parties had reached .
Carriage from san Jo-f systematic ef- /
forts were made - "XtrICate CDrpsas from ,
the ruins. and b0dies by the sc0rs Werp
rUon piled in the streets |
Ono Of the things that impressed me :
most was the discovery Il bodies from ,
which NE had been struck seemingly 1
IN an instant ! zlw cobhler-. their ham /,
mers -till raised over their st. Dlucked 4
from the rims They rad died appar- I
emily with no warming whatever ~ their I
fat, tlrpzes - mothers with babes /
a. thslr hrelst- were picked from the I
debris, while business men still ~ their
desks were found hfeless
Mr. Weldon and her companions sav
that the tosta kioln authorize, worked .
bravely and efliciertly % restore ortsv .
Rains lmped"d their efforts and diseasa
aoon broke ont 10 the refugee oamus
The camps were soon moved a. higher
ground and thus menace was halted
When the Amercaus left Port Lmon
tho earth stall rocked. while the fer ~
tho natives had not subsidized
WAsHINCrON. May u -Gustavus I. 7
Monroe. u charge d'Anairez " the
American Legation a. San JOSS. Costa
Rica, advised the State Department to-
day th4t relief work Tor the earthquake
sufferers D. proceeding ,atizfactorily
Az the wounded be- .aid hav. been
brought 10 San Jo-s from the airro,fnd-
ing country. A temporary hospital has
heen erected With funds Furnished by The
Red Gross Two hundred and fifty tents
and 80 blank cts will arrive to-r0orruw
from tho Canal Zone The rainy s.a.on
h. added. has begun
Zinc and lumber FOR temporary bu,Id
ing are scarce The local rharitahI.
organization has thssituation we'll Maud
and there ~ sufficient money for he
present
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