The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-18
In CARRIAGE WHEN IT FELL
PROF. CALVERT AND mrs WIFE
saw a THOUSAND DEAD.


Demented FuEltiyss Threw themselves
Under the wheels % the nellef Train
New HSrk DOetOE Came out % u .
Captain IN the Costa Rlran Army
\ Several passengers who landed yes
terday from the Hamburg American liner
Prinz Joachim. from Port LimOn. Costa
Rioa. had been in Carriage, the old capital
Of Costa Rica. when tho earthquake pTRc-
tically destroyed the city on May T. Dr.
Philip p. Calvert. professor Of biology
/ In the University Of Pennsylvania, who
has been collecting biological specimens
In Central America for the last year.
living chiefly At Carriage. was among them
Mrs. Calvert. who was with him. told
how they got out Of Carriage with five
trunkiuls OF specimens.
] The shocks began on April ~. A. they
are very common in Costa Rica and paT-
/ ticularly in the neighborhOOd Of Carriage
the people paid little attention 20 them at
first. After the professor and his wife
had counted about $50 shocks they felt
a. IL they might endure a few more with
composurc but they and all the rcst
Of the residents were unprepared for the
gigantic upheaval that came on the night
Of May Z. shaking down nearly all the
buildings Of tho city and sending the in
habitants in panic into the streets
DR.. Calvert and his wife were In a one
story plaster and adobe hotel when every
thing collapsed Beams. wall. ceiling.
all came down together Some fell in
such way a. to form a protective cover
ing for the doctor and Mrs Calvert, They
got into thestreet ana FOUND great creviCes
in the earth everywhere and hardly a
house standing. Most Of the people
killed were killed by falling walls More
than thousand corpses dragged from the
ruins lay In the street for days hsfOre the
relief parties could bury them The
railroad tracks were 80 badly twisted
that trains could not berun to bring reiief
To the wounded.
DR. Walp0le Brewer. surgeon 1t the
Prinz Joachim. led a relief party that
went from Port Limon % Carriage. arriving |
there on May g. He said the special train |
that took hun 10 the scene u hayoC made |
the sixty mile trip IN twelve hours /
The country was filed with men. women I
and children fleeing % the cuasJ Some 4
demented fugitives flung themselves
under the whsels Of the train and we're /
killed The relief party found Carriage
a city 81 the dead and wounded Every
body who could get away had gone
Every church vas destroyed and the
peace palace built by Andrew Carnegie 1
had less than half a wall standing. The
doctor picked up i've men and women 1
lying dead under the -plre II the cathe-
dral
Il was estimated Nv the relief party |
from the Prinz Joachim that the dead in |
the city Of Carriage was not less than .50O |
The bodies were piled IN freight trains !
aud sent into the country for burial !
The wounded were pvt IN tent- and fed |
and dOctOred.
The Prinz joachim was loading az Port |
Limon when the great shock came. rolling |
her like a rowhoat IN a swell The doctor |
said ~ far AZ h. could learn no Americans |
wcrn killed in Carriage and few Il any I
Europeans. but many u the latter were /
met IN fight from the stricken district |
The dusi-F Who j. not the ship.s regular |
surgeon was loaned 10 the Hamburg |
American Line for one trip. HIS post /
when here i az the Riverside Hospital /
re- said that most ~ the Prinz Joachim i
passenRcrs who had been IN the earth I
quake belt we're tourists. The doctor /
-aid
After ! had heen working IN that |
wrecked town a day and a half q very 4
black G1zfariCan man came around i
and ordered me - lake "a hi- uniform 4
I hadn known that had a uniform on I
: found out aftsrward that the Mayor 4
81 Ca.tago had put the brilliant apparel 4
on me MT a. W. were e1cit-dlv entering /
into tn Work uf rescue I had been /
4 o-tarican army Captain for thIrty->ix /
hour livery other man 10 the relief I
uarty had hren similarly decked out |
Some 81 them sailed into New NorS with /
Generals uniforms N their Kits