The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-15
PRESIDENT OF CHILE
VISITS QUAKE zone.
DISTRESS is LEARNED

SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 15.-As
President Alessendri left today to Wis
it the zone devastated by Saturdays
earthquake and tidal wave, lists of the
names of those killed in the catas-
trophe came in over the restored tele-
graph lines from many points, giving
poignant reality to the disaster
| While the official figures on the
dead from the calamity received at
the ministry of the interior, making
the total slightly under 900, had not
been added up this forenoon, unofficial
estimates of the fatalities still ran as
Ugh as 1000.
! Today's messages brought fresh
stories of suffering among the thous-
ands of homeless and further detail-
of the terrible violence of the mid
night earthquake and tidal wave
which laid low a score or more of
towns and villages. The scenes of
this distress. President Alessendri in
tends to visit personally with his Of
ficlai staff, in order to better direct
measures of relief, and give his per-
sonal encouragement to the workers.
Big Property Loss
Official kilograms supplementing
the press reports confirmed great pro-
portions of the calamity. These tele
among other details, of 1000 refugees
in Coquimbo, where the property loss
is estimated at $7,000,000 pesos. They
tell, too, of removal of the dead still
going on in the ruins of Vallenar,
where the damage is placed at $4,000.
900; of people still sleeping in the
open air at various points; of still
other places destroyed, such as the
Port of Cruz Grande.
i Latest advices received from Copi-
I aipo confirmed the complete destruc-
tion of the towns of Ferirna and HUI
asto. A dispatch to Mercurio from
Coquimbo says the American vice.
consul there stated all Americans in
Coquimbo were we'll Regarding the
Americans employed in the mines Of
the steel company in the Higura dis
trict, the dispatch says an engineer
who arrived at Coquimbo yesterday
from Vallenar stated he had passed
} through Higura, where, it was stated,
: there was no loss of life. The people
!, of Chile are giving generously to the
relief fund being collected by the ma
tional committee.
Offers of Aid
Offers of aid are coming IN from
other South American countries and
: the American Red Cross, and are be-
; ing accepted. A relief train is on the
: way northward and probably will
bring the first outside relief to the
devastated interior towns.
: Besides the measures of sympathy
and coincidence received by President
: Alessndri from President Harding
the chief executive has received like
: messages from the presidents of Mex
leo, Brazil, Argentina, Panama and
Uruguay According to cable advices
to the local offices of the Association
of Nitrate Producers. the earthquake
in the Atacama and Coquimbo zone
did not alter the nitrate regions o!
Terepaca and Antofagasta.
) Scarcely house remains standing
} in the Vallenar valley in northern
) Chile as the result of the earthquake.
r and marine disturbances of last week
: In two provinces it is expected tn.
number of dead will be substantial;
increased when communications ar.
resumed with many small villages il
the interior whose fate remains un
known.
Dispatches today from La Serens
told of serious damage which the
earthquakes inflicted upon the Top;
mines.
Martial law has been declared a
Vallenar and in Copiapo owing to tn.
looting which bandits have been per
! petrating upon the distressed popula
: tion. The bandits are believed for tn.
S most part to be prisoners who escaped
from the jails.