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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5478, 9 February 1885, Page 2

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Loss of Life and Great DanujiiiS Many Spanish Towns, ..jp* Terrible Scene In a Them* Mj M a W'.id, December 26. —M any torajj^B reported, suffered from the recont *l}fß| quake. The official report Bhogg?JWjW| persons were killed in the PQM^H| Malaga and Granada by the rec3flf|] quake. The population of Grana encamped in the squares. llii'jh classes are lodging in carnages'^jjlH the promenade. Tho fagade oi the'SH dral is seriously damaged. MaoypMß were destroyed in Jimena, &n3|9^H family killed in the village of.JEnraßK the falling of a chimney. Over ,ld(fH inhabitants of Albunucklas we iH Albania is mostly in ruins. Tho pTwM of Malaga suffered equally as muchduiwHj as did Granada. Commerce i" pnmH Two hundred houses at AlfanteteJHHK badly damaged. The panic is eanßH The shock was not felt in tho nortbGnvjH north west provinces. The Govornrattfljß granted 5,000d015. from the NirajH Calamity Fund for the relief of auffetw'fcH the province of Granada. Later||jll state-that 300 lives were lostatAlhtigfß 750 houses and a church destroyei'-ffi^B persons were killed at Pereirana, TaiwH hall and many houses wwo damngld ifl Torrax: the inhabitants fled, {fjUj stricken It is now estimated thltjwMj 600 persons were kilied in eiSß|iH of Malaga, including the killed Midnight.—O(h'cial|roturns irom'ttagHj vince of Granada state that 526'jjJHMH were killed by the earthquake thcitfjwH in Malaga 100. In Albama over MtaHßj have already been recovered. li?^jlH 60 bodies Lave been reoovored. sons died from fright. The convicts ii tow Seville prison attempted to esiajpjJsiß 81 quake shock was experienced in C»riw*B in Austro-Hungary, to-day. ConOTgJM damago was done to many buildinjtSJ earthquake shock was feltat TarvJßiHS^H day night. Violent shocks at '""ISrH an hour were also felt in the viclnlr/HgHj inhabitants are greatly nlarmed. , , fit London, December 29.—An m^!!bB1 was folt in Wales to-day. *'*"? r.?KM were injured. ■ « Madrid, Decembor 29.—The ™f^sH lines in Andalusia are useless flnaoWit la the earthquake. In Malaga theWH ceods §500,000. Two hundred^ljgraffl sevon houses were damaged mow^Sß After the earthquake there was a IHRI procession headed by a bishopi ■ W"%H plorcd Divine mercy. There WMB, I?IJSJH shocks in various places to-day •"«!■ damage at Cordova. The inhabiantißW in a state of panic. j4,aH Madrid, December 30-—Freehi.wS!M received from the district in earthquake shock was the eeversstawj'"™ horror to the great calamity. A'9SKH town of 5,000 people, in the'TirWgj™ Malaga, the earthquake was fou°TOgSß! hurricane. This finished the dMttMTOM many houses which already HHI brought to the brink of ruin by ™l)r?SS| shocks. The inhabitants fled "jfflßjj from the houses and camped ou ,-aSIB town. Much suffering wa3 MnffM|]}rH scarcity of provisions. Thea^r^^HH| is now subsiding, At Granada to-fliJf.^jM To Deum was sung and pra>or<oßi>W1 *l M the cessation of the earlhqnako.^* -H Priogo, in the province of ov^jaSißJ came while the theatrq was .crow°?Js«i people, A terriblo panic foil off oq.,JßjjM persons jumped from the S^'sSwag from the windows upon thoAaKm below. Two wore killed > outn£?^M forty more or less eeriously WfSJH At Malaga two lofty chimneys of_SO j| works fell. The patients in the ™t5« were so terrified that they WI^H maladies and fled to the' °P« n-flsijß| convicts in the prisons refuse 1 to J n*T«| cells, and remained all night in U^V« yard. Alhama and Santa Cruz Wr*£bjM pletely destroyed, Soldiers aro no;3ia| ing up the ruins in search of are found in large numbers, If horribly disfigured. A nm°elM^M persons killed are unknown. much distress among the survivpre,»"» |f relief. At Albunnelas 200 F* 180 jj# M injured by falling houses. "nB. ;v §1 bodies so far have been reaff^m barracks at Loja, province of ''""raj^M ruined. At Seaffarraga, a town nMffiMM Loja, fifty persons poriuhed. jtjKH Madrid, January 14. — bir*ifflmSi tremblings were felt yesterday «'.*» Canillas, Almunccar, and Algarso , *m storm in tho southern province «f| tinues. The rivers aro R™y'\llffi the sufferings of the people, rendered houseless bytheeaill ' J. d*^ JC intense. According to tne jOl' clf l ,..Kll!W the number of persons killed by uw j£sm quake in Granada was 695, and ■ ■' |& ber of injured 1,430. d-oeunH January 17.—Another •I*^' I?,' I SHES earthquake was experienced " "'^Jj 10 o^clock last night, causing PSSSMt among the inhabitants. • j""^ ijL jmH visiting A relez Malaga l4>d:iy. tfjuffimßi snowstorm and froit (ontinue. ,nj[#Jffi the most severe snowstorm since ,^^-:*i vails. The sugar-cane crop'W ji^pK and orange and olive proves al2^S|^B The situation is msst critical. iOU ,; |v

■—.•« trembling. The wind and snow de- *&!« tW Huts of those'who fled to the nnan fields from the cities and towns for afetv At Frigiliana, twonty-soven miles S*-' o f Malaga, tho people, rendered by cold and hunger, attacked the houses of landowners. Another severe shock of earthquake has been experienced atCanillas. _