CHILI DISASTER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 November 1922, Page 5

CHILI DISASTER

FURTHER DETAILS

DEAD MAY TOTAL 5000

~ BIG AREA DEVASTATED

(By Electric . Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15

Consular reports from Chile indicate that twelve hundred miles of coast fell the effects of the. tidal "wave in varying degrees. The ocean, is st ill emit inning to ebb and How hack in huge waves; and strange lights flicker over tin*, waters, frightening the jmoiile who are lairing refuge in the hills. An area 140 by 100 miles has been denuded of houses. At Vallenar the dead now total Of teen hundred, indicating that the total dead through the disaster may reach five thousand; while ten thousand are injured. Railway tracks in the afflicted region wer destroyed. Roads show yawning craters, making transportation of food supplies possible only on mule back. Food is in great need. President Allesandri. with (lie Cabinet, departed aboard a battleship to visit the region. A message from President Harding offers American Red Cross aid if needed.

Chilean troops have been sent to keep order in' devastated area, where looting and disorders continue.

FURTHER SHOOKS

BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED

GANG OF PRISONERS KILLED

NEW YORK, Nov. 16

Messages from Santiago de Chile report that, further earthquake shocks in the Copiapo district demolished buildings. Twelve prisoners were killed and a squad of soldiers escorting lliem were buried but not seriouslv hurt.

Government officials belicy.e now that they can handle the ritual inn themselves without accepting the United States’ offer of assistance.

LOOTING BY PRISONERS

NEW YORK, Nov. 15,

The damaged Chilian longitudinal railway has been repaired. The first relief train lias started northward. Martial law has been declared in Yallcnar and Copiapo, owing to , looting by convicts who escaped when the prisons crumbled.