’QUAKE VICTIMS 2000
HEW SHOOKS WIPE OUT TOWN OF CAVE DWELLERS. Reports from Valparaiso state that a further shock ot earthquake was experienced. Serious damage is stated to have been caused at Ooquimbo, Constitution, and Carrizal. At Carrizal, which is a centre of the copper-mining and smelting indusfry; a subterranean town, with a population of 660 people, is said to have vanished completely. It was made Up of cliff and cave dwellings oocupied by mine-workers. The death roll is now computed at 2000, the total having been augmented by a long list of victims, previously unreported, at Freinina. According to one report, 600 identified bodies have been burned in one gigantic pyre in the City Square at Vallenar. Martial law has been declared in parts of the earthquake zone, and persons caught in the act of looting and robbing the dead are being shot.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11411, 6 January 1923, Page 13
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