DEATH ROLL 122 IN CHILEAN ’QUAKE
PEOPLE RUSH IN PANIC INTO STREETS. (United Press Assn. — By Electrlo Telegraph—Copy r igh t.) (Received December 3, 11.30 a.m.) SANTIAGO, December 2. Deaths as a result of the earthquake had reached 122 on Saturday night. Sixty others were reported unofficially. Two hundred and fifty were injured. The cities of Talca and Chilian are the greatest sufferers. Talca is in ruins, with forty dead and 200 injured. At Chilian there are seventeen dead and thirty injured. Forty were killed and 100 injured at Barohona Camp at the Teniente mine of the Braden Copper Company when the shock broke the reservoir, loosing a torrent upon the valley. Six are dead at Santa Cruz. Santiago and Valparaiso were only slightly damaged, but several were injured in the panic-stricken rush to the streets.—Australian Press AssociationUnited Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18627, 3 December 1928, Page 8
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