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The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terrible earthquake in South America. (search)
Terrible earthquake in South America. --Total Destruction of a City and Awful Loss of Life. A letter from Valparaiso, April 2d, gives the following account of the destruction of the city of Mondoza, and the attendant frightful scenes. With feelings of deep regret I have to announce to you the utter destruction of the city of Mendoza, in the Argentine Republic, by an earthquake, on the evening of the 20th of March last. At that date, at half-past 8 P. M., a alight but prolonged vibration of the earth was felt in this city and in Santiago simultaneously. Most of the churches were densely filled, it being near the close of Lent, and some alarm and conclusion was created, but no serious accidents occurred, and tranquility was soon restored. On Sunday, the 24th, however, a general gloom was cast over this city by the announcement by telegraph from the capital that Benigno Bruno, the mail rider, had arrived from Mendoza that morning without a mail, bringing the distre