Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — NEARLY 1,000 LIVES LOST. [ARTICLE]

NEARLY 1,000 LIVES LOST.

Frightful Results of the Recent Earthquake in Spain. [Cable dispatch from Madrid.] The official reports show that 266 persons were killed in Malaga and Granada by the recent earthquake. The population of Granada is still encamped in the square, the richer classes lodging in carriages along the promenade. The facade of the cathedral is seriously damaged. Many houses were destroyed in Jimena, and a whole family killed in the village of Oajar by a falling chimney. Over half the inhabitants of Albunuchas were killed. Alhama is mostly in ruins. Commerce is paralyzed. Two hundred houses at Alfarnetejo were damaged. The panic is subsiding. The shock was not felt in the northern and northwestern provinces. The Government has granted $5,000 from the national calamity fund for the relief of the sufferers in the province of Granada. Later advices state that 300 lives were lost at Alhama; 750 houses and the church were destroyed and thifty persons killed at Periana; the Town Hall and many houses were damaged at Torrox, the inhabitants of which fled panic-stricken. It is now estimated that 600 persons were killed in the province of Malaga, including those killed at Alhama. Fresh shocks more violent than the first have occurred at Torrox and Alhama. The panic in those places has revived. Official returns from the province of Granada say that 526 were killed by the earthquake there, and in Malaga 100. In Albania over 350 bodies have already been recovered. In Periana sixty bodies have been recovered. Many persons died from fright. The convicts in Seville prison attempted to escape. *