People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — AN EARTHQUAKE. [ARTICLE]

AN EARTHQUAKE.

It Almost Destroys a City In San SalT*. dor—Many Killed and Injured. San Francisco, Nov. 28. Advices from La Union. San Salvador, by the steamer City of Sydney, are that an earthquake has laid low nearly all the houses in the city and that those left standing had their walls so cracked that it was not safe to remain in them. The people are living in tents, and are in fear of further disturbances. A passenger on the steamer City of Panama, which called at La Uniot on the way up, and which was subsequently passed by the City of Sydney, writes that he went ashore and viewed the ruins. The desolatiot was complete. Residents of the city were almost driven to frenzy and processions were parading the streets ringing bells, headed by priests praying for an abatement of the disturbances. Many persons were killed and many seriously injured.