Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 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 foe promenade. The facade of the cathedral is seriously damaged. Many houses were destroyed in Jimena, and a whole family killed in foe village at Cajar by a falling cMmney. Over half foe inhabitants of Albunuchas were killed. Alhama is mostly in ruins. Commerce is paralyzed. Two hundred houses at Alfaraetojo were damaged. The panic is subsiding. The shock was not felt in foe northern and northwestern provinces. The Government has granted $5,000 from foe national calamity fund for foe relief of foe sufferers in foe province of Granada. Later advices, state that 300 lives were lost at Alhama; 750 houses and foe church were destroyed and foirty persons killed at Periana; foe Town Hall and many houses were damaged at Torrox, foe 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 foe 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 Alhama over 350 bodies have already been recovered. In Peri&na sixty bodies have been recovered. Many persons died from flight. The convicts in Seville prison attempted to escape.