Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY. [ARTICLE]

FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY.

Fifteen Thonsand Souls Perish by an E trqa&ke ia Yunuau. The steamer City of Sydney, which arrived at San Francisco on the 10th, brings particulars of the Ynnnan earthquake. The city ia in ruins. Over fifteen thousand persons were killed. A great tract of land was swallowed up and changed into a lake.