through, the guns came down with such
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through, the guns came down with such
violence.


"The native inhabitants, for the most
part, fed to the mountains, but the resi-
dent foreigners took shelter on board the
vessels lying there. On going ashore, the
next day, observed that small building
scarcely six yards from our house, had
heen completely covered by the dirt and
stones which fell from the mountain, at
whose base it stood. Our house was not
thrown down; for it was one of the strong
est in Valparaiso; but was SO much rack
ed, that it did not appear worth repairing.
Captains of vessels which arrived after
the earthquake, remarked that they ire
quently saw large shoals OF fish lying dead
on the surface of the water.


"Among the sufferers by this melan-
choly event, was an Irishman, who having
acquired large fortune by commerce, had
that day, retired into new house in the
country. At the time when the earthquake
occurred, his two children were sleeping,
one on ascouch in the corner of the room
the other on a mattrass in the middle OF
the floor. As they were thus lying beam
fell across the couch, and crushed it to
atoms, while another fell upon the mat
ltrass, and overwhelmed it with tho ruins


A short time after, they were both dug
out, not in the least hurt, and restored to
the arms of their almost dictracted pa


rents.


But to recount every particular ol


this awful event, would carry me beyopt


my limits suffice it to say, that shocks


were felt more or less, for the space o
three months."