'A correspondent in Yunnanfu writes on April 6:—Two severe earthquake shocks were felt here on March 16 at 9.45 pam, No serious damage was done in Yunnanfu City, but from the west of the province very extensive damage is reported.
Talifu, Hsia Kuan, Yungping and Yungchang have all been "pres que détruite" according to a telegram from the Rev. P. Etchart. The famous suspension bridge actors the Mekiang has also been completely demolished.
Miss Mary Lumsden, an English lady traveller who happened to be in Talifu at the time of the earthquake and took the photographs we publish herewith, writes from that city on March 22:—
"General Li has, it appears to me, been very good and prompt in his actions.
He first concerned himself with burying the dead and then he saw about rice; the Rice Guild has this in hand, and the price limited to 50 cents, paper, a ehény. He is now trying' to collect no easy matter, and he has started a relief committee.
"There are said to be about 1,000 deaths in the city and many more outside; the plain suffered very badly; some vill entirely wrecked.
I do not suppose there is one house standing intact in Talifu, though there are no rents in the ground, but the R. C. Fathers told me there were cracks to the east of the city towards the lake."
Another correspondent in Yunnanfu (the capital of the province) may "The Yunnan provincial officials have done absolutely nothing except to, forbid the killing or sale of meat—as a recognition that the earth-guaka was a supernatural visitation."
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