The total of the dead due to the earthquake which devastated the provinees of Talea, Conception, Temuco and Linares is now given 8 roughly wrapped in bans stacked against the wall people uly: dirciginge in the to find the bodies wf their rela—this was the spectacle graphically described by a telephone company, official who flew lew yonters the calamity, had te clamber aver the debris of public Inildinges and fine reside ences which block al the main st he Cathedral of Linares, nea Talea, has been severly damaged. The Bishop of Linares" heroically ted the falling houses, adminis tering the last rites to the dying, The damzyee at Talen is estimated at G.$12500,000, The hospital was burned down with the result. that hundreds of injured porsone have had to be housed in tents and emer gency shelters.
Later The number of lives lost as tHe result of the earthquake is now stated to be 218, while 257 persons have been seriously and over 2,000 slightly injured, Twenty. thousand persons have been rendered home-
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