Countless stories of death and suffering reached here from the earthquake zone today. Typical of these was a statement by a National Deputy, Sr. Salvador Allende, who visit. ed Chilian 5y plane yesterday.
"When I-reached Chilian," he said, "I saw a signt worthy of Dantes In-feme. I shall never forget it. Whatever I âm able to say or you are. able to imagine must fall short of describing the utter wreckage of what was once a flourishing agricultural city of 40,000 people.
"Here and there a few people wandered aimlessly, taking no notice of strangers but staring vacantly as if in a dream. They were silent before what had a few hours before been a happy and laughing city. Groups of men and women wept with the most terrible weeping. Corpses were strewn everywhere with distraught faces and mutilated bodies."
A revert from Concepcion today revealed that the Catholic Bishop there had sung Mass in the open air before his blazing residence the morning following the earthquake. Hund-
16, Mrs. Sybert said. Every night at dusk since then, the bed has shaken so violently that two hefty farmers weighing some 190 pounds apiece. who tried to hold down the bed couldn't hold the ghost," she said.
Bertha is weakening fast as result of the bouncing, according to her father, Mr. Frank Sybert, He said un to talk with the un-ghost to arrive, the chair began to walk. It moved backward about four feet with no one near it Other neighbours had even more incredible tales. Mr. Harrison Childers said he was "watching the bounce ing bed last week when a pale, lean, white hand appeared at the head of bed?" he said "he grabbed at it and it vanished."—United Press... reds of natives prayed in the streets while flames swept through buildings which had come through the earthquake intact.
The foreign communities have suffered exiensive damage in the earthquake area and at least one foreigner, an Italian pilot, was missing today while engaged in relief work.
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