The town of San Salvador, capital of the little State
of the same name on the Pacific Ocean lying in the corner between Guatemala and Honduras, is said to have been utterly destroyed by earthquake at a date not precisely mentioned, but probably near the end of March, 800 persona having been killed, and property valued vaguely at some £2,000,000 sterling destroyed. From the Panama Star of the 21st of March, it would appear that the chief shocks till then reported had been felt in the city of San Vincente, a little further east than San Salvador. At that date the houses in San Vineente had become uninhabitable, the roofs shaken down, the walls rent, and all this had gone on for twenty-six days, all inhabitants too poor to migrate having left the houses, and established themselves in huts of branches, or tents, in the squares, or on the other vacant spaces. Apparently the earth- quake-shocks must have subsequently travelled west, up the spine of the isthmus, which runs here nearly east and west, to shake down San Salvador.
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