We have a little additional information via Panama and St.
Nazaire of the fearful earthquake in Peru, and, oddly enough, there is nothing in it to confirm the intelligence given by the first Atlantic telegram that Ecuador suffered much more than Peru. All the news via St. Nazaire confirms the suspicion which had been expressed to us before it came that Peru is the
great sufferer, and Ecuador has escaped with comparatively little hurt. Arica, Arequipa, Islay, Iquique, Chalo, Pisco are all Peruvian towns, and not only so, but separated by 12? of lati- tude (above 800 miles) from the border of Ecuador. Ibarra be- longs to Ecuador, but in the new telegram Ibarra is not mentioned at all, while all the new names given, Mejillones. Moquequa, Pisaqua, and Ilochala are, again, Peruvian. The "picture of destruction and desolation extending for hundreds of miles along the coast, and reaching up to the topmost heights of the Andes," evidently refers more to Peru than to any other South American State. Subscribers to the "Ecuador Relief Fund" should therefore hold their bands till they see where the maximum of misery has really been inflicted. Apparently the greatest wave of destruction has rolled over the 800 miles south of Callao,—between Callao and Mejilloues,—rather than tharnorth of it, between Callao and Ibarra.
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