Under the Southern cross in South America . d in the checkered historyof the city. It had been dealt hard knocks before and receivedmany wounds. In its infancy Drake sacked it in 1578; Hawkins,the Buccaneer, swooped down on it in 1598; the Dutch pirate. VanNoort, plundered it in 1600; earthquakes and tidal waves ravagedit in 1730, 1822, 1839, 1851 and 1873; fire decimated it in also suffered horribly in the Balmaceda revolution, but its crown-ing disaster occurred, on the evening of August 16, 1906, whena fearful earthquake exerted such a force of devastation that itwiped out hundreds,
Under the Southern cross in South America . d in the checkered historyof the city. It had been dealt hard knocks before and receivedmany wounds. In its infancy Drake sacked it in 1578; Hawkins,the Buccaneer, swooped down on it in 1598; the Dutch pirate. VanNoort, plundered it in 1600; earthquakes and tidal waves ravagedit in 1730, 1822, 1839, 1851 and 1873; fire decimated it in also suffered horribly in the Balmaceda revolution, but its crown-ing disaster occurred, on the evening of August 16, 1906, whena fearful earthquake exerted such a force of devastation that itwiped out hundreds, some say thousands of lives, besides destroy-ing over $100,000,000 worth of property. Coming so soon afterthe San Francisco horror the Valparaiso disaster shocked the civ-ilzed world. South America has been the scene of some dreadful cataclysmsof nature, but proljably the most awful visitation in its history wasthis earthquake. Thousands of buildings were demolished; aboutthirty blocks of houses, three to five stories high, in the Avenida. XTCHE CEMETERY, VALPARAISO
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