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Hill, C.P., Father Edmund, Valparaiso, Chile, to Father Daniel E. Hudson, C.S.C., Notre Dame, Indiana, 1888 August 17

 Item — Box: CHUD 12
Identifier: CHUD X-3-h

Scope and Contents

Hill sends the revised article. Hudson will have seen some notice in the papers of the terrible disaster which befell Valparaiso on the 11th of August: a storm of wind and rain of extraordinary duration. Five vessels were wrecked in the harbor one day and another the next. Along the bank on which the railway runs, next to the sea, a reservoir suddenly burst and precipitated its contents down on inhabitated valley and along the the business part of the town and into the sea. Houses and stores were destroyed in the town, the loss of life cannot yet be estimated but must reach several hundreds, chiefly women and children. It is the greatest disaster that has ever befallen Valparaiso. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1888 August 17

Language of Materials

English.

Repository Details

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