 ... province amount to many thousands) must have perished, instead of less than a hundred. As it was, the invariable practice of running out of doors at the first trembling of the ground alone saved them. In Concepcion each house, or row of houses, stood...  Elements of physical geography - Page 58by Hugo Reid - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...Concepción, each house, or row of houses, siood by itself, a heap or line of ruins ; but in Tucahuano, owing to the great wave, little more than one layer of bricks, tiles, and limber, with •*• 406 THE AMERICAN PENNY MAGAZINE. here and there part of a wall, left standing,... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - Finance - 1847 - 224 pages
...Conception each house, or row of houses, stood by itself a heap or line of ruins, but in Talcahunao, owing to the great wave, little more than one layer...standing, could be distinguished. From this circumstance, Conception, although not so completely desolated, was a more terrible, and if I may so call it, picturesque... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - America - 1868 - 300 pages
...he says, " each house or row of houses stood by itself, a heap or line of ruins ; but in Talcahuana, owing to the great wave, little more than one layer...here and there part of a wall left standing, could be distinguished."1 1 The town of Talcahuana was rebuilt, but was again terribly injured on the 13th of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 586 pages
...ground, alone saved them. In Concepcion each house, or row of houses, stood by itself, a heap or Hue of ruins ; but in Talcahuano, owing to the great wave,...Concepcion, although not so completely desolated, was u more terrible, and, if I ir-ay so call it, picturesque sight. The first shock was very sudden. The... | |
 | Robert Nelson Boyd - Chile - 1881 - 324 pages
...Conception each house, or row of houses, stood by itself, a heap or line of ruins ; but in Talcuhano, owing to the great wave, little more than one layer...of a wall left standing, could be distinguished." The wave and earthquake not only destroyed Conception and Talcuhano, but seventy villages besides.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...course of a whole century. The next day I landed at Talcahuano, and afterwards rode to Concepcion. Both towns presented the most awful yet interesting spectacle...distinguished. From this circumstance Concepcion, although not BO completely desolated, was a more terrible, and, if I may so call it, picturesque sight. The first... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 pages
...its former condition. The earthquake commenced at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon. If it hod happened in the middle of the night, the greater number...completely desolated, was a more terrible, and, if I ir-\y so call it, picturesque sight. The first shock was very sudden. The mayor-domo at Quiriquina... | |
 | John Bowlby - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 532 pages
...stood by itself a heap or line of ruins: in Talcahuano, owing to the great wave little more was left than one layer of bricks, tiles and timber with here and there part of a wall yet standing up.' Only about a hundred people were known to have been killed; though, had the quake... | |
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