42 C. G. Rockwood—-Notices of recent Earthquakes. 
On the same date violent shocks are reported to have oc- 
curred at Osaka, Japan, by which the city is said to have been 
almost destroyed. 
March 18, 1873. A shock was felt in the forenoon at Can- 
ton, St. Lawrence Co., New Yor 
March 19, 1878. The city of San Salvador in Central 
America, was entirely destroyed by an earthquake. 
hough slight tremblings had been felt for some days pre- 
vious, the first heavy shock occurred about 4.80 P. M. on March 4. 
At this time there were three violent shocks, which were felt 
throughout the Republic, and by which many houses in the 
city were cracked and ruined. The people fled to the fields 
and squares, and many removed to adjacent villages. In this 
shake no lives were lost, though much property was destroyed. 
For the next fifteen days the vibrations continued with more or 
less frequency and often with considerable intensity. 
At 2a. M. of the 19th, two light shocks, followed by a third 
of terrible severity, completed the destruction of the city. 
Every town and village within 20 miles suffered more or less, 
and it was felt throughout all Central America, and far out to 
sea. Only two buildings were left standing in the city, the 
Hotal del Pasque and the Government Palace. A fine brick 
bridge lately built over the river on the road to Soropango was 
destroyed, and other roads were rendered impassable by im- 
mense blocks of stone, thrown down from the heights. In 
some places crevices a foot wide and of considerable depth were 
formed in the ground. One of these extended across the Plaza 
and for several blocks each way, and emitted sulphurous gases 
h 
and smoke. the continued shocks over forty bodies were 
displaced from their niches in the cemetery. 
Capt. Kennedy, of H. M.S. Reindeer, wha visited San Salva- 
dor immediately after the earthquake, speaks as follows of the 
desolation of the city. “The wils town was down, with the 
exception of one or two wooden houses. All the churches, in- 
ping the cathedral, were a heap of ruins; the spire of the 
latter had been arrested in its fall and remained in a standing 
position, like the leaning tower of Pisa, but at a much greater 
] ne of the bells must have been swung completely 
round, as it remained mouth up. The U. S. Consulate was a 
mass of ruins inside, though the outer walls were standing. 
The palace bei ilt of wood remained standing, except 
where stone had been used, in which places the sides had fallen, 
wei great gaps in the building, There was not one single 
house left in a habitable condition. The stronger the walls the 
greater was the ruin, and the streets were one mass of debris.” 
Up to March 27, about 50 bodies had been taken from the 
ruins, and 150 wounded persons were cared for by the authorl- 
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