424 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Some of the officers of the Wateree have reported the following 
facts :— 
At 32 minutes past five o’clock, that is, 17 minutes from the ces- 
sation of the initiary shock, which lasted ten minutes, the first wave 
was experienced. These waves for a short period followed each other 
with great rapidity and regularity. e experience of those on 
the Wateree was peculiar. The water retired from the shore and 
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and not a breath of wind stirred—was driven from her moorings 
which was destroyed, some distance inland, and finally left on an 
elevation of twelve feet on an otherwise lev 
ing the disaster, there was not a plank of her left that was whole. 
There were shocks of greater or less violence at Arica up t? 
30. 
J ne destruction at Arica was complete. All public and po 
buildings, even the fort and the trees were swept away. Of the 
500 persons have perished. The towns of Tiabaga 
liendo and Mejia, and all the villages within 150 miles are t 
el plain immediately — 
