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9 fa THQUAKE DEAD IN CHILI NUMBER 1,400 Weather CLOUDY. Weather RAIN AND WARMER. WALL STRiET WALL nWAL wfot litem CLOSING m EDI TION I \Circulation Books Open to Au7 Circulation Hooks Open to AIL\ I VOL. LXIII. NO. 22,204 DAILY. Copyright rublUlilni (Ni York Company, World) 1022. by Vtttn NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 192 2, I'ovt I'ntrrn Of flic, tin Sccond-Cli- ew orkt Mnttrr N. V. S PRICE THREE CENTS HYLAN; REPORT ARREST OF RAFET PASHA BY MM ORDER Kemalbls Continue to Press Demands lor Ifvacuation of Capital. ALLIES REFUSE TO GO. Gen. Harington, to Keep Peace, Yields Many Points 0 to Turks. ATHENS, Nov. 13 'United Press). Rafel Paahn. Govornor of Constan- tinople, lias been arrested by British soldiers, according to an unconfirmed despatch from Greek sources CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 13. Tlio situation here is still extremely rltlcal. Undisguised npprchcnslon exists over tlio renewed demnnds of tlio and days' negotiation and temporizing has failed to nllcr tho determination of tlio Nationalists to obtain a tirrr Grip on tlio capital, oven licforo tliu Lau3anno confcrcnco Is concluded. Tho Angola Government continues lo press Its demand for tho evacuation t the- - Alii' 1 lano. aiu nu.-e- l tureen, but tliero Is no Indication that tha Al- lies Intend to yield on this vital point; they nm fully conscious that thair withdraw; ' would imperil tho lives of tho whale Ctuistian iKjpuIutlon In tho capital and Asia Minor. In then- disiro for peaco tho Uritlsh aro conceding every possible demand o tho Turks. Til's latest concession In abolition f Allied censorship over Turkish newtpiipers nnd withdrawal of supervision over iho Constantino-plo-AiH-or- a telegraph lines and other civ .1 In i trJi!V miichiiiOry Flaf-- t PnUi.i. Nationalist Governor, new has an equal voice In all matters relating to older in tho city, lie has bcon United to draw up pollco plant which would Ire acceptable to Angora, but tho Allien will inulht upon tho con- trol of patf-purt- until after tho peaco conference. Tho Sultan, meanwhile, lias not ibd'eated. Thn hrad of the Moslem world remains In tho Ylldiz Palace. H- receives visitors and ei his uu.il duties. II' pi If ip.tled to lh\ usual -- day nnd acknowledged tho prcscneo of foreign 'poctutors. Tho sovereign was attired 'a custom-ar- military uniform aa Commander In Chief of tho T.i.-KN- Army, al- though the Angora Ucvcinmcnt Insist! ho ha ull shorn of ..II but spiritual authority. All Komal Hoy. editor of tho ist newspaper Sabah, who was arrested ut Ismld on tho charge of subvorbivo action, was killed by a mob Nov. 7. after having been of- ficially condemned to death. Ho wa taken bcfjro Gon. Nuroddln Pasha, Military Governor of Smyrna, who tho death senlcnco, \In tho namo of tho Turkish nation as a traitor to tho country.\ Before bo could bo hanged, how ever, a mob of women pounced on (Continued on Second Page ) THE WORLD'S neip wanted acis. First in Numbers Number of \IIV.LV WANTED\ AhcrUseuiriit! JVeek Irullng Not. 11 THE WOIILD 17.85Gad. The Tin.es 2,65G)id. The 'iuficnn 1,855 ads. The Herald 1,001 ads. The Tiioime 44 adi. Till'. WORLD'S Plurality. 15,200 ads. uf nil the \llflp II anted\ .VR 77c Ol.nm unit wtfo rriuitu la Ilia DODGE ILL, LEAVES NEW YORK HURRIEDLY 665 Autos, \Pleasure\ Vehicles, Are Owned and Maintained by N. Y. City for Use of Officials Cars Costing $604,223 Op-crate- d for Public Depart- ments. MAYOR CONTROLS 519. Promises of Retrenchment in Costly Luxury Unkept by City Administration. Although tho Hylan Administration severely criticised tho Mltchel regimo for lta extravagance in tho purchase and operation of exnenslvo motor cars for tho Individual use of city officials, the Ilylan Administration, It appears from an Investigation made by Tho Evening World, la equally if not even mo:-- guilty o tho same offense Not only has tho Ilylan rcglmo failed utterly to Hie up to its cam- paign pledges of economy In tho spending of taxpayers' money for high powered and expensive motor cars tut tho statement issued In 1320 to Uio effect that tho municipal taxi cab aer-M- cu uould put mi end to tho uso of costly and commodious motor vehicles for city Commissioners, their deputies imd subordinates has not material ized. Perusal of tho records of tho Motor Vehicle Llcousu llureau of tho State reveals a total of 065 motor cars owned by tho city and registered tax free with tho State. Computation of the cobt prices of theso machines, as contained In tho records of tho Motor Vehicle llureau, totals 1604,223. All of tho machines aro listed as \pleas- - uro\ vchlclcs. No record of com- - rr.erclal trucks, trailers or motors for Industrial purposes wa3 taken. NO RECORD OF COST OF TWENTY-E- IGHT CARS. Of t tic total number of 665 cars regist. ?d. 51 'i an- - unrated ry directly undor tho Jurisdic- tion of tho Mayor himself nnd 146 cars aro In uso by departments other than those controlled by tho Mayor. Tho caia registered uudcr the Mayor's departments chow an out- lay of f i 47,367. besides twenty-eig- ht cars of tho Department of Street Cleaning for which no cost prlco was obtainable. Tho earn registered under departments other than tho Mayor's total flDR.SSS, besides eigh- teen tinder thn control of tho Borough 1'resldent of Manhattan, for which no cost prlco was given on tho ofllclal records of registration. It will bo recalled that Mayor ilylan was not In ofllco very long when somo caustic comment to make about city officials travelling to and from their offices In city-own- motor cars. As early as May, 1018, $4,500 was appropriated for an automobllo for tho l'ollco'mmlssloner, who only a few wc-ok- beforo had stated that \too many big cars nro being used (Continued on Fourteenth 1'ago.) o WARD'S COUNSEL PROTEST AS TRIAL DATE IS DELAYED 31 1 1 In In t'rirr- Dlimlnanl of 'Wealthy Mnjcr rnlrnx Hecks Act ,rxt AVeeU. .ltorneyn for Walter I,. Ward under $50,000 bail to answer an Indict- ment for tho killing of Clarenco Peters, a derelict former sailor, May 17 last. unnenrea beforo nuiiremo i ourt Jus tico Morschauser at Whlto Plains to- day to arguo a motion to set a date for trial of tho case. Ward, jaunty and cheerful, appeared In tho court room with flvo lawyers, Messrs. Itahenold, Scrlbncr nnd Camp bell, of Itahenold & Scrlbncr; former Justleo I. N. Mills, and John V. ilrcn-nn- n, who was tho lawyer for Mrs. Anne U. Stlllman. Mr. MillH was spokesman. District Attorney Weeks tusked for an ad journment for ono week. Mr. Mills taunted htm with being afraid to put tlio caso to trial at this term and announced ho would olfer a motion to dismiss tho indictment a week from y unless Mr. Weeks \cither llshcd, cut bait or rowed ashore.\ TOURING YOUNG WIFE KILLS HERSELF BECAUSE OF L N OH 'I Want Affection,\ De- clares Note Telling of Love for Husband. On a table n few feet away from tho couch on which Mrs. Hazel IJrcls-ford- , a pretty brunotto of twenty-fiv- e, was found dead to-d- In her gas-illlc- d room at No. 100 Cathedral Parkway, were a noto In which sho spol.u of her husband's lovo for her once, her loncsomorcss nnd her plea for affection, a picture of a llttlo girl of three, a long poem of lovo and hopelessness and uo-c- rnl letters which aho wanted forwaided \right awuy.\ It was evident that Bho had killed herself, because all doors and windows of tho room were carefully closed and thrco burners of a gas ningo in a kitchenette off tho room had been turned on. When tho gas had been traced to her room and the door opened with a pass key. Patrolman McDonough of tho West 100th Street Station cams upon tho litlto collection of tilings which tho dead woman had seemingly arranged with great caro beforo lying on the couch. Pirat was a letter, spread open that It might bo quickly lead. It said: \Please forward these personal lottors right away nnd call my husband, South 3114, Party W. Ho loved mo once, and I do him. Am lonesome. I want uftcction. UAZHL.\ The poem besidu this letter, was of fifteen btanzas, typewritten and titled, \Tho -iat Letter.\ No nunio was appended to It. Among tho verses wcro these: Sitting alono at the window, Watching tho moonlit htrcct, nendlng my head to listen To tho n sound of your (Continued on Tenth Page t OSCAR II., FROM N. Y.v FOR COPENHAGEN, :\ES AGROUND NEAR HARBOR Mm-tj-fU- f l'arnBri Alioiinl Are Mlf\ llrpnrl With Alst- - anci; Star. IAIN DON. Nov. 13. Tho steamer Osrar II., which Balled from New York Nov. U for Chrlstianla and Copen- hagen, went aground Sunday about l.IOO feet north of tho Oksoo cntranco to Chrlstianla, according to an Telegraph despatch from Two steamers havo gono to tho as- sistant of tho nluoty.flvo passengers still aboard It was not that tha ship wus seriously damaged or In a lcuUy condition. A tadlo mrsoigo was received at I. SO o'clock this morning at tho Now York offlco of tho fcSeundinavlan-Amcrlca- n Lino, No. 27 Whltohall Street, advising local otUclala of tho mishap to tho Oscar II., in wUlch it was announced that tlio ship's pas sengers, twenty-nlti- o of whom aro American, wero being transterrod to smaller vessels. Tno ship's freight also Is being salvaged, it was said, The messago assured local ofllclals that tliero was no danger. Tho Oscar II. will bo recalled ns \The Ford Peaco Ship.\ Kha Is of 10 000 tons capacity, Is 500 feet long and is In command of Capt. Axel J Schmidt. Sho Is of Danish icglstry and wus built In 19Ui in Glasgow, rnr. woui.n tiiavi-.i- . nntmn. Arcade Pulitzer (World) Dulldlng, 3 Park ltaw, N. Y. City. Telephoru Ukroaa 40OU Check room for bBcs-iE- \ liarcu iron day and night. Money orders and ImwIUiV chxka tor tale. Advt, U.S.SUPRI COURT BARS ALL JAPANESE FROM T Z NSHIP Hawaiian Resident Denied Naturalization in Test Case. CLAIMED TO BE WHITE. Seattle japs .Aiso Refused Papers and Cannot Form Partnership. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. Jap- anese arc not whlto, within tho moan- ing of tho American law, and are not entitled to citizenship In the United States, tho Supremo Court held to- day. Tho high court nfllrmcd a decision of tho California Circuit of Appeals in a test caso brought by Takaa Ozaww of Honolulu, who claimed ho was \white\ and was cllirlblo for nn- - turallzatlon as an American cltlzon. At the tamn tlmo tho Court upheld the Washington .Supreme Court In de nying citizenship to Takujl Yanmshlta und .Charles Hiokono of Seattle. Tho docislon held that the two Japanese wcro not entitled to natural- ization under thn United States laws nnd therefore could not enter a busi ness pnrtnrrihlp. Tho Supreme Court's decision in theso cases him Innir imon particularly on the Pacific Coast, where fcniinr-- nvi.i. uzawa contended ho was entitled lo American cltlzenshln ... u ,innHiii of tho White Trihn of Ala., Tr. started his fight for citizenship sev eral years ago in Hawaii, but was In tho coiirtn them nnd ntno in higher courts 1n Pnllfomin n.nn.. k lived in Hawaii slnco hs chldhood and was educated n tho American schools there. Il.s children, now atten.ltns- - (Continued on Second Page.) BELLAMY STORER DIES IN HOTEL IN PARIS n One Time f. S Amlininnitor in Auatrln-lluiiffjir- y. PARIS, Nov. 13 (Associated Press). Ucllnmy Storer. long prominent ns an American diplomatist, dlod Inst nlKht In it hotel here, whero he wus staging with Mrs. Htorei. Hollamy Storer was American Ambai-jado- r to AuMrla-IIunRnr- y in 1S02-!:i- and before that had been Minister to Belgium and Spain. Ho represented Hi, first Ohio District ill tho 52d and Congresses. Ho was born in Cincinnati In 1547 nnd was graduated from Harvard College in 1867. He cnte.red tho law two your-late- and was appointed asslstni.t United Slates Attorney of the southen district of Ohio. THANKSGIVING TURKEY SHOULDN'T COME HIGH; LOTS IN COLD STORAGE Plenty nf Clitrhi-im- , DnrUn imil Cerap, Ton. Mntr's .1Iontlil Keport J4hima. ALBANY. Nov. 13. Thant.s-glvln- g turkeys should ho plenti- ful and reasonable in pneo, judg- ing by tho monthly food storage report of tho State Department of and Markets. According to this report theie wero 1,343,S20 pounds of turkeys in cold Morngc on tho first of tho month, as against 1,251,960 pounds on tho first of October, Indicating that dealers nro get- ting ready for tho Thanksgiving i ush. There aro plenty of other birds in storage, too, for tho Thanks- giving dinner, tho report shows Tliero wero 2,205,633 pouuds of broiler in the various ware houses. 1.431,571 pounds of roaM-(is- , 761,950 pounds of fowl ami 2,977,110 pounds of miscellaneous poultry, which Includes ducks and gecso. Mayor Hylan, 111, Leaves City For Trip and May Visit Pacific Coast With Whalen - Indisposed Ever Since Gassing at Lexington Avenue Subway Fire May Meet Murphy and Al Smith at Resort. Mayor Hylan und Grovor A. Whalen, his Commissioner of riant nnd Structurca, left on tho Twentieth Century Limited at 2.20 o'clock this after- noon. They will mako their first stop nt Chicago, likely visit Chnrlos F. Murphy, Tammany loader, who is nt French Lick, Ind., where ho rests after every strenuous campaign, and then, perhaps, take a train for the Ppclfin C\'t If tho Mayor and Whalon dccldo toS-- - vlBlt only Chicago and French Lick they will bo back to this city within ten days. If the) visit tho coast they eevpect to bo away at least thvea weeks. Friends of Mayor Hylan havo be- lieved for some tlmo that he 's li great need of a long rest. First Indi- cations of tho Mayor's condition o npparcnt while his wlfo, daugh- ter and son-in-la- were In Kuropa. At that tlmo the Mayor suffered from what appeared to be nttneks of SERIOUS OPERATION ON MRS. HALL'S KIN HALTS QUESTIONING Woman Denies Mr. Gibson Was at Murder Scene, W 's' Counsel Sa. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N J No 13 Henry Csrpender. and next door neighbor of Mrs. HtevetiH Hall and a central llgur- - in t'-- Investigation of the Hall Mills murders, was operated upon n' General Hospital hi for appendicitis. Ho Is a membi i m the New York Stock Fxclmnge firm of McClavo & Co, No. 57 Exchange Place. According to members of lr.s fam-I- I v. ho wis taken aculelv 111 lust night and was hurried to tho hospital this morning ns soon as arrangements rould be mnde. Dr. Uiwrence Hun-yo- who is understood to br- - Mr Carpendor's brother-in-law- , perform id tho operation. Ho said it would bi- nt loast ten dajs bcfoio T r. I'ur-pend- could be questioned In th nurder investigation. Mr. ('arpender appeared to lv- in Ins usual good health Friday when he ii a member of the group out of ..huh Mrs. Gibson picked n man who v.i .said. Mrs. Hall's companion n Mie saw them nt Iho Phillips .tin Sept. 11. spite quarrel between neighbors is liellevrd by the Somerset County authorities to nccount for the pn eff'jit of Mrs. Nelllo I. Uiihsell, a dalrv faimer, to discredit Mrs June Gibson in her eyewitness storj . The chnrgo maiL by Timothy N. Pfciffer, attorney for tho widow of tho icitor, that William Phillips, who bald ne saw Mrs. Hall enter her homo ulona at a llttlo after 2 o'clock on tho morning aftor her husband was last Hien alive, is unworthy of bolief because ho was onco Indicted for per- jury In Now York, Is not impoitant, nccordmg to Deputy Attorney Genera! Molt. Phillips moro than a month .igo told the authorllle- - here of tin- indictment. He explained that tn iiceordanco with Instructions he ie. from Detectlvo Captain Sulli- van of tho Hast C7th Street Station, he had agreed to fall in with the plut of a band of thieves who plannid a robbery at the Kockofellcr Institute. According to County lietiitue George. Totten of Somerset, an anony- mous messago was received lust May ,i i, k ofllco in lonsequeni c o- wii.cn uint to Mts. KuhmbII m pirn.- - ii mi found n calf, a pig and a cow dead and i cow dying. A vetnrcnarlan said they had forced by starvation to at (Continued on Tenth Paso ) CAR GIVEN AWAY FREE Western nervous Indigestion. One of consider- ation for the absent relatives of the Mayor nothing was written about his condition nt that time. Tho Mayor told newspaper men that ho feared pub-llshte- d accounts of his Indisposition might bo cabled ns news to Kurupi and causo unnecessary nnxlcty, par- ticularly to his wlfo. Tho Mnyor'b wishes were respetced. It Is believed the Mayor's 111 health ;Conllntied on Second Page ) 'LIGHTNIN' ' FRANK BACON HAS NERVE BREAKDOWN, FORCED TO QUIT SHOW l:ire(ril ti III Itni-- lit I'lnr Moni t'nrt 'In km lij ll'llnrii, Old I'rlrnd, CHICAGO. ? ov. 13. rrnnk vcti ran actor nnd stni in \I.ightnln' li, forced to abandon bis part tmiporar-11)- . duo to a nervous breakdown. flneon probHbly will return to the cast tho piny goes to lioston next inon'h, according, to John I.. Gulden, producer. Ho will icmain In u I'lileuo loti-l- . Meanwhile tlio part will by John i). O'llnni, nn old friend i f llucoii. ut tho Litter's icqiiest Tho netor, who hua heon thirty-seve- n y-- rs on tho fctngc. Is fifty-eig- yours old. and has played tho tlllu role In \Llglitnln' \ lor four and u half )vars. Mr. llficoti has been tn 111 for some time, but has Inidstcd on iippenr-In- g regularly In his play despite his full- ing condition, according to nloilves. worso Saturday and n phvslclnn niteiidi.-- 111 in hs ho went throunh the p- -i formatted that night. Immediately nlterward ho was takun lu lilo hotel Ills play will continue. MARLBORO RESULTS CLEAR AND FAST. I IHST HACK I Uc and ..ne-nal- f tni longs. .orro (Woodstock), tn 30 and fao, first. Al Plorco (Willlums), 17 M ..nd ). fecund. True AS Btool (Stirling), .' 10. third. Time 1.10 6. Non-starter- s, Zcn- - notta. Last Uirl, Lauglitn. queen uf the Spa. SECOND HACI3 Five und one-hn- lf furlongs. I'tull (Jelly). 101. Ou, U 70 .ml Ju.an. first. Ailhur Muldletoii tWilluunst, I'j 30 and 11.00. second. Tricks (Abel), $f. 70, thud Titno. 1.03 6. s, Who Knows, Mary llo.'k. llogart. l'..n- - drutn - FOR THE WEST TOWNS WHOLLY LEVELLED BY QUE AND TIDAL WAVE; THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS Starvation, Pestilence and Hunger Claiming: Many More Victims Relief Supplies De- layed by Breakdown in Transportation Lines Eyewitness Tells of Devastation. (Copyright, 1922, by United. Press Association.) SANTIAGO, Chill, Nov. 13. Fourteen hundred persons lost their lives in a devastating earthqtiako nnd tidal wavo which rent tho coast ol Northern Chill early Saturday, according to tho most accurate' avail- able estimates to-da- y. Starvation, pestilence and cxposuro aro claiming additional vlcUms In (ho wako of tlio dlKHHter, nnd relief caravans aro pushing In to old homeless Inhabitants of tho stricken territories. Communication with tho shattered WHALEN REVOKES BUS PERM T AFTER SPLIT PROFIT TALE Admitting Action, Commis- sioner Refuses io Discuss West Farms Line. Commissioner of Plant and Struc- tures Orovcr A. Whalen admitted v that he revoked tho permit of the West Farms Pus Company, Inc., the day nfter Ferdinand Fiankonbcrg, I'nildenl of thn company, tebtlflod under oath that lie split tho profits o' tlio bus lino with Thomas H. O'Neill. Under Sheriff of tho Bronx, and too estnto of Arthur Murphy, Uronx Tammany leader. Mr. Whalen refused to glvo any reason why tho permit w revoked. I'rnnUcnborK was called ns a wll-i- ii an In tho Tinnslt Commission's bus two weeks ago. Ho was nn unwilling witness, but Clarenco J. She.irn, counsel to tho commission, produced two chocks which had passed through tho lumk and forced him to make admissions. TlicBO checks wero Indorsed by the er.tato of Arthur Murphy and by Thomas H. O'Neill. Kach represented one-thir- d of the monthly profits of tho West Farms Hits Company. Confronted by tho checks, Franken-ber- g admitted that two of tho three alleged stockholduis In his corpora- tion wcro dummies. Mi. Shcarns chargrd that they wero put in to represent tho Interests of Arthur Murphy and O'Neill. Frnnkenhorg testified that his orig- inal Investment was J20,(mo and that the profits amounted to f 17,600 In five (Continued on Second Page.) DRY WORLD TO PROTECT AMERICAN PROHIBITION NOW PLANNED BY W.C.T.U. Hrlrmilrx rrom Porly Nntlonn Plnn nl llilliiilrlililii Prmli ()u- - 1iiiiKlit on l.litior. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13 The entire world must bo mado dry as a safeguard to American prohibition, as a missionary en-t- o prise und for perpetual peace, was the byword of tho 2,000 dele- gates to tha eleventh convention of tho World's Women's Chris- tian Temperance Union Conven- tion White ribboned delegates fiom forty nations and every State in thn Union plained tho lesults of prohibition In this country\ and made plans to dry up tho cntlro iv in Id when tho Hist business ses-bio- i; opined this morning. SPECIAL PRIZE FOR NEXT WEEK \ WHA T DID YO U SEE TO-DA- Y ? \ If towns along tho coast from Valpa- raiso to Antofagasta, tho district which bora tho brunt of tho shock and tho upheaval of tho Pacific, was still disrupted, but couriers brought world to the capital of wholo villages levelled by tho quake, with sur- vivors, wounded, lying by hundreds in tho streets. Vallonar, Coplapo and Coqutmbo, llttlo coastal towns, suffered most from tho great shock at 12.20 A. if. Saturday. Thoy woro lnuundatod by a rush of tho FacMo which followed th first earth tremors. Hut llttlo vil- lages further back In tho hills appear albo to havo suffered terrlblo loss of llfo and destruction of property which it may never be possible, to estimate. Thcro wero reports that whole com munltles wcro wiped out. The largest quake, felt over the en- tire South American continent, und registered on seismographs all over tho world, lasted for ovor three hours, although It was perceptible to humun senses only two minutes. That was sufficient to drive those whoa houses withstood the shock in terror to the btrects, whore many. In coastal villages, wcro drowned by tho terrlQo tidal wavo which lifted Its millions of tons of water a thousand feet over tha unprotected houses along tho shore. Thousands slept In tho open last night, afraid to return to tottering houses, or oven to those that had withstood tho shock, for fear of a repetition of tho quake. Blight trem- ors wcro folt Sunday afternoon, hprcadlpg pnnlc among the cativos for 300 miles along the coast. Couriers canio to Santiago y; from Vallonar and Coplapo to arrange for caravans to take food and xncd-cln- cs to tho stricken towns. Tho for- mer place, they declared, was practi- cally obliterated. All the buildings, except the schoolhouse, lay In ruined heaps of mortar, brick and adobe. Half of tho buildings In Coplapo were hurled from their foundations by the shock, tho couriers reported. Those that remained standing were unin- habitable. Injured and sick aro being treated In the streets and puLVc squares. Starvation Is already In sight at Val lenar, while disease has begun to spread among tho quake victims, who uro huddled together In rude sbolters In tho platan. Hntnon Alcayago, a prominent Chil- ian cnglnoer, was ono of the first to bring a reliable oyewltneis story of tho desolation and dibaster that wore spread through tho north. He declared contagious diseases are spreading like wildfire and that many are threatened with death from exposure and hunger. Arriving at La Sorens, Alcuyago told a dramatic story of tho de- struction of tho Jail at Vallenar, which, as umal, was crowded with pruoners sentenced for minor offen- ses. The shock hurled down the adobe walls uf the llttlo prison injuring many of the frightened inmates. Those able to do so rushed iiom tin Jail, but made no attempt t fjet further, remaining shaylng u :n an open space near the ruliu of their late prison. Troops y were standing guard over the prisoners, with no placu in which to lock them up. La Serena, as the largest city 1 tho Immediate vicinity of the devaj. See Page 19
