ding. Twelve monasteries, colleges,
| | |and hospitals were likewise converted into
| | |ruins. No better fared the palace of the
| | |Governor-General, the Real Audiencia and
| | |up to 150 of the finest residences which,
| | |as one author puts it, "in other cities
| | |would have been considerable palaces." The
| | |rest of the private houses were damaged
| | |to so great an extent that the majority
| | |had to be demolished. The number of
| | |persons killed exceeded 600 and the total
| | |of killed and injured is stated to have
| | |been 3,000.
| | |
| | |Outside of Manila there was a general
| | |destruction of villas and other buildings
| | |which had been erected on both banks of
| | |the Pasig River. Throughout the
| | |neighboring provinces the masonry
| | |structures built by the missionaries
| | |suffered the same fate as those in Manila.
| | |From the farthest provinces in the north
| | |were reported great alterations of the
| | |surface with almost complete disappearance
| | |of some native villages, changes in the
| | |courses of rivers, subsidences of plains,
| | |eruptions of sand, etc. All the writers of
| | |the time qualify this disturbance as the
| | |most disastrous earthquake not only in
| | |Luzon, but likewise in Mindoro,
| | |Marinduque, and the other islands south of
| | |Luzon. On the other hand, the provinces of
| | |Camarines and Albay appear to have
| | |suffered little or nothing.
| | |
13 |1645 XII 5 23 -- |VIII |The earthquake of November 30 was followed
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