# 1500 killed, 2000 injured in terrible earthquake (Vallenar, Chile, 1923)

Item title reads - 1500 killed and 2000 injured in terrible earthquake followed by tidal wave at Vallenar. First and exclusive pictures by Pathe Staff Cameraman - Chili. (Chile)

Camera pans across rubble and wrecked houses, M/S of people clearing away the debris. M/S of a wrecked street with collapsed buildings, aerial view of demolished houses. Men carry someone on a stretcher through the rubble. Various shots of the makeshift hospital with canvas awnings covering the beds.

Intertitle - 'Donkey caravans transported food supplies to starving and homeless inhabitants.'

Donkeys make their way through the streets loaded with stuff. Various shots as people queue up at a shutter for food, they are handed supplies and move on. C/U as a woman is handed two small bags.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1923
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: British Pathé
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1500_killed,_2000_injured_in_terrible_earthquake_(Vallenar,_Chile,_1923).ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: British Pathé
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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