Terrible Loss Of Life

San Francisco, Jan. 80.- Additional adyices by the steamer Belgic from China announce the complete annihilation by earthquake of the town of Kuchan, Persia. Twelve thousand peopie were killed in the awful disaster. Ten thonsand corpses had been recovered to date. The only important and beautiful city of 30,000 people is now only a scène of death, desolation and terror. Fifty thousand cattle were also destroyed.