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Show DISASTROUS EARTH TREMOR HOES HUNDREDS OF BODIES TAkPM FROM RUINS WHEN CITIES ARE DESTROYED. Seismic Convulsion Opens r, CreVices Out of Which hot Wat;r l Spoutlno. Many Are Burled In the Ruins JT,1 Ayrw Kacthqunko shocks which dfcstroyed several touns S the Arguntlno slope of the An.u mountains oro ,1,0 -,m)St ' .c ," perlunced In this country sli.com- yn -taif the city ofteSSt'Sl laid In ruin... Keporfs from tho a "n where the shocks were heaviest 1,1-cate 1,1-cate great loss of llfo and prop " y upwards of ISO bodies having already been taken from tho wrecks of bul J. At Irosportenas more than 100 per-lieil, per-lieil, and at Costa de Araujo 81 were Wiled and 80 seriously ljuml, u , feared that more victims still ore burled under the ruins In each town. At lreportenas,-Lavalle and Lncen-tnil Lncen-tnil not o house was left standing, and hose not destroyed were left In a badly ihunugcd condition. No cstl-mate cstl-mate of the total number of persons injured hits yet been made. Minor shocks continue throughout the district, one particularly strong trojnor being folt Sunday In the towns of Sim Martin mid Itlvadnvhi. The people are reported as being panic-stricken. panic-stricken. The -city of Mendoza was shaken, but did not suffer any extensive ex-tensive dnmiicej In the town of Costa lie Araujo the seismic convulsion opened4 .great crevices, out of which hot water Is spouting. The water from one of thexo geysers reached a height of about fifteen feet nml formed it, pool In which two persons were drowned. A lted Cross ambiilniTco has reached the village and the work of ( rescuing any sufferers who still may bo alive In tho ruins has been started. . " Sloro than SO.OOd- persons Inhabited little towns along the eastern Andean slope, ami as reports continue to add to the long list of casualties, apprehension appre-hension Is folt thnt the final figures will be very high. Rescue parties have been sent from Mendoza, but do-tails do-tails from the scene of the disaster are meager, as telephone and telegraph tele-graph wires are badly disorganized. |