Show SHOCKS ADD TO DEATHS REGION OF VERA CRUZ IS ROCKED ROCKED- l Many Lives Lost by hy Gas and Lava Whole Villages Villages- Wiped Out Ships Skips 1 Sunk and v Relief Train Is Wrecked t t By fly r Un Universal AA t MEXICO O CITY Jan n. n Th The cit city of or Vera era era Cruz and several se towns town townsand townsand and villages in th the state of Vera Vcra Cruz Crux were shaken last night and to today b by earthquake shocks of tremendous violence vio yio- lence Great property damage i is re reported reported re- re C ported and many lives are arc believed believed- have been lost but details ar are arc i lad ladin lacks 1 in ing because of interrupted rail u wire wire communication communication r r The Thc 11 r region loD af affected t tt n ili Via Vera Crux Cro ru t to ti no San Miguel sixty five miles milos northwest of or the cit city and to Cordoba five fifty thirty five miles s west of miles north of ot Vera CruZ the sides of oC two mountains were dislodged by the shocks the San Carlos river being blocked b by the debris There the quake Is reported to have hac left leet a wide has for tor a distance of ot three miles through what had been solid soUd rock V r elf City I in Panic f The shocks began In Vera Yera Cruz Crus at 6 o'clock last night and continued at intervals in in- throughout the night A hea heavy Y Yale gale ale alc raged In the gulf ulC just before the the- first shocks were felt Cell and the waters of oC tho the gulf ul were reported to have ha bc been n black indicating a possible submarine submarino disturbance The population of or the tho city was In a state of oC panic throughout the night nis-ht and an exodus from the district to the north was reported I Casualties are aro reported to have been been beene e especially 1 heavy beay In the vicinity of t San Miguel many Inhabitants of oC the thc small villages being either caught b by the Ja lava Java streams or overcome O by the poisonous gases Ashes from tho the volcano fell felt in thirty five miles awa away A relief relict train en route to tho the J Jalapa dap district was wrecked ed near b by spread spreading Ins Ins- rails raUs caused b by the quakes quaker n lId Party MY Attacked General Aguilar governor of ot the state of or Vera Yera Cruz with a military r re relief relief re- re lit lief party part has reached and other ruined I towns towns' after aCter repulsing n large bod body of bandits who sho attempted to ambush the party Guerillas operating in the mountains around Cordoba ore arc re reported to have have- havee e beer been terror stricken b by tho violent jolet earth tremors to such a a. degree des that the they surrendered to th the federal troops in the district No loss of oC life ha has been bec reported around Cordoba Several small vessels are arc reported Jo to have been sunk unk in Vera Yera Cruz harbor harbor- and along alonS' the gulf ulC coast during last during last nights night's storm and upheaval Hundreds Are Dead ii i Towns TO Annihilated t m Br By Associated rat d Press Iress Mexico o City Jan 11 SIx Sl SL hundred persons were killed when Barranca Barranca- Grande Grandc was cas destroyed b by last Saturdays Saturday's Saturdays Saturday's Satin Satin- Satur Satur- days day's earthquake according to special dispatches from roan Vera Cruz last night Jalapa former capital of or the state tato of Vera Cruz Crux and were ere virtually virtu aU ally ruined it was wa-s said while tho vil- vil il- il lags Jage agre of ot was crushed b by great great- rocks rocks' dislodged from ron tho the adjacent mountain A similar fate Is reported reported- rt d to have o befallen the village o of ot Ca cnn can n. n Child Sole Sol Sun Survivor it or orOne One child was said to be the only survivor sur sur- river Ivor o of the village e of ot state slate of ot Puebla which was overwhelmed by poisonous 11 ga gas Indian refugees from the San Miguel region said hundreds of bt p persons were killed there The rhe new crater at at- atan San an Miguel still stills is 18 s emitting emitting- fire tire and smoke GO Government dispatches filed CUed after niter the tho first excitement had ended s1 give small hope that the original estimate of ot 2000 dead will be bo decreased At the mountain overlooking overlooking over over- looking the town ton spit Into two parts part many people being crushed to death Hundreds Arc rc D nd In Iii th time the San Miguel district deat deaths from Crom gases s are arc reported to number Up Upwards upwards tip up- wards of oC 00 Nearly carl 10 bodies have been taken from Crom roan streams and rivers of the tho stern eastern of or the mountains A telegram received here hero yesterday Continued on 95 D page 2 I. NEW EARTHQUAKES I IN I I MEXICO SWEll DEATHS f Continued Continua a front from Pago Page 1 1 I from tho the mayor maor of at tine the city of or La Ln I Fra Fragua ua slate state of or Puebla stated state he had llad been unable unable- to lo report sooner HOOner because I I of or almost shocks which had hat almost leveled the thc place Ho lie said sald seventy sev sev- seventy I ent enty bodies had been recovered ere from the tho ruins an and that th man many persons were II dying of ot their Injuries Dispatches from that thai I new shocks were felt there thero on Friday In Tn the city of or Vera era Cruz Cru a heavy y storm has hns blown down the Iho tower lower of or the city which was vas weakened b by tho the e earthquake earth earth- rth- rth quake I |