| Show QUAKE IN ME XICO TWO TOWNS PARTIALLY DE BY A SERIES OF SEVERE SHOCKS fourteen lives known to have been lost and a score perhaps fatally injured the property erty damage being enormous mexico city central Al mexico exico from the atlantic to tho the pacific and from on the north to oaxaca on the south a distance covering more than 1000 miles was shaken on friday hy by a series of the most severe shocks felt in the region for a quarter of a century reports of tho the loss of life alfo aro are not complete but the off official loial figures show that fourteen were killed hilled outright and more than a score perhaps fatally injured the towns of acapulco and Chilpan chilpancingo cingo have been partially destroyed st royed six persons were killed in mexico city and its environs four persons parsons aro are in hospitals hear recovery belne despaired of the large american colony escaped unscathed tile tho peons geons were terribly frightened for days they had bee been predicting disaster because tho the snow on tho the peak of the Tol volcano cano letl visible from this pity city has been malting mol ting an old aztec legend declares that when the snow on this volcano disappears so too will the city at af its base the property damage here Is slight some of the cathedral walls were cracked and scores of adobe walls were sent to the ground but the main eatn business district showed no signs of tile the severe shaking which it had received rec ived mexico city another severs severe earthquake shock occurred at 1239 saturday afternoon its duration was fifty ahtty three seconds buildings rocked violently in this city and the people rushed out of their houses so far as known no damage was done |
