| Show 1 I I FIRE FOLLOWS FOLLO EARTH SHO KS Town of Chilapa M j i Completely Destroyed as asa asa asa a Result f J LOSS OF LIFE UFE L FE NOT OT KNOWN KNO I CITY AS PARTIALLY WRECKED BY QUAKE A YEAR AGO I City of Mexico March tarch Governor Damian Flores chief executive of the thc tate of Guerrero who Is at present In Ir Inthis this his city elt had at 9 o lock this evening just received the first firstS official advices advIce ad vices from rom the town of Chilapa said to have hav been destroyed in the heavy earth earthquake earthquake quake qu ke shock which occurred last night The message to t the governor says say that hat although a umber of the build buildings buildIngs buildIngs ings of the town were leveled to the thc ground no lives were lost The police pollee quarters and the mayors office were destroyed and the jail badly badi wrecked Great fissures were made in the streets street and open fields In the neighboring town of Ometepec Omet pec the jail was de tie destroyed destroyed and thirty prisoners made their escape Troops are guarding the pub public public lic lie building that was in Chi CM Chilapa lapa tapa but perfect order prevails Dispatch Conservative Later returns from rain Chilapa show however that the dispatch received by b Governor Flores Fiores was ultra conserva tive The town was practically de tie destroyed destroyed though no lives JIves were lost losi Most of the tile buildings that were leveled were ere residences Thirtyfour shocks have been record recorded ed during the past hours hour by the seismograph at the national ob oh at Most of these thee shocks however were ex ox except except to the delicate needle of the in instrument Instrument strument American Woman Killed Mrs Emma Jeannett Dorville an a n American lost her life in a panic in the th Tiburcio theatre in the city of Vera Ver Cruz which followed the earthquake of last night News of the panic and ane the one death which followed reached reache this city tonight When the quake was wa felt the audience rushed for the exits and many persons were severely bruised but none seriously injured r Mrs Dorville dropped dead from fright In this city a gendarme was killed fifteen persons were slightly and ont one on fatally injured by falling failing beams and ani walls All of those belonged to the lb working classes Earv toil FI i Au r organ received a from its correspondent in lii the town ol of o 1 saying that the to town of o I 1 Chilapa thirty miles distant from that tha place was totally destroyed by b the Ui e earthquake and that fire broke out in ii I the ruins and was completing the work won of destruction The people of the town towi were terrorized and many were ere pray ing in the open plazas and in the fields field adjoining the town Reduced to Ashes Some hours later the same dent sent the following dispatch Later returns confirm my first tel telegram telegram telegram Chilapa has been shaken to the earth and reduced to ashes I avoid the sending of or details This correspondent Is the sole one working near the scene The Tile Associated Associated Associated Press unavailingly tried through throughout out the tle day da to confirm the news of the total destructiOn of ot the town by earth earthquake earthquake earthquake quake and fire Chilapa has 1185 a population of some 15 people and is the largest town in inthe Inthe inthe the state of Guerrero To reach the place it is necessary to travel one day daj da by train and then tJien four days over vel a rough mountain trail on horseback Telegraphic communication has noi not been interrupted with Chilapa Reports coming In from various points In the republic show that the quake was felt over a very wide area but that In m no place with the possible exception of Chilapa was wag there a con considerable considerable loss of life or property TELEGRAPH WIRES S DOWN Details of the Disaster Will Not Be Known for Some Hours Mexico City March 27 Chilapa a town of or Inhabitants in the state of Guerrero has been shaken by an earthquake and burned The shocks two in number occurred early last a t evening and were followed by b fires which originating In a dozen places Jaces among the tumbling buildings i joined in a conflagration that swept wept the town Only i eager facts of the dig dis disaster aster are known here and what has I been learned has dribbled In from Crom half halfa a dozen sources more morer r less Jess authentic The loss of life if any as well as the monetary loss is problematical pro and anti continued efforts to gauge the catas catastrophe catastrophe catastrophe have hae been futile Telegraph com corn communication communication with Chilapa was severed by the shocks and the town Is t days by horseback from the nearest railway station Couriers have been dispatched to Chi Chilapa Chilapa lapa from Chilpancingo some me forty forCy Continued on Page 2 FIRE FOLLOWS EARTH SHOCKS Continued from Page 1 five miles distant and it is presumed that messengers for relief were sent from the burned city early today and possibly Immediately following the thee earthquake e last night The reports that have hae reached here agree that the town was destroyed by bythe bythe bythe the shocks and fire and that the people fled tied |
