| Show EARTHQUAKE I DEVASTATES J OLD MEXICO i if f Country Shakes from the At Atlantic Atlantic lantic to the Pacific by Series of Shocks LOSS OF LIFE WILL NOT Ii BE KNOWN FOR SOME DAYS PROPERTY DAMAGE ENORMOUS SO FAR NO AMERICAN RE REPORTED REPORTED REPORTED PORTED AMONG VICTIMS 1 o 4 Acapulco noted for its IU great reat greatt II 4 t landlocked harbor is the Ute chief 1 o 4 j port of call I for steamers steameR be beJ I 4 J i tween San Francisco and South G I 1 4 8 American ports port Id Ita population is 0 1 4 t about The city ships hides 3 1 I y cedar and fruit to San Francisco J Jo o 4 3 It is situated hi in the state tte of Gust Goer G 2 j I Is 4 s rero and Is hi about MO let mites miles mU south 4 I o 4 i west of the City of Mexico 1 V 4 t Chillpa also in the state stat of ot 4 j o 4 j Guerrero has hu a population of DC 4 i io 4 o 4 5 it is about mile ml j o 4 S from Acapulco Aca o 4 Chilpancingo is about twenty i o 4 v miles from Chillpa ChUlpa and baa hu a pop population 4 3 of 1500 The town towa was wasS 4 S badly wrecked by an art earthquake ear 4 0 i o 4 in January INK 1802 00 0 L Mexico City July Tuly M Central MesS KID Mexico co from the Atlantic to the i and from on the north nort to I Oaxaca on the south th a distance dl cov covering t ering ening more than 1000 miles mUe was warn w shaken today tody by a series ria of the moat severe sar earthquake shocks hocka felt in the region re oA for tor tora or ora i J 11 a quarter of a century I Reports of the loss ions of life lit axe are not flat j t complete but the official show I 4 I were kilted killed outright saul and more than a score perhaps fatally ht III 1 The towns of Acapulco awl nd I Chilpancingo have bave been partially de ds destroyed i j j j i First Shock Severe I According to the observatory rec reo records r orda the first shock of the series aerie wee 1 felt at a m in It was w very severe iW causing the bells bell of many cathedra 1 of this city to toll breaking crockery r and aDd In some ome instances levelling walls waa i iThe J The people had hardly recovered IrMa from i ithe the first fright when a second more se as severe I vere shock drove nearly everybody to t z f i the streets and plazas pia This movement I lasted lut with marked severity for one ODe minute and thirty seconds The tall tail t 4 of ta tile the city eitY swayed and 4 a number of or houses bouses collapsed coIa Six lix per person son fon Ons were killed in Mexico City an ft r environs Pour lour persons person are in hospi hospitals f t 1 tale their recovery despaired of f Americans Escaped Ea aped oj The TM large American colony escaped i I Iun unscathed un The peons peon were terribly frightened Per For days they had bad been predicting disaster because the snow on 4 the peak Jk of the volcano i visible from this city has been melt melting melting melting ing An old legend declares that j J when the snow mow on this volcano dIp disappears dl r f 4 pears so too will the city at its base bess baeThe The property damage here Is slight Some of or the cathedral walls wise were w wisecracked cracked and scores of adobe walls wails were sent to the ground but the main heal busi business ness district showed no signs of the se so severe were vere ere shaking which it had received The observatory officials declare Mexico City rests on an old lake toed bed the made ground upon which a grist great t part of the city rests acting as a sponsor mass which neutralizes the severity of ot the shock J All electric currents In the city wen wees shut off during the first t shock and lid the city remained In darkness I Wailing Walling and Praying The wailing and praying of the In Indians I diane dlan in the public squares added to te i ithe the weirdness and painted an unforgettable table picture on the minds minda of the talf haU f clad shivering hordes of ot frightened men women and children childr who stood in IlL inthe the drizzling rain waiting for daylight dayd t When the sun shone the people to their homes Soon however a third shock tent sent them again scurrying to the tile streets str t This was ws lighter than the tile others When the Federal Fed Telegraph compa romps company ny fly attempted to work the o found that the wires ires to the west comet coast eo were down No communication with the state of Guerrero the center of ot o the tile I earthquake region of Mexico could be established hed After hours houn of efforts e a wire was opened by the roundabout way of or the Isthmus of The first message mesge came from the port of Acapulco and was wan directed to the di dl director director rector of telegraphs It read Acapulco is ia in ruins rutna The TheSs lossIs in incalculable Incalculable Incalculable calculable Loss LC H of Life Communication was then lost rb t ly 11 after J another wire was 9 opened up direct to Acapulco A Asage ass sage acc said ald the lower half of the city i M been destroyed and that four tour bodies bodIee had bad been taken from the rums rules Later a message C from rom Chilpancingo stated that three deaths had occurred there aad aM that the number of injured was wu net Dei known knon The barracks national palace and hospital there were badly dam damaged damaged damaged aged The American consul at Acapulco 1 telegraphed tonight that the shocks shock were wera continuing with lessened l Continued en Pf 2 s e t o l f I EARTH QUAKE OLD MEXICO ME Continued from Page 1 t ty bodies have been Men taken from the ruins The churches customs custom houses and all of the hotels in the place w were rp tf rendered uninhabitable while not nota no noa a house bouse in the city lity escaped damage All of ot the buildings along the water front fro were ere leveled The shock at Acapulco occurred at in the morning and the people knowIng by pat past t experience what to tt t expert expect fled to the open opeti They had hai hardly gotten out when a Farias S of mx ati il k severe shocks e threw the more unstable ke e buildings to the ground There was wa no tidal wave wae but the con ml aul ul adds that the shocks h 8 were mote more se SO severe severe SOvera vere vera than those tho e of 1907 1903 which inundated ed eel a part of the city His Hie message e says that no nu American wan killed or in Sn Ju The people J are an suffering great greatly ly Iy because the th repeated shucks shocks are ir e compelling them thorn to live In tha open Damage at Puebla A illeS message lige received front Puebla re reports reports ports portH severe damage to some dwelling d ns g houses hou es and one death th M a guest at the Hotel Jardin who died tiled of o fright Reports from the tow towns ns of ol Vera Vara Crus Oaxaca sU and Pachuca hull indi indicate cate more or le lel Ies o property damage e but bu buno t no loss of life The principal water main of this city cit y was badly damage und arid the sup supply supply supply ply will be considerably curtailed for tor a It afew few days A number of ot poInts point In the th e state of af f Guerrero known to ts be In the th e ee earthquake zone have not yet been beem i beard heard from fromA telegram A from Igual Iguala state of o f Guerrero sent tonight says MYS the whole e region is trembling with frequent se severe severe severe vere shocks shock The people mire are terrified The earthquakes have hae been continuous s for nearly four hours hourI No deaths have hav e been registered f at Iguala Ipala This Th is Ii due du duto e ee to the fact faH that the people are so 0 ac ACcustOmed to earthquakes that they the its flee fleeto II to the open at the first sign of ot danger clanger r Shocks Continue Each E oh new shock is ih leveling lev the build lags In Chilpancingo Such telegraph h offices as 88 re open throughout Guer Otter Guerrero Guerrero rero during the afternoon and early earl y evening closed at 10 ending communication with the strick stricken en district d One in the town of Guerrero where e there are stone atone buildings building has lias there ther e been much loss loan of life The earthquake e ee et is said to have been heavier than that tha t of 1902 when the town of Chilpancingo o and were destroyed with the th e loss loas of hundreds hun reds of lives UVell The earth earthquakes earthquakes earthquakes quakes which occurred today were sim aim similar simIlar ilar liar to those which wrought so much muc h damage in m San SaD Francisco Franc co in 1966 1906 In L u hu that the movement was both oscillatory oscillator y and ry |
