| Show I t I I f EARTH QUAKE OLD MEXICO Continued from Page 1 t ty Three ThIEt budta have haYe been taken from the ruin The churches churche customs ms s houses house and all aU of or the hotels in the pIa were wre rendered n red uninhabitable wIilIe not nota no noa a house in m the rity ity escaped e damage dam All AH of the buildings along the water front were leveled The shock at Acapulco occurred d at lit in the morning and the people knowing by past experience ex perl once what to t o expect ct fled to the th open They had ha ha J hardly rotten gotten out when wen a rl i arles of fits M t severe shocks threw the more mere unstable te e buildings to the ground There was wan no tidal wave but the con oon consul sul ul adds adda that the shocks wera were more inure se so severe soVera vere Vera than those of 1907 which Inundated ed a part rt of the city Ills HiB message age mes e says ay that no American wan wa killed or in Jilted The people J are suffering groat SToat Iy ly because e the repeated shocks are ar e compelling them to live In the tha open Damage at Puebla A received frym Puabla re Parts severe damage e to some dwelling g houses and one donUt M 1 a 8 at the Hotel Jardin who died of o f fright friCht Reports from the tow towns ns of ot von Vera Cru Crux Oaxaca Os pant and Pachuca indi indicate cate more or les property damage but bu buno t no loss of life IThe The principal water main oC of tills this city cit y was wai badly damage and und th the city sup MIp supply ply will be considerably curtailed for a It few days A number of oJ points point In the th e state of f Guerrero known to be In hi the th e ee earthquake zone have not yet been beel i heard from fromA A from I ua state of o f Qu sent tonight says lays the whole e region fa It trembling with frequent se severe severe vere shocks The people are nrc terrified The earthquakes have been continuous s for nearly four tour hours hourI No hay have s been registered at Iguala This 10 is due du e se to the fact tact that the people are so ac accustomed accustom custom d to earthquakes that they flee fleeto e to the open o n at the first lyn also of ot Shocks Continue Each new shock is leveling the build buildings ings In Chilpancingo Such uch telegraph h offices as Were Ware open throughout Quay Guer Guerrero rero during the afternoon and early earl y evening closed at 10 tonight ending communication with the th Strick Stricken en district dl One in the town of 0 Guerrero where e there are stone atone buildings building has lias there ther e been much loss of or life The earthquake e ee et is III said to have been heavier than that tha t of 1903 1902 when the town of Chilpancingo cing o and Chilapa Chiapa were destroyed de with the th e loss 1085 of hundreds hun reds of lives 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 Wm in San in 1906 1996 in i hn hy n that the movement wa wu both oscillatory oscillator y and ry |
