Show 11 It Is Feared That Many Have Perished in the Disaster Planta Plantations pt nt lions Ruined and Homes Destroyed vv Prominent Germans Die I I 1 I C AN FRANCISCO FRAN ISCO May U Lendall SAN SAl M Gray Graft manager mu of the Kosmos steamship line baa hao ft received a let letter lettel letter ter tel from I E K Pearse Pearce special agent of the Kosmos Ko mos line at Guatemala Gu ma giving further particulars p lars of the terrific earth earthquake earthquake quake qu ke in that country on April 18 The letter is dated six days later War The writer says Mya public subscriptions aub have been started by the Guatemalan government for the relief of or the homeless It te is feared says Mr Ir Pearse that the loss lo s of life lire was wag very large but It will b ho Impossible to form ferm any y idea of the number of deaths until the ruins shall have been cleared away The city of has bu ben bean almost alm st knocked to pieces the coffee warehouses agency house hotel botel and lid other uther structures be being being belog ing log destroyed destroy It is impossible for me meto meto meto to convey any aJaY clear clr idea klea of or the t true state of affairs affa There is hardly barfly a cof cot coffee cofre fee re plantation of any am description that has baa escaped e ped Machine houses are down and enormous losses have been In Incurred Incurred incurred on every side The city of is abandoned and it has been neo necessary essary e to send in thousands s of Indan n from all parts with provisions as the 1 survivors are really reaU starving I Several prominent Germans are 1 among the dead dd the list Including Os Oscar Oscar i car Enrique Hermann and aid Mrs and Hermann were wealthy and Influential coffee I growers of oC Guatemala 1 Earthquakes in Aleutians San Sn Francisco May U UThe The Alaska Commercial company has Au received from its agent lent at Aleutian Islands a letter dated April 10 giving Information tion t on of oC volcanic disturbances dJ In ln that region I The letter Itter says Iye has kat been shaken up by I earthquakes lately and on several oc or occasions cantons the tl ground was Has U perceptibly covered coveted with line fine ashes ash es from some v vol volcano l I cane cano Reports 41 reach us from to the effect that with every westerly we wind that village is Ja covered vered c with the same sm kind of ashes indicating that some western volcano is in action |