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Show IT WAS A FAKE EARTHQUAKE. Lerdo hi Not Destroyed end th. Colorado Klv.rl. Still Th.r.. San Fkanciscq, Aug. 1 1. The Chron-tWe's Chron-tWe's Yuma correspondent made a trip to the town of Lerdo, Mexico which was reported destroyed by the earthquake earth-quake July ill). He reports the accounts ac-counts of the earthquake exaggerated. No houses were destroyed. He failed to find the place where the Colorado river was reported to bo pouring into a lissiirs in tho oarth. There was no tidal wave in the Gulf of California and the Bhock was hardly folt. |