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Show mm Destroyed -J?any Persons in Chief 4 City of the Central American Republic Killed in the Disaster, Some in Their Homes and Others in the Streets; 80,000 Homeless. Home-less. HUNDREDS PERISH IN COLON THEATER . . t Stock of Provisions Is Scant and Aid Urgently Needed; . Machinery of Red Cross Set in Motion Mo-tion to Relieve the Sufferers; Suf-ferers; Shocks Begin Christmas Day. ' SAN SALVADOR, Doc. 30. Guatemala City, capital of the republic of that name, has been completely destroyed by an earthquake. Many persons were killed vL; in the disaster, some In their homes and others In the street. The Colon theater, which was filled '" with people, collapsed. There were many casualties among tiie audience. Various hospitals and asylums and the prisons were badly damaged and many patients and prisoners -were killed. The railroad depot, sugar mills, post-office, post-office, the American and British legations. lega-tions. United States consulate and all tho churches in the city have been leveled. lev-eled. 3 Deep fissures opened in the middle of the city. The Inhabitants In panic have fled from the capital. More than 80.000 per-. per-. sons are homeless. The stock of provl- fiions in the city i3 scant and aid is required re-quired promptly. The Salvadorean government has suspended sus-pended the official New Year celebration and entered into mourning In sympathy wll h Guatemala. |