Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-06 | Page 12 | Guatemala City is Completely Ruined

GiUTEMAU cifv 15 COMPLETELY (BED Series of Recent Quakes Are Reported to Have Caused Many Deaths. WAftHfN'OTOX, Jan. 5 rjuatmaln Cttv h;H bi-n compIf-tHy destroyed by earthquake shocks ThurwJay and Friday which followed those late in Dcrember. ' Mos.s;iKfs rci-ived by the ntate depart -numt today said th! Iohh of life this week Is estimated to bo greater th:in that rc- Ultirip from tin: e:irtier shocks. A dispatch from the: Central American Telegraph company said : "Our manager at San .Jose. Guatemala, telegraphs the foilowinfi: 'What was U-t'L of Gua ti-ma la. City is now wiped out. Shocks at 10::i5 p. in., January 4, finished everything. Kieain is roming up in the Btreets. rallied I fallen. ' Las Varaa brlrlfff to B.nrios now down. Slides on railroad between San Jose and city. No lines or trains reported. Further 300 killed.' " A cablegram from the American charpe at Guatemala City dated January 4 said a new series of earthquakes Iwfjan the night before and were continuing: when the dispatch was tiled. The weather was verv cold. A second dispatch filed later ' that day reported the shocks still in progress but save no deta ils.