Show Terror Grips Mexico City When en Quake Puts Out Electric Lights By G. G F. F FINT PINT United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY March 22 The 22 The capital city and surrounding states today had recovered from a night of terror occasioned by the most molt vigorous earth shocks in seventeen years Lights in Mexico City were ex extinguished ex- ex when the temblors shattered shat- shat electric wires Thousands of persons many In night ht clothing ran Into the darkened streets The shocks hocks lasted mIni min mm- i I 1 I I utes utes 1016 1016 to 1019 p. p and m m. and so far as could be he told today there was vas asno no great damage Six persons were reported to have ha been Injured here and one small mall sh shack cl collapsed 3 S STATES STATES' SHAKEN At least three adjoining states states- Tabasco Guerrero and I Puebla re e re reported ported feeling tire disorders he shocks were we-re especially severe at Villa Hermosa Tabasco and Guerrero Guerrero Guerrero Guer Guer- rero Puebla Telephone phone messages from Puebla Continued on pa page 5 6 L. L T terror errOr Mexico I Grips City When QU Quake ke Puts Out Electric Lights Continued from page 1 I said the p population th there e had bad been stricken panic and a t large alg section I of the tue population spent the night inthe inthe in the parks parIes an and streets street In n Mexico City tho streets reechoed re- re echoed to the clang o ot of ambulances r shortly after the tho e Theatre Theatte crowds w were ele unnerved h In the hotels guests jan an Ln to the tho darkened darkened dark dark- ened corridors and lobbies gobbles the first disturbance was felt feit While the disturbances es cs lasted only three minutes the streets and buildings build build- Ings of Mexico City were dark for fOl more moro than five minutes The seismic disturbance in tile state slate of Puebla was reported to have lave centered between Tepeji and Allan Atlan The National Tel Telegraph was ad- ad that several houses collapsed at Oaxaca and numerous people were Injured slightly Lights were extinguished there then and mul church bells beliS tolled tin tin-ough the sway of the earth carth Residents there as well as at Puebla ran Into the tho streets s and many spent the night In parks Uneasiness was tell felt at at the c tal Ial today that Interior towns such such- as those In the st state te of Guerrero might lawo suffered heavily from the shocks shock The seismograph at the University University sity o ot of Utah registered earthquake shocks commencing at 1032 o'clock Wednesday night growing grooving more violent at 1037 1007 and lasting for thirty-one thirty minutes minutes' The direction diree- diree tion W tyes as s given as southeast and th tho- tho distance irice at t 2500 miles |