Show QUAKES QUAKE'S S 'S STOLL DEATH TOLL HITS I SAN SALVADOR Salvador Dec Deci 21 1 W Jp Officials expressed fears to today to to-I day dayot of a mounting death toll loll in the devastating earthquake which razed almost all San an Vi Vicente ente and killed at atit least east it p persons over the weekend week week- end Persons arriving in hi S Sari ant rt Salvador from rom the stricken provincial capital capit 1 told old stories of wholesale ruin of shattered haltered r d buildings and homes bomes and of rescuers digging out some 20 1 bodies in the first few hours dt after I th he the quake How high the deaths would r reach ach no fil one onO would estimate but government government government govern govern- ment officials dispatched all relief available a to the area Accurate reports W were re made in increasingly tn- tn difficult to obtain because because because be be- cause of th the disrupted communicationS ions b between tw en the tha quake area and andS andSen S San Sen n Salvador Communications Broken Telephone and telegraph lines W were r ripped down by th the quakes and information could be had only from rom those who fled Inland from th he the scene The quake which first struck the sl sleeping leeping city of San Vicente SaturdaY Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day night crashed in buildings and shook hook the earth In villages near by eye said Refugees with their ir families s and household belongings fled along alone rural l roa roads roads' trying to reach safety from rom the menacing ever volcano no Santa Rita southeast of San Vicente Vicente Vicente Vi Vi- cente which some refugees said sald was erupting Adding to the fears fear of ot molten motten lava ava pouring from the volcano over th the wr wrecked ck d city lly was th the specter of epidemics Much of San Vicente's Vicentes s 's supply of drinking water was poisoned poisoned poi poi- by sulphur apparently exudIng Ing ng from the smoking volcano af af- tel tor er th the quake D Debris Impedes Rescuers Government officials returning last ast night slight from the disaster area said the widespread wreckage was impeding rescue work and end making virtually impossible any accurate estimate of the tM property dam damage ge and loss of life tile Amo Among g the neighboring villages damaged according to radio re reports reports reports re- re ports last night flight were Vera Paz Guadalupe San Sebastian San Lorenzo and Pe Pe- A special ial ted Red Cross train with rescuers and modern equipment was sent nt from from Sa San Salvador to San SanVic SanVic Vic Vicente Those ThOS returning from front the scene said the quake leveled all but butone butone one of the city's main buildings The first shocks of the earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake were felt at about 10 p p. p Tm tn They Y refugees said but began again Sunday afternoon The founded three centuries centuries ag ago f is about 10 miles mUes in from the theP P Pacific ci ic ocean and about 40 miles from San Salvador It t is js one of the the major r stations in inthe inthe inthe the narrow guage international railways of t Central Am America owned by United States Slates interests |