Show 1 QUAKE RATTLES RATTLES MEXICO CAPITAL MEXICO CITY April 15 UP UPA UPA A A severe earthquake hit Mexico t City at p. p m. m Tuesday toppling toppling top- top pling buildings interrupting communications com com- and causing at least k one large fire I E. E Residents were stricken panic by the earth shocks There was was no no immediate report of casual casual- ties Cornices crashed from buildings building in the central part of the city endangering the lives of hundreds hundred who had dashed from their offices office into the open streets for safety Building Catches Fire A building on Calle Santa Maria Mari Redonda near the Follies Bergere Bergere Ber Ber- gere caught fire and a huge column column col col- col- col of smoke rose over th the downtown section Many residents left their automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles in streets and highways highway and ran for open parts of the city to escape the debris from cracking cracking crack crack- ing walls and roofs At the head of the Paseo de la Ia Reforma pieces of stone facing fell fen from a new Bricks Brick and stonework of the new Pan Pani building under construction across from the Hotel Regis crashed down into the street Cornices Shaken Down As the United Press correspondent correspondent correspondent dent watched from his offices on the the Paseo de la Ia Reforma in the heart heart of the city he saw cornices shaken from a story 17 skyscraper diagonally across the plaza In the distance smoke could be seen rising from fires Fire engines and ambulances raced through the streets with sirens shrieking to aid persons believed trapped in small wrecked buildings or injured by falling debris The quake struck as many perSons persons persons per per- sons were leaving their offices for for the afternoon siesta The streets filled quickly Broken electric circuits caused the fire near the Follies Bergere theater it was learned A The buildings still were shaking shaking shaking shak shak- ing from the earth shocks s as the United Press correspondent transmitted transmitted trans trans- this dispatch |