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Show COFFEE PLANTATIONS , RUINED BY VOLCANO. ' JIEXICO CITY. May 12News brought here from Guatemala by people who have seen the ruin wrought by the recent eruption of Santa Maria volcano confirms all-the previous reports. The situation could hardly be worse. . "All the coffee plantations in the vicinity vicin-ity of the volcano," says Manuel Huer-tado. Huer-tado. Just arrived here from Guatemala, "have been destroyed for all time. Ashes ten to fifteen feet deep cover the country. coun-try. In the neighborhood of the volcano ashes are so deep that only some of the tops of tall -tree can be seen. Scoria and ashes cover 1000 square mile of land to a depth of five to. fifteen teet, and 5Jb0 square miles to depths of one to five feet. One-third of the entire coffee crop has been destroyed. About 300,000 quln- Itals of the choicest coffee have been lost, and all land upon which It was grown 1 doomed to eternal sterUity.'i - |