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Show i 30 BODIES FOUND ! IH MEXICO QDflKE MEXICO CITY. July 37 UPt Workman today picked through pilM of debris that one war homes and publio buildings In Vara Crux and Puabla atatea to reckon the coat f Sunday night's earthquake. At Wast SO bodies had been recovered. fltrlcfcen telephone and telegraph Ines atil Irendered a com plat survey sur-vey Impossible. Piecemeal reports indicated, howerer, that Maltrata, Vera Crux, was hardest hit with 18 dead and mora than 70 Injured counted up to last night. Many were still missing. Half the buildings of that town of (000 wer reported leveled. Scores perhaps hundreds of residents resi-dents in the area moat severely affected af-fected by the tremor wer In hospitals hos-pitals or hastily improvised first aid atationa. The shocks began at : p. m. and lasted as long as two and a half minutes in some places. Orizaba reported five dead and najor property damage. Eeperanza, Puebla, had five dead. Two were killed in Vera Cms city and two in Cludad Serdan, Puebla. Nog-ale lost Its ancient parochial hurch. Cordoba's main street waa clogged with wreckage from the Zevalioa hotel and the facade of a bank building. |