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Show CITY OF MEXICO, April 16. The National Bank of Mexico has received a telegram saying that 600 lives were lost at the destruction of ChUapa and Ohlldpango. In governmental circles the report is not credited. It is admitted admit-ted that both cities were leveled to the ground, but it Is not thought that the death list will even approximate 500, owing to the fact that the houses are built of stone In order to resist earthquake earth-quake shocks. The Federal authorities here, have been appealed to by, the Governors of the districts of Bravas and ChUapa for tents, as the inhabitants are now living in the open. The Governor of Guerrero has dispatched dis-patched military engineers and troops to the stricken district, and fhe work of rescue and Sanitation is being carried car-ried on in a systematic manner. . , Both cities are so isolated that it is impossible to obtain accurate and rapid intelligence of the disaster. , CHILPANCINGO, Mexico, April; 15. This eity 'has been completely destroyed de-stroyed by an earthquake. The known dead number eleven," and the badly injured in-jured twenty-seven. The greatest panic prevails, and people are fleeing to the open country. The earth continues to rock at half-hour intervals, and many minor shocks are completing the work of destruction begun by the first earthquake. earth-quake. Word has reached here that the town of Chilapa, forty-two kilometers to the northeastward, has also been de-stroyed. de-stroyed. No' details have been received as to the number of the dead and injured. in-jured. The population of Chilpancingo is 7498, and until the panie into which the citizens have been thrown abates, it will be impossible to state the number of casualties. The population of Chilapa is 15,000. No -word has been received from Tixtla, and it is feared that it also has been destroyed. According to the movements move-ments of the earthquake, Tixtla would be in its direct line. The following message was sent to the federal telegraph office in Mexico City from Cilapa: "Our boys are working in a public garden. A terrible panic prevails, as the earth continues to tremble at regular reg-ular intervals. Send us tents that we may establish our office out in the country." coun-try." All communication from the west coast has been cut off since the movement move-ment of the first big shock, and it is not known to what extent that region suffered. The nearest large towns, Aeapulco, 131 kilometers to the southwest south-west of this place, has not been heard from. Both the volcanoes of Colima and Jo-rullo Jo-rullo are In this region. The earthquake, earth-quake, it If feared, may - cause these mountains to become active and to destroy de-stroy much property and many lives. . |