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Show EARTHQUAKE KILLS lliMICO Baildlngs Crumble and Fissures Fis-sures Open in Streets ; of Capital. SHOCK RECORDED ALL OVER UNITED STATES Center of Disturbance Believed Be-lieved in Western Part of Southern Neighbor. MEXICO CITT, Job 7 Aa earth-qoak earth-qoak at 4 o'clock: ttaU moraine 4a-ftrorM 4a-ftrorM ewral trondmjx, tnctodlni tha artillery ' s,uartera, - what aersnty aol-diers aol-diers war buried In tba rulna. Tha dead and wound ad Bomber belnesii fifty and aaranty. Several persona ware killed through tha collapse of tha building- occupied by tha etraet railway plant. At Bueaa Vista the track! were twisted. Tha ahoek was followed by aa ax-plosioa ax-plosioa of gae at tha armory barrack, which added horror to tha ecene. Tha oacillationa moved from lorth to south and opened fiaaurea in tha atreeta. Tha adobe house crumbled but the dead a theaa cannot ba numbered at preaant. Tha ahoek waa moat severely felt In tha waatera part of tha eity, though buildings in tba central part of tba cap. ital war rocked perceptibly. - Tha only foraigaer killed waa a Chinese. Chi-nese. Warehouses at tha antral atatioa aol-lapaed aol-lapaed and aa engineer was killed. A private boarding aeheol building waa wrecked but bom of tha occupants was injured. Tha national palace had on of its walla cracked aad tka kevstoae of one of tha arc bee waa displaced. Tha ancient eatbadral of Santo Domingo Do-mingo waa damaged. Tha artillery quarter arreeked by the earthquake thia morning la a long, low building near tha Belem prisoa aad ia used chiefly aa a government araaaal. During tha recent disturbance throughout- Mexico large foreee af soldiers had bee quartered in thia building;. It ta an edifice of ancient construction and design, aad during tha Spanish oecupev' tioa it wa ueed aa a eterahoua for wsf material. A t times it haa been convert -tn-to7r y nrrtesir and more recently' haa baa Bead museum ef artillery. . Tha MeJem prise j in the, same locality local-ity and also heuaea a large number af people, it criminal inmatea having beaa at times aa many aa several thousand, ' The earthquake ' today came at the momeat that the Mexican capital waa about to receive tha revolutionary viator, via-tor, Franeiee I. Madero, Jr.. Cable dispatches dis-patches announced hia arrival at th eitv and indicate that, despite the earthquake, aa ovation waa give him. |