| Show earthquake IN MEXICO KILLS PEOPLE CHILPAN chilpancingo CINGO CAPITAL OF THE STATE or OF GUERRERO BADLY WRECKED ut lint of killed hilled I 1 laced faced rt nt 11 ith as many alsy more alere u greatest calle longed callei i by coot of Chur iiii falling in purley ii arst mort cal bilty in ill tim the hottory of t mexico one of the most terrible rata catastrophes strophes in the history of tho the state of guerrero mexico Is reported to have occurred friday afternoon when an ex erT Tr remely emely violent shock was vas felt at causing cau singa a great loss of life and injuring many details filin the st stricken richen district are very meagen but reports indicate that probably people eta killed and as aa many more injured it is known that the state capitol capt tol the parish chuich and many business houses and residences aie in ruins and that there is much suffering as a result of the a awful ful sel seismic sinic disturbance one of the edi flees that suffered most was the federal bedei al felegi aph office which explains the paucity of news the telegraph lines end apparatus up ap aratus were badly damaged but the employees all of whom were injured quickly proceeded to erect an improvised telegraph office on the outskirts of tho the city the number of deaths was greater in the parish church than la in any single place as a crowd of worshipers was gathered there for the afternoon ser vice the solid maso nary walls alls find and the roof came toppling down on the worshipers and many of those within were killed the yar war department has ordered troops in the to co operate in the work of rescue until this work is completed it will be impossible to accurately learn the number of victims it is believed however that this is one of the most destructive seismic sels 10 phenomena that has ever occurred in mexico the giester gi eater part of the population of chilpancingo Chilpan cingo are now camp inglut ing out under tents around ai aund the town towne which is five das journey from the national capital |
