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Show LIGHT EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS FELT IH SOUTHERN SPAIN Walls of a Few Houses Cracked and Inhabitants Panic Stricken, But No Serious Damage Done. Madrid. All communication with southern Spain and with tho city of Barcelona Is uninterrupted, and tha reports emanating from England rcTa-tivo rcTa-tivo to a disastrous carthquako and tidal wave are untrue. Thcro was a slight earthquake shock at Totonn, In tho province of Murcla, on January 29, but no serious damage was done. The walls of only a few houses were cracked. Slight shocks wero also felt In tho village of Olios. At both Totona and Ollas tho inhab itants fled panic-stricken to tho suburbs, fearing that a dlsastor was upon them such as devastated Sicily and southern Italy. It Is reported that the moment tho1 carthquako occurred tho sun was hidden hid-den by a denso gray cloud, which, however, disappeared Immediately, while a shower of hailstones ns largo as walnuts covered tho ground to a depth of sevoral centimeters. Tho reports of a tidal wavo probably prob-ably are based on dispatches that have been received from tho Catnlo-nlon Catnlo-nlon coast during tho past fornlght or so to that effect that little by little the Bca was encroaching on tho land. Up to the present tlmo the damage from this has beon Insignificant. |