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Show HUNDREDS KILLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE CITY OF CARTAQO, COSTA RICA, IS NEARLY WIPED OUT BY SEISMIC DISTURBANCE. Eight Hundred Bodies Have Been Taken From the Ruins, and It Is Believed the Loss of Life May Exceed Fifteen Hundred. San Jose, Costn Rica. Eight hundred hun-dred bodies have been recovered from tho ruins of Cartago, which was visited visit-ed by Bcvero earthquake shocks on May 4 nnd 5. Tho estimate of the dend Is placed at 1,500, but It Is pos-Bible pos-Bible this may bo exceeded. Tho number num-ber of sick and Injured cannot bo counted, many of them having been removed to ndjolnlng towns and vil-lages, vil-lages, nnd since the disaster ."cores have died from their Injuries. San Jose was also shaken, some of the buildings being damaged, but no deaths occurred here. Some porsoim woro slightly Injured. Shocks also were felt at sovoral points In N'lc-aragua N'lc-aragua near tho Costa Rica frontier. Cnrtngo, capital of Cartago province, prov-ince, lies at tho foot or Irazu volcano, about fourteen miles from Snn Jnso. It has an estimated population or 10,-000, 10,-000, nnd Is the scat or tho Central American peace court. Cnrtago was tho capital or tho country until 1823. It hns suffered frequently from earthquakes earth-quakes nnd was partly destroyed In 1803, 1825, 1841, 1851, and 1851. The ceremony attending tho Inauguration Inaugu-ration or Rlcnrdo .limine, ns president or Costa Rica took plnco on Sunday on ono or tho plnzns In San Jose, owing ow-ing to tho fact that tho peoplo feared to enter the government building. Lnrgo forces, which havo gone to Cnrtngo from Snn Jose and other points, nre now engaged In tho work of rescue, and oven on Sunday several living persons wore taken from under tho piles of stones and timbers whero dwellings once stood. Pnralso, a vlllngo of 2,000 peoplo about eighteen miles cast of San Jose, also suffered sovorely from tho earth shocks, reports reaching here indicating indicat-ing that nearly 100 persons wore killed. Largo fissures that hnvo opened up In Cnrtago provlnco have given additional ad-ditional cause for alarm. Ten thousand thou-sand persons nro homoloss, and severe rains and lack or rood and drinking water aro responsible for much suffering. suf-fering. It Is Impossible to provide shelter for the peoplo who arc huddled hud-dled together In a pltlablo condition. |