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Show DISASTROUS EARTH TREMOR IN ANDES HUNDREDS OF BODIES TAKE! FROM RUINS WHEN CITIES ARE DESTROYED. Eeismic Convulsion Opens Crea' Crevices Out of Which Hot Water is Spouting. Many Are Buried in the Ruins I'.ui-iiiH .yres. Kiirthipnikc sliockl which ili-sln.yi-d several towns alon tin- Argentine slope of the Andei rnouii In ins were the most .severe ex pcrlenred In (Ids eomury since l.Sii!) when hall' the city of .Icinlo.;i win laid In ruins. Reports from the arei where Hie shocks were heaviest indl (ate ureal, loss of jfe mid property upwards of JoO bodies having alreailj been taken from the wrecks of build ing-s. At Trcsportenas more than 100 per lshcd, and at Cosla de Araujo SI were killed and fso seriously Injured. It ii feared that more victims still art burled under the ruins in each town At Trosporlcnas, Lavalle anil Lftccn tral not a house was left standing, a nr. those not destroyed were left in t badly damaged condition. No esti male of the total number of person! Injured has yet been made. Minor shucks continue throughout the district, one particularly strong tremor being felt Sunday in the towns of San Martin and Rlvadavia. The people are reported as being panic-stricken. panic-stricken. The city of Mendoza wtts shaken, but did not suffer any extensive ex-tensive damage. In the town of Costa do Araujo the neismlc convulsion opened jreal crevices, out of which hot water if spouting. The water from one ol these geysers reached a height of about fifteen feet and formed a pool In which two persons were drowned. A Red Cross ambulance has reached the village and the work of rescuing any sufferers who still may he alive in the ruins has been started. More than 30,000 persons inhabited little towns nlong the eastern Andean wlope, and as reports' continue to add to the long list of casualties, apprehension appre-hension Is felt that the final figures will be very high. Rescue parties have been sent from Mendoza, but details de-tails from the scene of the disaster are meager, ns telephone and telegraph tele-graph wires are badly disorganized. |