Show TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS TWO WHOLE CITIES IN MEXICO It J t. t and Chilapa Are Wiped Out by Violent Convulsions Con Con- That Are Aie Felt From Ocean I to Ocean LOSS OF LIFE IS ESTIMATED AT FULLY I Thousands Are Arc Without Food and the Danger of Famine Is IsI I Added to That of Further I r r l an and d V Volcanoes 0 r.- r. f a I y I j ico City April rhe J. 15 The cities citie of ot and 1111 I Ch in the State of Guerrera Mexico i were completely f destroyed h by an earthquake shock last night The latest news tonight is that full fully persons were killed in the I two places The llie authorities refuse to credit it in the absence of undisputed corroboration It is known that the shocks have ha occurred occulTed at intervals since last night and are still recurring causing the earth to un undulate like the waves of the ocean Houses toppled down V. V like blocks in both cities TrIte The authorities however even in ill inthe the face of the report that both cities with the combined population pop pop- of or nearly persons are completely destroyed I 1 cling to the belief that many of the houses massive c sto stone I 1 Structures and built huilt to withstand earthquake shocks must J 1 have e escape escaped I The TIll destruction ot oC waa LM rc- rc III in a n roundabout la way That cIL city Jr If It it still exists Is IIo miles to lo lothe toS S the northeast of the spot Iut Chin- Chin stood No 0 figures s In regard res-ard to c. c th the dead and Injured were received but hut butU I t It U was WH generally that both lists kg would be bt large I v pp One Olle bulletin bOllet said tile the streets wele strewn strown with the bodies bodIeR of those struck I down In flight ami that U Jl Is Js ed e that j 2 score 11 of or would b bo ho found in III the j i I 1111 of dwelling JIn I t 4 n t th r st- st u was 15 O 1 Noth- Noth nth nth- W I ai lt or of U Ucc t ec cc rl th lh the great I ze of r th th uIl n It w feared thul hut It could not stand Bland i it 1 shock hock powerful enough t ou to crumble adobe hul Our Out men rO C working in n a si public gar gar- ar- ar ran the last dispatch received hero bore directly from front Chilapa That came crime earL this morning and from the bulletins that got cot ot through from points near cingo Ino It il 13 supposed it was waa sent before th the wurt o of the quakes were felt fell A terrible panic prevails as aK the eart earth continues to tremble at regular Intervals Intervals Inter inter- vals the Chilapa message ran Send us tents that we we- may an office out In the tile country i Natives NatIve of the region around Ju 0 volcano ar are counted as UIS among Mexico's bravest citizens but hut they were cre reported In III panic today and toward towa-r night a n gen gen- general eral oral night flight to the plains on the city's sen-l sen side tilde opposite the mountain was wait In progress I received at the telegraph telegraph tele tele- I From rom messages cs graph office here up UI 1 to noon it appears that the entire southern half of or the republic re rc- republic re- re public e. Including the lower country and the Mca I L belt felt the shock of ot last night l Messages n om as us far north norU as San Luis Luls J and as ns far fur south couth as the tile city of ot ofSan orSan San Juan tn In the tho state of ot Tabasco Tabasco Ta Ta- basco busco reported It would seem that thal the last earth tremble was vas greater In extent extent ex ex- tent than titan any that has haR preceded e It in Inthe tho the last half century The flu boundary line hhie o of tho tub northern zone of or the present I shock hoek to repot reports ts received d up UI to this time show that It extended j I across ucross tho the country In a northwesterly di direction dl dl- for fOt more than thun J 4 miles an and that tho the southern extent of the shock hock covered cov coy ered crell a distance of more than titan fl I miles making In nil square miles of or territory ter ter- I affected Tho rho soi Ion of shocks K the greatest since 18 ISO lS when OO persons were vere veree e killed In thc these e uTIle inc cities caused tho the entire western hemisphere to lo tremble lc and the thock was oven even recorded by byl l In III cities cHIc showIng show show- In lug Ing that the oarth tremors even event t trembled under the Atlantic ocean The rhe shocks w wore toi IC e reported In every overy Is I I foreign n port where there Micro a graph Shacks and cabins of palm leave leaven antI and branches have ha been thrown up Uj us ats a Ii partial shelter In man many cases Thousands rhou are c without food and the danger cr of famine is added to the danger danger dan tIan- ger gel of earthquake k iii p u II Cau Canto u Alarm r Nor nr are aro these the only dangers and The Tho volcanoes of Callina are arc In III this I section and amI the Uw thousands i who arc are now encamped In tho lie fields mountain region fear Cem that the tho theL In lit this L disturbance of or the earths earth's crust caused caus onus that ed etI by In the Internal commotion hits has destro destroyed etI their homes may cause causo v. v i ho tho mountains to lo belch bolch forth destroying destroy destroy- bythe by hy hythe ing log lire firc to finish tho the work begun the thc earthquake The Tho volcano of or Is IN near the is coa coast t o of 4 nearer It Is almost tIu due north much l of oC Miche lIch Mich- state statu in the of or C 1 e lacan Jacan number hum num I Is also feared that a large It to tobo known who are I her ber o of Americans have tile the mining minim regions ma may be bo In and antI andy from rein tho the earthquake 1 perhaps killed The Iho of or them some borne by byi y r 1902 had been boen predicted of o 1 teras one o of l i Professor Con In Iii 1900 most mol earthquake shock in the when mill 1111 occurred The re region lon warned that another Shock sot then cities menaced but the would visIt ed But Dut the visitation n lie was have havo taught oven evoi Is saId to of vO Mexicans a lesson moving mo i slow shoW the prepared mi were ere beU bett better r and they the hence the tho first fo roy for when for r were felt time th present quake dead are arc Federal Postal pOl Among the Guerra and a a. child Inspector ot Sl t r with points outside communication was vas the destroyed cities or of oCt of- of today b bY Ute the 4 t t- t I J 1 in the fields Message Ies c have ben been frequently interrupted h by j which were felt fell at intervals al tOlla today The lime record of the meteorological log log- ical bureau on last nl nights night's ht's disaster gave e the duration of the shock at four our I minutes The rho movement was from east cast to west in an oval shape The rhe needle first st ten centimeters and later inter twenty Then Jhen t swung completely complete out of the dial leaving leaving- the exact strength th of oC the Lime movement a matteI matter mat mat- ter teI of or conjecture Mummy Many freaks Creal n of the time earthquake arC are recorded V A driver of oC n a circus wagon who was as taking taking- to a u t aims u c thrown from froni rom hl bt of by fOl or of th this the KIlI 11 vIas a uninjured beyond HII ti f rut liili everyone o of ut the animals ho Wa waa WU I driving was killed 1 Telegraph communication as far south as Oaxaca mid anil San Juan Bantista Ban Bau- Usta tista has been een established but hut beyond the report that the shock was wan heavy I in that hut r region llon and anti alon along the Mexican nn coast nothing new was learned Southward Southward South South- ward war of or the city of Vera Vcra V ra Cruz the I shock was reported to have been se severe so- so vere yore At the meteorological bureau bunau it Is said t-ald time the shock was wa the tue heaviest L experienced hero here since 1862 From what is known at this time the movement extended from Crom lime tho city of San Luis Luls Potosi on the north ol of Oaxaca on the lie south to a distance o of I miles I G I Cities Were i Vi J h hy by D ill I III in lJ H I Uil 2 New York April l 13 lB By B By a n strange coincidence co co- co- co incidence Lime earthquake which has baa now How destroyed two Mexican towns came within four days daya of tho anniversary o othe of the destruction of San Sun Francisco eo by earthquake and Ore fire The rhe quake In iii MexIco Mex- Mex ice o rent the earth on the time night of An April Ap- Ap ru ril II 11 On April IS 8 will end the unit first year eur since the lie shattering of ot the time Pacific coas coast coaNt city eliv Chilapa watt was time the mo moat t important o othe r of the two Mexican cities clUe HO so suddenly wiped off of time the map Located 1 mile Mouth south of or Mexico l City It had hud u a lion Ion of about It was the seat o oho of ho tho D Bishopric und and u a thriving manufacturing tUlln turing town lo I was south o of oC southwest t of Mexico City and amid miles distant I stunt Its Hs population was waH The earthquake shocks H of or 1002 continued con con- at Interval for COl four days from fromn January IS IG to January 20 ZO rIme Tho earth ruse rose nut und and full fell In waves an und amid time the structures tures were shaken down us as if IC they were verc building blocks There Thero IK Is no rio record record record rec rec- I ord of a u yawning of the earth hut but o ot of it i tremendous Internal commotion tutu thai disturbs the ou outer er crust A church chulch a i barracks a u. school house nn and J mutiny of the thu moru muru Important public structures of 0 fell rell at nt huh time Tho The people nell led to the lie UI an they hey have o ha on un this occasion but BCD score ret were caught ere ore they could make t IJ un und crushed to death loath in th Lii the ruins o of their homes Crt Crr lurs A i On the time second day of or this visitation crevices appeared In the earth eurth and In Inthe inthe the rocks about the tho town Ono One of tho Limo freaks of this series of earthquake shocks was the change chanse of oC a brunch branch of f the river from a n. considerable stream to a u. dr dry gully The rhe seismic dis dis- disturbance traveled clear to the time coast oven v n shaking and ond causing u u. tidal wave is hs the tho capital capital capi capi- tal of or the time state of or the Guerrera The Tho town IH Is located on the proposed ed route of or the time Mexican Central railroad and Is about 11 miles southwest of Mexico Mex Mex- ico leo City Time The town is one ono of the oldest Spanish settlements It Is noted as tho the place of or assembly of the first congress of or Mexico In iii 1813 three years cars after ottel the tho raising of oC the standard of or tho timo republic by Hidalgo c and nUll two years after his hla death deuth The rho town Is In tho the centre of or an unexplored district abounding h In prehistoric pre pro prehIstorIc historic anti and wonderful caverns Chilapa nn and Is the scat seat of oC the Bishopric of ot It Is Js the place where the time Mexican general was vas shot In 1881 ISEl pf- pf tel or having boen b on tried riot h by court martial and find condemned to death for resistance to the thc government I |