Show SEVERE earthquake CITY OP OF CARTAGO COSTA RICA IS NEARLY WIPED OUT BY SEISMIC disturbance eight hundred hondred bodies have been taken from the ruins and it Is believed the loss of life may exceed fifteen hundred san jose costa rica eight bun dred bodies have been recovered from the ruins of cartago which waa was visit ed by severe earthquake shocks on may lay 4 and 5 the estimate of the dead Is placed at 1500 but it la is poa pos elble sible this may be exceeded the num ber of sick nick and injured cannot be counted many of them having been removed to adjoining towns and vil lages and since the disaster scores have died from their injuries san jose was also shaken some of the buildings being damaged but no deaths occurred here some persons were slightly injured chocka also were felt at several points in nit nicaragua near tho the costa rica I 1 ler cartago capital of cartago province lies at the foot of imazu volcano about fourteen miles irom froin san jose it has an estimated population of and Is the seat of the central american peace court cartago was the capital of the country until 1823 it has suffered frequently from earth quakes and was kirtly destroyed in 1803 1825 1841 1851 and 1854 |