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Show MANY ARE DEAD IN EARTH SHOCK Motion City, Jan. 4. Scores of persons have been killed In a violent earth ".ike which occurred in many ' parlg ( Mexico last night. Tho center cen-ter ot the disturbance Is believed to ,'iaic liccii near the. elcnno of Orl-zubu. Orl-zubu. Incomplete press reports Indicate' that the slate of Vera CrUI suffered more than any other Beet Ion, although seismic disturbances were felt throughout the entire republic. Advices Ad-vices from Cordoba soy that thirty dead have already been accounted for 1 in Sail Juan Cosromatepec, where ninny houses were destroyed. There I are unconfirmed reports of a simlla catastrophe in Huatusco. At Jalapa, further north, fifty victims of the earthquake have been counted, Including numerous dead. Lack of communication with tho 1 other small (owiib and vIH,ib"s in the' theatre of the disturbance mak'i etcu an approximate estimate of the cas-I cas-I unities impossible. The earthquake caused great nl-1 arm In the large cities. Marine disturbances dis-turbances have occurred off Vera. Crai City nnd there were some cao- ualtles there although tho number Is 1 not known, with considerable destruction destruc-tion of property. From San Juan Coseomnctpec it Is .reported that the shocks still contln- ued Sunday. Information serured from the guir-ernment guir-ernment observatory at Tecubaya ' shows that there were three distinct j shocks, the strength of which decen-j trallied the Instruments. The first) shock which occurred at 9:45 o'clock I Saturday evening, lasted five minutes. min-utes. The second at 1025 p. m. win very fcrief but of terrific intensity and w;:a nccompanled by terrlfylii.' subterranean noises. The thl'd shock at I 1 nl o'clock was not dls-cernable dls-cernable except by the seismograph. The panic Ui the capital among iho Ignorant classes was indescribable. Many of the people fled from their I homes and flocked to the churches. The Indians in the suburbs huriUJ to the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe From Toluca, Cuernavaca ai d Puebla came similar stories of panic. Slight damage was done to homes Panic reigned in various cities and villages In the state of Veia Crui, where the people left their hone's and spent the night in the streets The damage in Mexico city was I limited to cracks in the larger build 1 ings. There were no deaths nnd BOM of the inhabitants was Injured. While the government observatory j has not decided what caused the shocks reports from Cordoba, s'ate of 1 Vera Cruz, assert that they were due 'to the volcano Orizaba. The two huge volcanos near M:xl- 1C0 City have shown no signs o' die-1 1 turbance. The shocks were felt heavily uui-ong uui-ong the towns along "the edge of the valley of Mexico, while the can.'al, which is the center of the valley, 0738 not affecTed severely. |