Show DEATH AND RUIN DEALT BY QUAKE guatemalan CAPITAL IS DE MANY BEING KILLED WHEN HOMES COLLAPSE residents flee flea to country in terror when series of quakes level buildings persons persona being hom homeless less ran tin salvador Sahn dor city capital of tile rep republic thIle of that name hns hm been completely destroyed by nil earthquake muni many jiri per kins lons were killed in the dig nAter some in their homes filid others in III the street tile colon alii which was filled willi allt people collapsed there were MIO many casualties aliling alil ing the various hospI tills and und the prisons were chiv baldly dalli aged eniy many patients pil lentH and prisoners arl vere killed 1 I 1 lied many 13 buildings wrecked the railroad pilot sti SUKHI gilt office the american and british iv ir gallons tlona halted staten consulate cons unil nil fill tho churches in ili the city alt ii bisno a ve been deep fissures opened lit in the middle of tins tile city I 1 inhabitants flee the tha I 1 tit tits lit in panic fled from olm capital marlinn persons tiro aro homeless the stock of f provisions provIs lons in the hie city Is tind IIII 1111 Is required promptly the government 1 ling hns tho official vow now year colo brat brnt loii oil und and entered into illo lit in with 1 have licen been prevalent lit in guatemala since tile lay after christ inns when lien shocks wro were gelleri ghunt tile rel lublic with eiichi cite recurrent current fi shock the damage in III chuate mala city the ho capital of the lie republic IMS has grown anoro extensive ott on thursday it was reported that lint from ten tell to forty persons had been killed tit in the disturbances of the previous night whilo dispatches alt of friday mid find satur lay indicated that 80 per cent of gun teni alit city lind been demolished and that thousands of oc persons persona were lionie less e 14 s martial law declared lav had beep been declared nid and good order was said to bo be guatemala lina ims been the scene of many disasters tile results re of earthquakes Sinew the settle ineat of the country lit in 1522 there have leen eon more than fifty volcanic eruptions find lit in excess of earthquake the original guatemala city wild destroyed lit in 1541 and of tile the inhabitants were killed by a deluge of water front from n nearby vol yol cono cano chic was rent by nn nil earthquake the second capital was destroyed by an all earthquake lit id 1773 the houses of the present capital were were built low lit in consequence of tile tho liability to earthquakes city tins fins it 11 population of nearly it Is situated on oil 11 plain nl at nil elevation of 1450 feet above sen sea level in ili the great square stood the old palace the cathedral find arch archbishops bishops and government offices 4 the capital Is the center of the entire republic 1 |