Morgan Post | 1910-12-23 | Page 2 | Island Disappears

ISLAND disappears I 1 SMALL DOT ON THE MAP NEAR SAN SALVADOR VANISHES FROM SIGHT terrible tragedy follows follow series of earthquake shocks seventeen families or about ninety persons losing their lives new orleans A dispatch from port I 1 limon costa rica says that a small island inland off the coast of san salvador disappeared on thursday december 15 following a series of earthquakes find and it Is believed seventeen famil families les or about ninety people lost their lives the dispatch adds that sail salvador was repeatedly shaken by earthquakes qu aceb last week and the series ot of thursday night was especially severe the people on the little island ilo bango were observed giving signals of distress late thursday afternoon says the dispatch but bo bata talise iise of the excitable condition of the people on the salvadorian Salva dorean shore it was out of 0 I 1 tho the question at that hour to send them relief the earth shocks continued until past midnight thursday and friday morning the island had entirely feared