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Show . H TO ID If iHlllf'O f?T IE M IP I S I dHli ifT 1 Many Lives Are Lost and Large Buildings Are U Destroyed by the Shocks Which Rocked the H City at 4 o'Clock This Morning Number of M Dead is Unknown Homes of Americans Are M Damaged Explosion Adds to the Disaster. fl Mexico City, June 7. An earthquake, earth-quake, at -1 o'clock this morning, destroyed de-stroyed several buildings, including the artillery quarters where seventy soldiers wero buried in the ruins. The dead and wounded number between fifty and seventy. Several persons were killed through tho collapse of the building occupied by the street railway plant. The tracks wero twisted. The shock was followed by an explosion ex-plosion of gas at the armory barracks which added horror to the scone. The oscillations moved from north to south and opened fissures In the streets. The adobe houses crumbled, but the dead In these cannot bo nftm-bored nftm-bored at GO. Tho shock was most severely felt in tho wostern part of the cltyvtbough buildings In the central part of tho capital were rocked percoptlbly. Tho only foreigner killed was a Chinese Warehouses at the central station collapsed and an engineer was killed. A private boarding school building was wrecked -but none of the occupants occu-pants were Injured The Natlonnl Palace had one of Its walls cracked and the keystone of one of the arches was displaced. The ancient Cathedral of Santo Domingo Do-mingo was damaged. Earthquake Recorded In Washington. Washington, Juno 7. Seismographs throughout tho entire country were jarred at an early hour today by the most severe enrthquakes that has been recorded In several years. It Is estimated esti-mated to have occurred four or five thousand miles from Washington, but In what direction could not be ascertained. ascer-tained. Tho National Palace, the walls of which were cracked by tho earthquake, earth-quake, occupies a largo city block and houses mnny of tho government's officers. of-ficers. An Imposing fence extends along tho east of tho plaza mayor with a front of 650 feet. The church of Santo Domingo, which was damaged, stands nt the end of a long narrow street leading to the northwest corner of tle plaza mayor. It was completed In 187G at a cost of 5200,000 and was then considered tho finest structure 1 ntho city It Is still regarded as one of tho best examples of Baroque architecture In Mexico. American Homes Wrecked. El Paso, June 7, A tolegram received re-ceived hero indicates that many of the flno homes in tho American colony in Mexico City were wrecked E N. Brown, president of the Mexican National Na-tional Railway company wires: "Big earthquake at 4 -.GO a. m. Several Sev-eral killed In tho Santa Maria district. dis-trict. My house badly wrecked. All our American frlonds safe." The message came from Mexico city over the telegraph lines Santa Marin! Is a suburb -ot Mexico city. (Continued on Page Eight) EARTHQUAKE WRECKS THE CITY OF MEXICO Continued from Page One.) West Coast Not Shaken. Tucson, Ariz., June 7. Today's earthquake was not felt alon.7 the Southern Pacific down the west coast of Mexico, nor elsewhere In Sonora and northern Sinaloa. Inquiries sent out from the Southern Pacific offices of-fices in this city brought responses that agents were not aware that an earthquake had occurred. SEVENTY-FIVE KILLED. Laredo, Tex , June 7 Seventy-five or more persons are reported to have lost their lives in the city of Mexico as a result of the earthquake early today to-day and serious damage Is said to have been done south of the capital, according accord-ing to messages received on railroad wires here this afternoon. Chaotic conditions are said to prevail throughout through-out a large section of the republic. nn |