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Show VILLAGES1 WIPED 9J i. TempestandEarthquake Visits Northern Morocco Ceuta, Morocco. Jan. 22. A terrific tempest accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain, raged for five hours last night over northern Morocco. There were no casualties in Ceuta, but reports brought in by native runners run-ners from the Phmara territory declare de-clare that several small villages have been overwhelmed and many persona killed or injured. - Several American colliers and supply sup-ply ships are anchored in Negro Bay, between Ceuta and Tetuan, awaiting the arrival of the American battleships. battle-ships. No damage to these vessels has been reported. It Is impossible to ascertain as-certain whether the landslides to the south are due to earthquakes or to inundation. in-undation. The lower portion of the town of Ceuta was inundated. The foregoing communication cor-roberates cor-roberates the message received last night from Tetuan saying a severe earthquake shock In the region south of Tetuan had wiped out several villages vil-lages and that hundreds of people were reported killed or injured. Ceuta and Tetuan are on the Moroccan Mor-occan coast directly soath of Gibraltar. They are about twenty miles apart, one to the north and the other south of Negro Bay where the American battleships bat-tleships now In tho Mediterranean aro to rendezvous. prior to sailing to Hampton Roads on the last lap of their round-the-world cruise. |