Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-05-09 | Page 7 | Eight Hundred Bodies in Ruins

about IS miles east of San Jose, alsi suffered severely from the earthquake reports reaching here Indicating thai nearly 100 persona were killed. Largt fissures that have opened up In Car tago province have given addltlona cause for alarm. Ten thousand per sons are homeless, and severe raliii and lack of food and drinking wat are responsible for much suffering. 1 Is Impossible to provide shelter foi the people, who are huddled together In a pitiable condition. The ceremony attending the inaug oration of Rlcardo Jlmlnez as proai dent of Costa Rica took place tod.u on one of the plazas In San Jose, on Ing to the fact that the people fearo to enter the government building. EIGHT HUNDRED BODIES IN RUINS SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, .ilay 8. Up to noon today 800 bodies had been taken from tho ruins of the houses overthrown In the earthquake lost Wednesday at Cartage. The estimate of the dead last evening placed tho number at 1500. hut It Is possible thin will be exceeded. Large forces, which have gone to Cartago from San Jose and other points, ore now engaged In the work of rescue, and even today several living liv-ing persons were taken from under the plies of stones and timbers w'.iere dwellings once stood. The number of sick and Injured can not be counted, many of them having been removed to adjoining towns anl villages, and since the disaster scores have died from their Injuries. Dr. Boeanegra, the Guatemalan representative rep-resentative to the central American court of Justice, wa? demented when removed from the. ruins the day after the earthquake, but h is now recover recov-er Inc Phywlciiily, he wan slightly Injured. In-jured. ? ParaJso, a village of 2.000 people.