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Show VOLCANO DESTROYS SALVA00R.CAP1 SIX OTHER TOWNS IN CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLIC REPORT. ED TO BE IN RUINS. Citizens Camp in Parks in Downpour-of Downpour-of Rain Following Destruction of Their Homes by Earthquake or Volcanic Eruption. San Miguel, Salvador. San Salvador, Salva-dor, the capital of the republic of Salvador, Sal-vador, with a population of more tlmu 60.00U, has been totally destroyed. No details as to the manner in which the city was destroyed have been re-ceived, re-ceived, but it undoubtedly was the rt. suit of an earthquage or vulcanic eruption. Residents of San Salvador are camping in the streets and parks. At the time the report was sent it had been raining heavily for five hours. An operator who reached the eilce of the destroyed zone reported tli;lt San Salvador was in ruins suid that everything within a radius of thirty miles had been destroyed by the earth-quake. earth-quake. A dispatch from Tegucigalpa, Hun. duras, says that in addition to Hit wiping out of San Salvador, the towns Quezaltipeque, Nejapn, Suoliirhnto, Paisnal, Armenios and Mejicanos alju were destroyed. Mejicanos was a suburb su-burb of San Salvador. More than 200 persons have lost their lives in San Salvador in the last two years as the result of earthquakes. earth-quakes. The. city, which was founded about 1525, is located about 120 miles south east of the town of Guatemala and is on a small stream which flows into the Pacific ocean. The city is connectwl by rail with Acajutla aud. La Libertad and contains a large university, tin-national tin-national palace, the national library and . astronomical onservatory find a botanical garden. The population of the capital is 64,000. |