| Show DEATH AND RUIN DEAL BY QUAKE guatemalan CAPITAL IS DESTROYED MANY BEING KILLED WHEN HOMES COLLAPSE residents flee to country in terror when series of quakes level buildings B ul dings persons being homeless still san salva salvador dor C guatemala tin lei nala city capital of the republic of that name has been completely destroy do troa ed cil by an earthquake many any pan perris hiis ancie killed in the disaster di ater some lit in their homes and in the street the colon thearic the thea atio tic liichi was tilled filled with people collapsed there were many casualties among the audience vadious ito and asylums a and lid the prison nete eie badly dani damaged aged and many patients and 1 11 1 prisoner were killed many buildings wrecked the railroad depot dediot sugar mills post office the american Ameil can and british legations gat gilt ions united states consulate and all the lie in the city have been to lc elca aled deep fis fl ures opened in ili the middle of tile llie city inhabitants flee the inhabitants in fit panic fled from the capital moio than persons tire are s tire stock of pro provisions lit in the city is scant and aid is ib requited required promptly the salvadorian Salva dorean government ila has suspended the official new year celebration and entered into in ili sympathy with guatemala r earthquakes hane hae been prevalent pie valent in ili guatemala since the lay day after christmas christinas x ahon tell shocks were throughout the republic public le with clell cadi le current shock the damage lit in guatemala city the capital of the republic lias has gionini more extensive on oil thurs lay day it 11 was as reported that front ten t to 0 forty persons had been killed in tile thu disturbances of the precious pre preN Ious lolis night abile dispatches di pat clies of friday and saturday indicated that SO per cent of gua lemala city had been demoli lied I 1 and that thou thousands ands of persons feie eie lionie leas I 1 es S martial law declared martial artial 11 law had licen been declared and good older was said aid to be arc preat ailing lang guatemala lias has been coil the lie scene of many dl disasters disa astels the results of earthquake 1 since tile settlement of the colilli country rv in ill 1522 there li lime hao me been more moie than fi fiat afta ole oleania anic eruptions and in fit excels 0 of r earthquake the original guatemala city was nas destroyed distro ed in it 1541 and of tile inhabitant ivcic killed by a deluge delude of mater from a nearby volcano which wa was rent by an earthquake the econe capital ww was destroyed by an eard etulle e in 1773 the alie houses of the pie sent capital were built low lit in consequence of the liability to earthquakes guatemala city ila has a population of nearly it is situated on oil a plain at an elevation of 1130 1450 1 feet above sea level in ili the grent square stood lite 1 I 1 old NIce regal palace the cathedral and archbishops arch bishops palace and government of flees the capita is tile the center of the entire republic |
