The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19
S0CORRO IN PANIC
People Are Leaving by Rail aud
in Wagons.
Two Thousand Are Camping
Ont in Tents.
EARTH NEVER STILL.
The Rocking Has Been COntinu-
Gus Since July 2.
Every Residence and Business
Block Is Damaged.
SUI FERNG ADDED TO
BY the Heaviest Rainfall Ex-
perienced in 90 Years.
The Rocking Has Been COntinu-
Gus Since July 2.
Every Residence and Business
Block Is Damaged.
SUI FERNG ADDED TO
BY the Heaviest Rainfall Ex-
perienced in 90 Years.

Albuquerque. n. NJ. July 1e-Ref-
usees in large numbers are arriving
IN this city from Socorro, n. NJ. where
great damage has been wrought by
succession of daily earthquakes since
July 2. In that time not an hour has
passed without one or more quakes.
The center of the disturbance is a
zone 80 miles long by about 10 miles
wide, running from the Ladrone
mountains southeast through Socorro.
san Antonio and San Marcial. This
side of the belt the shocks have been
hardly felt Each one is preceded by
a loud rumbling like heavy thunder.
which can be heard approaching from
the northwest before it reaches So
corro.
senor Baca, Of socorro, until re-
Gently district attorney, is in the city
with his family. He says that peo-
pie are leaving on every train and
those who can not ride on the rail-
road are leaving by wagon. About
2. 600 people are camping out IN
tents and no one dares to go indoors.
Practically every residence and busi-
ness block in the town has been ire
parably damaged.
There has been much distress
among the people who are camping
I'm the open. as heavy rains have
fallen i'm the last two days one being
the heaviest for fifty years
"The noise and quakes are fright
full. said Mrs. Leeson, a refugee from
SocorTo. Il have experienced earth
quakes In Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. but never anything so sickening
as these prolonged rOckings and
ierkings of the earth at Socorro.
Water placed in a bowl will show
continuous vibration between the
greater shocks showing thar the earth
is never still Not house in town is
safe to enter and ehimneys and walls
topple with each recurring tremor."
Worst Believed to Be Over.
Santa Fe. \. M. July 19.-SeveraI
slight tremblers occurred at SOcorro
last night. No serious damage was
done. The panic among the inhabit-
ants is subsiding. as it is believed the
worst of the earthquakes has passed
Most of the people of SOcoFro are
still camping in the open. The action
of Mayor Bursum, who at his own eX-
pense is doubling the capacity of the
city's water supply to meet any fire
emergency. is restoring confidence q s
he keeps the men al work even during
the frequent earthquake shocks.
Many of the refugees at Santa Fe
and Albuquerque haye signifed their
intention of returning to SOcOrro next
week If there are no more violent
manifestations by that time. A care
full search of the lava fields to the
south east if the city has failed to re-
veal any new hot springs or evidences
of volcanic action reported. The en-
tire property damage at SocOrro will
not exceed $1,000. as only the old
adobe houses have suffered. In sur
rounding towns. the property damage
salso slight owing to the cheap char
acter of the buildings affected and the
absence of costly structures.
The natives who were praying in the
streets have become uuieted.
The shocks are undoubtedly caused
bv slides of mountain masses in the
Afagdalena and Socorro ranges caused
by recent heavy rains.