The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-19
EARTHQUAKE
DESTROYS TWO
MEXICAN TOWNS
Meager Reports Received From
Seat OF Trouble Indicate
Death List Is Large.
COVERED A WIDE AREA
Checks Along the Gulf Coast consinu'
and People Are in Fanic-covern-
ment Rushcs Troops and Tents
to the Stricken Districts.

Chllpencingo, Mexico. April 17.-This
city has been completely destroyed
bv an earthquake. The known dead
number eleven and the badly injured
twenty-seven. The greatest panic pre-
walls and people are fleeing to the open
The earth continues to rock
at half hour intervals and many minor
shocks are completing the work OF des-
truction.
Word has reached here that the city
of Chilapa, forty-two kilometers TO
the northeastward. also has been
DESTROYED. No details have been re-
eeiVed as to the number OF dead and
injured. The population of Chilpan-
cingo is 7,4sS, and until the panic in
to which the citizens have been thrown,
abates, it will be impossible to state
the number of casualties. The popu-
lation of Chilapa is l,50o.
Third Town Probably Wrecked.
No word has been received from
Tixtla, and it is feared it also has
been destroyed. According to tine
movement of the earthquake TiNtla
would be in its direct line.
The following message was sent to
the federal telegraph office in Mexico
City from Chilapa:
Our boys are working in a public garden.
a terrible panic prevails. as the earth con
l1IlOGS 10 cIIlD dl lS6dlo - Si's
Send us tents that we may establish an
office out in the country.
All communication with the west
coast has been cut off since the mo-
ment of the first big shock and it is
not known to what extent that region
suffered. The nearest large town,
Acapulco, 131 kilometers to the south
west of this place, has not been heard
from.
Both the volcanoes Of Colima and
Jorullo are in this region. The EARTH
quake, it is feared, may cause these
mountains to become more active and
destroy much property and many
lives.
Nearly Half of Republic Affected.
CITY of Mexico, April 1.-THE fed
eral telegraph office here has Informed
the Associated Press that Sunday
nights earthquake had interfered With
the working of the wires in all parts OF
the republic south of a line drawn from
Acapulco on the east east TO Tamplco
on the gulf coast.
From messages received at the tele-
graph office here it appears that the
entire southern half of the republic, in
cluding the lower country and the
mesa" belt, felt the shock.
Messages from as far north as San
Luis Potosi and south to san Juan
Ralltista. in the state of Tabasco. re-
mort lCellllS Nv lpS II ~ 'tS ~
grees. AT no place, however, mas a
large loss of life or great OF
property been reported except in the
state OF Guerro.
The boundary line of the northern
zone of the earthquake extended across
the amt in a northWesterly dlrec-
tion for over 400 miles and south over
eco miles.
LARGE Number Reported Dead.
D., .NInrtnn ho c 70
| ceivea a telegram saying that SEQ lives
| were lost in the destruction of Chilpan-
| lingo and Chilapa. In government cir
,les the report is not credited. 1T is adj
| mitted that both cities We're leNeled to
| the ground, out it is not thought that
the death list will even approximate
| 500, owing TO the fact that the houses
are built OF stone in order 20 resist
earthquake shocks.
The federal authorities here have been
appealed TO by the governors of the dis
tricts of Braves and Chilapa tur tents,
as the Inhabitants are NOW l1Vl9g IN the
open. The governor of Guerrero has
dispatched military engineers and
troons TO the stricken district, and the
work of rescue II sanitation is being
carried on in a Systematic inner
Both cities are so isolated that it is
inpossibie to obtain accurate and rapid
news of the disaster.
Remarkable Record at Berkeley.
Berkeley, Cal, April 1T.-Perhaps the
most remarkable shock of earthquake
recorded at the students observatory
at the University of California was reg
istered on the Omey seismograph al
an early our Monday morning. The
shock lasted for more thar half an
hour and on that account it is believed
the local station is much nearer the
center of the shock than the eastern
stations, where the duration Of the
quake was much longer.
ut is a we'll founded fact that the
shock is always shortest at the near
est point to the center Of an earth
quake" said Professor Armin o
Leaschner, director Of the students OBJ.
servatory and head of the department
of astronomy at the University of Cali.
fornia.