The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
Disaster Magnifl'd B Each
 Succeeding Intelligence
PROMINENT RESIDENTS DEAD
Miraculous Escape of 71 School ChlI- dren-Roof Falls-None Hurt. Complete Destruction of
 Towns in Country.

City of Mexico. April 17.-Owing to the great difficulty in establishing communi- cation with the cities situated in the re- zion of the greatest devastation wrought by the recent earthquake, details are coming to this city very slowly. Each succeeding intelligence magnifies instead of diminishing the, extent of the disaster. From tht latest reports II Is now learned that the earth is still quakng In the region which was seyerly affected, and the last shock occurred as late as noon today. In the list of known dead which now totals 90, and the injured which will approximate 300. are many names of Mex jeans. prominent in the official and social life of the region. So far the name of no American or other foreigner has appeared in the meagre list of injured and dead. as sent to this city, although many are resi- dents of the district afflicted, being eu- gagged in mining and agricultural pursuits.
 Remarkable Story.
 One of the most remarkable stories of the miraculous escapes from death from this earthquake, or perhaps any other, came from Santa Julia today. Tn that colony Is located the Salescno college, a school for children. The building was a new structure and supposed to be earth quake proof. When the big shock came Sunday night over a hundred children were asleep in the dormitories. Thirty five of these. together with the teachers of the institution, succeeded in leaving the building before the second-story roof fell. When the terrified teachers counted their charges and found that seventy were missing. they immediately impro- vised rope ladders and ascended to where they believed they would have turned to search for the remainder of the misflng Pmp,lS pniis e,s sss6 Afseslss tst rsd t .se NS of tlJe f.ina and found tie terriffed uNisa- ren }clnging to- beams and rafters. Not one( was even injured. The roof, in fal- ins1 had so rested on the beams that an or,eln space was left over the place where thej little ones had sought refuge. The children were safely carried to the ground.
 Destruction of Ayutis.
 irhe following telegram bearing an A faulpco date has been received:
 f'News has reached this port of the cbmplete destruction of Ayutla
 4 "1he civil hospital collapsed but not bne of the patients were injured. The prisons, one for men and one for won en, both fell, but the prisoners were re- moved.
 "The factories are all in ruins, ard the thousands of laborers will suffer tre- mendously.
 "'rne postoffice, telegraph office and barracks were all totally destroyed"
 Word from Chilpancingo says that Gov ernor Cullen of the state of Guerrero is in poor health, but he is out among the sufferers doing all in his power to re- leve the sunering people and giving orders where needed.
 In Tixta seven people were taken from the ruins dead today and many injured were removed. In Tixtla eight dead and forty injured are reported in Ayutla, nine dead and about fifty injured. In Tixtla the authorities have ordered the church to be closed as there Is danger or It's talling any minutes. The people are not even allowed to pass the street on which it fronts.
 Houses Fall. In Huamixtian the cathedral fell and the houses of Messrs. Sanchez and Fed erico Savcdo and the government offices and the official schools are in ruins, the rest Of the residences are more or less damaged.
 In Techan and Tlatpa nearly all tho houses fell fortunately nobody was hurt.
 The severest loss resulting from tho earthquake shock i'll the vicinity of Mex
 
 lcal Clay Manufacturing company. at It's plant in Santa Julia. This large prop erty is owned and controlled by an Amer ican company. 1t is estimated that their loss will approximate S5o,o00.
 A careful survey of Mexico City has slown that the damage sustained was heavier than at first supposed. In soma instances buildings were shaken from their foundations and it has been neces- sary to prop them up. In many in- stances adobe wa-is two feet in thick ness have been cracked through. Pri- vate residences suffered severely from a general scaling and cracking off of plas- ter. No individual. however. suffered heavy loss.
 News of the death of the first Amer ican who was killed fin the recent earth quake reported at the office of the As sociated Press. She was Sonora Inez Bonila of Chilpancingo. wife of the for mer secretary to the governor of Guerre- ro Her maiden mama or hfrthnIa co,tlA