The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-04-19
TOWNS IN mexico
ruined BY QUAKES
CHILPANCINGO AND CHILAPA
ARE DESTROYED BY FURIOUS
SEISMIC SHOCKS.
Death List May Be Large-Eieven
Known Victims at Former City
Fears for Tixtla-Southern Half of
Republic Shaken.

Chilpancingo, Mexico, April 49,
This city has been completely de
stroyed by one of the most furious
earthquakes that has ever visited this
| section. Up to this hour the known
dead number IL and the badly in
| jured q.
Among the dead is the wife OF
Postal Inspector leopold Lopez
Guerra and the child of Jose Aleman
the postmaster of the city. Jose Lo
PEI Martinez, manager of the federal
telegraph office, was struck on the
head by a block of stone and badly
injured.
The utmost panic prevails every
where and people are fleeing to the
open country. The earth continues
to rock at half-hour intervals and
many minor shocks are completing
the work of destruction of the first
earthquake.
Another Town Destroyed.
All telegraph communication with
the outside world ceased shortly after
1880 o'clock Sunday night when the
first shock was felt. The telegraph
operators have installed temporary
quarters in an open square and are
working with the sky as a roof.
Word has reached here that the
town of Chilapa, AZ kilometers to the
northeastward, has also been de-
dnfo hnQn
received as to the number of the dead
and wounded, but it is feared that the
number will be large.
Suffered Four Years Ago.
This city is the capital of the state
of Guerrero and four years ago was
visited by an earthquake which killed
and wounded many of it's inhabitants
and destroyed a large part of the
town. The population of the town is
7,49S and until the panic into which
the citizens have been thrown abates
1t will be impossible to state accur-
ately to just what extent the recent
earthquake has decreased it.
The population of the City of Chi
lapa is 10000 and that place is the
home of the bishop of the Catholic
iastical affairs of the entire region.
No word has been received from the
bishops palace and it is not known at
this time whether or not he was
victim of the shock.
Fears for Tixtla.
at <xf hill
pancingo and Chilapa is located the
city of Tixtla This is prosperous
and progressive community and as no
word has been received from that
place, it is feared that it also has
been destroyed. According to the
movements of the earthquake, TiXtla
would be in it's direct line, and if the
city has escaped, 1t has been only by
a miracle.
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 big town, AGA
pulco, which is 131 kilometers to the
southwest of this place has not been
heard from.
Death List May Be Large.
City of Mexico, April 16.-Word
from the center of the great destruc-
ton of the earthquake Sunday night
was first given to this capital after
repeated trials made during Sunday
night and Monday morning to estab-
lish communication with the strick-
en- districts. AS yet wires to the Sec
ton are working badly and no exact
estimate of the number of the dead
has been received. 1t is believed,
however, that the total death list will
be large.
There were no deaths in Mexico
City and beyond damaged plaster and
cracked and fallen walls, the prop
erty loss will be insignificant. Owing
to the long duration of the shock this
is considered most remarkable and is
only accounted for by the peculiar
swell-like motion of the earthquake,
which was regular and from east to
west
loh llCoSd6CO lCSClNCu az Tic JSlc-
graph Office here it appears that the
entire southern half of the republic,
including the lower country and the
Mesa belt felt the shock of Sunday
night
Report of 500 Dead.
The Banco Nacional (National Bank
of Mexico) has received telegram
saying that 500 lives were lost in the
destruction of Chilpancingo and Chill
apa. The telegram adds that both
cities were completely destroyed. In
governmental circles the report is not
credited. 1t is admitted that both
cities were leveled to the ground, but
1t is not thought that the death list
will even approximate 500 owing to
the fact that the houses are massive
affairs built of stone in order to re-
sist earthquake shocks.
Andean Peaks Spout Fire.
Buenos Ayres, April 16.-Eruptions
are in progress among the Andean
volcanoes in the territory of Rio Ne