Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-04-25
WHOLE WORLD
Was In the Throes Of Hugh Earth
quake Last Week.
THOUSANDS KILLED.


ming Storms and the Sitting Odor
Burning Sulphur. Authorities Try
ing to Suppress Real Loss Of Life.
Dispatches received from four con-
tinents indicated that the whole
world has been in the throes OF a re-
markable series of earthquakes.
More than 1000 lives have been
loss in Merico and many towns have
been swallowed in the rents Of the
earth.
Violent earthquakes are reported
in the Russian trans-Caspian terri
tory in Asia; in Southern Spain, in
Tyrol and throughout Turkey and
Syria. The startling eruption of a
volcano in Chile is accompanied by
darkness, lightning, storms and the
sitting odor of burning sulphur.
A dispatch from Ell Paso, Texas,
says more than a thousand persons
were killed in the earthquake which
devastated the territory southwest
Of Mexico City.
The list of dead may be increased
greatly, according to late dispatches
received Friday from the affected
country. New volcanoes have brok-
en- out and the burning lava has set
IRE to the forests and people and live
stock are fleeing for their lives.
Scores Of towns lying between Mex
leo City and the Pacific ocean have
been wiped out by the earthquakes
In many instances the earth opened
q nd In thn NI
| swallowed whole villiges
The greatest damage done be-
tween the City of Mexico and the Col
ina volcano, which seemed to be the
starting point of the disturbance CO.
lima Is now in violent eruption, the
most severe in the history of Mexico,
and no estimate can now be placed
on the extent of the damage done or
yet to be done.
One OF the most alarming features
is the indication that there has been
a large loss of life in the City of Mex
leo, fact which the authorities are
trying to suppress. Efforts to com
municate with the authorities have
failed. but privat advices to COM
mercial houses say that the loss of
life has been heavy. but that no an
nouncement would be made by the
officials.
Messages received at the town of
Jaurez, in Mexico, just across the
| river from Ell Paso, say that when all
of the dead in the scores of towns
| and Villages to the southwest have
been enumerated, the list of dead
will far exceed 200.
This series Of earthquakes was the
| most severe in the history of the
/ nfrv or ha
| extend from Mexico City to Colima
but there was a great disturbance OH
the bottom OF the gulf of Mexico.
Fishing boats returning from the
red snapped banks report that they
were overtaken by most remarkable
storms in which cross tides attack ed
them, water spouts appeared, and
! great columns of steam shot from the
ocean. Several of these boats were
made so hot by the steam from the
sea that ice which their fish were
packed with, was melted.
All of the railroad lines in the
southern and western part of Mexico
have been practically destroyed. Ir
scores of places the roadbed was car
ried completely away.
This has interfered greatly will
the execution of the government
measures of relief. The bishop o
Chilapa telegraphs that the destruc
tion OF Chilapa was almost complete
that in many instances whole fami
lies were killed and that the need o
relief was urgent.
The tidal wave which swept owe
the town of Acapulo did great dam
age. The tigal waZe led two mete
rologists to believe that the earth
quake was of worldwide dimensions