The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-17
DEATH LIST
 AUGMENTED Reports From Disaster
 Meagre. DIAZ'S HOME DESTROYED Ayalta Falls Victim to Violence
 of Earthquake. Twelve Persons are Reported Killed at ChiIpancingo, While Tixtla Has the Same Number, With
 ChiIapa Fourteen.

City of Mexico, April 16.--According to the latest information from various
 points in Southern Mexico, which are
 as yet meagre. the death list. as
 result of the recent earthquake, will
 list of injured will total ninety three, although when complete reports are received, 1t is expected that both lists will be greatly augmented. At Chilpancingo incomplete reports show twelve persons dead and thirty | wounded; Chilapa reports fourteen
 dead and thirty-n!ne wounded; Tixtla reports twelve dead and twenty-four wounded.
 Owing to the remoteness of many small towns in the affected region, 1t will be some days before complete re- ports of the disaster will be received. Heavy earthquake shocks continued on the west coast until about o'clock this morning. Late news from the area of greatest destruction of the recent earthquake shows that the devastation wrought was greater than at first sup- posed Besides the destruction of the cities of Chilpancingo and Chilapa. 1t Is now reported that the city of Tixtla between the two cities above named, and containing about the same popu- lation as Chilpancingo, was also lev eled to the ground and messengers from the coast who have reached Chill pancingo say that the towns of Ayutla and Ometepec have been wiped off the map.s
 Ayutla is about fifty miles south of Chilpancingo in the State of Guerro and some twenty miles west of the Port of Acapulco. It Is one of the most historic towns In the republic. for 1t was here that the plan of Ayutla" was conceived which caused the rev. olution which finally made Mexico a real republic and developed the talents of a young officer named Pqrfrio Diaz. destined later to be one of the great est> men in this country. The popu- lation of Ayutla Is small and 1t is thought that the loss of life at this place will be insignificant
 Ometepec Is further south near the
 boundary line of the State of Guerro
 and Oaxaca. It is town of about 1000 inhabitants and 1t is feared that the loss of life here may be heavier than at Ayutla- Tlapa- a town eighty miles west of Chilpancingo and near
 the border line of the State of Oavaca. Is also reported to have been wiped out. The report from Chilpancingo says that the whole of the west coast from Acapulco south to Calina Cruz, the Pacific terminal of the Tehuante- pre- National Railway. Mexicos new
 trans continental road, which was opened with elaborate ceremonies last January by President Diaz. has been badly damaged.
 Owing to the remoteness of these points and to the fact that wire and rail communication Is very poor, news from the stricken district to this capi- tai comes very slowly. But one wire
 is working to Chilpancirgo and that rather spasmodicalIy.
 The telegraph office is accepting mes
 sages to this point only on the condi- tion that they will be sent subject to
 delay. Thousands of messages are now on hand at the main office of the Fed
 eral Telegraph. and 1t Is said that com
 mercial business Is forty-eight hours
 behind time.
 Through the courtesy of the officers
 of the Federal Telegraph Company, the
 Associated Press was given the wire
 today at noon while 1t was working
 through to Chilpancingo. The ques- tion as to the number of casualties was
 put to the operator, but he declared that up to the time he knew nothing beyond the fact that he had seen about
 a dozen dead bodies and knew of some thirty wounded
 A dispatch to The Fl Pals, a daily paper which Is the organ of the Catho llC NnuTCH III IulS Cilyt lfOIH thS DiSilOp of Chalapa, confirms the report of the total destruction wrought in that inn mediate neighborhood. Fourteen peo- pie are reported to have been killed in | one house and the number of wounded | Is given at thirty
 In the city of Tixtlab it Is reported | that 100 dead bodies have been taken | from the ruins and that a great num- Der of wounded are being cared for in | temporary structures erected in the | open country. The operator at Chill | pancingo says that the four men in l the office have been working without relief for forty eight hours exposed l to the weather. He reports that the | State Government has provided tents
 for the homeless people and that the Governor has taken every means of | providing for the comfort of the in | habitants
 Up to o'clock this morning the shocks continued with more or less | severity in the vicinity of Chilpancingo. completing the work of destruction | and destroying many of the important | public buildings of the city. The new
 municipal palace which was erected in | place of its predecessor, which was | leveled by an earthquake four yearS | ago, was almost destroyed by these last
 shocks. The hospitals, schools and the | jail are in ruins. The prisoners were
 
 | are now incarcerated in a barracks | building which is yet standing. The sick were removed from the hospitals in safety and are now being cared for | in a temporary structure erected out | in the open country. Troops are guard | ing the ruins and military engineers | are now inspecting sucn buildings as | are standing, with a view of reporting
 as to whether they should be razed or | reinforced.
 Up to this time the total number of deaths reported is thirty-e'g ght and the
 wounded ninety-three. but in view of later reports, which tend to greatly magnify the extent of the catastrophe
 it Is thought that these figures will | fall far short of the real number of fa-
 talities. These. 1t Is feared will nevor | be accurately known, as many of the
 dead are of the poorer classes living in | small settlements
 It is reported that Acapulco is partly | submerged from the waves which l dashed over the breakwater. Although
 not a breath of wind was stirring on 1 the night of the first shock when the