The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-16
SEISMIC SHOCKS
REDUCE MEXICAN
CITIES To RUINS
Chilpancingo and Chilapa
Destroyed and Tixtla's
Fate in Doubt
DEATH ROLL LARGE
Telegram Conveys Report
of the Loss of Five
Hundred Lives
PANIC OF PoPULACE
Earth Continues to Trenble
at Intervals of a
Half-Hour
PANIC OF PoPULAcE

CHIIPANtISGO, Mexico, April To-
This city has been completely destroyed
by earthquake. The known dead
number eleven and the badly injured
tventy-seven. Panic prevails and peo-
pie are fleeing to the open country. The
earth continues to rock at half-hour In
teryals and many minor shocks are
completing The work of destruction be-
gun by the first earthquake.
Word has reached here that the town
of Chilapa, forty-two kilometers to the
No details have been received as to the
number of dead and injured
The population of Chilpancingo is
749S. Until the panic into which the
citizens have been thrown abates it
will be impossible to ascertain the
number of casualties The population
of Chiiapa is $4,000
No word has been received from
Tixtla. and 1t is feared it also has been
destroyed. According to the movements
of the earthquake Tixtla would have
been in its direct line
EARTH STILL TREMBLES
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 continues to tremble at reg
uiar intervals. Send us tents that we
may establish our office out in the
country"
All communication from the west
coast has been cut off since the move
ment of the first big shock, and it is
not known to what extent that region
suffered. The nearest large town, Aca-
pulco, 131 kilometers southwest 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 aud
to. destroy much property and many
lives
VAST REGION AFFECTED
MEXICO CITY, April 15.-The Fed
q a tC4r6 ioPH OilCc mere mas INFORMED
the Associated Press that last nights
earthquake interfered with the work
ing of the wires in all parts of the re-
public south of a line drawn from
Acapulco on the west coast to Tampico
on the Gulf coast
From messages received at the tele-
graph office up to noon 1T appears that
the entire south half of the republic,
including the lower country and the
Mesaba belt, felt the shock last night
Messages from as far north as San
Luis Potosi and south to San Juan
Bautista, in the State of Tabasco, re-
port shocks in varying degrees At no
place, however. has loss of life or great
destruction of property been reported
except in the State of Guerrero. The
boundary line of the northern zone of
the earthquake extended across the
country in a northwesterly direction
for 400 miles and south for more than
6oo
REPORTS FIVE HUNDRED DEAD
The National Bank of Mexico has re-
ceived a telegram saying that 500 lives
were lost at the destruction of chilapa
and Chilpancingo. In governmental
circles the report lis not credited. 1t is
admitted that both cities were leveled
to the ground, but it is not believed
that the death list will even approx
mate 500, owing to the fact that the
houses are built of stone in order to
resist earthquake shocks.
The Federal authorities here have
been appealed to by the governmental
officials of the district and the work of
rescue and sanitation is being carried
on in a systematic manner
Both cities are SO located that IT is
impossible to obtain accurate and rapid
intelligence of the disaster.