The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-18
Meager Reports Received From
Seat of Trouble Indicate
Death List Is Large.
COVERED A WIDE AREA
Shocks Along the Gulf Coast continus
and People Are in Panic-covsrn-
rnent Rushes Troops and Tents
TO the Stricken Districts.

Chilpancingo, Mexico, April 1T.-This
city has been completely destroyed
by an earthquake. The known dead
number eleven and the badly injured
twenty y-seven. The greatest panic pre-
vails 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 des-
truction, e@. ID.
Word has reached here that the city
OF Chilapa, forty-two kilometers to
the northeastward, also has been
destroyed. No details have been re-
ceived as to the number OF dead and
injured. The population OF Chilpan-
cingo is 7,49S, and until the panic in
to which the citizens have been thrown,
abates, It will be impossible to state
the number Of casualties. The popu-
lation OF Chilapa is 1900.
Third Town Probably Wrecked.
No word has been received from
Tixtla, and 1t is feared 1t also has
been destroyed. According to the
movement Of the earthquake Tixtla
would be in it's direct line.
The following message was sent to
the federal telegraph office In Mexico
city from Chilapa:
Our boys are working in public garden.
A terrible panic prevails as the earth con-
tinues to tremble at regular intervals.
Send us tents that we may establish an
Office out In the country.
All communication with the west
coast has been cut off since the mo-
ment OF the first big shock and 1t is
not known to what extent that region
suffered. The nearest large town,
Acapulco, 131 kilometers to the south
west OF this place. has not been heard
from.
Both the volcanoes of Colima and
~. kHA SsfI h
quake, II Is feared, may cause these
mountains to become more active and
destroy much property and many
lives.
CITY of Mexico, April 1.-THE fed
eral telegraph office here has informed
the Associated Press that Sunday
Nights earthquake had interfered with
the working of the wires In all parts or
the republic south of a line drawn from
Acapulco OH the east east to Tampico
on the gulf coast.
From messages received at the tele-
graph office here 1t appears that the
entire southern half Of the republic, in
Guiding the lower country and the
sSInesa" belt, felt the shock.
MESSAGES from as far north as San
I,uis Potosi and south to San Juan
Bautista. in the state of Tabasco. re-
port feeling the shock In varying de-
grees. At no place. however, has a
large loss of life or great destruction or
property been reported except In the
state OF Guerro.
The boundary line Of the northern
zone of the earthquake extended across
the country in a northwesterly direc-
ton for over 400 miles and south over
600 miles.
LARGE Number Reported Dead.
The National Bank of Mexico has re-
ceiyed a telegram saying that 500 lives
were lost in the destruction OF Chilpan-
cingo and Chilapa. In government cir
Cles the report is not credited. 1t is ad-
mitted that both cities were leVeled to
the ground, but ii Is not thought that
the death list will even approximate
500. owing to the fact that the houses
are built OF stone In order to resist
3 earthquake shocks.
The federal authorities here have been
appealed to by the governors OF the dis
tricts Of BraVos and Chilapa for tents,
~ the inhabitants are now living in the
4 open The governor of Guerrero has
dispatched military engineers and
troops to the stricken district, and the
. work of rescue and sanitation is being
carried on in a systematic manner.
Both cities are so isolated that 1t Is
impossible to obtain accurate and rapid
news of the disaster.
Remarkable Record at Berkeley.
Berkeley, Cal. April T.-Perhaps the
most remarkable shock Of earthquake
recorded at the students observatory
ut the University of California was reg
istered on the Omey seismograph at
an early hour Monday morning. The
shock lasted for more than half an
hour and on that account 1t is believed
the local station is much nearer the
center of the shock than the eastern
stations where the duration Of the
quake was much longer.
"It is a we'll founded fact that the
shock Is always shortest at the near
est point to the center of an earth
quake" said Professor Armin o.
Leaschner, director of the students OBJ
servatory and head of the department
of astronomy at the University of Cali