Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
QUAKE DAMAGE GROWS.
Several Additional Towns Reported
Destroyed With Loss Of Life.

City Of Mexico, April II. - Heavy
earthquake shocks continued on the
west coast until o'clock this morning.
Late news from the area of greatest
destruction in the recent earthquake
shows that the devastation wrought
\ was greater than at first supposed. Be
sides the destruction of the cities Of
Chilipancingo and Chilapa it is now
reported that the city OF Tixtla, be-
tween the two cities above named and
containing about the same popula ton
as Chi1pancingo. was also levelled to
the ground, and messengers from the
coast who have reached Chilpancingo
( say that, the towns of Ayutla and Om-
setepec have been wiped off the map.
{ Ayutla is about fifty miles south of
4 eChilpancingo in the state of Guerrero
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 revolution which finally made Mex
leo a real republic and developed the
talents of young officer named Per-
.lfirio Diaz, destined later to be one OF
the greatest men in this country. The
population of Ayuta 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 states of Guer-
zero and Oaxaca. It is a town of about
1000 people, andEit is feared that the
loss of life here may be heavier than
aat Ayutla.
Elapa, town eighty miles west OF,
9Chilpancingo and near the border line
of the state of Oaxaca, is also reported
HI have been wiped out. The report
from Chilpancingo says that the whole
Of the west coast from Acapulco south
TO Sali11a Cruz, the Pacific terminal OF
the Tehuantepec National railway,
Mexico's new transcontinental road
which was opened with elaborate cere-
monies last January by President
Diaz. has been badly damaged.
owing to the remoteness of these
.noints 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 Chill
pancingo and that rather spasmodi-
cally.
Thru the courtesy of the officers of
the Federal Telegraph Company The
Associated Press was given the wiz
Yesterday at noon while it was work.
ing thru to Chilpancingo. The ques-
ton 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
dozen dead bodies and that there were
some twenty wounded.
a dispatch to Ell Pals, a daily paper
which is the organ of the Catholic
church in this city, from the bishop to
Chilapa, confirms the report of the total
destruction wrought in that immediate
Fourteen are reported
to have been killed in one house and
the number Of wounded is given as
thirty nine.
In the city Of Tixtla 1t is reported
that twelve dead bodies have been TAX
en- from the ruins, and that twice that
number Of wounded are being cared for
IN Temporary structures erected in the |
open country. The operator at Chill |
says that the four men in the |
office have been working without re-
LIEF for forty eight hours exposed 20
the inclemency of the weather. He
reports that the state government has
tents for the homeless peo-
pie, and that the governor has taken |
every means to provide for the COM
tort OF the inha bitants.
Up to O'clock yesterday morning
The shocks continued with more or less
severity in the vicinity OF Chilpancinso.
completing the work of destruction and
destroying many of the most important
public buildings of the city.
Up to this time the total number OF