New-York tribune., 1908-03-28
fBv III. Associated Press. J

Mexico City. March 27.-Chilapa, a town Of 10.
Go inhabitants IN the State of Guerrero, has been
shaken by earthquake and burned.
The shocks two in number, occurred early last
evening and were followed by fires, which started
in dozen places among the tumbling buildings,
and caused a conhagration which swept the town
TIE loss of life and property damage are prob
lematicaL
town was destroyed by the shocks and fire, ana
that the inhabitants fed from the city
Governor Damian Flores the chief executive
of the State of Guerrero, who IS at present in
this CITY received 9 o'clock this evening the
first official advces from the town Of Chilapa, said
10 have been destroyed in the earth shock last
night
The message TO the Governor says that while a
number of buildings in the town were levelled, no
lives were lost. The police quarters and the May
or's office were destroyed, and the jail was badly
damaged Great fssures were made in the streets
and open fields. In the neighboring town OF ONE
tepec the Jail destroyed and thirty prison.
ers escaped Troops guarding the public
buildings that are standing in Chlapa but good
order prevails
Later returns from ChiIapa show. however. that
the dispatch received by Governor Flores was con-
servative.
,T,,tr+,, four shocks hav. been recorded in the
last tventv-four hours by the seismograph at
the national observatory at Tahuyuca Most OF
these shocks, however, were tmperceptible except
to the delicate needle of the instrument
dronnad dead from heart disease last night in the
7fb,rcfo Theatre at Vera Cruz, in a panic which
followed the earthquake. News OF the panic
reached Mexico City tonight. When the shock
was felt the audience rushed for the exits. Many
persons were severely orulseuI ou' "0i'7 wa"
seriously injured
rendarme was killed. fifteen persons were
slightly hurt and was fatally injured IN Mexico
CITY last night by falling beams and walls All
of these were workmen.
aI organ. tO-Cdy
received dispatch from its correspondent in Chill
pancfngo saying that the town OF ChiiaPa' thirty
miles from that place. destroyed oy the earth-
quake and that fire in the ruins completed the
work of destruction. The people or the town were
terrorized and many were praying IN the open
nazas and in the adjoining fields
Several hours later the same correspondent sent
the following dispatch;
Later returns confirm my first telesram Chapa tsas
/ avoid the sending of details.
This correspondent is the only one working near
the
ChiIapa has a population OF some loo" people
and is the largest town in the State of Guerrero
To reach the place from Mexico city II Is neces-
sary travel one day by train and then tour oeS'
over a rough mountain trail on horseback
TeJegraphic communication has not been inter-
rupted with Chapa, but officers OF that place nave
not as vet answered kilograms of inquiry Inc
various government departments ana orncers AT
ba national observatory said that no report OF the
destruction of the city had been received hy them
Neither had reports Of any other nature been re-
ceived from there.
penorts from various points in the republic show
mar the quake was felt wide area, but that
in no place with the possible exception of Chilapa
was there any considerable loss Of life or property
C.btana lies about lis miles south OF Mexico City
II Is the seat Of a bishop Several important in
dustries had headquarters there.
The State of Guerrero is in the earthquake belt
on April 15 1907, it visited by serious earth
ouaka which did considersb BILE damage. chnpan-
ciuro and Chilapa partly destroyed and
number OF persons lost their lives The death list
exceeded a hundred and two three hundred per-
soua were injured