New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
MEXICO QUAKES AGAIN
SHOCK YESTERDAY VAS
WORST OF ALI.
Thirteen Earthquakes Registered
Within Thirty Hours By Cor
ernment Seismogroph.

Mexico City. July 31--Mexico City wa. again
I severely shocked by. an earthquake to-day II
vas more severe than any yet experienced and
rocked the city fer one minute and forty sec
onds
The first faint swaying came a. 12:43 p m
out the nervous people needed nothing more
man the slightest trenble to send them teurin :
out CT stores office buildings and dwellings inro
the streets
Inc shock grew in intensity az tbs end ct the
nrst thirty seconds. and suddenly shifted tbs
direction Of rs motion. II began with a long
sWaying north 70 south oscinatory motion, which
changed to a jumping respiratory action nc
great damage was done though many walls
weakened by the three sllccks Ct yesterday
morning fell while innumerable public and
other buildings we're cracked
The national palace. suffered considerably The
War Once, Chamber OF American Annt assadors
and other sectors OF the handsome buildings
we're damaged The Mutual Life Insurance
Company Building the Stillweu Building and
the Cathedral 7ere erlcrg the other large ed
1ces whose walls suffered openings IN the case
Of the first two the damage was minor.
Reports from Governor Darainia Flores Of the
State Of Guerrero declare that in Acapulco the
largest and strongest buildings were RACED BY
the force OF Yesterdays trernors. and that there
has been property loss throughout that section
house, the military barracks and 4 number Of
other prominent buildings were absolutely dc,
etroyed, Thle the municipal palace suffered
serious damage -.-
Thirteen earthquakes within thirty hours have
BEEN registered ~ the government seismograph
From the time the earth began TO move in the
ralley yesterday morning az ia o'clock until
the quivers ceased al 12:45 o'clock to-day. Mex
leo City was shaking ar intervals of every tuo
or-ti1ree hours; Six upheavals have been Of such
strength as TO be felt by the people, while the
seven others 1--we been felt only by the sensitive
Instruments
This has so far been a year Of severe earth
ouales. March is the only month IN which several
shocks were. not recorded Beginning with the first
throes of the Messina disaster. December % OF
last year. not day assed till January IS i'll which
some part OF the earth was not shaken.
During that sixteen-day period Of continuous dis
tnrbance one hundred and twenty thousand lives
were lost in Italy. Shocks. were felt on both
coasts Of this continent, from Mexico TO Vancouver
B. e. France, Austria and Northern Italy we're
also shaken.
On January % q shock near SMYRNA cost eight
lives. Heavy quailes were felt in Russia on jan
uary % February began with general trenor
on the 9Th. followed by another quake in Italy on
il Persia Lisbon had another shock on April 2.
with many fatalities and the 7next- DAY mountain
collapsed at Ventura, Cal
The FIRST half of May was quiet but on the l4th
there were slight shocks N Montana, followed the
day by another earthquake in Messina.' Five
Western states were shaken May 26-
June gave US shocks at Singapore on the 4th. in
Chill on the 9Th. and the 18th one hundred lives
were lost in France.
During the first four DAYS of this month AIessna
WIS again visited. On the 18th ana 18th Southern
Greece had a severe shock III which three hundred
lives were lost. g..