Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-06-08
CITY Of MEXICO
SHAKE \ BY
TENBLOR
SIXTY-THREE KILLED;
THREE SCORE INJURED
Catastrophe Comes When Citi-
zenS Are Preparing to Wei
come Madero But Fails to
Cast Shadow Over Festivities
IBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wirel
Mexico city. June 7.-Sixty-three
killed scventy-five wounded. property
loss 100000
These are the net results of the
earthquake which rent the capital
this morning ana injected note of
tragedy into what was expected to be
a day of unelloyed rejoicing. When
the work Of searching the ruins is
completed It Is possible that the list
Of dead VIII be lengthened somewhat
as hiding throughout the city. there
doubtless are many wounded, who.
with traditional fear of the authori-
tics aud government hospitals are
anxious to evade discovery.
The property loss is estimate based
upon calculations made by owners
and contractors. Little of the loss Is
covered by insurance.
1t was 4:36 o'clock when the first
shock was felt According to the
meteorological observatory, the great
est intensity was reached at the end
of the first minute but the instru-
ments continued TO record the shocks
for four minutes more. Il
More than half Of the dead ae-
counted for were soldiers. They were
| caught beneath the falling walls of
| the artillery barracks in San Cosma,
| near the Mexican Central station. An
other place where the earthquake took
| it's toll OF death In considerable num-
bers was at the city power plant of
! the street car company. Here six
were killed and six wounded. Two
others were found in the debris. con-
sisting partly of steel rails which had
been stacked In the iron and wood de-
partments and which collapsed. The
| victims We're inhabitants of little
shaeks built along the side OF the
structure.
WITH these two exceptions the
death list WAS mad. pp- OF single cases
or In some instances of two and
three, caught beneath falling walls In
the poorer buildings of the district
most seriously affected.
Although the shock was felt in all
parts of the city, few realized the
magnitude OF the catastrophe until
Hate in the forenoon as the casualties
were confined to q Comparatively
small area. Accustomed as the resi-
! dents are to earthquakes and to their
harmlessness on former occasions.
they were slow 10 learn that this was
the most serious shock in twenty
years.
No property OF Americans was dam
aged and with the exception of one
| Chinese killed, no foreigners were in
! iured In the barracks whore the sol
diers were killed, twelve women also
| OF the artillery men. These women
have the privilege of spending the
nights within the wallis Of the bar
racks.
The barracks was an old structure,
built a generation or more ago, but
unlike many of the older editices, its
wallis were comparatively thin. Sew
enty-two soldiers We're sleeping in
the house Approximately half were
! quartcred on the first floor, the rest
on the second. The outer wall fell
away and the roof, crashing down on
the sleeping men. hurled them down
| through the floor on their comrades
below The bodies Of thirty soldiers
have been recovered, Three are miss
ing and sixteen were wounded few
/ dangerously
Those who escaped began the work
Of rescue at once. Women whose SOL
dier husbands were in the pile, wait
ed in groups while little brown child
rem cmng to their dresses and stared
curiously at the scene
Three blocks from the barracks the
yards of the Mexican Central station
AT which Madero had been scheduled
To enter presented another spectacle
of the shock intensity. There long
wall separating these Yards from those
uf the Mexican railway was thrown
down. A Mexican locomotive engi-
neer was living by his engine, crush
| ed to death.
( A warehouse of the Mexican Central
/ is aHaost wreck. one wall and por-
! uon OF the building having collapsed.
/ About one-thlrd of the roundhouse
/ was torn down No casualties were
/ reported here
Dispatches received tonight from
/ Chilpancngo the capital of Guerrero,
! indicate that the earthquake did less
damage in that state than It did in
4 the capital In almost all former
lquakes the center ot intensity has
been IN Guerrero.
In none of the adviees received al
police headquarters Is the mention OF
the death OF any person of proml-
nenee The victims were those whose
homes were in cheaply built houses,
shaeks in most eases whose walls had
| little power of resistance.
The water mains OF the city were
practically uniniured and the light
and power companies suffered little
| Inconvenience in operations.
In front of the Mexican Central
station the track was twisted enough
to delay operations for few hours.
The projection Of the front wall OF
Bolem prison was thrown into the
street Ne great damage was done.
<wo of the capitals old churches
and the national palace are buildings
which show the effects of the shock.