Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
VOLCANO COLIMA
IS IN ERUPTION
Torrent of Lava Destroys Six
Mexican Towns.
HUNDREDS REPORTED DEAD
Isthmus of Tehuantepec Is Shaken 10
by rthquake-Famous FLOATING
Gardens in Lake XochimiIco
Are Wiped Out

Mexico City, Mexico.-A new and
the Mexican Republic 1t was of five
minutes duration and was distinctly
felt here. All communication with
Acapulco is now cut off and that city
is reported destroyed Tehauntepec
and CoatzacoaIcos are also reported
destroyed
The volcano Colima is belching
forth fire and lava and the towns of
San Andres, ToniIa, Tonillita, Zapo-
little, San Gabriel and Tuxpan are
overwhelmed. Each has population
of from 800 to 5000 people.
The number OF dead is unknown,
but messages brought on special
train from San Andres, the largest
town destroyed, reports 700 known
dead and many hundred more buried.
From coast to coast Mexico is de-
vastated by the earthquake and to
add to the terror of the inhabitants
the volcanoes Colima and Popocata-
petl are now in full eruption, great
cones of smoke lowering over the era
tiers and lava pouring down their
sides into the cities and towns To-
Gated there.
The death list placed early at 1,456,
is growing and word is yet to be re-
ceived from the isthmus of Tehuante-
pee, which was shaken from end to
end
The famous floating gardens of the
Montezumas, located on an island in
Lake Xochimilco are no more Gar
dens, homes, inhabitants, island and
all are sunken beneath the surface of
the lake. How many victims were
claimed by the earthquake here no
one can say, but comparatively few
if any of the natives are believed to
have escaped.
The inhabitants of this island are
direct descendants of the Aztecs and
of pure, unmixed blood They raised
and sold nearly all the flowers and
vegetables for the markets of Mexico
City. Now they and their homes and
their products are no more
In church at Guadalajara, State
Of Hidalgo, was a statue of the Patron
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priests carried this statue into the
streets and the town escaped with lit
tie or no injury, although exactly in
the middle of the earthquake belt
Now thousands of persons are wor-
Shipping at this shrine.
By singular coincidence a some
what similar incident is noted at
Guadalajara, a city of $4,000 inhab-
itants, capital of the State of JaIisco.
IN the cathedral there is Murillos
famous painting, The ASSUMPTION, >"
valued at $4,000 The walls of the
cathedral show two great assures.
each six inches wide extending com
pletely around the painting, but leav-
ing it without injury. In front of the
painting is an image of Our Lady of
Guadalupe to whose protection the
inhabitants ascribe it's safety. The
incense is rising from hundreds of
censers at the shrine. One hundred
and fifty persons were injured in
Guadalajara, but no one was killed.
The list of casualties is pouring into
Mexico City. At Tacuba seven are
dead and 10 injured; Tacabaya three
dead, the number of injured being I'M
known; San Angle, two dead and
eeven injured from falling walls;
Pinon, two dead and three injured.
Nearly all of these places are in
the immediate vicinity of the capitol.
The Port Of Manzanillo, State of
Colima, that cost $14,000,OOO to build,
is badly damaged. twenty-five per-
sons were killed. Acapulco also suf-
fered greatly, but as yet there are no
details.