The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-13
EARTHQUAKE WRECKSS CITIES
OTHER TOWNS ~ MEXICO WERE
SWEPT nv TIDAL WAVE.
Guayamas on California Guit Nearly ne.
stroyed-3OO 10 SOO Persons kiilcd
Many Eaten by sharks -Surt " Ors
crippled ships We're Borne inland.

Many Eaten by sharks -Surt I, Ors
crippled ships were Borne inland.
MEXICO CRY. Oct. IL. Buried under
thousands Of tons of water cast ,ip by a ter
rih'c earthquake in the Gulf Of California
the cities Of San Jose de Guayamas. En-
palm and Ortiz. on the eastern shore of
the gulf were destroyed early on the MORN
ing OF October I. and Giayamas, Ahatea
and Topolobanpo were greatly damaged
by the same wave. which had Loaf some
of it's force by the time it reached them.
Owing to the fact that the hurricane
succeeding the tidal wave lasted five
days. cutting off every means of communi-
cation with the outside world. no news OF
the disaster came until word was received
from the Governor of Hermosillo. the
capital Of Sonora. to-day. calling for pro-
visions. tents. clothing, &c. for the sur
vivors.
His message states that from 900 to 500
persons lost their live. either in the tidal
wave or in the hurricane and that it Is
impossible to estimate the damage done
to property along the coast.
The earthquake occurred in the middle
of the night and almost before the in
habitants Of the coast towns had time TO
become alarmed at the earth's tremors
a huge wall of water twenty feet high
swept in from he gulf, carrying every
hing before il.
Ships and houses were swept far inland
and deposited half mile or more on the
sand dunes of the interior
| The survivors almost all Of whom are
suffering from broken arms or legs. tell
heartrendng tales OF the seen" when the
huge wave struck the sleeping towns end
men and women were drowned in their
beds or crushed beneath the falling wreck
age.
Men fought for pieces of boards 10 ena-
BILE them to keep their he"ds above the
swirling water. and women. unable to save
themselves, held their babies eloft. crying
for some one to come and s've them.
Seventeen ships in the harbor Of Quay
amas were totally destroyed and the
wrecks now reposa fer inland, carried
there on the cres, of the hugo wave.
Many Of the deed and 1t is feared a
number of the living were washed back
into the Gulf end there devoured by the
greet schools of sharks which infest this
arm OF the Pacific
NoGAI.Es. Ariz.. Oct l. Delayed ad-
vices were received io-day tina; eighteen
persons were killed by the storm that
swept over the We stern coast OF the Stat"
oi sonora, Mexico, week ago. Many
more are missing
Santa Ros'l'a, with 500 people, has
been for five days without wafer except
a scant supply. sent irregulariy from
Guayamas rood supplies are shor'.
One mining property suhered dana &c
estimated ut $"n,Wo
FL PAso, lex, oct l2.-rourtcen are
known - nave met death IN Guavema
In the tidal wave which swept the Mexican
seaport last week News is Just beginning
TO be- re ceireo. The water came over the
sea wall into the town and rose TO height
Of several feet as far az three blocks back
from the sea wall. while it covered 10 a
deptb of several inches l,nost all tn. CITY,
~, nr,.,.r,y loo. .sti,r,,od "a, o., nno
"o ,', -.
III auu'' ION W 'he hea's 'os' u vi" Sou'h-
ern Pacific.
! Three or four big ranches neCr Quay