The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-07
QUAKE IN MEXICO
Seven Buildings, Including Ar
tillery Quarters, Wrecked.
Seventy Soldiers Are Buried i'm
the Ruins.
DEAD NUMBER FIFTY.
Explosion OF Gas at ArmOry
Adds to Horror.
One Wall of the National Pal.
ace Is Cracked.
FAD NUMBER FIFTY.

Mexico City, June An earth
quake at 4 o'clock this morning
wrecked seven buildings, including the
artillery quarters, where 20 soldiers
were buried in the ruins. The dead
and wounded are estimated between
so and 20.
Several persons were killed through
the collapse of the building occupied
by the street railway power plant. At
Buena Vista the railway tracks were
twisted. The shock was followed by
an explosion of gas at the armory
barracks, which added horror to the
scene
The oscillations moved from north
tc south and opened assures in the
streets. The adobe houses crumbled,
but the dead in these can not be num-
bered at present.
The shock was most severely felt in
the western part of the city, though
buildings in the central part of the
capital were rocked.
The only foreigner killed was a
Chinese.
Warehouses at the central station
collapsed and an engineer was killed.
A private boarding school building was
wrecked, but none of the occupants
was injured. The national palace had
one of it's walls cracked and the key
olOtlS OL OIlS VI tie SliCIiSS w dS OIn
placed.
The ancient cathedral of Santo Do
mingo was damaged.
The artillery quarters wrecked by
earthquake this morning is a long
low building near the Belem prison
and is used chiefly as a government
arsenal. During the recent disturb
ance throughout Mexico large forces
of soldiers had been quartered in this
building. 1t is an edifice of ancient
construction and design and during
| a storehouse for war material. AT
times it has been converted into a
fortress and recently has been used
as a museum of artillery.
The Belem prison is in the same
locality and also houses large num-
Der of people, its criminal inmates
reaching at times as high as several
thousand. The earthquake today
came at the moment that the Mexican
capital was about to receive the revo-
| 1uttonary victor. Francisco l. Madero
! jr. Cable dispatches announced his
arrival at the city and indicate that
despite the earthquake, an ovation
was given him.
Washington. June 7.-Seismog gra ph!
| throughout the entire country Wer'
| Jared at an early hour today by tn,
4
recorded in several years. 1t is es
| timated to have occurred four thous
and or five thousand miles from
Washington, but in what direction
| could not be ascertained.
Beginning at sos o'clock this morn
| ing the needles of the seismo ograpl
| of Georgetown university observator.
began to move. The tremors steadil,
| increased in intensity causing tn
needles to record an unusual vibra
ton. The maximum of the north an,
south movement was reached at 6:22:
O5 and lasted eight minutes, Will
the maximum of the east and ives
movement was recorded at SPA, last
ing ten minutes.
Gradually the tremors subsided an
died away at 7:51 o'clock after on
hour and forty-one minutes.
Father Tondorf declared that 1t in
dicated the most severe earthquak
that had been recorded since the es
tablishment of Georgetown observa
tory, two years and a half ago.
Through Venezuela.
ST. Louis, June THE 81