The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-06-14
QUAKE ROCKED MEXICO CITY
SIXTY-TWO PEOPLE KILLED AND
SEVENTY-FIVE HURT.
Soldiers Buried Alive as They Slept,
and the National Capitol and
Churches Were Damaged.

Churches Were Damaged.
MEXICO CITY. -Sixty-three kill
( ed, rs wounded, property loss $780,
600.
J These are the net results of an
earthquake which visited the capitol
| this morning and injected a note of
tragedy into what was expected to
be a day of pure rejoicing. When
the work of searching the ruins is
completed it is possible that the list
of dead will be heightened some
what.
There are doubtless many wound
ed who, with traditional fear of the
authorities and government hospitals,
are anxious to evade discovery.
1t was 4:26 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 fourteen minutes more 1t was
of vaccillatory twisting character,
but almost free from trepidatory
motion.
Half of Dead Are Soldiers.
More than half of the dead ac-
counted for are soldiers. They were
caught beneath the falling walls of
the artillery barracks in San Cosme, a
locality near the Mexican Contra sta
ton. Another place where the earth
quake took its toll of death in con-
siderable numbers was at the city
power plant of the street car com
pany. Here six were killed and six
wounded. Two others were found
in the debris consisting partly of the
steel rails which had been stacked in
the iron and wood departments, and
which collapsed. The victims were
inhabitants of little shacks built
along the side of the structure.
With these two exceptions the
death list was made up of single
cases or in some instances of two
and three caught beneath a falling
wall in the poorer buildings of the
district most seriously affected.
American Property Not Damaged.
With the exception of one China
man no foreigner was injured. The
Chinaman was killed. In the bar
racks where the soldiers were killed
twelve women lost their lives. They
We're the wives of the artillerymen.
These women have the privilege of
spending the night within the walls
of the barracks.
The outer wall fell away, and then
the roof crushed down on the sleep
ing men and hurled them down
through the floor onto their com
rades below The bodies of thirty
soldiers have been recovered. Three
are missing and sixteen are wound
ed, few seriously.
Another Spectacle at Railway Station
Three blocks from the barracks
the yards of the Mexican Central,
where Madero had been scheduled to
enter, presented another spectacle of
the shocks intensity. There a long
wall separating these yards from
those of the Mexican Railway was
/ thrown down. A Mexican locomotive
engineer who was lying by it's side
was crushed to death. A warehouse
of the Mexican Central is almost a
wreck, one wall and portion of the
1 building having collapsed. About
one-third 'of the round house was
torn down. No casualties were re-
ported there.
Cracks show here and there in the
pavement throughout the district af-
fected.
Walls have fallen in scores of
places, giving to some localities a
damaged aspect