The Sentinel=record., 1911-06-08
EARTHQUAKE
 IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY VISITED BY QUAKE ON DAY OF MADERo'S AR-
 RIVAL.
Sixty three Killed, 75 Injured and Heavy Property Loss Turns Gel ebration Into Day of
 Mourning.

Mexico City, June 7.-Sixty- three killed. seventy-fiye wounded; prop erty loss s100.O0O.
 These are the net results of the earthquake which strickened the resi- dents of the capitol this morning and injected a note of tragedy into what was expected to be a day of pure re- joicing. When the work of search ing the ruins is completed it Is prob abe that the list of dead will be heightened somewhat as hiding here and there throughout the city, there doubtless are many wounded who, with traditional fear of the authori- ties and. government hospitals, fear discovery. The property loss Is but an estimate, and is based upon call culations made by owners and con- tractors. Little of the loss is cov- cred by insurance.
 It was 4:26 o'clock when the first shock was felt. According to the me- neurological observatory the greatest Intensity was reached at the end of the first minute, but the instruments continued to record the shock for fourten minutes more. It was more a yacillatory, twisting character but almost free from trepidatory motion.
 More than half the dead accounted for were soldiers. They were caught beneath the falling walls of the artillery barracks in San Cosme, a locality near the Mexican Central station. Another place where the earthquake- demanded. the death pen atty in considerable numbers was at the city power plant of the street car company. Here six were killed and six wounded. Two others are missing and 1t is Expected their bodie. will be found in the debris consistine partly of steel rails which had been stacked in the iron and wood depart ments which collapsed. The victims were inhabitants of little shacks built along the side of the structure. With these two exceptions the death lis, was made up 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 plainly felt in all parts of the city few realized the magnitude of the catastrophe until late in the forenoon, due to the fact that the casualties were confined to a comparatively small area, a con- siderable distance in the downtown district.
 Accustomed as the people of the city are to earth shocks and to their harmiessness on former occasions, they were slow to learn that th's was the most serious shock in a score oi years.
 No personal property of Americans was damaged and with the exception of one Chinese, no foreigner was in- jured. fife Chinese was kiaed.
 In the barracks where the soldiers were killed twelve women also lost their lives. They were the wives oi the artiiieryfnen. These women have the privilege of spending the night within the walls of the barracks.
 The barracks was an old structure built a generation or more ago, put unlike many of the older edifices ol the city, it's walls were comparatively thin, Seventy soldiers were sleeping in the house. Approximately half were quartered on the first floor the remainder on the second. The outer wall fell away and the rool crashing down on the sleeping men hurled them down through the fiooI onto their comrades below. The bodies of thirty soldiers have beer recovered. Three are missing anc sixteen are wounded, few danger ously.
 Instantly those who escaped deatf and injurs began the work of res cue. Word was sent to a compan' of the engineering corps, who soo' arrived and began assisting in th' work of shoveling away the broker rock and mortar. Women whose sol dier- husbands were in the pile stoot by wailing in groups while htti' brown children clung to their moth er's dresses and stared curiously a the gruesome scene. Ambu'ance'