Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-15
QUAKE DESTROYS
SAN SALVADOR;
MANY KILLED
Capital of Republic Laid in Ruin,
Says Dispatch.
CITY OF $4,000 PERSONS
Six Other Towns Also Wiped Out
Disaster Believed to Have Been
Caused by Eruption of Vol
cano-City in Flames.

San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, June
9.-Many lives were lost in the de-
struction by earthquake of the city of
San Salvador and several other towns
in Salvador, according to meager adj
vices received here.
San Salvador, the capital of the Re
public of Salvador, has population of
more than 10000.
A dispatch from Tegucigalpa, Hon
duras, says that in addition to the wip-
ing out of San Salvador, the towns Of
Quezaltipeque, Nejapa, Suchichoto.
Paisnal, Armenios and Kejicanos also
were destroyed. Kejicanos was a SUBJ
urb of San Salvador.
Thirty-MiIe Area Swept
An operator who reached the edge
of the destroyed zone reported that
San Salvador was in ruins, and that
everything within a radius of 80 miles
had been destroyed by the earthquake.
The town of Santa Tecla also has
been destroyed, according to this re-
port. Residents of San Salvador are
camping in the streets and parks.
At the time the report had been
sent, it had been raining heavily for
five hours.
The disaster is supposed to have
been caused by an eruption of the vol
cano of San Salvador, at the foot of
which the city is situated.
Flames From Volcano Seen.
The telegraph operator at Tegucigal-
pa, Honduras, reported that the opera
tor at San Salvador had informed him
that earthquakes had been felt there.
The shocks also were felt at Teguci-
| galpa, where the operator at AS p.
m. lost communication with San Sal
vador on all wires
From Sensuntenpeque, in north CEN
tral Salvador, flames were seen arising
apparently from volcano in the
neighborhood of San Salvador.
U. S. Envoy Reports Quake.
Washington, June 9-Dispatches
from American Minister Long at San
| Salvador, sent at nine o'clock at night
while the volcano was erupting, said
part of the city had been destroyed
by fire, but that it was under control.
Great damage was done.
The dispatch said that about 6 80
p. m. severe earth shocks began, and
continued until about S:45 with vary
ing degrees of intensity.
At about S:45 the volcano of San
Salvador began to belch forth fire and
smoke, apparently on the side toward
Quetzaltxpeque. Later there was one
very severe shock, but the tremors of
the earth continued with decreasing
violence At the same time there was
a steady shower of dry ashes falling
over the city.
American Records Safe.
The report says damage to the
American legation building will rem
der it uninhabitable, but that all rec
ords are safe. 1t adds that all other
city property appeared practically
untentable.
One important central business sec
ton had been destroyed by fire, which,
at the time of telegraphing, seemed to
be under control. No deaths were re-
ported in the minister's dispatch as
being known at that hour.
It is quite possible that either vol
canic eruption, fire or earthquake
might wrought greater damage after
the sending of the dispatch. Seismo-
graphs of Georgetown university re
corded severe earthquake disturb
ance about 1000 miles from Washing
ton. First tremOrs were recorded al
1857 p. m. The maximum shocks
were recorded at S:07 p. M, and the
disturbance ended at 9 :25 p. m.
City Ruined Twice Before.
San Salvador has been described as
one of the most substantial and most
attractive cities of Central America
1t suffered temporary ruin by earth
quake in 1854 and again in 1873, but
each time sprang into new life witt
greater vigor than before.
1t has been the capital of the re
public of San Salvador for more thar
r so years.
Among its more notable building:
a were those OccupIeu ny lue SOf6rH
2 ment, handsome university, al
). academy of science and literature, /;
: chamber of commerce, an astronomi
> cal observatory, a cathedral and va
rious hospitals and charitable insti
tutions.
!. The city was founded nearly 40
( years agoTin 152S-by Don Jorge d
: Alvarado.
!. Population 10000 in 1905.
;, San Salvador had population o
!, 10000 in 1905; was the only city i
the republic which conducted impol
tant manufactures; was admirabl
l policed and compared favorably wit
= many of the smaller provincial capi
3 tails of America and Europe.
I Three miles to the westward rise
3 the head of the gigantic sentinel tha
q has again brought desolation to th
city almost under its shadow.