Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-01
Want. Vaccines.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Relief work CTS at Guatemala City tonight ap- pealed to the American Red Cross for a supply of anti-typhoid and small pox vaccine to supp'ement the stores i of foodstutfs, dlsintectants and shel- ter materials now being prepared at New Orleans for shipment to the stricken republic. The message said there was no immediate danger of dis ease epidemic, but vaccines were needed because of the necessary crowding of the thousands made homeless by the earthquake. Besides the supplies being assembled at New Orleans, naval vessels ordered to Guatemala will carry stores and med icines.
 Washington, Dec 31.-Still without detailed information of the earth quake which destroyed Guatemala City, causing many lives and leaving 100000 homeless, American officials today prepared to send aid to the stricken sister republic.
 Red Cross officials conferred with navy officials as to the supplies to be i sent forward on American warships ordered to Guatemalan seaport.
 While the American diplomats are safe, archives of the legation and con sulate are believed to have been lost as the buildings are reported to have been shaken to the ground. Unoffic ial advices indicate that the foreign colony escaped without loss of life. Four earthquakes apparently have shaken Guatemala City. Records on the Georgetown University seismolo- gical observatory instruments here
 show the first shocks were felt on
 Christmas night shortly after mid night. A second series of shocks
 came about 9 a. m. on December 26. Further shocks were recorded on Fri day December 2S at 4 23 D. m., but 1 the heaviest shocks came at 5:57 D..
 m., Saturday, December 29.-It ap- peared that the last disturbance was
 one which caused the most dama 5e. l A ship load of Red Cross relief sup /! plies, consisting of 600 barrels of flour quantities of clothing, disin'
 fectants and general food stuffs, will leave New Orleans Thursday for Pu-
 erto Barrios. It was followed by a shipment of tents on another vessel
 by the end of this week.
 l Arrangements have been made by
 the Red Cross for the furnishing of all available necessary supplies by j the Guatemala chapter made up of
 Americans throughout the republic
 and directed by Alfred Clark. general
 manager of the International railway
 at Guatemala City.
 Estimates 1000 Dead.
 New York, Dec. 31.-An estimate
 that 1000 persons died in the earth quake ruins at Guatemala City, is
 contained in telegram received here from the Central and South Am
 erican Telegraph Company's manager
 at San Jose, Guatemala, who returned
 to San Jose from Guatemala City yes terday afternoon. The message reads
 "The legation and American con. sulates are badly wrecked. Forty
 per cent of the houses in the city
 are demolished; most of the others
 have collapsed and are uninhabita ble The penitentiary, asylum and minis
 terial buildings gre all wrecked. The postoffice and large churches are de molished.
 :. Martial law has been declared and }, several looters have been shot. The i president of Guatemala has ordered ! the inhabitants of the city to leave } Terrific earthquake shocks continue J at intervals of about five minutes } The death toll is estimated at Nr- :. thousand. All telegraph wir- Interior again silAst.",r