The New York herald., 1920-01-10
LAKE COVERS SITE
Of SEVEN MEXICAN
TOWNS EMCULFED
Orizaba Volcano Opens New
Crater, Threatening Cities
in Vera Cruz.

MEXICO CITY. Friday.--Seven town,
near Teocelo. south Of Jalapa, have beer
overwhelmed by the earth disturbances
and great lake Is covering their forme,
sites. according to n message received this
morning from Teocelo ihrough Vera Cruz
Th:rty-four bodies had been recovered
when the message was filed at Teocelo.
The towns that were inundated arc
Tlatanalan. Quiezmitlan, Coastaleca. Tosi.
que. Ixtlahuacan. Choioya and San Jose.
Achilchca
Eevery house in Teocelo has been ren.
dered uninhabitable.
Intense excitement and panic reigns
Cordoba and Orizaba, in the western part
of the State of Vera Cruz. because of the
opening of a new crater Of the volcano OF
Orizaba, fifteen miles to the northward
The new crater is emitting smoke, accord
ing to informal ton received last night at
the offices of the Presidential Military
Staff from army officers in the earth
quake district.
1t is officially reported that nothing un-
toward has been noticed at the other VOL
canoes in Mexico, including the two huge
extinct craters of Popocatepetl and Ixtac-
cihuatl. southeast of this city. or at the ex-
tinct crater of Co1ima, near the Pacific
coast. The tremors detected by instru-
ments here yesterday were felt at Co.'S
comatepec. Cordoba and Zongolica, State
of Vera Cruz, but no damage was done by
them
Experts believe the reported opening OF
n small and supposedly extinct volcano at
San Miguel and the breaking out of new
atar ha
planation of the earthquake which on
Saturday night centred with terrific ef-
feet along the line between the States of
Vera Cruz and Puebla.
New advices tell of 200 deaths near San
Miguel and in the country districts near
Cordoba, and it seems improbable that the
final list of casualties will fall below the
original estimates of 1000. even If re-
ports of 1000 deaths at Couztlan were ex-
aggerated. From compilation and COM
parison of varying dispatches it Is be-
lieved twenty villages were completely
destroyed, with almost double that num-
Der OF towns and villages partially de-
moished or badly damaged. There has
been no attempt to estimate the num-
Der of hamlets and single country houses
destroyed by the shock. nor have figures
as to the number OF injured or property
damage been reported
Among the tONHS WilNH ItpoTlS
different places to the presidential mill
tary staff and Mexico City papers say
were totally destroyed are Couztlan. witt
! 900 dead and as many more injured
Barraca Grande. where 300 are dead; Cos
comatepec. with thirty killed Calcahualco
which has vanished with its 200 inhab
tants; Camusapa, Xconoxtl. Acatlan. Teo
cello. where thirty were killed. Los
Simones. Chilchotla. Saltillo, Lafragua
AyahualcoX. Quimistlan and Atotoniloc
where 200 persons perished.
On the list of cities suffering damage
are Vera Cruz. Jalapa. where sixtyfivC
per cent of the buildings were cracked anc
damaged; Cordoba Nico. Coatepec
Huatusco Perote. ChichIquila. Alpatahua
Altotingo. Naolinco. Jacaltepec. Camu
capa, Xoconixtle, Huatitlan. Chiltontla
Xacamazalco, Passo de Cvejas. La An
tigua. San Francisco de las Penas, Rim
conada and Scledad Among these are
viliges in the state of Puebla