Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-10
FORMS
 WHERE 7 TOWNS
 IN MEXICO STOOD
Misery Reigns in Many Cities as the Result of
 Quake

Mexico City, Jan. 9.-Seven towns near Teocleo, south of Jalapa, have been overwhelmed by the earth dis turbances and great lake is cover ing their former sites, according to message received here this morn ing from Teocelo through Vera Cruz Thirty-four bodies had been recover ed when the message was filed at Teocelo.
 The towns that were inundated are Tlatanalan, Quiczmitlan, Coastalcca, Tosigue, Ixtlahuacan, ~Choloya and San e-Achilchica.
 Every house in Teocleo has been made uninhabitable.
 Mexico City, Jan. 9.-Intense ex citement and panic reigns among the inhabitants of the city of Cor doba and Oirdeba in the western part of the state of Vera Cruz be- cause of the opening of new era ter of the volcano of Orizaba, 15 miles to the northward. The new crater is emitting smoke, according to information received last night at the offices of the presidential military staff from army officers in the earthquake district.
 It is officially reported that noth- ing untoward has been noticed at the other volcanoes ill Mexico, in cluding the two huge extinct craters of Popocatenetl and Ixtachiuatl, southwest of this city, or at the ex- tinct crater of Colima, near the Pacific coast. The tremors detected by instruments here yesterday were felt at Coscomatpec, Cordoba and Zongolica, state of Vera Cruz, but no damage was done by them.
 Experts believe the reported open ing of "a small and supposedly ex- tinct volcano at San Miguel and the breaking out of new crater of Mount Orizaba provide an explana- tion of the earthquake which on Saturday night centered, with terri fife effect, along the line between the states of Vera Cruz and Puebla.
 New advices tell of 200 deaths near San Miguel and in the country dis tricts near Cordoba and it seems inn probable the final list of casualties will fall below original estimates of 2,00O even if reports of 1000 deaths at Couztlan were exaggerated. From compilations and comparison and various dispatches it is believed 20 villages were completely destroyed with almost double that number of towns and villages partly demolished or badly damaged. There has been no attempt to estimate the number 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 places which reports from different places to the presiden- tial military staff and Mexico City papers say were totally destroyed are Couztlan with 1000 dead and as many more injured; Barraca Grande where 300 are dead; Coscomatepec with 30 killed; Calcahualcc, which has vanished with it's 200 inhabitants Canusapa, XconoXtl. Acatlan, Teoce- To, where 30 were killed; Los Sim ones, Chilchotla, Saltillo, Lafragua Octlepa, Plata, Chichitquita, Tene- zapa, Ayahualcox, Quimistlan anc Atotonillco, where 200 persons per ished.
 On the list of cities suffering damage are Vera Cruz, Japala, where 85 per cent of the buildings were cracked and damaged; Corboda. Xico Coatepec, Huatusco, Perote, Chichi axtla, Teziutlan, Acultngo, Tampico Tuxpam. Chiciquilla. Alpatahua, At
 otingo, Naolinco, Jacaltepec, Camu capa. Xoconixtle, Huatitlan, Chiffon tia, Zanatla, Xacamuzalco, Passo d' .l OVeiaS.