The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02
.TREMORS CONTINUE,
HAMPERINC RELIEF
WORK NMANACUA
Bodies Taken From Ruins Hour.
Iy While Doctors Give Aid
to Injured
SUPPLIES ARE Sufficient
Surgeons Perform Anputations,
: Set Bones for IS Con.
secutive Hours
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SUPPLIES ARE Sufficient
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Managua, Nicaragua, April @lR-
With 600 bodies recovered from the
ruins, Colonel Frederick L. Bradman.
U. 8. M. c.. In charge Of tho relief
work Thursday, estimated the total
dead from the earthquake at 1000
persons,
The excavating Of bodies continued
throughout the day and more were
being taken out hourly.
Meanwhile. new shocks required.
Two tremblors during the night
shook down q number OF rickety
houses. The hardest one appeared
about 4 a. m. awakening outdoor
sleepers who had scattered to the
outskirts of the city to rest on cots,
benches, and on the ground.
At daybreak, hundreds Of natives
who precipitatedly left the city We'd
nesday, returned and poked through
the ruins. salvaging their personal
belongings and household furniture
and carrying them by mule, ox-cart,
automobile and train into the hills.
The Marines appeared to have the
situation well in hand. An abund-
ance OF food and medical supplies was
arriving. There seemed to be enough
surgeons and doctors to care for the
injured.
Expects Red Cross Man
Ernest j. Swift, Red Gross off,c,.,
was expected Thursday from Miami
IN an amphibian plane and viii ever
lake relief workers who have already
started from several points.
Amphtbtans from the u. s. s. Lex
lneton arrived Wednesday ana We'd
nesday night. bringing six surgeons
ana supplies and promising more
Thursday. The U. s. s. Rochester
steaming up the west coast from Raj.
boa. Is expected Friday with g cargo
OF food supplies.
"A navy hospital ship was to arrive
IN Corinto Thursday and dispatch
Loads OF food and medical supplies
through the hills to the stricken CITY.
"A supply OF several hundred blankets
Is expected from this source to pro-
Woe o refugees who are Sleeping
OUTDOORS In the extremely chilly
weather caused by cold winds off the
lakes.
virtually all Of the injured have
oeel1 treated through the heroic work
OF the Marine, Army and Navy forces
VINO have worked Increasingly since
the first shocks on Tuesday.
Ien minutes after the city fell an6
while clouds of dust were arising from
the debris. American doctors went
lnto the business section and took the
oazed, wounded natives In charge.
Hospital tents were erected hastily.
operating instrumenS were laid oaIt
and the work of treating hundreds
began.
A steady stream of wounded natives
was coming in by noon and the most
serious operations were begun at once.
For Is hours, from noon Tuesday
until 3 o'clock Wednesday, five sur
geons stood over their tables, ampu-
tatlng arms and legs and treating
fractures and internal injuries.
They were Lieutenant Commander
w. B. Hatfield, Lieutenant Com
mander w. T. Brown, Commander q.
p. Hale. Lieutenant Commander n. r.
Boone. al Of the navy, and Major
Hawley Of the United States engi-
neers attached to the Nicaraguan
canal survey.
Without interruption they piled
their instruments while enlisted men
OF the medical corps and personnel OF
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