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SEISMOLOGICAL DISPATCHES.'
Mbxico City, Mexico, January 3.-One of the earth sho&~ that are not uncommon here mas felt at 10 o'clock to-night. The shock was more severe than that of De- &mber 17, but did not cause as much a prehension as
rediction of a cataclysm from astronomic causes. ncomplete ress re orts indicate date of a
that the State of Vera Cruz suffere more t an any other section, altho h seismic disturbances were felt throu h-
30 dead have already been accounted for in the village of San Juan Coscomatepec, where many houses were destroyed. mere are unconfirmed reports of a similar catastrophe in the village of Huatusco. At Jalapa, farther north, 50 victims of tlie earthquake have been counted, including numerous dead. Lack of comnimi- cation with the other small towns and villages in the theater of disturbance makes even appro-ximate esti-
the December seismic disturbance, whic % came on the
out the entire 3 epublic. Advices from Cordoba say t % at
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Fundless P
I aepmted by the org8nIzation indlcated end collected b the setsmol@al station It Qeorgatown Univemity, Waahhgkm, D. C. [(A) indlca!as Amochted Pres.]
mates of the casualties impossible. The earthquake caused great alarm in the la qg cities. Marine disturb- tlnces have occurred off Vera ruz city, and there were some casualties there, although the number is not known, with considerable destruction of ropert . Late reports
mate ec was au ented as a result of the collapse of the
inside the edice to pray, following the first shoc . Vera Cruz city is without water, while the lighting systems of Orizaba and Jalapa are out of commission. The vil-
lages of Teocelo and Couztlan, in the State of Vera Chz, were virtually destroyed by the earthquake last ni ht,
press reports received here.-(A) Mexico City, Mexico, January 5.-Reports reaeived up to 11 o'clock last night indicated the center of the seismic convulsion was in the neighborhood of Mount Orizaba. a volcano situated about 70 miles west of Vera Cruz on the line between the States of Vera Cruz and Pueblo. It WRS in this nei hborhood that tlie most serious damage was clone. &ocelo, a village 35 miles northeast of the voIcmo, lias been virtually destroyed, aiid a siinilur ftite befell Couztlnn, a sinall hamlet in that neigliboriiood. Wires have been torn down by the vio-
lence of the treuior, and only fragmentary reports have reached this city, but it is stated that there were many casualties in both towns. Many houses and churches in Jalapa, a city 50 miles northwest of Vera Cruz, were damaged, while reports from Orizaba, a city 10 miles
south of the volcano, state that several business blocks and churches near tlie center of the town were cracked. In tlle suburbs of Orizaba tlie shock was very severe, iiiany persons being re orted killed beneath their wrecked
n city 10 miles east of Orizaba, w iere 11 were distinctly felt. First reports received liere stated that the tremor centered at Acambaro, a town near Teluca, about 25
niiles soutliwest of Mexico City, but more recent advices state the shocks were not sex-ere there.-(A) Mexico City, Mexico, January &--A Fiolent, vol- canic eru tion has been caused by the recent earth uake
a parently extinct volcano, has been burst in twain. &e new crater is throwing out smoke, ashes, and flame, while lava is flooding the newby territory in a stream
more than 200 yards wide, resulting in not less than 200
deaths.-(A) Mexico City, Mexico, January I 3 .4 a n Joaquin, a rill e of 3,000 inhabitants in the Jalapa district, State
quake, according to advices given out by t e department of a iculture, which gave no details as to casualties.
near this city at 5:18 o'clock this momj-(A)
quake shocks were felt in the city of Vera Cruz from 3
to 5 o'olock this morning. There were no casualties, althou h some residences were dama d. Reports from
structures which were not destroyed in the earthquake of January 6, while shocks lastin 20 minutes caused
Penas.-(A)
received here say that the death 7- 1st in 8 an Juan Cosco-
churc R tower, m 8" ich crashed in upon the crowds athered
and heavy casualties have rmulted, amording to K ate
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houses. $ifteen shor i -s were es erienced at Cordoba,
near Co 2 oba, where Cero de San Miguel, a smal g. and
t
of F era Cruz, was destroyed this mornm by an earth-
Shoc f s were detected at the astronomical observatory
Vera & z state the tremors demolis P ed at Couztlan all
further damage at Salmoral and 1 an Francisco de las
Mexico City, Mexico, January 22. trong earth-
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Paris, January 23.-Earth sh0c.b along the coast of the Sea of Marmora are reported m a Havas dispatch from Constantinople under date of January !9.-(A) Seattle, Wash., January 24.-Three distinct earth- uake shocks were felt here at 1l:OS.o'clock last night. ?he tremors extended throu h W a s h on and Bntlsh
fled from buildings in alarm, but the only damage re- ported was to telephone lines. Victoria, B. C., and
numerous towns in northwest Washington felt the quake. No dama e was reported in Seattle.
Toledo has issued a communique stating that at 5 o'c ock Saturday afternoon (Jan. 24) the instruments a t the observatpry recorded a seismic disturbance at an esti- mated distance of approximatel 275 miles.-(A) Buenos Aires, Argentina, dbruar 2.-Dispatches from the State of Mmas Gerrtes, B r a d report that an ewthquake Sunda.7 shook down a number of homes in the country districts, creating great panic among the inhabitants. The dispatches say that in lntensity the earth shock is without precedent in that region.-(A)
Columbia. At Bellin ham, #ash., win P owe were broken
and brick walls crac a ed. At Vancouver, B. C., people
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