Poor, Shaken Mexico

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 11, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 31.

Poor, Shaken Mexico.

From the early morning of July 30 till noon of the next day, that portion of Mexico on its southwestern coast from Acapulco to Oaxaca and northward to the Gulf of Mexico, including the city of Mexico, was fearfully shaken by repeated shocks of earthquake. The result at this writing seems to indicate that the cities of Chilpancingo, Acapulco, Chilapa, and Iguala are destroyed, and also many smaller towns. The great cathedral in Mexico City is demolished. The harbor of Acapulco, one of the finest on the Pacific Coast, is reported ruined. Fires are breaking out, and thousands of homes will probably be burned. It is difficult to get definite news, as the worst of the shaken district is cut off by the breaking of telegraph and telephone wires. But it is conservative to say that hundreds of lives are lost, and millions of property destroyed. More definite news next week.