SEVERE EARTHQUAKE HITS CENTRAL PERU
— Reuter.
(N.Z.P.A.
Ccwvriaht)
UMA (Peru), Nov. 2. Red Cross pianes bave rushed. reliei supplies tp Central Peru, where floods, foilowing an earthq.uake yesterday, liave left thousands homeless. The town of Satipo, in the mountainous area of Junin Province, appears the hardest hit and reported 40 persons killed. Many are missing and it is feared tney are biuled under the debris or drowned in the flpoded waters of the Satipo River. Sixty per cent. of the buildings in La Merced are reported destroyed. The railway, highway and telegraph systems throughout the area are disrupted and this is hindering the reseue work. Three parishioners were crushed to death when a church tower fell on a panic-stricken congregation rushing irom a' church at Huancayo. A baby was killed in his crib when a wali caved in at Tarma. Hundreds of churchgoers in Lima rushed into the open when the earthquake began.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1947, Page 5
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