BIG EARTHQUAKE IN COLOMBIA
THREE HUNDRED HOUSES DESTROYED. Washington, September ■!• The State Department has been inJormod that by an earthquake at Bogota, Colombia, 300 houses were destroyed. The number of casualties is not known.— 'Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Bogota; in South America, is the federal capital of the United States of Colombia. It is on a tableland 400 square miles in area, and SG94ft; above the sea. It is regularly and handsomely built, and teems with churches. Its population in 1910 was 150,300-1
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 5
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82BIG EARTHQUAKE IN COLOMBIA Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 5
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