VIOLENT QUAKE
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Southern Mexico Badly Shaken RUSH INTO STREETS
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(Received 27, 1.3 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 23. An earthquake of intense proportiono badly shook the capital. All the instruments in the national observatory; were broken. Meteorologists are uuable to determine the exaet direction. Hundreds were aroused from their sleep and rushed into the streets. A man was eleetroeuted when a live wire fell. A New York message states that sei«mologists declared the earthquake occurred probably in the Gulf of Mexico of£ Tehuantepee, about 150 miles from the shore. A later message says many are sleeping out of doors in the scattered parts of southern Mexico as the earth contihues to settle after one of the most violent quakes in many years. Communication lines are still disrupted. Four are known to be dead. The extent of the damage to property is unknown.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 79, 27 December 1937, Page 7
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