A GREAT DISASTER
A DISTRICT WIPED OUT. illy Electric lf*clegrs^li—po?y»'i{T« f • (Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. §. The New York “Times" Mexico City correspondent says that aji area of ninety thousand miles in the State of Vf>ru Cruz lias been ruined by the earthquakes cabled op January ofh. Rivers have disappeared, grazing land*} have been ruined, herds destroyed, aqd villages wiped out. Thousands of persons are injured and homeless. Dis= ease and epidemics are feared, owing to contaminated watercourses. The total killed are now estimated at three thousand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1920, Page 2
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