Earthquake at San Salvador.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 15 June 1917, Page 4

Earthquake at San Salvador.

Jane 8. San Salvador, the capital of the Central American Republic of SUva•;or, is reported to bs in ruins us the resu;t of an earthquake; One message stares it-at fonr towns wer? wiped out by a volcanic eruption, s'so that thf capital is burning, tl," bu-im ?s spctiin bfinjr destroysd in? t nixht, according m thf America*: Minister's statement 10 the State T;c- ---< p^rtment. Despite^: es from Nicaragua state * that Tremendous damage was d<>ns 'in Sn Salvador. It is also reported that the town; of Queequalti, Peq.ie, Neoapa, Suchicote, Paisnal, Armenios, an£ Nejicados were destrt-yed. San [3a lvsdor is cut off from all communica tior.s. j The New York Herald's Nicaragua I correspondent states that San Salvador j i.a in ruins as the result of an earch- ! q,uake, with streams of lava and fire. ; 'Many thousands of residents are j hom'less, and are camped in the open country. It is feared that there is j heavy loss of life, but reports are con- » flicting.