BIG EARTHQUAKE
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dwn overwh elmed \NY DE AD AND SWEPT AWAY BY MQUNTAINOUS WAVES CATASTROPHE IN COLIMA
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MEXIGO CITY, Thursday. A.ccording to- messages from Giiaapara an undetermined number of •sons were killed early to-day at yutian in the State of Colima, by earthquake and tidal wave.
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Rec. June 23, *8 p.m. MEXICO CITY, Wednesday. Thirty bodies have been recovered. search of the ruins is being made • additional bodies, although it is ired that the mountaihous waves ich swept in over the -sinai! Paciresort carried many away. Extensive damage has been caused "and down the coasts, leading to . belief that the number of dead y be great. Eolima is a Mexican State on the sific Coast. It covers an area of )0 square niiles and has a populaa of 78,000. The capital, also ned Colima, is 1450 feet above sea el. Beyond the State frontier, jut 35 miles north-east of the capi- ■ rises a volcano, also named Gola, whieh bnrst into activity in B9. ______
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 259, 24 June 1932, Page 5
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