MANY KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 305, 26 December 1930, Page 7

MANY KILLED.

EARTHQUAKE HAVOC.

Grave Disaster Reported from

Argentina.

ENTIRE TOWN DESTROYED.

(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 12.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, December &S. A message izom Salta, in the extreme north-west; of Argentina, says' 35 persons -were killed and 70 injured by an earthquake which rocked the district of Pampa early yesterday. . -

Fragmentary dispatches stated that an entire town of Pampa was destroyed;

Thirty-eight bodies have.also been recovered from the debris in the mined town of. La Porna. The earthquake shook the northern Argentine and the undulatory shocks moved from east to west. Great crevices appeared and the majority of the buildings in the town collapsed.

The survivors laboured beneath totter-: ing walls aiid alongside' half-fallen structures seeking the bodies of their relatives. Most of the population of 3000 must live in tents, for several weeks.

; The military has been sent to take of the .rescue work arid render first aid. Only two policemen were, oh duty in the town when the 'quake occurred, and the population was thrown into the utmost confusion. . ■ i ;

Heavy rains, accompank I by an electrical storm, broke over the ruins and hindered- the search for the dead .and injured, also inflicting great difficulties Upon the rescue parties Which were seeking td reach the stricken afea-. ,;

The women and. children anidhg the survivors are being kept at a -safe tance from the tottering buildings, while the male population is seeking to bolster up such structures as are. not destroyed entirely. :>*■■

The Widespread damage caused.by the earthquake Was £dt revealed until daylight, when it was found that many edifices .had been made insecures

Many women were iestrainel only with difficulty during, the* night from entering the ruins;. ; cff to seek missing'mernb'ef 8 of their families.