ARGENTINE ’QUAKE
Casualty List Very Heavy
BUENOS AIRES, January 17.
Rescue workers have already recovered 500 bodies from the ruins of 15 towns within 50 miles’ radius of San Juan following the earthquakes on Saturday. Nine thousand persons were seriously, injured and 4000 slightly hurt. All the houses'in San Juan are uninhabitable. The. Government has ordered national mourping and has suspended public entertainments.
Later unofficial reports from San Juan indicate that 4000 are dead, 10,000 injured, and 15,000 missing in what may be the worst earthquake in Argentina’s history. Officials estimate property losses at 25,000,000 dollars and industrial and commercial losses at 75,000,000 dollars. The citizens of San Juan have urged President Ramirez to raise a loan of 35,000,000 dollars and to mobilize 50,000 workers for the city’s reconstruction. The railways to iSan Juan are now functioning, and food supplies are assured. The Brazilian Red Cross is flying supplies to the stricken areas and the American Red Cross is also sending aid. Troops are guarding San Juan to prevent pillage, though order is said to prevail.
Earthquakes destroyed Mendoza in 1861 and San Juan in 1894. The casualties oh each occasion totalled 5000.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 96, 19 January 1944, Page 5
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