GREAT DESTRUCTION
SAN JUAN EARTHQUAKE Rec. 1.40 p.m. BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 16. Troops and rescue workers are at present digging through wreckage which almost totally destroyed the city of San Juan, searching for survivors of three earthquakes which last night killed at least 200 people and injured thousands. A fourth earthquake at 8 a.m. today destroyed more buildings and hampered the rescue work. One survivor said that San Juan, which is situated high in the Andes, with a population of 30,000, is 90 per cent, destroyed. The only important building that was spared was the Rawson Hospital, which, however, has I been evacuated because of its shaky I condition. Heavy loss of life is feared in other towns, from which reports have not yet been received because communications are down all over San JUan Province. Mr. David Uriburu, chief Federal agent in San Juan, telegraphed to the Argentine Government: "Everything you can do to help and everything you can send us will be too little, because nobody ktiQWs the magnitude of what has happened." The earthquake was felt in a broad belt across South America from Buenos Aires to Santiago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 3
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