DISASTROUS.
EARTHQUAKE IN COLOMBIA
SOUTH AMERICAN TRAGEDY
[Bl ELKOTBIO TELEGBAPiI—-COPXBIOHTj (P«r Press Association.) ' (Received September 5, 8.50 a.m.) Washington, September 4. The State Department has been informed of an earthquake at Bogota, the capital city of the Republic of Colombia. Three hundred houses wero destroyed
The casualties are- unknown. [Bogota is 8863 feet above sea-level, and has a population of nearly 100,----000.]
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3337, 5 September 1917, Page 3
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