THE MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES DESTROYED. ■ GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. By Electric Telegraph,--Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8. The town of Couzetlan was destroyed by Saturday’s earthquake. A thousand are dead. The entire garrison of Teocelo was killed. A dozen towns in Vera Cruz State were partly or totally destroyed. The village of Calcahualoo was engulfed, with numbers of inhabitants. At San Juan and Coscomatepec many unidentified corpses float in a sulphurous stream.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 10 January 1920, Page 5
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77THE MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 10 January 1920, Page 5
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