MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE
* , MANY TOWNS DESTROYED.
THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST
A WHOLE GARRISON KILLED
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)
Received January 9, 9 p.m. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8
In the town of Couzetlan, whiph was deslroved by Saturday’s earthquake, there are 1000 dead. The entire garrison of Teocelo was killed. A dozen towns in Vera Cruz State were partly or totally destroyed. The village of Calcahualco was engulfed with numbers of the inhabitants. At San Juan and Goscomaterac many unindenlifled corpses float in the sulphurous stream,
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14260, 10 January 1920, Page 5
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