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iiig tlic hi'ouikI liii'clif(| \i|) under my 

 feet ami hcizan to sliake violently. An 

 arc li.^ht overhead went out, tlaslied 

 on. oil', and on a.^ain. Wires sliort- 

 eireuited, spluttered and spit. Tlie 

 I )U ill] in. lis on l)Oth sides rocked back and 

 J'oi-tli. .My first thonij-ht was of the 

 A\ire>. and J darted into the nearest 

 doo]-\\;i\' to e.-cape electrocution. I'las- 

 lei- and e\en In-ick began to i-ain (]own 

 here and J ]'an back into the street to 

 esca])e falling walls. 



] jieix-eived at this instant, that the 

 oidy safe place in my immediate vicin- 

 ity was the Plaza de Armas or the large 

 cejitral s(juare of the city. a]id I set 



oil I'uiniing thither at top speed. As I 

 ])assed tile American C'lul) there tuni- 

 ble(l From the big front entrance pell- 

 mell into the street perhaps a dozen 

 men who joined me, rnnning toward 

 the plaz;i. i>y the time we reached 

 there peo])le sketchily clad were pour- 

 ing into it from all sides. 'J'lie air was 

 filled with a fine impalpable dust from 

 the fallen adobe walls and a mist had 

 drawn over the moon. 



Slight tremors followed one after an- 

 other almost without cessation. One 

 felt instinctively that it was not over 

 and all braced themselves for the next 

 shock. At half past eleven the ground 



The new market on the Plaza de Armas in front of the Cathedral. — The stalls were removed 

 from the old market to this o])en spai-e and business goes on in the new quarters as usual 



Church of the Sanctuary. — In the foreground are temporary slielters with sides (if matting and 

 cloth and roofs of sheet iron 



