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Qmetepee 
came near Ctoietepec we met large numbers of people on foot or riding 
mules, burros, or horses. Some of the women astride. They were on 
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their way home from market day at Qnetepec. Reaching the latter place, 
we found no place to stop at at first, as there is no hotel or other 
guest house in town. Finally we found the store of Mr. Luis Mendez, an 
American who has lived here a long time and were given the privilege of 
stopping there while in town. 
This place contains several thousand people but is a very poor app¬ 
earing town as the houses are nearly all of very rough primitive archi¬ 
tecture. We were particularly surprised to see the almost ruinous con¬ 
dition of the place from effects of the earthquake of November 2, 1894. 
The walls are seamed and cracked in all directions} porches were fallen, 
and a number of houses fell during and after the earthquake. The en¬ 
tire town appears as if ready to come to the ground at the next sharp 
shock. 
During the night of the llth-12th, three sets of light shocks were 
felt. First came 3 shocks in quick succession,- the first one awoke us 
and when the roof and walls began to creak from the second and severest 
one a few moments later, I sprang for the door. Goldman attempted to 
follow but damaged his shin against the corner of a box on his way, 
while a Spanish clerk who slept back of us sprang wildly against our 
cots and we could hear him struggling to get by and becoming more 
frightened as he made more noise. When 1316 shocks were passed, he went 
back to bed groaning and acting as if quite ill for some minutes. 
Since November 2nd wc are told that slight shocks have occurred here 
very frequently. From the extent of damage to the houses here it is 
evident that this earthquake was much heavier here than at any other 
place we have visited. 
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