Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 816.48/14

Consular Agent Makinson to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Counsular Agency,
Amapala [undated; received June 15, 1917, 7.15 p.m.]

Telegraphic communication with San Salvador subject delay and censor, official statement of catastrophe is not published, martial law proclaimed, all buildings ruined or badly damaged, loss life small in capital, heavy in suburbs, population quartered streets and parks; towns of Santa Tecla, Quetzaltepeque, Armenia, wiped out, lava flow interrupts San Salvador-Acajutla Railway; money, food, doctors and workmen arriving from other cities; conditions now improving.

Makinson