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RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE REFORMA DISTRICT OF Guadalajara, Mexico, had complained bitterly last Tuesday about the strong smell, like gasoline's, that was wafting up from the sewers. City officials could not find any leak, however, and called off their investigation just hours before a series of explosions ripped up the streets Wednesday morning. More than 200 people died, and 15,000 others lost their homes...
...when the earth began to heave. Up to half a million residents crowded the Metro, bound for work or for classes. A few schools were already open, and the inevitable morning traffic jam was slowing movement on the streets, even on the tree-lined, eight-lane Paseo de la Reforma, the grand boulevard that extends through the center of the city...
...Continental Hotel, on the Reforma, Eva Hernandez, a Costa Rican tourist, was staying in Room 930. "It started to shake," she said. "We ran out of the room. We ran down the stairs and we ran and ran. The building was falling all around us. Rocks were falling on us. My roommate fell and her pajamas were torn off, but we kept on running. Now there is nothing there, where we were. Nothing." The hotel's top two floors had collapsed, spewing debris onto the boulevard below...
Some of the city's older hotels became casualties. The Regis, just off the Reforma, collapsed on itself; also hard hit were the Diplomatico, the De Carlo, the Versalles, the Montreal and the Principado. About six others reported less severe damage. At least ten major government buildings were affected, including the ministries of marine, labor and commerce, as well as the complex housing the state-owned Telefonos de Mexico. The destruction of government offices did not distress a cynical cabdriver, who commented, "Maybe there...
...thousands of U.S. citizens and residents with relatives in Mexico find out whether their kinfolk had survived. The U.S. State Department at first was able to communicate with its Mexico City embassy only by radio. Later, special telephone lines were established. The embassy, a massive modern building on the Reforma, was not damaged...