The New York Times · 14 July 1927
CP-1927-029
400 Bodies of Victims Recovered
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400 Bodies of Victims Recovered. JERUSALEM, July 13 (Jewish Tele- graphic Agency). - Four hundred bodies have been recovered from the debris of the earthquake Monday afternoon in Palestine cities and villages. suffered by public and The loss private buildings in the earthquake was set at $1,250,000 in a tentative estimate made today.
According list compiled by • to the the authorities, the nunber of in- jured was placed at 450. The list shows that eight were killed in of Transjor- capital Amman, the dania, and eighty-five in Es Salt. No casualties were repo ted among the Jewish population in tie country.
Thousands of families all over the country spent last night in the open air, fearing a repetition of the earth- quake. Not a house in Jerisalem or Hebron is without some damage. Two synagogues, one in Jerusalem, the other in Tiberias, were de- stroyed. In several Palestinian towns the Mo
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"400 Bodies of Victims Recovered," The New York Times, 14 July 1927. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1927-029. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1927-029
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