Balboa, Banat Canal Zone, Mar. 31.
APORTS received here into to-night by officers attached to the United States Naval Headquarters declare that at Toast 1,000 persons died in the earthquakes which shook Nicaragua to-day and in the conflagration which swept Managua, Damage, according to United States Naval advices, amounts to G.$35,000,000, All American naval vessels and aeroplanes in Caribbean waters as well as those on the Pacific side of the Central American isthmus are proceeding to both coasts of Nicaragua to aid in the relief work. Already aeroplanes operated by Pan-American Airways, Inc, "are evacuating American survivors from Managui United Press dispatches from Corinto report that refugees arriving there from Managua are fearful that the toll of death and destruction will pass even the most liberal estimates yet made, The refugees declare that Managua is now but a vast ruin, Not a building is left standing in the city which only Yesterday provided homes for 50,000 people. Fire still rages in Managua, The fate of many American residents of the city ig still unknown.—United Press, Managua, Nicaragua, Mar. 31. extent of the calamity.—United Eleven violent earthquakes were! istinetly recorded over a period of
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