Stunned by Quake, Mexican Town Fears It ‘Will Never Be the Same’<br />" said José Antonio, "is destroyed." Elisabeth Malkin reported from Jojutla,<br />and Azam Ahmed from Mexico City. that Everything that our father left us,<br />Their home was gone, reduced to crumbled bits of adobe<br />that now held a menagerie of odds and ends pulled from the wreckage after Tuesday’s earthquake, which leveled large parts of Jojutla, a town unaccustomed to earthquakes, and left at least 28 people dead.<br />At a school building that collapsed onto dozens of students in Mexico City, officials gave a final assessment of the toll, which was lower than initially announced: 19 dead children and six dead adults, with the faint hope<br />that a member of the custodial staff might still be alive under the debris.<br />Hilda Nava Batalla said that We have seen this on television but we never imagined it could happen to us,<br />Aid trucks have begun arriving from Mexico City, but the continued need in Jojutla is in some<br />ways a reflection of the disparity between the capital and the nation’s more rural areas.<br />Jojutla, with 60,000 residents in Morelos State, is near the epicenter of the earthquake and was among the hardest-hit places in all of Mexico.
