Guatemalans fearful after quake

SAN MARCOS, Guatemala -- Guatemalans fearing aftershocks huddled in the dark and frigid streets of the mountain town early Thursday. Others crowded inside its hospital, the only building left with electricity after a powerful earthquake killed at least 48 people and left dozens more missing.

Crews worked through the night in San Marcos, searching rubble for survivors and more dead following the magnitude 7.4 quake that struck Wednesday near Guatemala's border with Mexico.

In San Cristobal Cochu, firefighters picked at a collapsed house trying to dig out 10 members of one family.

Volunteers carrying boxes of medical supplies began arriving in western Guatemala late Wednesday.

including a 4-year-old child, who were buried, fire department spokesman Ovidio Perez told the radio station Emisoras Unidas.

to provide aid for the only hospital in San Marcos, a poor, mainly indigenous mountain area of subsistence farms. When the quake hit, the group decided to bring everything they had collected.