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THE MORSISG OKEGOXIAy, MONDAY. APRIL 22, 1918." 5
CALIFORNIA TOWNS 2 SAH JAC1HTD iD 1 jy . . 1 -""' 1 "
LEVELED BY QUAKE
Hemet and San Jacinto Are
. Greatest Sufferers From
Temblor.
LOS ANGELES CITY SHAKEN
r-errral Injured and One Man Falls
Off Pier at Santa Monl-a and
1 Killed Miners Entombed
When Walla GWe Way.
rn:;rn't r-m Tlrt '. V-
from the Courthouse cornice and win
dows were broken.
At Banning the front of the
Oddfellows building fell out, strik
ing two automobile which had just
been vacated by their passengers.
The tremor wu first reported from
Barstow at 3:30 and apparently
moved east and south from that point,
becoming most severe in the Hemet
aad San Jacinto section and further
north about San Bernardino.
Coming on toward the coast, the
tremor did slight damage at Whittier
and other intervening points and then
struck Los Angeles at 3:32 P. M- two
shocks being recorded. Their dura
tion was estimated at 10 seconds and
30 seconds, respectively.
In the city, the earthrruake broke a
number of large plate glass windows
in office buildings. There was almost
a panic in theaters and picture-houses
and one woman. Mrs. A. Jacoby, was
struck on the head by an iron fire
escape, lowered from above as she
stepped from a theater sule entrance.
The City Hall stands two .inches
from an adjacent buildi.ig. The trem
or swayed them together and crushed
off brick and stone dust. There was
a panic among the prisoners in the
City Jail when glass crashed from the
upper windows. Bricks fell from the
cornice to th street.
A mectine of the "Half Century
Club" was iti progress at ' the old
Normal Center, in the heart of the
riM. Tin- chandelier swayed about
mid a pan),- a narrowly averted by
:lir It.iml ilitni "America.""
At SunU Mnmra a crowd wan on the
mi.iii. j.i.r. which swayed pcrilous
v. Mini li the rueh to escape. Frank
K. I'arn. i:. a retired manufacturer of
! .i.I.s. thrown down and
trsmpled to death.
Tht- ht:lihu- at Santa Monica ran
on wis lmot the scene of a panic
k h.-n the l.u.Mins nave. I and creaked.
K-miiim.- palroiw emerged entirely un
i ltlid nl Hi- re was a mad scramble,
first t. -t't aivay from the dressing
iwmj and then to get back.
eeral Hart Pier.
Several luimlrrtl pleasure seekera on
the Fterfoi.do pier inade a runh for land
nn the pier began to away and aer
rral were llnhtly hurt in the result
ing rru.-h.
At L.nit Brach aeveral larce office
tiuiMtnicd mrre severely ahakeo and
numerous windows were broken. There
were .'crnal small panics In public
in. Mm places, but It was reported
th-t no o:i. had been seriously hurt.
Tiie earthquake apparently was not
-ruus v-r far south, as reports from
Imt il.il Valli-y points vald II had not
lamaicrij any of the towns In that
l-art of the state, although It reached
there at J:3 P. L
lHxms of plate glass window were
sh.itiere.l in the huaines district, the
worst sufferers in this respect belnK
(lie ll.iml'urx hull. Una and the Vnlon
il btitliltuK. the irround floor of the
Ijiter Ivrint ot-tupied by the iSuaranty
Trust Sttino Company.
Trlrpkaar C.lrla Fatal.
Several operators In the office of the
Southern California Telephone Companv
fainted at their boards, but none left
their posts, and aside from being
ewwmped by hundreds of calla from
ei.-ited ritisens ther suffered no more
until the wires went down In the city.
Showers of small bits of mortar from
the nir hall on Broadway made a red
frinae In front of the building, and pe
destrians detoured for several hours. The
id Los Angrlea High School on North
II ;T1 street was severely shaken and
numerous brliks fell from the cornice,
t'tit a tower, although swayed by the
stto.-k. remained Intact.
!;.rrt were current tonight that
eer larre office butldincs had Jeen
thmsn out of plumb.' While to the
ul c?e this report appeared to be
justified, no verification was available
ttn:ht
The Washington building, a large
loistnesa structure on Spring street.
perceptibly separated from the
I'uirirr building. Immediately adjoln-
itc.
.iiads of plainclothes men were
hurried to various centers of traffic
- the detective bureau, all traffic men
Inline been off duty at the time. They
,'i..-l adjusted the streams of auto
iMi'biics which were hastening eut of
he huemess section and no traffic sc-
.dents were r. purled.
Aaskaljivee t aaikl la Taaael.
The ambulence from the Kmergency
Ijo.pltal ws returning from a call
'.evond the Third-street tunnel and
midway through the long bore
when the shock started. A patient in
t: vehicle was severely Jostled and
Mift'ered some concussions.
There were numeroua Instances of
... 'raming women and excited men in
-canty attire ru.-hing Into the streets
when trie firt shock was felt In the
p-rtment-houe situated about town,
'r was the hour of Sunday afternoon
-ieta. for hundreds of people and the
t ostumea that were donned for quick
escape were informal and In some In
stances extremely plrturesque.
Operators in t central office of the
I nited State Long Distance Telephone
'ocrsrany. in the Currier building, left
their boards in trrror when the build
ing nioved away from the Washington
nuildtng adjoining. The girls went
down the fire tacmprm to safety. The
n:y operator remaining on duty was
Mi Uavideon. th" chief, who stayed
oy the boarda throughout.
I.OS ASUKU. Cal.. April II. City
officials reported tonight that the
aqueduct which carries the city. water
supply waa undamaaed. or at least
had not suffered breaks of sertous
enough consequence to manifest them
selves. SAN BERNARDINO. CaL. April II.
Tweaty brick buildings were destroyed
.nd one woman probably fatally In
jured, when the earthquake reached
Memct today, acconling to J. O. 1:1. le
auur, of l cit), who left Uemcl by
inn ipipi) n uii biiu i t. i - r .-en.
nRiizi i-i.-.K ntliltl ULuinuiLU Jy f i - n&v
had apparently been crushed under a jt er5s5?-"J. "
falling wall. He said she was being fPS v Sf 9 ' fcJpMSfc. II
cared for In one of the few remaining Vf W'' ':::VL
buildings, and aearrh wan being made M jS&SSw, '' )r&L$ ff:r:- i
ZcIwt po8' Temblor Shakes 36 Business " &' TBw' .
X": Buildings Down in Two I f3Q' VJWWA
office and the bank, according to re- f.: T..,.,c. 1 1 If . . .'7!r5WS.-: ::: Mi" : ii
porta received here from persons who CalltOmia I 0 WnS. 1 iMfSr-Mj(t&W lift-: : 5 5 "i W '
fled after the earthquake late today. AScSTI II VCTJ IKlSriAni I lllff Jf JlV : :::!":::;;:: i
TERRIS. Cal.. April II. Several
chimneys were shaken and homes and
business buildings were tottered by the
earthquake shock today. The damage
was slight.
At Bernastonl Hot Springs, eight
miles north of here. It was reported
the shock caused a wide crack at the
springs and that there issued clouds
of steam. Some said smoke and flames
were emitted.
At Little l-ake. the home of a ranch
er named Cook, was so shaken It took
fire from a stove and was burned com
pletely. Klfty or more automobiles that
passed through here today on Sunday
trl.s to the San Jacinto Mountains are
reported to be held In the hills by the
destruction of parts of the roads lead
ing from the mountains.
It was reported here tonight that
several cars were struck by falling
WHERE EARTHQUAKE CREATED HAVOO I,V SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.
All Tewaa aa .Map Kxeept faa Diego Suffered. Hemet. Mom at Right,
Was Destroyed, aad Jaelato, earby Waa Hadly Damaged.
boulders from the mountain slopes. No
reports of Injuries to drivers or pas
sengers were received. Toward Hemet
and San Jacinto the concrete roads and
highways were broken and buckled In
many places.
KL. CENTRO. Cal.. April II. An
earthquake shock lasting six minutes
... - . r I toHnv did
slight damage here and destroyed two
auooe nouses in jioairut ju" .c.vr..
the international boundary In Mexico.
Some excitement waa created In pic
ture shows and other places and a few
nersons were slightly Injured in the
rushes for safety
F.EDLANDS. Cal.. April 21. Two
chimneys fell through the roof of the
Loma Linda Sanitarium, between this
city and San Bernardino, when the
earthquake occurred late today. Injur
ing one patient and two employes. The
patient was Mrs. Mary Scear. of Chi
cago. She was said to be quite seri
ously hurt.
The employes were Miss Grace Water
and J. k. Casey, respectively, telephone
operator and clerk. They were struck
by falling bricks as they attempted to
leave the building.
The Southwestern Home Telephone
Company office at San Jacinto was
wrecked by the earthquake today. E. R.
Kisher. operator there, reported to
headquarters here.
INDIO. Cal, April II. This point ex
perienced a severe earthquake shock
today at 1 30. goods being shaken from
the shelves in the stores, chimneys
overthrown and windows broken.
Heavy clouds of dust resembling
smoke obscured the San Jacinto Moun
tains and the upper part of Palm Can
yon, the dust being so heavy that many
persons here believed some of the old
craters In the hills had renewed their
activity. Artesian wells at Mecca were
reported to be damaged by the earth
motion.
SAN BERNARDINO. Cal.. April tl.
According to reports received here by
Santa Ke officials. the earthquake,
which caused much damage at Hemet
and adjacent points late today, was
felt as far east as Milford. Utah, and
was also felt at Selegman. Ariz.
Car "hops Daaiaged.
The damage here Included about
S:00d destruction at the Santa Fe shops,
where the machine shop roof was bad
ly damaged and other buildings were
thrown out of plumb.
At a small station on the Southern
Pacific railed Cabaxon a freight train
was derailed by the shock. 11 cars
leaving the track. Two water tanks In
the same region were leveled.
PHOENIX. Arlx.. April II. Sltght
earth tremors were felt here at about
4 o clock this afternoon by persons in
the upper Mories of buildings. The
shaking of windows and the swaying
of transoms continued for IS or -0 min
utes. SAN JOSE. Cal.. April II. J. S.
Ricard. professor In charge of the ob
servatory at Santa Clara Cnlvrrsity,
said there waa no record of an earth
quake on the seismograph there.
RAN DIEIJO. Cal.. April II. A dis
tinct tremor, the result, apparently,
of an earthquake whose center was
manv miles distant, was felt here at
j j T. M. today. The observer at the
seismograph of the Theosophleal In
stitute at Toint Loma said It was the
hardest shock recorded here in 12
years, the life of the Instrument. No
damage resulted here or in other parts
of San Diego County. The wave seemed
to come from the southeast.
BCFPAIaj. N. T April II. Severe
earthquake shocks were recorded on
the seismocraph at Canisius College
here tonight. There was no indication
of the direction of the earthquake, but
the renter was within a radius of
IJ00 miles.
Chaplain Groves Retired.
VANCOUVER. Wash, April SI.
(Special.) Chaplain llie R. Groves,
a rhanlaln In the regular Army for the
past 13 years, has been retired from
active service on account of physical
disability. Mr. and Mrs. Groves will
leave for New Tork soon, later going
to California to locate permaanently.
He entered the service in October, 1S9.
and first came to Vancouver In Feb
ruary. 1T. when Colonel Anderson,
later General, was In command of the
14th Infantry. He has been at various
posts xince then, returning here last
rear with the 1U-.
TWO LIVES KNOWN LOST I . , '
Proer.y Estimated t $.50,- - J ' Klf MllSu !
0..0 in Each Place Eruption of I v ' UKIM. jgip
HEMET. Cal.. April II. The towns
of T-lemet and San Jacinto, which lie
north of here a distance of about two
miles on the same branch of the Atchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, were
both seriously damaged by a severe
earthquake shock which occurred at
3:30 P. M.
The total number. of business build
ings destroyed here was 21 and at San
Jacinto 15. In addition a number of
brick residences were shaken down at
each place.
Frame and concrete construction
withstood the tremors which continued
at both places Intermittently until after
S o'clock, although all of the damage
followed the initial shocks. Subse
quent tremors were more in the nature
of rumblings."
The property damage here Is esti
mated at 3250,000 by merchants and
property owners who suffered the most
loss. The San Jacinto damage was
estimated at a like sum.
Prdestriaas Thrown Down.
The quake, which uame with such
warnings as was afforded by a brief
light shock lasting perhaps 10 seconds,
was the most severe ever experienced
here. For 30 seconds the buildings
rocked and swayed and the ground
heaved so that persons standing in the
streets and fleeing from their homes
were thrown from their feet.
As the ground tremors decreased, the
walls of the brick buildings in the
business section fell, some toppling Into
the streets, while others fell inward.
Koofs creaked and groaned and then
fell, often giving way before the side
walls had started to go.
The hills surrounding the towns were
obscured by a dense haze, which many
people first believed presaged an erup
tion from some old volcanic crater, but
which were found later to have been
caused by dense clouds of dust. One
man. who was watching the hills at
the time of the greatest disturbance,
said that Strawberry Peak, a large
mountain, appeared to rise bodily and
then drop back into place. No word
has been received from the numerous
families settled on its slopes, but it
was assumed here that they escaped
personal harm, as did most people In
the two towns.
Wafer System Daaiaged.
' Confusion was added to the destruc
tion here by damage to the lines of
the water company, which takes Its
flow from a nearby stream. Its dam
was saved undamaged, but the distrib
uting system was severely damaged.
Uas mains were also badly broken.
A peculiarity of the action of the earth
quake here was tnat the Vosberg
Hotel, a frame structure, withstood the
shock, while its brick neighbors were
shaken flat.
There was no disorder at either town,
the Home Guards here having turned
out promptly and taken charge of the
policing while a hastily organized force
of citizens performed the same service
at. San Jacinto.
At both places persons sustained
slight injuries from flying glass and
falling brick but. owing to the fact
that the most damage occurred in the
business districts, which were prac
tically deserted at that hour on Sun
day afternoon, the casualties were neg
ligible. lajnred Takra fa Hospital.
The only serious casualties In this
section were reported from a magnes
Ite mine near Winchester, where it was
reported that two men were entombed
by falling earth and several others in
jured. The injured were removed to
Riverside for treatment. It was re
ported. E. L. Barros, of San Bernardino, re
ported that he saw evidences pf an
eruption on the south slope of San
Jacinto Mountain and was positive
that he saw flames from a fissure
there. Other persons, however, set
down the apparent presence of smoke
and possible flames to the action of the
dust and sunlight.
SAN JACINTO. Cal.. April 21. Re
ports received here from the magnesite
mine near Manchester, where two men
were entombed by the earthquake to
day, raid that an air shaft had been
pierced to them and their rescue was
expected to follow in a few hours. A
crew is working tonight to complete
the rescue.
The San Jacinto River, which was
dry before the earthquake, is running
with a stream a foot deep and 60 feet
wide. This Is believed to be the di
verted supply from an irrigation sys
tem at the base of San Jacinto Moun-"
lain,, which auddeuly. went dry.
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BAY CITY ESCAPES
California Earthquake Con
fined to South.
EARTH FAULT IS BLAMED
Balmy "Weather Now Prevailing Sim
ilar to That Preceding Great
Temblor Which Destroyed :
San Francisco in 1906.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 21. Today's
earthquake In Southern California
came within three days of the anniver
sary of an earthquake here. April 18.
1906. - which, with a resultant nr.
h three days, destroyed minions oi
dollars' worth of property and cost
scores of lives, the exact toll never
having been ascertainea. . ne
for the past week, as In the year 1906.
as abnormally warm ana Danny.
tv felt none of today's shake.
i. . .I,, o.kA was felt alone some
Ann ,ie. of what is known as the San
Andreas fault. Palo Alto, the seat of
Leland Stanford Jr. university,
Jose. San Francisco and Santa Ross, all
grouped within a raaius ol iv
felt that shock most severely. Stanford
University practically was renuui,
as downtown San r rancisco.
In 1872 an earthquake shook Inyo
r, ... ... ,,. sntitneasc ooruon 01
California, causing a loss of 60 lives in
le town of lone r-ine ana a pioyc, i,
? of 3132.000. This earthquake was
ilt well up toward Central California.
These distumances r- wi vm. "-
jor one in 'mi
state. They were caused, according to
ones In the modern nisiory oi me
scientists, by "faults in me carin s
surface. If one were to nmo -
pie. and crack it along the edge, the
crack would represent just sucn a
'fault." When interior stresses occur
in the earth, these faults sup, under
pressure, and tnere is a quane. i nt
faults are visidic in ins oierriia iwr
niles, the earth-slip oeing in some
places five feet high.
Hcraet and can jacimu, susrch op
today, found It no new experience. In
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PHEGLEY &
CORNER FOURTH AND ALDER STREETS
1899 Hemet was virtually destroyed,
scarcely a building being left intact.
Since then buirding in brick has been
unpopular among most of the citizens.
San Jacinto Peak is an extinct volcano
and disturbances in its vicinity have
been frequent for years.
BERKELEY, CaT. April 21. The
seismograph at the University of Cali
fornia registered a very strong shock
today, the movement of the ground at
Berkeley commencing at 3:33:57 P. M
and continuing to 6:40 P. M., according
to Professor B. D. Davis, head of the
geological department. The disturbance
as registered In- the seismograph was
approximately 450 miles southeast of
here.
The maximum phase of the shock
was not recorded. Professor Davis said,
because the needle was thrown off the
recording drum during the maximum
I phase of the disturbance.
RAZED TOWXS OF GREAT AGE
Hemet Environment Made Immortal
by Romance of "Ramona."
San Jacinto and Hemet, reported de
stroyed yesterday by an earthquake,
are situated in a sequestered valley
formed by the San Jacinto Mountains to
the east and the Santa Ana Mountains
on the west. The two towns are among
the oldest in California and their his
tory abounds in the romance of the
West. Around Hemet were laid the
scenes of Helen Hunt Jackson's Indian
novel, "Ramona."
Hemet lies almost in the center of
mm
The phase of final disposition of the remains of the departed is a
feature of great solace in the array of sentiment which is everywhere
favoring cremation. . . .
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CAVENDER
the Hemet Valley. The great Hamet
dam, which holds a reserve of irriga
tion water in case of shortage in other
sources, has not been reported damaged.
Hemet itself is situated at an elevation
of 1600 feet, while the reservoir is ap
proximately 4400 feet above sea level.
San Jacinto, one of the oldest towns
of California, lies in a valley 10 miles
broad by 20 miles long and is situated
at the base of San Jacinto peak, an ex
tinct volcano, which reaches a height
of 11.000 feet. .
The valley oontains many medicinal
and mineral springs. Some oi inese
snriners are situated in famous resorts,
such as Idyllwtld, the exact scene of
"Ramona." . The Indian vlllege of So
boba, made fauos in Helen Hunt Jack
son's domanee, is near &an jacinco.
Six Indian squaws were killed in an
earthouake in 1899. which was felt gen
erally over the same area affected by
today tremblor.
MILITARY RULES IRELAND
Principal Utilities Taken Over by
Army Authorities.
LONDON, April 22. The military au
thorlttes have taken over control of the
principal Irish railways, postofflces and
telephone exchanges, according to the
correspondent at Cork of the Daily
Chronicle.
It Is added that the police on Satur
day removed all arms and ammunition
from gunsmith shops In Dublin, while
brtlandfMhatorium
:i Permanency
Though you may
travel to the ends of the earth
and be gone for years, you will
always know that the remains
of vour dead beloved in the
Columbarium of the Portland Crematorium
are in the same beautiful surroundings
yesr after year.
I
it Is reported that similar action will
be taken throughout Ireland.
Wheat Foods Under Ban.
NEW TORK, April 21. Approximate
ly 75,000 club members in New Yor-k
City have approved the action of their
governing boards in ruling that after
next Thursday no wheat foods shall be
served in their clubs until the arrival
of the new crops, it was announced here
today by the Federal Food Board.
Storm curtains have been designed
for protecting occupants of motorcycle
side cars.
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