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THE NEWS
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C93. (Every Morning Except Monday) KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1925.
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Price Five Cento
ORADIC QUAKES CONTINUING
'RE. TRUNK ASKS EAST - ROUTE
rnerAnnounces
tentionTo Come
City From East
ress I. C. C. Application for Permis
n to Build South From Bend Via La
e, Crescent, Bonanza, Olene and Into
F. From East; Surveys to Be Com-
eted in Few Weeks.
it Mitern rout of the two Oregon Trunk railroad ur
Br tb proposed extension of that road from Bend to
lb Fall it the choice of the Northern lines in their
program, W. F. Turner, president of the Oregon Trunk,
hrivtd in Klamath Falls early yesterday afternoon from
fed, hat announced. The Oregon Trunk will press their
lion to the interstate commerce commission to build
laterly line which will go by the way of Olene, Bonanza,
tad Crescent.
anouncement of the easterly route is significant to de
tent of the Klamath country for two main reasons.
I meant that the Northern lines intend to extend here
end without seeking common user with the Southern
even for a short distance. Second, while the easterly
'ill be slightly longer in mileage, .it will develop a fer
dion of the Klamath country, open up new territory,
the same time tap the great timber resources to the
ind east.
he announcement of preference for the easterly route is
n'e in local railroad circles, the majority believing that
uteri y route would be the Northern lines' preference.
rer, it is met as great news because of the fact that the
Jly route will do more toward development of the Klam-
kintry, and provide two distinct railroad lines into Klam-
Us The Natron cut-off (S. P. main line) and the new
in Trunk extension.
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FINISHING TOUCHES
TO SANTA BARBARA
COME AT 1:20 A M.
Scores K. F. People
Anxiously Awaiting
Word From Santa B.
Western Union and Klam
ath Newt Besieged Last
Night For Word
City Deserted After Final Shock This
Morning; Conservative Death List Is 13;
300 Injured, Damage Placed At $20,000,
000; Sailors, Marines and Los Angeles
Police Keeping Order. .
SANTA BARBARA, June 30. (Tuesday) (United
News) A tremendous earth shock hit Santa Barbara at
1 :20 a. m. Joday. It equalled in violence, apparently, the '
original quake of 6:45 a. m. yesterday. The sleeping city
Scores of Klamath Fills people
with relative In earthquake strick
en Santa Barbara besieged the local
Western Union offices sending in-!
niArtft and anxloufllv awaltinc re-1
plies concering the safety ot their i was brought to it rcet again terror stricken, in an instant.
loved ones. !n , 1 i . i . . i
Edward Eaninoaa. 709 CDhim lu new 'n"" w lnKle TloleI ucnlor aceorapoiueu
street, an employe of 'the Klamath, by a terrific crashing as the ruins crumbled further and
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more wans reii in. 1 ne earu coniinuea to snsjee sugnuy
W. F. Turner, president of the Oregon Trunk railroad,
whose announcement yesterday that the Oregon Trunk would
come into Klamath Falls via the easterly route, thereby open-
I inff n vast territory in the Klamath country. Mr. Turner rose
from the ranks of a Hill line accounting deportment to his'
present position as the Oregon Trunk's chief executive.
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Is Modification Of
U System ; Parallel
Parking Oooosed-
parking syatem for Main
10 blocks Of Hllh alrant wm
r1 by the majority of tlio
fuim at tholr speclnl mooting
B. Young at the council
fbt modification of th nrmuint
P- whereby the cars will go
curb on an nnslp nf 4S
r or ln, keoplng tholr rear
ildo a white line riinnlna
tO. nnil rniiplnan tant mil
CUrh. 1nvln - in.r.ni
cloar for traffic In th coninr.
'''"f antunri ni
'r a harallnl h.pVln. rlnht
t" le curb, claiming that his
treet rnr. i k. .... ,.,
run here within- 30 daya.
eerioualy lnconronlcnccd
ient 45 desree narklni
!ttiiAl. ...um rvnqi, yuivr
"uckoy appeared to nnnon thn
to OarnllAl . i u
cltnen tinh.i. j i..-.
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waa nni
council.
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ibi. '""n would not put
k ' '"Mlpnient. auch aa he pro
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N i,?1 "'"eta. The Council
Mir, " "ln, ere BTallnble for
'notkn thB"e "trBat". they
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mull he rnle(.
rote,
a regular
matter
as the
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Saturday Night Baths
Called Off Until An
Airplane Brings Towels
No groater mishap could befall
a group of lumberjacks on a Sat
urday night, with bath time ap
proaching anil no clean tnwola.
But that la Jimt what confronted
the boys In Jerome, Calif.. 40
miles south of hero, when the
New City laundry ot Klamalh
Kulls ni limed the train with a big
baiikot of lumkerjacks' lauudiy.
Hut a bright idoa struck the
laundry owner Juat as Krcnch'a
alrplano hovo In eight over tho
horlton. There's nothing alow
about the laundry. - And Ihoro
waa nothing alow about tho air
plane that dollvored the gooda.
And there was nothing slow about
the lumhorjacka. They bathed.
Eye Witness Wires Graphic
Earthquake Story To News
Santa Barbara Fireman Tells Of Disaster Scene; Women
Frantic In Hotel When Quake Occurs; Firemen Rescue
Occupants With Ladders
News Is the only one thus far to
receive an "O.K." message from his
mother. It was filed at ( p. m.
and reached here 25 minutes later.
Indicating that wire service Is about
normal. Personal messages regard
ing safety are being given prefer
ence. Walter Stronach, foreman of the
Klamath News, has' not heard from
his mother who is a resident ot
Santa Barbara, ' .. -
Mrs.-H; W. Coburn. White "pell
can hotel manager, . who .has rela
tives and host of friends, and 'power that laid the city in ruins,
whnaa fnm.f hiimi ci . n Cant. I
Barbara ! anxiously awaiting some The death list Still stands at
word.
Otto Lorens, 641 High street,
has heard no word from his mother
in Santa Barbara. Lorens await
ed 'word In the News Office.
P. O. Landrey. 1221 Crescent
avenue. whn mother and two sis-
for several minutes after the crashv ( :
The exodus from Santa Barbara was on in earnest
early today the crashing shock at 1 :20 a. m., having shak
en the faith of tHose who were brave enough to remain
after the orignal quake in the hope that "it's all over.".
- Only the bright frail flowers of Santa Barbara smile
this morning as other mornings, spared "by the mighty
13, subject to. possble
slight increase if additional bodies are recovered from
the ruins. i
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 30. (12:30 a. m.)
(United News) At 5:35 d. m. a distinct, but sliffht earth
ters are in Santa Barbara anxiously i .,. e , - c . ......
besieged the News office for some ! hoc wa aa'n felt ln SnU Barbara.
Anotner sligbt quake was telt at H:Zt p. m.
Beautiful Santa Barbara, twisted and torn by violent
earthquakes, mourns its 13 dead and 300 injured.
The famous resort city is now a scene of sad and black
ened desolation, State street, the palm-lined main thoroughfare
is a mass of charred ruins from the Arlington hotel to oaean.
WATER MAINS BREAK
Broken water mains, torn anart bv the violence of the
bara and are anxiously awaiting I j n. .. r .1 .
late word.
Mrs. Fred Hellbronner, 824 Con
ger ave., has relatives In the strick
en city as well ss Vera and Joan
Thompson, and the Conlcks.
G. T. Smallman, and C. G. Bar
ker, tourists, the former who Just
arrived from Crater .lake and the
latter who Is stopping at the Alta-
mont camp, both live ln Santa Bar-
Houghton Seriously
III From Poisoning
Frank W. Stronach, cousin of Walter Stronach, of
the Klamath Npws. last night wired "a vivid eye-witness
story, of one phase 'of the Santa Barbara earthquake.
Frank is a city fireman in Santa Barbara. He aided ma
terially in rescuing occupants of the Carillo hotel. The
. story was dictated while Stronach was sipping a hurried
cup of coffee in a telegraph'office, and dispatched to the
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word regarding their fleatives and
tholr property. Both Smallman and
Barker knew some ot tbe dead vic
tims. Miss Esther McAndrews, who
taught school in Santa Barbara only
arrived home a few days ago to
spend the summer with her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. M. McAndrews.
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"I was awnkenod by tho first tre
mendous shock," ho snid. "and
hoard tho tower of the central fire
station crack ovor my head. Wo
rushed Ihe equipment from the
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alronf thn ftnn
Claudo Houghton, head or '"sk"'" started to slido In.
operations for the J?" ''""""M Dust i groat clouds' roso
Co.. wss reported jasi niBiiv rulne(, notoI building, while
in a dangerous connuion irom b k , u wer0 BtllI grcator clouds, i
w got to the
now Cnrrillo Hotel
from
suf-
nnlHfinlnff at
h.,.imi Houghton rocontly
forcd a slight Injury to his right
hand, which developed serious com
nllcstlons. The injured man Is a
member of the Klamath Klks lodge,
and his wire. Mrs.' Gloria Houghton,
la owner of the Imperial rooms on
Mnln street, below the White Pelican
hotel.
I Fined For Causing
Serious Fire Menace
ascending Into the still morning air
from the conter ot the buHiness sec
tion. "A sustained roaring was kept up
during all the first heavy shocks, sa walls and fulling houses didn't help
one excited man. stark naked,
Jumped out on tho top of a ladder,
missed tiio rungs, nnd skidded down
to tho Btreet. where he proceeded
to run around In circles until one
ot the boys kidnaped htm and took
him Into tho fire house.
"We carried out a number of un
conscious women, none ot thorn ap
parently badly hurt.
"About the time we had a num
ber of women on the ladders, more
shocks came. It was ticklish busi
ness hanging onto extension ladders
that were circling crazily through
tho air. A background of crumbling
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w.' Mr- Uobert Llndley
I " of Medford, spent slons,
at odenas near
I'lntllny in company
k-end
C G. Pebhler, manager for the
Perkins furniture store was hnled
Into police court yeHtenlny. charged
with permitting trash to accumulate
the rear of the Perkins store,
contrary to the city fire ordinance,
nnd owing to the firm having been
warned on several previous occs-
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one wall after another buckled and
slid to the Btreet In avnlnnebes ot
debris.
"We devoted our atteutlun to the
Carrillo hotel, which was crowded
almost lo the capacity of Its 200
rooms. It is a tivetory Spanish
type building. Women and men
wore screaming through the gloss
less windows. Their voices sounded
tiny and shrill against the thunder.
to steady a man's nerve, either.'
The Carrillo structure was stand
ing tonight, a dark skeleton against
the star-lit sky.
FROM C0O9 BAY
nr. and Mrs. William Horsfall, ac
companied by Dr. Horsfull's mother,
Mrs. Sarah Horntall and their
daughter, Miss Marian Horsfall
Indian Charged With
Intent To Kill After
Robbery at WIul-Kse
"Kvldontly tho Interior stairways spent Inst night In Klamath
had given way. 1 ho elevators, or
course were useless. I
"We ran lndders to tho upper
Lawlessness at the Indian con
vention at Wlul-Kso, which has been
expected since the opening ot the
meeting, made ilts first apperance
lost night when Watklns Davis,
young Indian, was placed in the
county Jail under bonds of $1,000,
charged with robbery and tntont
to kill.
According to witnesses of the
affair, Davis early on the morning
of Juno 28. In an intoxicated con
dition entered the tent of Elvira
Blow, Indian woman of the Sprague
River country, who was camping
on the grounds.
Two $10 bills was the object of
Davis who was caught by the wo
man as he attempted to remove
them from under her pillow. Grap
pling with the assailant the woman
was severely beaten and kicked
when Davis attempted to free him
self. Cries ot the woman brought a
number of Indian campers to the
scene who took Davis from the
on thetr return from Bend.'
Falls tent
They
I are enroute to Murahfleld on Coos
windows of the hotel and carried
Bay, where they make their home.
out as many as were unnble to cllmbi ur. norstati is a prominent puy
down themselves. slclan of tho Coos Bay country
"A funny thing happened when where he has long been a resident.
KLKIXS FORM BALKM
Hon. D. A. Elklns of Salem,
chairman pf the state industrial ac
cident commission arrived In Klam
ath Falls last night and Is regis
tered at the Whlto Pelican.
feet of water. Property loss has been estimated at $20,000,
000. Fire has broken out in some sections of the city.
Inhabitants are still fleeing to the hills, away from the
tortured, twisting mazes of charred timbers on State-street,
and th earth tremors, which still persist in coming.
In the very wake of death and destruction, and with the
earthquake fear still gripping their hearts, the citizens of
Sasts Barbara, met in mass meeting last night and laid plans
to rebuild the "city of splendor." ;
CITY A MASS OF RUINS
With 13 known dead from the severe earthquake which
rocked the city from its slumbers yesterday morning, the en
tire business section a mass of ruins, its beautiful Spanish resi
dences laid low, and its hospitals filled with injured, the same
spirit which made Santa Barbara the pride of California sum
mer resorts, set about the task of rehabilitating the city.
Thousands of dollars were pledged towards a program
of reconstruction, and leading citizens declared they would
rebuild from the ruins a city more .beautiful than that de
stroyed by the sudden convulsion of mother earth this morning.
New horror visited Santa Barbara last night when recur
rent tremors in the wake of a day of fright, added to the ter
ror of the populace. A severe shock was felt at 5:30 p. m.,
and intermittent jolts of lesser intensity jarred the city later
last night.
CITY PRACTICALLY DESERTED
Every inhabitant in the city, to all appearances, had de
serted his home and was camping in the open. Tents were
pitched on hillsides, in back yards and on front lawns.
The military was in complete possession of the city, ad
ding to the war-ravaged appearance of the stricken city.
Soldiers, sailors and uniformed policemen, including a squad
of SO trained traffic men from Los Angeles, patrolled the
streets.
The ruined portion of the city was roped off and kept
under strict patrol. No one but officers were allowed within
the confines of the business section for fear other buildings,
cracked by the strain of recurrent quakes, might crumble
and cause further loss of life. , '
MARTIAL LAW PREVAILS
A survey of the city last night revealed that every im
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