Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-27
Causes Scenes of DeSOlatiOn
in California.
MANY INDIANS KILLED
By the Walls of an Adobe Building
Falling on Them-All Business
Blocks in San Jacint0 Are Very
Badly Damaged

San Jacinto, Cal, Dec. 2e.-This little
People are beginning to recover from the
shock Of earthquake which conferred here
on Christmas morning and destroyed
every brick building in the town, and
some estimates Of the damage wrought
can now be made.
At the Saboba Indian reservation, neal
here, a dance had been held the night
before and large quantities of whisky
consumed by the Indians had sent most
or them into a drunken slumber before
the shock came. A number of suuaws
had huddled together in an old adobe
building and were sleeping off the effects
of the liquor. The heavy walls fell in
upon them. Six We're killed outright and
two died later, while a score more are
badly injured. Those killed were horri-
bly, crushed.
Main street presents a sad appearance.
1t is impossible to walk along the side
walks because of the heaps of debris
and o~verhanging walls. Two-story brick
walls may be seen RACED to the level Of
the ground, with thousands of dollars
worth of merchandise buried underneath.
Ihere is not a business house in town but
has suffered. Electric wires are down
and one of the power houses has fallen
in. The walls of the county hospital,
erected recently at a cost of $40, coo. are
badly damaged.
The losses are estimated as follows:
Hards 4 Dasgett. general merchandise.
Sl.o0o: building. 81, 800: Dallas building,
$4,000: Jones building, $500: Vaawater
building. $4,000: McEeath, bricks, 50, 900;
Daggett's building $4,000; Spigous $500;
Indian agency. $4,000: Mc1<in & Cham
bers' drug stock. $4,000: bank building,
Wright's drug store, $1,000: S. Mead,
building and goods, 81 900: r.. d. Mead,
hardware, $1,000: Durett's building.
81 800; ~Freenan's store, $4,000: Colonel
Kitchens. $1,000: Bakers store 81, 600.
The minor losses amount to considera-
bic. AT Helmet the hotel was damaged
to the extent of SO. 900: Bingham's flour
mill, $1,000. The fire walls of Webber's
brick store fell out, the plate glass Win
dows were smashed and the entire stock
OF goods is on the floor in a heap. The
chlmneys of the hotel fell, many of them
crashing through the roof and fell upon
the bed of Frank Robinson, bruising him
badly. The verandas are all down and
the walls badly cracked. The rear wall
OF the Johnson block fell outward and
the whole building was badly demol-
lshed. The third story of the Hotel
Mills is down and the second story walls
1ell in. Prugh's grocery store fixtures
We're all shaken down and he has his
goods piled on the floor. The front of
Parker's store fell over and the shelving
was shaker down.
Ihere are but two chimneys left in
town. The gables of the Holland asy-
'uin We're cracked and the chimneys
shaken down. 1t is said rumbl.ings had
been heard for several days about Tau
aultz peak, in the San Jacinto range.
supposed to be an extinct volcano. Be
tween San Jacinto and Helmet geysers
OF hot sulphur water appeared yesterday
and he fumes are SO strong that no one
can get near them.
n streets of San Jacinto are being
cleared OF debris and rchan are
moving their stock into warehouses and
frame structures. Preparations are al
ready being made for the rebuilding of
not the most important.