Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-24
FOUR KILLED BY SHOCKS IMPERIAL
 VALLEY
Estimated That Damage to the Extent of 1$,5O0,00O Done By the Earthquakes Which Vi- Sited Imperial Valley.
FOUR ARE KILLED IN
 TOWN OF MEXlCALI
Several Fires Start in CalexiCo; United States Troopers Now Guarding in the Little Border City.

FL CENTRIC. June 23-ln an area, extending roughly from the shoulder Of the Cocopah Mountains of Lower California to San Bernardino and Needles on the north Yuma on the east and San Diego on the west the series of earthquakes last night and tonight wrought dam age now estimated at S1500 900 perhaps a score. none seriously
 Ehe tremors continued intermiR tently today and are decreasing steadily in strength doing only neg ligible damage The zone in which the tremors were felt most, centered about Calexico and Mexicali the Mexican town opposite in Lower Cali fornia, where the free revelry of a frontier collection of saloons and dance halls were halted when the first shocks put out the lights and where an the fatalities occurred
 The men and women killed were crushed to death by the walls Of a dance hall as the visitors fled, panic stricken to the street. As far as ascer- tained. the Alamo Wasteway, connect ed Sharp's heading and controlling the s50OO,0OO Imperial Valley irriga- tion system was severally damaged. The heading itself and other import ant units Of the system. witstood the shocks, although Assures opened in the ground around them and unless further Quakes render 'pne of the heading. there will be no lack of water. it is said for the 100000 acres under cultivation and dependent on the vast network of canals and later als.
 The water may be shut off at Han Ions holding. where the Colorado en- ters the irrigation system, southwest of Yuma, in order 10 repair the dam age to the waterway, but engineers do not believe it will be shut of more than thiry-six hours. Rebuilding has already begun
 In El Centro where an entire block of the bushes section was ruined, gangs of men are at work clearing the debris In Calexico similar work is i'm progress. The damage in El Centro is estimated al close to S200.- 900. at Calexico something less than this North El Centro's damage is comparatively slight
 Several fires al Calexico added 10 the damage done by the quakes, which included the collapse of the municipal water tank which fell from a sixty-foot tower This deprived the town of water pressure and hampered the efforts at fighting fires which burned several residences and two business buildings Imperial and Brawley, towns further up, suffered only slightly.
 At Yuma and Needles, the shocks were slight, while they were barely perceptible at San BernardinO. NoI damage was done anywhere outside the valley The communication toI Calexico is entirely dependent today on automobiles and railroad trains. The telegraph headquarters were in a building damaged and telegrams are sent here by messenger for trans mission.
 The meager reports thus brought here stated that six or seven men and women were killed in Meucali, and that the bodies of two men had been taken from the debris identified. The names given were Bert Arbuckle and James Stencil Arbuckle is said to have come from Los Angeles. A strict guard was established at the various towns affected as soon as the quake began.
 Fifty special deputies were sworn in here and at Calexco troops of United States cavalry. which have been patrolling the border, kept order and protected property. Across the line Colonel Cantu the Mexican com mander established martial law atl Mexicali and his soldiers patrolled the debris-littered streets. They are guarding the ruins of the gambling
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