The Washington herald., 1918-04-22
QUAKE SHAKES
CITIES ALONG
PACIFIC COAST
Southern California Feels
43-Second Tremor with
Loss of 100000.
ONE VICTIM LISTED
buildings Razed and Many
Slightly Injured by Force
of Disturbance.
IONE VICTIM LISTED

Los Angeles, April 21-An earth
quake felt generally in southern
California and in A rizona this after
noon razed many buildings in San
Jacinto and Hemet. about eighty
miles southeast of Los Angeles
did damage in a number OF towns,
caused death of one man and Sc
rious injury to several others. The
aggregate loss is estimated at
$500, 900.
Killed In Panic.
The dead man is Frank K. Dar-
nell, 40. of Los Angeles. He fell,
was tranpled and received a frac-
ture of the skull in a panic on the
pier at the beach resort OF Santa
Monica.
Mrs. Harry Jacoby was struck
on the head and probably suffered
fracture of the skull while flee
ing from a theater.
A fire escape was lowered sud
denly in the excitement and she
was struck on the head.
Mrs. Mary Spears was probably
fatally hurt at Iona Lind, where
she was a patient in a hospital.
The shock occurred at 3:33 o'clock
in the afternoon and was of forty
three seconds duration. In Los
Angeles plate glass windows were
broken in two downtown buildings.
Cornices were shaken from others
and there were near-panics in sew
eral theaters.
The business, sections OF San Jacinto
and Hemet are wrecked, according TO
telephone reports late tonight
Not q business building Is standing
and few homes escaped destruction.
Both cities are practically without
means OF communication with other
/ municipalities. Electric. gas and light
are out Of commission and the towns
are both under martial law, imposed
by home guards.
The loss IN San Jacinto is conserva-
lively estimated at s2o0.OoO. Hemet has
suffered equal damage.
None were killed by the tumbling
buildings. A few persons were hurt.
1t is thought none was fatally in
jured.
Operators Buried.
The buildings fell in almost the first
tremOr of the quake, which came
came about 3:$3 p. IN. Caught before
they could move from their posts.
three telephone operators were buried
in the ruins of the building when it
fell They were Anna Williams. Lola
Lockwood and Martha Bosh. They
were dug out unhurt from the ruins
by the home guards.
A Mrs. Koehler and two men were
buried in the ruins of second hand
store and suffered second lacerations.
Two men were buried in a cave-in
at a Magnesite mine near San Jacin-
to. They were believed to be fatally
hurt. Medical aid was being rushed
to the mine where several others were
hurt and party was organized to dig
out the two imprisoned men.
The Home of Ramona, near San
1aCinto, made famous by Helen Hunt
Jacobson's story, was demolished, il is
reported, in San Jacinto.
The quake was strong in the San
Jacinto Mountains. The State high
way. from San Jacinto to Hemet is
tssured with deep cracks.
Included in the principal business
buildings reported ruined by the
quake are the First National Bank,
Farmers and Merchants National
Bank. Odd Fellows Hall, postoffice,
Hemet Milling Company, and Hemet
Hardware Company.
San Bernardino reports damage to
some houses. The shock was felt at
Needles. on the California-Arizona
line.