The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-22
All Buildings and Residences in
Hemet and San JaCint0
Wrecked.
ONLY One MAN IS KILLED
Heavy Damage Reported In Southern
Part of State-PeopIe Flee in
Panic From Theaters in Los
Angeles-Several Per-
sons Injured.

Los Angeles, CAL, April 22.-All ol
southern California and portion Oh
western Arizona and Utah were shak-
en- at 8 % D. IN. Sunday by an earth-
quake which wrecked virtually all
buildings and residences in Helmet ana
San Jacinto, two inland towns 40 miles
southeast of Riverside, CAL, ana
caused minor property damage in
practically every town and city
One man, Frank E. Darneu OF this
city, was killed in a panic at Santa
Monica, when he fell off pier.
A woman was injured by falling
from second-story window at San
Jacinto, and a number of persons
were injured there and elsewhere, none
seriously.
Three men entombed in a magnesite
mine tunnel near Hemet probably
were saved by fellow workers. who
drove an air shaft to them and were
expected to dig them out before morn
ing.
Shock Worse Inland.
The severity of the shock seemed
greater inland, but it was distinctly
apparent at nearly every point over
California south from line from
Barstow to the coast and in some pOr-
tions of Arizona, although no damage
was reported there.
In Los Angeles and vicinity the
damage was apparent mainly in brok-
en- windows. Hundreds of large plate
glass windows here were shattered.
Several large buildings showed cracks
or bulge, but the extent of such dam
age to buildings could not be definitely
aScertained.
Homes all over southern California
We're shaken, dishes ratified, furniture
moved. and in many places the shock
was such as to cause the occupants
to vacate hastily.
The shock was reported to have ex-
tended as far east as Seligman in Arl-
zona and Milford in Utah.
The property damage at Hemet is
estimated at $25O,OOO. The San Ja-
cinto damage is held at a like sum.
The quake which came with such
warning as was afforded by a brief,
light shock lasting perhaps ten sec
onds was the most severe ever ex-
perienced in the wrecked towns. For
thirty seconds the buildings rocked
and swayed and the ground heaved so
that persons standing in the streets
and fleeing from their homes were
even thrown from their feet.
AS the ground tremors decreased
~ snl- h,,;I ~
business section fell, some topping
into the streets, while others caved in
ward. Roofs creaked and groaned and
then fell, often giving way before the
side walls had started to go.
Sees Mountain Jump
The hills surrounding the towns
We're obscured by q dense haze which
many people first believed presaged
an eruption from some old volcanic
crater, but which was found later to
have been caused by dense clouds of
dust.
One man who was watching the hills
at the time of the greatest disturb
ance said that Strawberry peak, a
large mountain, appeared to rise bod
lily and then drop back into place
AT San Bernardino there was a
panic at the ball grounds. where a
game was in progress, and one man
was hurt in the rush to escape.
Riverside suffered shock of sim
liar intensity.
The tremOr was first reported from
Barstow at 3 80 p. ~. Coming on to
ward the coast the trembler did slight
damage at Whittier and other inter
vening points, and then struck Los
Angeles at 8 :32 p. m.. there being two
shocks They were estimated at ter
seconds and thirty seconds each.
Ia the city the earthquake broke 6
number of large plate glass windows
In office buildings. There was almos
panic In the numerous theaters anC
picture houses, and one woman. Mrs
A. Jacobs, was struck on the head by
an iron fire escape, lowered from
above as she stepped from a theate,
side entrance.
Loses Life in Panic.
At Santa Monica a seaside tow,
near here, a crowd was on the mu
nicipal pier, which swayed perilously
and in the rush to escape Frank E
Darbell, retired manufactures O
Los Angeles, was thrown off AM
killed
The bathhouse at Santa MOnic.
canyon was also the scene of O pani
when the building swayed an,
creaked. Feminine patrons emerge,