The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-25

moro earthquake shocks shock Helmet
n San Jacinto today at s:o7 a. m. and
OLA a. m. The earth movement seemed
more pronounced at Hemet than here.
Loose bricks, lettering walls and
wreckage hanging precarieusly were
loosened by the new shocks and fell, ad-
ding to the general ruin in the business
districts.
Los Angeles, Cal, April 2S.-Fout are
known to be dead, the towns Of San
Jacinto and Helmet, 8 miles southeast
OF Los Angeles, are practically in ruins.
and a score of people slightly injured
today as the result OF the earthquake
which rocked southern California Sun
day afternoon.
The dead are:
FRANK E. DARNELL, Boston.
trampled to death on a Santa Monica
pier, when a panic stricken crowd
rushed toward shore.
AUGUST CARLSON. Astoria, Ore.
died Of heart failure when he rushed to
the street in Los Angeles.
Two men, Ed Coe and Ed McBee,
buried in a magnesite mine two miles
south Of Hemet. Their bodies were re-
moved today.
Property damage was estimated at
$500, 900.
Two Towns Stricken.
San Jacinto and Helmet, towns OF
about 1900 population, were policed to-
day by home guard companies. The
towns are without city water. gas or
electric lights, and telephone communi-
cation was not r~eestablished until late
today.
Miles Of paved roads in southern Cali
fornia were cracked and buckled.
Con Iacintn nannla aCcorta1 that ~
the earth rolled n buildings pitched
into the street geyser like a sheet Of
flame shot up from Mount Jacinto, q
II, 000-foot extinct volcano. Then huge
clouds of dust rolled over the noun
tain, ~obscuring 1T.
The shock was felt throughout south
ern California, but was most severe in
the inland towns near Riverside.
Windows were broken in Los An
geles and the beach cities. The only
death thus far reported was that Of q
man who fell off a pier at Santa M0ni-
ca when the earth began rocking. Sew
eral were injured at Helmet and San
Jacinto by falling glass and bricks, but
none seriously.
More than 20 business buildings in
Helmet were completely wrecked. At
San Jacinto Is buildings, and many
brick residences crumbled.
Many large plate glass windows In
downtown Los Angeles were shattered,
and cracks appeared in the walls OF u
number Of buildings. The shook. how
ever, vas not as severe here as in the
inland towns, and NJ serious damage
was reported, except in Helmet and San
Jacinto.
Damage $4,000.
Telephone messages from these towns
early today fixed the total damage at
approximately $780, 00, practically all
Of which resulted from the destruction
Of business buildings.
The shock also wal felt in western
Arizona, though no damage was re-
ported there.
Three men were entomed in q shall
low magnesite mine near Helmet when
the shaft caved in. They were reached
by working parties late yesterday.
AT Sandiego the tremor was felt only
family. ,
S~eismographs at San Diego and Los
Angeles recorded the main shock as
OF 10 seconds duration but the dis
turbance continued for nearly tive
hours.
Quake Starts "River."
Some damage was sustained at san
Bernardino,1 Riverside n Redlands.
Plate glass windows were cracked, and
at San Bernardino a large brick wall
fell into the street.
The San Jacinto river which here
tofore was u dry bed, was flowing a foot
OF water soon after the earthquake.
II was believed an irrigation ditch near
,he BASE of IN San Jacinto mountains
had broken and let it's water into tho
river bed.
Water mains and electric conduits
were broken at San Jacinto and Hemet.
but service vas partially restored last
night. Although people rushed from
their homes into the streets at the
shock no panic resulted.
In Picturesque Country.
Hemet and San Jacinto have popula-
tons of less tina 1000 each. Their in
dustries chiefly are dairyinS and
ranching with lumber and various
kinds of mining serving to swell their
commerce.. The towns are about thres
miles apart and lie in a picturesque
country which was made the scene OF
Helen Hunt Jackson's famous novel
Ramona"
Only one life was known to have
been lost as the result of the earth
quake, thai of Frank f. Darnell, a re-
tired manufactures of this city. who
wa drowned when he fell off a pier al
Santa Monica, a breach resort near
here. Hundreds Of pleasure seekers on
the pier made a wild dash for solid
ground when the shock came at 3:3a
and Darnell was swept from his feet
There were near panics In scores OF
theaters and motion picture houses In
this vicinity and many persons sus
tanned slight injuries in their rush Tor
the exits.
When night fell over the partly
ruined towns OF Helmet IN Jacinto
order had been completely restored and
organizations of home guards patrolled
the rebris Uttered streets. Four blocks
Of San Jacinto's business district were
wrecked and one block at Helmet.
. Fortune played some queer tricks In
: the earthquake. A Chinese cook In the
! Vosburg hotel, was made indignant, al
; most to forgetfulness OF his little Eng
/, lish, when the shocks broke all the
! freshly washed dishes from the hotels
Sunday inner n left quite safe piles
= of unwashed dinnerware.
Tho Bothin block, once a two-story
5 building. lost its upper half in a pre-
I vious similar destructive earthquake
: Christmas day, 1899. Yesterday the
t shocks leveled the lower story.
8 A linotype machine In the office Of
= San Jacinto Weekly Register. facing In
3 one direction before the earthquake
: faced IN the opposite direction after
/ ward. Apparently the half turn dam
aged II in no way.