The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-07-01
SIX EARTHQUAKES
AT LOS ANGELES
Shocks Occur IntermittentIy
Throughout Eighteen Hours,
Wrecking Many BuiIdigns.
lNGLEWOOD SUFFERS MOST.
Damage Is Estimated al More Than
S1oo, ,oOo-Woman Dies of FRIGHT
Twenty-one Buildings in Los
Angeles Suburb Destroyed.

Los Angeles, GAIA series of earth
quakes occurred in Los Angeles and
vicinity beginning at 6:47 Tuesday
night and continuing intermittently un-
til O'Clock Wednesday morning, with
subsequent slight shocks at 10 80 a. m.
and u :35 p. m.
Los Angeles railway officials an
nounced that the slight shock at 10 so
a m. put its power plant at Huntington
Lake, twenty miles east of Fresno. out
of commission for twenty-five minutes.
Los Angeles traffic was tied up for that
period.
The shocks during the night caused
property damage in Los Angeles coun-
~ estimated at 100000, three-fourths
of which was in Inglewood, ten miles
southwest of this city. One death was
due Indirectly TO the most severe OF the
shocks, and several persons we're
slightly injured by falling debris.
Ventura, Riverside and Orange coun-
ty points bordering on Los Angeles
county, reported having felt a slight
tremor about the time of the heaviest
shock here.
Inglewood, where twenty-one busi-
ness buildings were demolished and
nearly every dwelling damaged, seemed
to be the center of the disturbance
Southern and southwestern sections of
Los Angeles City, closest TO Inglewood,
suffered more than other districts.
In Pasadena three slight shocks
were felt and the damage was trifling.
Beach towns south and west of Ingle-
wood reported no serious losses
Damage in Los Angeles, estimated at
$4,000, consisted mostly of fallen
chimneys, broken windows, smashed
dishes and bric-a-brac
The damage in Inglewood was esti-
mated at $4,000 The buildings which
suffered most there were on CONNER
cial street, the main business thorough
fare. In most cases the fronts of the
buildings fell into the street, leaving
the three other walls standing.
Stone facings on a group of FIVE
school building at Hyde Park, between
Los Angeles and Inglewood, tumbled
down, the damage being estimated at
$1,000.
most severe, came in quick succession,
the two covering a period Of about 10
seconds. Following shocks, variously
reported as numbering from three to
six, were slight tremors, perceptible
chiefly because of the rafting of build
ings
Arthur Corey, city engineer of Ingle-
wood, said water mains had been
broken, and had fire broken out there
probably would have been insufficient
water with which to fight it.
The Los Angeles City Council adopt
Cd resolution Offering Inglewood the
services Of all its city departments in
the work of rehabilitation
Inglewood was deprived of light and
gas and scores of dwellings were seri-
ously damaged
The death OF Mrs. William Shippy Of
Ioe Angeles at Venice. beach resort,
was attributed 10 the earthquake. She
jumped from an automobile following
the trenor and fell dead from heart
disease.
The front walls Of the Inglewood
Hotel. theater, an undertaking estab-
lEhmeDt, real estate Office, three gro
Gerry stores, two meat markets, two
gavages, a pool room, drug store, fur
niture store and other downtown build
ings collapsed. The steeple Of the
Episcopal Church toppled into the
street and the buildings occupied by
the Citizens Savings Bank and the
First National Bank OF Inglewood vir-
tually were destroyed
The Edison Building and the Laugh
lin Building, formerly separated by q
space Of few inches. were found
to have become closely Joined after
the shock Cracks over the main en-
trance to the o. T. Johnson Building
On Broadway, showed effects Of the
freIDOr.