The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-06-25
EARTHQUAKE AT
Los ANGELES
Wide Area Is Disturbed by Seis-
mic ShOck-InglewOOd Suf-
ferS Most.
WOMAN DIED FROM FRIGHT
Others Have Narrow Escape-C0unty
of Los Angeles Sustains Big
Losses Resulting from Dis
turbances.


turbances.
Los Angeles, June 22.-Earthquake
shocks which started at 6:47 o'clock
Monday night and continued intermit-
tently until 5 o'clock Tuesday morning
caused property damage in Los An
geles county estimated at 500 1000,
~three-fourths of which was in Ingle-
wood, 10 miles southwest of this city.
One death was indirectly due to the
most severe shocks and several per-
sons were slightly injured by falling
debris
The shocks appeared to have been
almost entirely local. Ventura, River
side and Orange county points bord-
ering on Los Angeles county, report
ed having felt a slight tremor about
the time Of the heaviest shock here.
%Inglewood, where FL business build
ings were wholly or partially demol-
ished and nearly every dwelling dam
aged to some extent, seemed to have
been the center Of the disturbance.
The southern and southwestern Sec
tions of Los Angeles city, which are
closest to %Inglewood, suffered more
than the northern residential districts.
In Pasadena three slight shocks were
felt and the damage was trifling. The
beach towns south and west Of Ingle-
wood also reported no serious losses.
The damage to Los Angeles city, es-
timated at about $4,000, was due al
most entirely to fallen chimneys, bro
ken windows, smashed dishes and brio
a-brac in residences and breakable ar
ticles in drug and grocery stores.
The damage in Inglewood was esti-
mated at $4,000. The buildings which
suffered the most damage there were
on Commercial street, the main bust
ness thoroughfare. In most cases the
fronts of the buildings fell into the
street, leaving the other three walls
standing. Several of the business
houses had been patched up so that
their proprietors resumed trade early
today.
Stone facings on a group Of five
school buildings at Hyde Park, be-
tween Los Angeles and Inglewood
tumbled down, the damage being esti.
mated at $4,000.
Shocks Follow Quickly.
,, The first two shocks which were the
{ most severe, came in quick succession
the two covering a period of about fit
/. teen minutes. Following shocks, var
iously reported as numbering from
three to six, were slight tremors, pre-
= ceptible principally because of the rat
= thing Of buildings.
t The earthquake area was confine'
to Los Angeles county, Inglewoo'
: bearing the brunt of its severity.
: The shock which caused the damag'
3 was followed by two slighter tremor
a few minutes apart and at 1874
O'Clock a fourth tremor was felt il
: the southwest section of Los ANGELS
and at Inglewood. No damage result
t ed from these.
Woman Dies of Fright.
Mrs. VIM. Sippy of Los Angelo
: dropped dead at Venice, when, follow
e ing the shock she attempted to juml
from an automobile. Heart diseas
t was given as the cause of her death.
Buildings damaged at I%nglewood in
3 cluded the sub-station of the Southern
California Edison company. wher
e three walls collapsed, damaging dy
namos and cutting off the town lights
Lighting service was restored thre
hours later through a connection wit
e another power station.
n The front walls of the Inglewoo
t hotel, a theatre, an undertaking estat
o lishment, a real estate office, thre
grocery stores, two meat markets, tw
e garages, a pool room, a drug stor'
S furniture store and other downtow
buildings collapsed at 1nglewood. Tn
. steeple of the Episcopal church toK
e pied into the street and the buildin
occupied by the Citizens State Ban
and the First National Bank of Ingl'
wood was virtually destroyed.
Several persons at Inglewood we,
slightly injured by falling plaster an
= bricks and broken glass.
Plate glass windows were shattere
in several Los Angeles office built
ings. The Edison building and tt
Laughlin building, normally separate
by a space of a few inches, were di,
covered to have become closely joine
after the shock. Cracks over the mai
entrance of the o. T. johnson built
ing on Broadway showed the effect
of the disturbance there. The turre
ed chimney of the w. C. T. U. built
ing, near the Times building, We
loosened.
There were lively scenes in the va
ious cafeterias, where hundreds of PEI
sons were carrying trays of food
tables. Many dropped their trays ar
rushed for the door and in some il