The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-06-30
MANY INJURED
WHEN SHOCKS
DESTROY CITY
Property Damage May Reach
$30,OOO,OOO in Santa
Barbara District
PLAN RECONSTRUCTION
One Hospital Left in Town
to Care for Persons
Hurt in TemblOrs

HUI Ill 1CIlUlOIS
Santa Barbara, June 30.-(R
"A hot June sun rose today on
a physical pr0st trated city by the
blue Pacific that throbbed new
erthcless through every pile of
her earthquake debris with the
indomit able spirit of reconstruc-
tiOn.
The table of death indicated
that nine victims had paid with
their lives their portion of the
toll taken by earth tremOrs that
started yesterday morning at
6:4A o'clock and continued at
various intervals throughout me
day and on into the night.
In the hospital lay thirty in
3ure.t. Conservative estimates
of material damage. which can
not he definitely confirmed un-
til a survey il made today, fixed
the loss at $15,000,000. More
liberal surveys ran the damage
As high as $30,000.0O0.
The injured were treated at Cot
naming fit to receive patients. No
check has been possible of those
treated for injuries in their homes.
State street, the main artery of
the torn and twisted business dis
trict, presented a desolate appear
ance that threw into bold relief the
optimism of the men and women
who owned the wrecked stores.
In front of one shop lay what was
left of a small automobile. Blocks
Of stone weighing 400 or 500 pounds
each had crushed it flat and in their
fall had ground out the life of
William Proctor, window cleaner.
Across the way stood five
ton truck shattered under a similar
avalanche.
TANK KILLS
In the ruins of the Hotc! Airing
ton, the Mecca of world travellers
for years, the fall Of tank contain
ing 10000 gallons of water, had
swept to their death Mrs. Charles E.
Perkins, aged millionaire widow, and
Ertman B. Hancock. son of G. Allen
Hancock, wealthy Los Angeles real
ty dealer.
The latter escaped with three brok-
en- ribs and scalp wounds after slid
ing three stories to the ground in
the room beside that in which his
son met his death.
NEW BUILDING WRECKED
The San Marcus building, q block
below the Arlington, recently finish
ed and held to be one of the finest
structures in the city, was paradox
of ruin. The center caved in when
the earth wave struck the commun-
ity. The wings stood apparently in
tact, but a close survey showed them
to be badly cracked and twisted.
At the other end Of the fourteen
blocks of State street, which approx
imately marked the extent of the
serious business district damage, the
new California hotel of 100 rooms.
completed within the week, was a
total wreck. The roof had collapsed
in several places and throughout its
entire side one wall had been ripped
bare, exposing the beds.
Another new hotel, the Carrillo,
of filled concrete construction, was
badly shaken in it's two lowest
floors. but above that the walls
seemed to be as good as new.
Here and there, throughout the
down town section, the pavement
bulged and cracked. while in some
localities it had been slashed and
shot into fragments a foot square by
the grinding force of the successive
tremors.
Plays Queer Franks
In the older and less pretentious
residential districts the earthquake
had played queer pranks with the
wooden homes built a quarter or a
half century ago.
Herrado Charts, Mexican. of Santa
Barbara, died at the Cottage hos
pital today from injuries received in
the earthquake. This brings the
known list of dead to nine.