Evening star., 1925-06-29
MONTANA ROCKED
AGAIN BY QUAKES
Little Damage Reported
From Fourth Tremor Felt
in SO Hours.
BY the Associated Press.


HELENA, Mont, June 29.-Mon-
tana points trembled again today as
the earth's inward convulsions con-
tinued for the third successive day.
Helena residents were awakened at
2:2O O'Clock this morning by sharp
tremor that lasted seven seconds. No
damage, however. was reported.
Great Falls experienced it's fourth
quake In less than SO hours at 2;30
o'clock, when buildings were shaken
for several seconds and dishes thrown
to the floor and pictures dropped from
the walls.
White Sulphur Springs dispatches
indicate that the damage suffered
there Saturday night is much less
than originally reported.
Courthouse Damaged.
Both the courthouse and county jail
were damaged to the extent that
lower floors cannot be used.
Apprehension over the possibility OF
a renewal of quakes in Yellowstone
National Park abated when Sunday
passed without additional shocks.
Tourists arriving in Billings from the
park declared the shocks there were
Ialmost imperceptible.
Residents of the Gallatin Valley, the
apparent center of the earthquake
y
night and yesterday, remained out in
the wide open spaces today, looking
back at about $500, 900 worth of ruins
the aggregate cost of the tremor.
1t was a whimsical earthquake. No
one was killed. Nearly score of
buildings cracked and fell. There were
a half-dozen landslides.
A crevice extending at irregular in
tervals from Manhattan to Three
I inc
as one OF the scars caused by the
quake The Lombard tunnel of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail
road was caved in and an avala nche
at Deer Park covered 500 feet of rail
road track nearby, leaving it buried
under earth and rocks 100 feet deep,
This was caused when cliff, 500 feet
high, toppled and fell.
Trains Are Released.
Railroad officials announced last
night that a force of 1000 laborers
would be put to work cleaning the
tracks and the tunnel.
The three trains which were
hemmed in Saturday night by the
avalanche were released today.
The Quakes began about 6:22 O'Clock
Saturday night. Thousa nds of per
sons in Butte, Great Falls. Billings,
Livingston. Missoula, Helena and
other cities were thrown into near
panic and rushed clear Of buildings.
The shocks continued intermittently
until well after 10 o'clock. Yesterday
there were slight occurrences at Three
Forks, White Sulphur Springs and
Ana conda.
Three Forks. Manhattan and Logan,
all near the juncture of the Madison,
Gallatin and Jefferson Rivers, which
form the source of the Missouri sus-
tained the greatest loss. The court
house at White Sulphur Springs fell
and several smaller structures were
demolished. The loss there will ex-
Ceed 800 900, and Three Forks, where
the damage was greater, lost about
5000, 900. Three Forks residents
counted Al distinct shocks.
River Is Lowered
The Jefferson River. a short dis
tance above the conveyance point
was lowered two feet by the Quakes.
Hundreds of men were working in
the mines at Butte and Anaconda as
the earth's. surface trembled, but in
the ] 900 miles of underground work
ings there was no damage, according
to Butte reports. The miners rushed
TO the surface when they felt the
shocks.
Leaning walls and twisted buildings
In Manhattan and Three Forks proba-
bly, will have to be razed by dynamite
in order to forestall danger of their
falling. residents said.
DR.. c. P. Clapp, president of the
University of Montana. who is CON
sidered an authority on geology, de-
clared last night there is little posi-
bility that another quake will be felt
in Montana for several years He
declared the probable cause of the
tremor was the moving Of a fault"
in the eastern part of the mountain
region of Montana. The mountains
in that vicinity have many faults,
which are broken strata, pushed up
or down by commissions Of the earth.