Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-30

Y KENNEBEC JOURNAL. 7
been above Mrs. Perkins and de-
molish also.
State Street, the main thorough
fare, is a CHASTITY avenue of ruins,
portions of it's finest buildings being
tumbled down, and cornices, walls
and fronts of property all principal
structures shattered.
Water Supply Menaced
The earthquakes n t n u e d
throughout the day. They menaced
the water supply by crashing away
the dam of Sheffield Reservoir, out a
bye-pass has been established to a
main reservoir back in the hills and
water provided for the city.
The terror stricken inhabitants.
numbering 10000. in most cases set
tied down to an emergency existence
by noon, many of them living on the
lawns.
II have been through fifty earth
quakes, but never one like this be-
fore" said Manager Richmond of the
Arlington Hotel. 1T just took the
hotel that we considered strong as a
fortress and shook it back and forth
as If 1t were rag.
ut was precisely as if one were at
sea in a storm. One would not be-
| lieve it were possible for a building
to move with such force in so many
directions and apparently so Imply
as did the Arlington.
THE hotel is a total loss"
Like Storm at Sea
| Other stories of the motion of the
earthquake were similar.
1.-The twisting of the earth was like
a violent storm at sea-" said Harry
Afford, jsnitor at the Daily News.
| He was one of the comparatively few
men in the downtown district when
the earth began it's shivering.
THE first shock shook the Daily
News building like little ship in a
big storm. 1t knocked several of US
| down. There was nothing to do; it
was just a question of getting up
and holding on. Then came the sec
ond shock. This was the one that
| did the damage. 1t just rocked back
and forth. back and forth, until the
crunching and crashing sounds show
ed that the buildings were being torn
down."
| Along the main thoroughfare. state
street. there were many automobiles
and trucks which had been parked at
the curb and which were almost b r.
led under the debris. 1t was in one
of these that William Matthews, a
lather, was killed.
The first building In town, the San
Marcos, a four-story structure, fell,
Or. James Angles, dentist, being
killed in this accident
| Father Augusten at the old Santa
Barbara Mission told a thrilling
story of what he declared to be a
miraculous delivery. At the first
tremor, he went to the second story
room where Father Engelbrecht,
aged priest, was confined as an in
valid.
Lifting the priest to his back
rather Augusten proceeded to the
stairway. when on the second shock
he fell through a hole to the floor
below, with the invalid priest on his
pack. Neither was injured.
| Ole Hanson, former mayor of Sc
attic, gave the following witness
account of the earthquake:
1T was about GA A. M. The
air was sultry. Everything was very
quiet. l noticed as 1 lay on my
bed that quite large wave dashed
against the beach. The ground
seemed to raise up with a crunch.
L leaped out of bed and the floor
seemed to rise up and hit me,
| stepped again and it seemed as
though I could not reach the floor.
| Il dashed for the open air and
began to bang on the neighboring
bungalows to rouse the occupants
and get them out on the open park.
Then I heard an explosion like
a great crash and 1 saw the walls
OF the power plant a block away
fall, then bright blue flame such
as they use in movies at night lit UP
the heavens and then flashed out.
Right behind me heard a rend-
Ing. Two blocks away l saw the
walls of. the New California Hotel
lean over gradually and collapse
leaving the occupants lying safely in
bed, some covered and some uncov-
cred. They all escaped.
1.-The ground rolled like a slight
wave hitting a canoe. There was no
excitement. Crash after crash from
the business district; the man
sweeping the streets on the water
front never quit sweeping.
THE two and a half million recon-
struction fund proposed by H. H. Col
on. of Holman Bank and William G
McAdoo is the right thing to do
Within week we will start e-build
ing the town. 1t will be built larger
and better than ever"
Plans for the re- building of the de-
vastated residential and business Sec
tions of this city are already under
way.
The Hellman Commercial Trust
and Savings Bank have through their
chairman of the board sent H. H.
Cotton to Santa Barbara to look over
the field and announced a contribu-
ton of 100000 to the fund.
The main water supply of Santa
Barbara was reported safe late to-
day when word from the Gibraltar
Dam, 10 miles east of here, said that
it was intact.
The tunnel through the mountains
to Santa Barbara also escaped in
/ jury.
/ The breaking of the Sheffield dam
merely means elimination Of one
reservoir control, water officials said.
The body of DIR. James Angel, dem
fist, was recovered late today from