The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-11
1871 ARE KNOWN
DEAD IN WEST
COAST QUAKE
Long Beach Is Hardest Hit
by Disaster: Property
Damage Heavy.
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in, and it was felt there was danger
of the walls collapsing.
Three we're killed in Bellfower.
Two were crushed beneath a falling
wall in a downtown business house.
The third was struck down by bricks
from a chimney. Police said the
three had not been identified.
Fire and a heavy fog that rolled
in from the Pacific complicated re-
lief work.
More Shocks Expected
The Carnegie chronological insti-
tute at Pasadena reported that the
nature of the shocks indicated more
would be felt probably for days"
The time of the first shock was
set at 5:54:20 p. m, Pacific time.
Buildings in Long Beach, Los
Angeles, Artesia, Compton, Lyn-
wood, Huntington Park, Bell, and
Hynes went tumbling. People we're
crushed to death beneath flying
bricks and concrete.
Screams of the injured could be
heard above the sirens of police
ambulances.
The building which houses the
Long Beach Press-Telegram and
the Long Beach Sun was wrecked
The Long Beach telephone Office
suffered terrific damage and it was
ordered evacuated, stopping one of
the most important lines of COM
munication.
Plane Falls; Three Die
Police Chief Clarence Webb of
Santa Monica chartered an air
plane and sent an officer to survey
the damaged area. In the smoke
and fog the plane crashed near
Baldwin Hills. The officer, the pilot
and passenger were burned to
death.
Those killed in the. plane crash
were:
Sergeant j. Morten.
George Towne, manager of the
Culver City airport.
Fred Porter, pilot, wealthy sports
man.
Indicating that the tremors were
not over, Los Angeles was rocked
again by quakes at 1888 and
:08 a. m.
Soldiers, sailors and marines, aid
ing peace authorities to patrol the
Long Beach district, were fully
armed. They had orders to shoot
in event of any attempt at looting,
though none had been reported.
More than $50 Los Angeles ply
sicians and like number of nurses
were rushed to Long Beach by bus,
police cars, and special train.
Governor Rolph invoked emer-
gency powers to aid Long Beach,
hardest hit of all communities in
the quake belt.
Artesia Main Street in Ruins
At midnight, commanders of the
United States battle fleet ordered
marines to every point on the
southern California coast between
Huntington Beach and Venice, a
distance of forty miles.
Two men were crushed to death
in Artesia, when the Scott &
Frampton hall, large brick struc-
ture, was almost destroyed. Fifty
other men and women were taken
to the Artesia community hospital,
each victim of bruises, decorations
and shock.
The Excelsior Union high school,
which has an enrolment of LOO
pupils from the Artesia-N orwalk
district, was shaken to pieces and
blackened by a disastrous fire that
followed the earthquake.
Pioneer boulevard, the main
street of ArteSia, was a mass of
ruins, its frame buildings with
stucco fronts toppled in the street.
Swinging south from Los Angeles
toward Long Beach, the first severe
evidence of the quake was seen in
the Graham district, along Man
chester street, east of Central av-
enue. There the fronts of brick
buildings had crashed to the street,
and in every direction side streets
were roped off and under guard of
citizens and members of the Amer
lean Legion. Citizens feared that
other buildings would collapse at
any moment.
In Graham, also, the front of the
Security-First National b
branch bulged out, swayed, and
smashed clear to the center of the
street.
Autos Turned Aside
State highway police, Los Angeles
police, constables, deputy sheriffs,
and deputized citizens blocked every
highway and turned aside automo-
biles attempting to go to Long
Beach.
Breaking through the guarded
line far to the east, United Press
representatives swung into East
Long Beach. En- route, they found
all of Signal Hill dark No lights
marked the thousands of oil der
rick crown blocks.
At Cherry and Anaheim streets
in Long Beach, uniformed marines
with service guns, men from the
U. S. S. Arkansas, were on patrol,
directing traffic, and keeping the
curious away.
Our orders are one of them
said, TO handle traffic, relieve all
citizens of guard duty, prevent riot
ing, and order all uniformed men
on shore leave back to their ships"
Seven Dead in 3 Blocks
Seven men and women were
killed within a radius of three
blocks of where the two marines
stood, they said. although it had
not been part of their duty to as
certain names.