Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-11
TOTAL DEAD IN DISASTER
ON COAST NOW SET AT 1872

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 Long Beach telephone office
suffered terrific damage and it
was ordered evacuated stopping
the most important line of COM
munication.
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
sportsman.
| Soldiers, sailors and marines, aid
, ing peace authorities to patrol the
! Long Beach district, had orders to
shoot in event of looting.
In the Naples district in Long
Beach, hundreds of terrorized men,
, women and children fled to higher
land, fearing a tidal wave might
follow the quakeS. The Naples dis
trict is along the coast line.
f, Most householders deserted their
homes in Long Beach, establishing
bivouacs on streets, vacant lots
and even on the beach.
Even with 5000 sailors and 1000
law, City Manager Dobbins re-
quested Governor Rolph to send
more national guardsmeh and
equipment. Col. Paul Arndt i'm
mediately ordered $50 guardsmen
to the scene from Los Angeles.
More than $50 Los Angeles ply
| sicians and like number of
nurses were rushed to Long Beach
I 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.
Fire, which broke out in Long
Beach, Compton and Huntington
Park shortly after the first temblor,
was reported under control early
today
Fleet On Duty
| At midnight, commanders of the
United States battlefield ordered
| marines to every point on the
| Southern California coast between
Huntington Beach and Venice, a
distance of 40 miles,
Death and injury, the wrecking
of homes and the destruction of
business buildings, struck through
out the area southeast of Los An
geles, enclosed in circle bounded
by the Pacific shoreline, east to
Artesia and south to the harbor
district.
Two men were crushed to death
| in Artesia, when the Scott and
Frampton hall, large brick struc-'
| ture, was destroyed. Fifty other
men and women were taken to the
! Artesia Community hospital each
victim of bruises, lacerations and
shock.
The Excelsior Union high school,
which has an enrolment of HOO
pupils from the Artesia-N -Norwalk
district. was shaken to pieces and
blackened by fire that followed.
Pioneer boulevard, the Main street
of Artesia, was a mass of ruins.
Swinging south from Los Angeles
toward Long Beach, the first severe
evidence of the quake was seen in
the Graham district, along Man
chester avenue east of Central
! avenue. There the fronts of brick
buildings crashed to the street, and
in every direction side streets were
roped off and under guard of cit
izens and members of the Ameri-
can Legion. Citizens feared other
buildings would collapse at any
[ moment.
In Graham, Also the front of the
| Security First Nationa! bank branch
bulged out, swayed and smashed
clear to the center of the street
Breaking through guarded po-
lice line far to the east, United
Press representatives swung into
4 East Long Beach.
| At Cherry and Anaheim streets
/ uniformed marines with service
guns, men from the U. S. S. Ar
kansas, were, on patrol, directing
traffic and keeping the curious
away