The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-08-17

and when I did, l cried out What is it?' Then I heard Chester say. Earth
quake! Get out!' AS he said it, the wall beside him crumbled and fell
out into the street"
corner of Broadway and Linden. They started for the stairway and
1c an says Srv when he9. he r. reached *a sd+t it it was s MOVING 'Sv1sgl like an an e sssa% r., Sis Rrs and
was half way down that tottering stairway when his foot went through
a broken step and caught there.
He struggled to extricate himself, but the harder he tried, the
,ss's at he his ss sise' 'r TO be t %e sst sin himself osta f IN; ss"; . the s aso fsnin:
and they ran out into the Street
Across the Street a Neighbor Was Killed.
On the , other side sic eo of the street. stree, a me neieh H. wa was I lying 3d. dead af on on the so1 lawn nt
the first shock of the quake, just a S the cornice fell, and it killed him
The whole neighborhood was in confusion; Some msn were carrying
And then, another terrible cry was passed from mouth to mouth
blocks from the Ocean,: says Bryan, and W e took the kids and began
other food back home had been blown against the north wall of the kitchen,
When we couldn't run any more. We walked 3D. We went IN
and ruin and desolaton. Before long, the city was under martial
. Suffered A1e quite e's ss badly ar 9'a IS o osaes se rs ss'o os the "a e to~n. : nhey ha were
serving soup sandwiches coffee. etc" s. we stopped and had
They yer all exhausted by this time. There a still n sign of a
tidal t wave and Tidal tidal IVA wave II ccn no tidal Ia w vsv sm Bryan Sao;% %a;1 IT going i to- to 60 o. a
neighborhood of home.
Lintons' wrecked house they found an apartment building which was still
in pretty good shape. and managed to get shelter for the night.
Bryan Noticed His Foot Was Damp.
For the first time, then, Bryan noticed that his right foot was
damp. He pulled up his trouser leg and found the foot covered
had been thrust there when he got caught in the broken stairway.
There a a doctor in the house." he avs, land he dressed the
wound. 1 was walking like a drunken man. and the doctor told me l was
The tremors continued all through the night. They stayed in the
apartment house, but in the morning they had to move on for the civs
mains had been broken and there "a no gas or water. They went to
City Hail park, where relief work was getting under way. and there
they were put into a truck and sent to Lennox, about IL miles from Los
Angeles where a womans club had been turned into a dormtory.
"They gave rs medical attention there" says Bryan, land
. lot of us needed 1t. A lot of the women were hysterical. One Of
the nurses there had been in hospitals in France during the war
and had been bombarded by the Germans. but she said it didn't
affect her nearly as badly as the quake did.
"Our little group got off easily. My sister and her little girl had been
hit by plaster and the three boys had their legs skinned. The lieutenant
had had the presence Of mind to hold a chair over his head, and he
escaped without a scratch. But the thing that saved u all from death
was or delay in getting out Of the house. II we had gone out while the
debris was still falling we would have met the anne fate a s neighbor
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