EARTHQUAKE'S DAMAGE.
THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS. JEWELS WORTH f30,000 FOUND. (BY CABLE—I'KESS ASSOCIATION—COPVHIGHT.) (AVSTHALUK ASD K-Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, July 1. Gangs of workmen are clearing the wreckage from Santa Barbara's streets.
From the iruins of tho Arlington Hotel" a trunk was taken containing jewels valued at £30,000, which had lain for two days near the body of Mrs Perkins, a widow of a former railway president. AH the Western cities are hurrying to the relief of tho stricken town. San Francisco headed the l.ist of subscriptions with £IO,OOO. Architects are planning tho reconstruction of tie town on [Spanish lines, with no., building: higher than three storeys.
Neither fire, nor pestilence, nor looting followed the disaster. The insurance adjusters appraiso the damage at 30,000,000- dollars.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18424, 3 July 1925, Page 9
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125EARTHQUAKE'S DAMAGE. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18424, 3 July 1925, Page 9
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