SANTA BARBARA QUAKE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1925, Page 2

SANTA BARBARA QUAKE

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

FEAR of FURTHER SHOCKS. SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. The battleship Arkanas has arrived at Santa Barbara, bringing naval doctors to relieve the exhausted local physicians. Two hundred more soldiers and mar-ine.-for guard duty have been brought. No looting is reported, though the jewellery and other shops are unprotected. Ten million dollars worth ol valuables are in the hands of the authorities, awaiting claimants. —. The officials believe that anotHW earthquake will level the standing ruin- of the city and make this formerly miy resort it desert. The concrete and mortar are of extreme danger to pedstrians. There are sagging walls balancing on their cornices. Workmen are ready to dynamite them when the tremors cease. « There is a sultry atmosphere, which | is intensifying the nervous tension of the relief'workers and the apprehensi vo inhabitants. The keeper of the Santa Barbara lighthouse reports that it has been cinnpletly destroyed.. another big shock. NEW YORK, June 30. As the results of further shocks at Santa Barbara early to-day, one of them suriia-sing in its severity anything fell yesterday, the dawn found the precarious highway of the city once more choked with departing eitiOils. Sections of the main highway toward- Sail Frauvi-co are nearly closed by the slides and cracks. ' 'Dio roadways are being patrolled by expert trallie police Irom Sail I'rancisen and Los Angeles, and martial law has been declared as a precautionary measure. 'lbis morning's 'quakes took the form of a sharp, sudden rising of the on rib. accompanied by a terrific roar, which lasted for a few minutes. It was followed by a crash of falling brocks and mortar. Tim night was one of terrifying darkness. Countless automobile headlights took the place of the disrupted city sy-tem. The damage is estimated at front Id.();!().‘lii'l to 2(1.1100,000 dollars. .MISSION DEFIES ’QUAKES. SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. Santa Barbara’s famous old Mission -til! stand-, thus defying this as it did the earthquake of the eighties, though the old ALssioii tower, with its sweet-toned bells, crashed while a kneeling congregation bowed within. Then the congregation walked out, led !, v the Driest, over the wreckage.