SEVERE EARTHQUAKE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2904, 2 July 1925, Page 2

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE

SEVERE CASUALITIES IN SOI'THERN CALIFORNIA.

Another severe earthquake is reported from the Wcjdern lulled States, the centre being apparently

at Santa Barbara, on the coast of Southern California, 270 miles south-east of San Francisco and 70 miles -north-west of Bos Angeles. Several lives were lost and hundreds injured, and great material damage resulted. Bos Angelos. 20th .him*.

Telephone reports from Santa Barbara stale Hurl eight people were killed and 300 injured as the result of a destructive earthquake. Earlier rcpoils. received Before the telephones lines were repaired, staled that nearly a hundred people had been killed. This was due lo Hie confusion 'of the early morning. ! 1)< 1 the dillieiilty of accounting for people wini were missing. The inhabitants are stricken with, panic.

The lines! buildings in the town, including all those . made of brick, were demolished; the railway lines arc disrupted, telegraph and telephone lines came down, and fires broke out.

A dam burst, and torrents of water Hooded 11 1 0 city. Aeroplanes from San Francisco and elsewhere, and lied Cross (rains, are hastening to the relief of (he town. Vancouver, 29th June. According to the latest reports from Santa Barbara, twelve people were killed. Most of the buildings in the main business street, including two large hotels, were practically destroyed and the damage is estimated at 19.000,090 dollars.