The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 29, 1925, Page 1

SANTA BARBARA LAID LOW | BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE! The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in We shington == The Seattle Star “tn nawiso Rnterea as Becond Claas Matte: May 2, 1899. at Che Postoffice at Beattia Wann, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1579, Per Year, by Mall, $2.00 TYOL. 27. NO. 106. aS SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1926. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. COUN ING | S DEA ome Bre my Eye- Witness Quake Story*s2s20:.": == ! A a ao ec Down; City Is Isolated REFUGEES FLEEING Buildings Razed by Quake, Fire | Soe Ne Soa ia an 90 ire 7 ; ~ ‘had been accounted for at noon in the earth- e~ >) =), _ I (a \ a : quake which laid Santa Barbara low, accord- tla ' ie ‘a ing to the’latest flash here. —_Z!“~F rer chee. © Se toe Possibility that more bodies may be buried Sg raed ala oe under the wreckage was admitted. Here : The Southern Pacific’s wire, the only one into the stricken area, went out shortly be- fore noon. “The quakes are continuing,’ messaged the operator at Naples, near Santa Barbara. “There is another one now. Here it } ‘Hospital, Orphanage, Buildings Go Le fone meters oo Down; Nurses Hurt and 150 Chil- s for girls, there is a lot in the i but a darn sight more out | dren Saved in Disaster eee amundecn made © dash for eV NTURA, Cal., June 29.—(By U. P.)—Stone and brick te. Wee we et wane © buildings collapsed, ved streets and sidewalks were Mash for the printer. Here is is: . a twisted and bulged into impassable thorofares and house q beget were twisted from their foundations as the city of Santa comes—’’ and the wire went dead. ee ceeane wevented polson sas-| Barbara, with a population of 50,000, was shaken into vir- Fire has brok ti ] ti f Drcsted the ragiiahie dinner. ~ | tually complete ruin early today by earthquakes. pi sc coat caste peda cae) te ore Refugees reaching Ventura, about from Santa} * the city and is spreading rapidly. _— ee ae eo —® | Barbara, this morning brought first ey »s’ accounts * * sEOUR OWN tg OF the scenes of terror visited upon the sister city. Here Are Two Water mains are wrecked and firemen ‘Golfer (Genus Homo Cussibus—| Water mains were broken and parts of the city flooded. QU A KE CENTER Famous (Have limited facilities with which to battle 1 it: Flat green pastures, also > CG 3 are | ‘ Ehiy fauna, lan ta nae, | Eire broke out in other quarters. Gas mains were exposed. ! a ae ithe flames. The Southern Pacific bile concentrated all of Souther e . oe lavailable tank cars, filled them with water EE cress “and ‘eandy holiews. | All electric power was paralyzed. Hotels crashed down es continually, but sometimes | With business blocks, and men, women and children dashed | i and emits low gutteral| from their homes into an inferno of falling debris. especially when angered.) State st., the main thorofare, is a mass of wreckage, | ; California, ditticult to domesticate {Hollister said, Practically all of the larger buildings of the Spanish Mission Built in Reported @nd they are being rushed to the stricken “*T didn't take hoch stock fn this city were leveled. ga ; _|. 1786 on Site | Destroyed fe see 4 . peers : theory; sa! ts gent | ar he California hotel, a new * Applesauce, “until T saw my hup-| story stoue strupkure, wie: wrecked, | i ea Re Monday ‘I or te trains from Los ee es are ; ea horny Mt at ~ DARING HL: only part of its Inside walls remain-| channel, practically at aoa. level Morning | Wile to get thru almost to Santa rbara. Z see jing, standing. Bedroomn were ex-| Santa Barbara has a population of by Earthquake) The old Santa Barbara mission, a relic of and Fire. | he state’s earliest church days, is reported a Upper is the imass of ruins. Southern | phere Pacific's | [ OS ANGELES, June 29.—The quake reduced sec- Arlington, |, tions of Santa Barbara to ruins. Buildings were One thing I love |posed and furniture seattered about | about 50,000, increased in winter Is a cake of ice; lene rooms by an influx of wealthy tourists. Its cooling breath Mabes tocktalle ics BEL | The San Marcos office building on | It 104 miles from Los Angeles Aaa \Robs Groceteria Cashier of ss destroyed. The} “The Down in Kelso, two men are) mu{of the early Spanish settlemonta a fighting for the mayor's job, which | Store Funds $1 a year. Heck, why don't wn is the descendant of one nie cerecked {fine old miaston church dating from SY | The county hospital, two miles | 175 y get a job In a newspaper of- Sate ae rooe: | , | Rees ae ‘ R One of the They'd earn tice as much. | yee cane te ec e,| from the clty, was partially The city les in a broad valley demolished, pavements uprooted and the collapse of Most Famous | Gibraltar dam, near the city, unloosed a torrent of of All| water, which flooded the city, adding to the panic California | and suffering. Hotels. Santa Barbara and surrounding cities were isolated with Lower View Is tail and wire communication paralyzed. Special trains have the Ancient |left from Los Angeles and San Francisco with Red Cross Mission and other relief. : ( , » The quake was general thruout Southern California, but Visited apparently centered at Santa Barbara, where the damage Annually by jand loss of life were greatest. Thousands of | Leading hotels crumbled to pieces and business blocks were in ruins. THE COMMUTER | Monday morning, a bandit dressed demolished. Several nurses were ie Pie lived In the city, and all day |'" overalls held up U. B. Gillesple,| slightly hurt by falling debris, Fess pear iaree a he cussed thé flivvers that | collector for the Groceterla Stores) but the patients were safely re- j Bilis. to 80) putt-putt-putt past the door, | Co. and H. 0. Pennington, manager| moved. "Se he moved to the beach, and|of the store, and escaped with) St. Vincent's orphanage wan day long he cussed the Evin. | $1,600. ly shaken, the walls were cracked | that went putt-putt-putt past! ‘The bandit’ seemed perfectly ac-/and the rooting alia partly . t.| - inted with Gillespie's movements, | Nurses removed 150 children to al = ‘ Pe anes es poarren robbery did. not take place | hillside nearby without any casual. | cif ation waa resorted spilt in One good thing about radio: When | until after Gillespie had collected | tles. | tre, 44 eiantiinllen trom Sante Bar. W listen in on an orchestral piece, | $1,510 from six.of the branch stores} ‘Tho plant of the Southern Califor. part civienta were dlacernitie here ts Gi don’t have to look at the tuba | He had just collected $90 more|nia Eiison company was partly | fore Monday's temblor tn the shape er slowly oozing away with the! when he was held up. | wrecked. The generators were bad- 3 ‘i als of a large Jagoon, indicating coastal ‘As Gillepsie was leaving the store| jy damaged and the c foci Ia Pont ape 5 ea the Santa Ynea range on rtheast and a group of low the city arg w and barle Golita, where the Southern Pa y was with- Tourists. | bho a |the bandit walked Into the entrance! out lights or power | che elt? The first temblor was felt over a wide area at 6:45. At A queer, queer family jand drew a revolver. | Brick residences were destroyed, FT EL OEE T nt | Santa Barbara and other cties, temblors shook the district Are the Barretts; | “Take off your coat,” he | only framo structures standing the! lat intervals for the space of 20 minutes. They simply dote on *|“and don’t get tough about ft | shocks without damage { be Eating carrota, | Gillespie removed his coat, which| Brick chimneys on wooden build MARKET BREAKS Baptists Would Prevent | Another tremor, less violent, shook Santa Barbara at aoe contained the money, and handed | ings were toppled. | 8:30 a. m., spreading further terror among the inhabitants. (“The handle is busted, the frame|it to the bandit. He then walked| “Tho first tremor came sud- | Buildings were demolished®at Montecito, millionaire re- | | a cracked and the wood ts warped,” |tack to his automobile at the curb| denly at 6:45 and caused prac: | Gee i | M d t B t ] iy ea eee | sent ace | coast stooke Fall When odernist Battle Here 335.0" Sens at ot sties ascent to Santa ‘ | Barbara cket has st{ll got lots of guts.” had no 1 7 id.“ 0 severe, | ; : asc Frsc bancie waa atoat s0rysare olf | py paca wre yrere fever? | News of Quake Received —————- The Southern Pacific gtation at Golita was split in two EVOLUTION NOTE five feet, nine inches in height,| wards for about three hours, ai > and tracks for miles thrown out of line. Maybe we did spring from mon-jand weighed about 165 pounds. He | “The city is panic stricken, NEW YORK, Juno 29.—The Nov Ope ning’ Speeches at Convention Tues-' Airplanes and special trains were hastily dispatched to keys— was dark complexioned. | Women are hysterical and have cae 2 iiryan's dissent may fall— sal forth eraleriaaeay DRUNLr a State Wore, Presiodie. |e ee eee Ne Ne day to Center on Intra Church Peace | the stricken area with relief, when reports of the disaster © inactive the most part of to- ” Yor many a tardy husband | | possessions and huddled on tho | \os%» session, broke Into tremendors seer {first filtered thru. Nev alee a ; Goes home with a funny tale. MANY ARRIVE ON lawns of their homes or fled to [oe tonowing news of the BY J. R. JUSTICE Argo number of Baptist missionaries | y There are a eon of a buildings in Santa Barbara’s By ones the hills. inane lifornia mt aA ages oe. wal boinee Mya Shee 5. % | business section and it is feared many persons lost their “Today's Prize Simile: As idle as “when I left about 10 o'clock there | once ke in California and stocks | \A7ITH an addr ¢ welcome danger zone in China. Sun y P e Yat Se! | dumped on the market in| Dr, Ambrose M. Bailey, of the n was a Baptist and threw his| lives wheh they. collapsed. manufacturer of garters for col- FRISCO SHIP | was no way of telling how many per-| jugs blocks Iirst Baptist chureh, the Northern | [Influence to the denomination in | a8 . ; | ete boys. sons had been killed or injured. | Shares of companies operating on | Baptist eonventlen will open its first | China, until he fell under the spell of | see | “Confusion prevails and police and}. West Coast were under par-|xeasion ever held ii the Northwest, | the bolsheviki. | NTAN | : Thate i gink ee ee ia shin, | als i | newty sworn deputies wert having | ticularly heavy pressure with Gen-|in the Masonic palegla Harvard aye Not only are the Baptists of Seattle | 4 then anys, “I beg your P2h-| Nleyander Passenger List) “\ Hundred of curious tounata were| eral “Petroleum, a California com-|and Pine nt, Tuesday morning at |and the state showing unusual Inter es Zi Py p , breaking nearly three points | 6.40, Two thousand voting delega est in the coming of this convention, — ictidetel ajtors tions .of. the elty are joinir e Lie * 5 organized polic | Visitor | Joining in the ae bout the only individual who| Southern California and San Vran- rik “by the newly organized police | At 10 o'clock ton, Cart Millfken,,| entertainment of delegates 0 pool laltahd! tots és Sr ealdent | Ls \Tremors Saturday and Sun-| Southern Pacific T fhisn't Kicked about the flappers' | cisco furnished 600 visitora for Se. “Water mains were broken by the| jformer governor of Maine, president.| rer y outhern Pacific Train on skirts is the mosquito. attle who arrived Monday morning) + sory und tho streets are covered| Rabbit’ s Fo oot jot, the convention, ‘wil del" wt’) Butcher ‘Charges | day Cause Mlich Damage | Way to Aid Santa Barbara oee on the H. ¥. Alexander. Capt.| vith water, Beforo I loft a Red Cross | ‘ 7 y 4 id of the| ews | . t YE DIARY George H. Zeh, in comman relief station was belng organized to| EF ton Wunder of New York, who : ee (June 28) veawel, reports that this passenger} (oo a injured as fast as they | al Ss to ave li # been chosen as the keynote} Men Robbed Him BUTTE, Mont. June 29.—Mon-| SAN LUIS OPISPO, Cal., June 29. Boorse day.) oe ete oie eat ne | ust ‘s nearly 100 greater than last! coud pe found,’ apanker, will deliver an address. on} Upon the complaint of A, 1,|txnans today were still apprehen- U. PA Southern Pacific. re- his time. ‘Ponce 0 arth th special refer- 99 sive over the earthquake shock lief train left here today for Santa eg Mag toed Fa Madison, on the | Year at t ence on Barth," with spec Hartley, 2900 Al stuteney, | Sie over the earthquake shocks | rention of the Foreign Trade Council,| ‘The Emma Alexander left for the | ai e egro to peace in the church ports AIkI ave, a butcher, | which rocked the state Saturday | Barbara, where, according to officials South Saturday night with a full NAB ? AUTOISTS { indication that the | Claes Moore, 26, and Id Shea, | night ‘and continued with diminish. | of the road, an earthquake, early this He mi | There is every rf : cargo and passenger lst. 80 many time-honored traditions of seusions of tho convention will bo} 20 Were arrested and held in jail,| Ing intensity thruout Sunday and morning, seriously damaged the city people sought passage on her that past decades were Jald In the pep by a feeling of peace and good | Sunday. Hartley told the police | Sunday night. | Reports were that the railroad : i yerere and 6, Ge ‘A, Harel many had to stay over still Tuesday | dust Monday, when rabbit's | witt, and that the rundamental-mod the men had robbed him, Patrol-| ‘The new tremors have located the |TOUNd house, the Arlington hotel, tho E Meldrin, the ralirond Mmagoatess K, | When (he H. F. Alexander starts on foot failed absolutely to save}ern controversy in most of the do-{™n' 1. A. Dunn said the men had| center of the disturbance in the|San Marcos business block and other HK. Simmons, ¥, Mall, her return trip, | Charles Johnson, 42-year-old negro, | nominations, will be kept in the back-|* 54% When he arrested them, vicinity of ‘Three Forks and Man. | buildings were destroyed. | And at Victoria did mest Milord| sunday the steamship Admiral srl pheoll She Tac a ORRa UH TRANEA REC Pia tds matt raetent tN Ar ALC a vtuAT ee HARE Saa ata Ma dirt to Fauul- 7 ni be ssutltte rs © ON] ground | hatin, iit towns about 60 miles} Ys ‘snd no aid talko ot this nad thee | Rogers returned from Southeast! Charged With Abusing Cops|a chickenstealing charge, Pa iar io remeits wusalanuitoar he Haast St Wake was torn up, {t was said, | fand anon to the | Alaska with 172 passengom, and the yottiod without discord there’ seems || Home Seekers | All towns south of here were shak. | “At the critical momont Johnson It was in the surrounding terri: | ‘again, the orcheatrn playing on the | Admiral Dewey came up from South- When Told to Stop |bearing a mysterious box and|io be no gther disturbing clementain | ; i People dancing, and everything | orn Califo aa | : ) eneant nod meri, Aad so to | oT Cay Wie eee | clutching hia. rabbit's foot: in his | sight Attention RAG 8 Tall ORR Ogee, | Alleged to have abuned two police-|joft hand, emerged from an alley} ‘The Oregon question had to do with |] you wilt find a good variety | gait men when they were told to stop! saturday night near Rainier ave,| Linville Baptist college, now located d variety of || F014 Joo Hungstarter’s favorite Highlands Sue Bank | their auto ana turn on tho lights, and Atlantlo st. Just ay Patrolman |at McMinnville, Ore, ‘There Is a homes to choowa from tn th | | on, but the chief damage seemed to center at Santa Barbara, q Wire communications aro down Jand definite reports are difficult to obtain, tory that the most violent quakes eourred Saturday, when the tom: xtended into Wyoming, Idaho, hington and Oregon, ‘Minmer resort: The collar. ToHB aware ald) Tearolas Geltal cman stant hebesd ton foot toromove this col. || *tfled columns of ‘Tho Star, Mero || 41.0 bl inthe pel ies tn ort , ohn Swa , and Harold G min Hogan passed by movement on foot to remove this col- || *! hed iN the: Rocky mounlilitiy in the Big eee for Officer’s Loss|: man, 13, were arrested after an acct-| gHollo!’ sald Dan, “What's in|togo to Portinnd, and nlva to, “mod. || 1% Very sood Mating: Bolt mountan district, was probably | restore normal rail traffic. The Chi: What care I Echoes of the defalcation of L, 4.) dent at Bist ave. and HE, Madison} the box?" ernize” its program, Both the nfoy- | DO YOU WANT A TIO: tho cause: of) the ttouble, in the oago, Atiwauleeiogt Paul railroad Por muacler sore? Brockway, assistant secretary of the} #t,, Sunday night, “Nennothin’, be responded |ing and the modernizing will be bit We will bulld you a three-room |} opinion of President G. EH, Clapp, of | will have to route tts trains over the I've out three off my Highlands, were hoard in superior} Officers Frank Bertrand and 8. J.| Johnson, squeezing the rabbit's hop-|terly fought |] fenae on WH mcre tract at |) tne University of Montana, and| Northern Pacific tracks for at least Golfing score! court Monday gen the Highlands| Jorgenson anid they yelled at the) per, ‘Tho regular sessions, morning, aft-|| $900 down, It vou Want oe |] noted geologist, | tWo Weeks to get around obstructions | fhe 3 started suit cate the Dexter Hor-| two and told them to turn the lights! “Queer, but T see feathers on it,”|ernoon and evening, will bo held in|] country home eome in and sea Ho said this region has long heen | in the vicinity of Lombard, A To attain succens, do what YoU lion wank for $17,980. Brockway|on, or reply, thoy were t@d to| Dan looked inside and found wey.|the Masonic temple, but overflow |] \! Hylty water and” clectric |] ynown 14 have ‘faults’ great | ‘The Lombard tunnel was blocked ke," wayy a lecturer, pleaded guilty to grand larcony of! go to a warmer climate than Som.) en chickens, They had just died} meotings will be held at the same LL wha | eraoks in tho earth, land a huge cliff, 800 foot high, top Good advice, but look out for the |that amount from the Highlands, in| tle via the neckwringing at, Hox, |hours in the Mirat Baptist churoh, || ‘Turn. to the Want Ad Columns Mich damage and destruction to | pled over into 16-Mile canyon, cover: tpn! lehecks drawn in 1923 on the Dexter| swarts speeded up Ils Nghtlesa} ehickens, rabbit's fe nd a filo) Tarvard ave, & neca wt |} and seo who ts offering op |] buildings and property’ qggurred at | ing the track for a distance of 1,000 ata Horton institution. Attorneys for the | auto in an effort to get away, police | ayd hammer were marked up as ev Tho outstanding features of the}] portunity to you. RBAL Ws. || Three Works, White Sulphur | feet 1 will not warble \iighlands seek to recover that| claim, and crashed Into another ma Mec 6 and Johngon was pht into a| convention will be Hvangellam, Kdu|] TAT FIRMS OFPT Springs, Manhattin and at other! In some places the slide was 200 Bonga that Wt, amount from the bank on the ground | chine coll cation and Migstons. Just now the |] MOST BUYS BVERY DAY IN || pointy, but tho outstanding suffer. | fect deep over the tracks, rallroad 4 Yor fear my collars that it should have known Brockway Swarts was held for reckloss driv The chickens had beon plifered| qubject of missions in China ix of] | TH CLASSEPIED COLUMNS [Fors wore the railroads, | engineers reported AN will wilt, was transferring the money to his ing and the boy was turned over to from John Axelson, 1922 26th aye.! more (han usual Interest to the 1] ow ere stun Hundreds of workmen were ab} Other minor “slides interrupted A. J, & own account '» Juvenile authoritios, S, according to Hogan, “ tints of the nation, as there o | rY J voudy at work today in an effort to! (Kuen to Page 3, Column yy