CHIMNEYS CRASH

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1934, Page 8

CHIMNEYS CRASH

WOODVILLE ROCKED

"WORST IN MEMORY"

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WOODVILLE, This Day. AVoodville was rocked by the worst earthquake in. living memory. No one was injured, but property damage runs intq many thousands of pounds. Tho

first shock, at 11.48 p.m., awakened all sleepers, throwing some from their beds. Practically every chimney in the' town and district is down, and others are unsound. CrocVcry was broken wholesale. The worst damage was done in the business area, where stock was thrown from the shelves and plate-glass windows were smashed. Parapets and brick walls have fallen, and some walls where unsafe will have to be removed. Tho Club Hotel chimney crashed through tho kitchen, which was completely wrecked. Tho chimney from the Masonic Hotel went through the vestibule roof of the Kosy Theatre adjoining. Grocers and chemists are the heaviest losers, practically everything movable having been thrown on to the floor and smashed. Damage to stock ia estimated at over £1000. At Galbraith's Store, six plate windows were cracked, and most other shoj) windows wore cracked or broken. Reports from country districts state that chimneys and crockery were wrecked.. Cracks opened in some roads, and in the bridge approaches to the borough. "Water and gas services are intact. Grinlinton's (furnishers) double chimney crashed through two floors, taking with it a wardrobe and embedding itself in the ground. Minor shocks followed the first and man}' people walked the streets throughout the night.