'FRISCO WARNED

Grey River Argus, 8 October 1934, Page 8

'FRISCO WARNED

Of Coming Quake BY PRIEST GEOLOGIST. (Aus. & NZ. ('ab'r Assn.) VANCOUVER, October 5. The famous “Glacier Priest,’’ th Rev. l ather B. IL Hubbard, who curately forecast the San Francisc earthquake in 1906, forecasts anothe major earthquake towards the end o 1939. He bases his assumption on th face that California is situate'! on th San Andreas Drift, which, geological!, speaking, slips three times in a cen tury. Father Bernard R. Hubbard gaine the title of “Glacier Priest’’ by hi exploration and research work in Aln ska. He recently featured in a filn “ Aniakchak, ’ ’ which was shown i Christchurch. It depicted his astound ing adventures among the glaciers anvolcanoes of Alaska. In the San Francisco earthquake an fire of April 18 and 19, 1906 over 50 lives were lost and property damag amounted to 400,000,000 dollars. Th year was a bad one for quakes aloti the Pacific seaboard of America :rn in the Pacific. On April 17, the da before the San Francisco quake. Foi mosa was badly rocked, and man thousands were killed. Later, on Air. ust 16, quakes tore down the city o Valparaiso, Chile, killing 1500. 1 January of the following year the Al lantie coast was shaken, 1,400 bein killed at Kingston, Jamaica. In th a month the Italian volcanics, Etna am Vesuvius, were destructively active a also was the Hawaiian volcano o Mauna Loa. In 1908 earthquakes i Sicily and Calabria killed 76,000 an Messina was partly