MORE SHOCKS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 July 1925, Page 7

MORE SHOCKS

TERROR AT SANTA BARBARA. REFUGEES LEAVING CITY. NO LOOTING REPORTED. BY CAB LI! — PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPY RIGHT SAN, FRANCISCO, J une 30. A message from Saint a Barbara states that the battleship Arkansas has arrived, bringing naval doctors to relieve the exhausted .physicians and two hundred more soldiers anti marines, for gua.nl duty. No looting is reported, though jewellery anil other shops are unprotected. Ten. million dollars worth of valuables is in the hands of the authorities awaiting claimants. Officials believe that another earthquake will level the .standing ruins of the city and make the gay resort a desert of concrete and mortar. There is extreme danger to pedestrians by reason of sagging, walls and balancing cornices, and workmen, are ready to dynamite these when the tremors cease. The sultry atmosphere is intensifying the nervous tension of tlie relief workers and the apprehensive inhabitants.

The keeper of the Santa Barbara Lighthouse reports that it is completely destroyed. NEW YORK, June 30. As a result of further shocks at Santa Barbara early T to-day, one surpassing in severity anything yesterday, dawn found the * precarious highways once more choked with departing citizens. .Sections of the main highways, towards San Francisco were, nearly closed by slides and cracks. The roadways ore being patrolled by expert traffic police from Sa n Francisco and Los Angeles. Martial law has been declared as a precautionary measure. Thiis morning’s ’quakes took the form of a sharp, sudden rising of tho earth, accompanied by a terrific roar, which lasted a few minutes, followed by the crash of falling bricks and mortar. Tlie night was one of terrifying darkness. Conntlesis automobile headlights took the place of the disrupted city system. The damage is estimated at from fifteen to twenty million dollars. Santa Barbara’s famous old mission still stands in part, defying this and the earthquakes of the ’eighties. Tho mission tower, with its sweet-toned hells, crashed while a kneeling congregation was bowed within. The. congregation walked out, led by the priest, over the wreckage.