Show fc tf eattle feoff Clears Rubble as New Quake Qua e Feared t eath Toll 7 1 amage mage i 20 Million i X DL V Wash II April A new earthquake jar felt felt here Thursday some mlles from irom the scene cene of or esda s major quake in Puget Paget Sound area Wash Wash- Kon n State colle college e officials mirrors danced on the theand Its 5 and windows imo s rattled at ato ato o 0 am a.m. Pullman hare barely felt r major quake Wednesday the he Seattle area i L iTTLE April 14 UP Red Red led Cross city and volunteer r 1 crews hastily cleared rub- rub 0 rewn wn streets Thursday as ex- ex warned more temblors could f Wednesdays Wednesday's worst earth- earth In Pacific northwest history Leath death leath toll stood at seven An Anold And old old d child was waE on the very ery I lU list r r rage r rage age in Oregon Washington lUsh Columbia was not ex- ex to to exceed three y-three three downtown office offices ga s I in Seattle suffered Buffered structural damage ac- ac f to a preliminary estimate t Chief V William Fitzgerald ity departmental officials damage amage to bridges water jand port facilities could the total figure beyond the mark estimates were unofficial pia ia a apparently suffered as property damage as Seattle early estimates approaching 1000 Tacoma's loss was as was Puyallup Puyallup's y Y Cross officials said aid to toted ted led families wont begin to toach toch ach ch h the spent dure dur- dur e great Columbia river flood lood 8 figures were available from hit t Chehalis Centralia Long- Long nd d Castle Rock Wash ash dents throughout the dis- dis areas reas flooded switchboards calls following the warning re quakes may follow cIa Ann Tanksley who was td d by falling debris at the grade grade school near Chehalis fighting for her life in the thee thes e s Childrens Children's Orthopedic hos- hos V Attendants said there was in the youngsters youngster's than tion on urologists Biologists at the University ashington said there wasn't lightest deviation on their theire toe e throughout the night but buted I ted ed further shocks were ible Jle Least 61 persons were hosed hosed hos hos- ed d some ome in serious condition of others suffered injuries either from falling or or from accidents in their theire e c attempts to escape I tit t c t More Than Minute earthquake struck at 40 O am a.m. PST and rocked the coastline from irom Vancouver ictoria B. 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C to Salem Ore See Page 2 Column 4 4 Pacific Northwest Tallies laDies I Dead Deed Loss After Quaky Quake Continued from Page Pale One for or more than 60 seconds shatterIng shattering shattering shatter shatter- ing buildings starting fires breaking breaking breaking break break- ing water waLer and gas mains and sending sending sending send send- ing hundreds of or downtown choppers shoppers shop hop pers and Holy week churchgoers into a brief period of panic Spokane Walla Valla Walla Wenatchee Wenatchee We- We natchee Yakima and other Washington Washington Wash Wash- in ington ton cities clUe a as far as SOO miles mUes cast east across the Cascade range felt the tremor But death and destruction destruction tion was centered along alonga a mile strip from Seattle south to LongvIew Longview Longview Long- Long view on the Columbia river border of or Oregon Damage to schools churches office offic buildings bridges and Industrial Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial plants was so widespread that officials offered only conservative e estimates on the damage Still estimates te from throughout the damage area indicated that the total would pass the mark Hardest Hit lilt Hardest hit were Seattle Tacoma Tacoma Ta- Ta coma coma Olympia Chehalis Centralia Cen- Cen Longview Long Kelso and Castle Rock Workers at the Hanford atomic works on the flat lands in eastern Washington reported feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing a slight tremor The Bonneville Bonneville Bonne- Bonne ville dam on the Oregon border was unscathed although earth slides were reported to have occurred occurred occurred oc oc- near by Mayor layor V William Willlam Devin of or Seattle Seattle Seattle Seat Seat- tle coordinating disaster work worl Inthis Inthis in inthis this city of said damage will run into the millions It is incredible there were so 30 few casUalties cas cas- Seattle Fire Chief William F Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitz Fitz- tz- tz gerald said Thank God most school children were on Easter va va- a cation Dr Eijo E E. E University of Washington seismologist de described described described de- de scribed the quake as the most severe in the recorded history of or orthe the Pacific northwest He measured measured measured meas meas- the quakes quake's intensity at eight Twelve is the highest a attributed the quake to a moving fault and placed its epicenter at 90 miles southwest of Seattle I Women omen Chimneys toppled fires broke out but were Quickly extinguished cornices gave way piling rubble on noon noontime lime shoppers scurrying from stores A half dozen schools three state slate institutional buildings at Olympia and a church col col- col- col lapsed Hysterical women blocked doorways doorways doorways door door- ways and stairwells in downtown Seattle department stores but miraculously no one was injured seriously Hundreds of worshipers worship worship- ers a assembled for noon devotions as part of Holy week observance fled Jed from churches All fatalities occurred in Washington Wash Vash ington state i The roof of the Lowell grammar school collapsed In Tacoma killing Marvin Klegman 11 11 a junior patrolman patrolman patrolman pa pa- who was leaving cla class J Jearly early to take his post Three other youngsters were injured Jack Roller president of the Castle Rock Pock high school student body and a star athlete was killed when a brick facing on the school building collapsed as classes were being dismissed for noon lunch Percival Perci N N. Bisson 62 a steam- steam fitter at an Olympia veneer plant died of or Injuries suffered when a brick smoke stack toppled over and crushed him Heart Atta Attack k Mr Mrs C. C W W. West Vest of Olympia died of a heart attack Mark Jurvic 65 was killed und under r a falling wall at Centralia as ashe ashe he was riding his bicycle along the sidewalk His dog riding In the bicycles bicycle's front basket also vas killed i Abraham Hedstrom 69 69 died o oC of oCa ofa a a. heart attack shortly after the quake rocked Seattle Coroner John P. P Brill said it was apparently apparently apparently the first attack Hedstrom ever had Konrad 75 75 Grays Harbor county pioneer died of a aheart aheart aheart heart attack a few minutes after the shock An eighth man Alfred Welan- Welan der del 10 JO died of a heart attack in Seattle but the coroner said the quake apparently nad nothing to todo todo todo do with it and listed his death as from natural causes cause Mrs Irs Freida Leaf 71 jumped from a bridge over the Duwamish river near Seattle and andas was as saved from ming drowning by a passing mo mo- mo- mo Ra Ray Dow her rescuer said he saw her run across the road and out on the bridge during the The inmates of the state training school for boys near Chehalis narrowly escaped death deaL or injury when they were ordered from their dormitories 15 minutes earlier than usual for lunch prior to an early afternoon baseball game The quake struck a few mini min min- I ales ites later Walls Valls ills crumbled and portions of the roofs collapsed In Castle Rock student Marilyn said the lunch bell had just rung when the building began to x wobble Everyone rushed for the doors Just as Jack Jacl Roller went through the he door bricks showered down I was too frightened to move but People People Peo- Peo literally carried along I was wa removing bricks from began Jacks Jack's body In Seattle panic swept through downtown buildings s. Within minutes min min- utes the streets were choked with frantic sh shoppers and traffic At Frederick and Nelsons Nelson's a lar large e I department store tore a water tank lanK atop the building bUIlding- burst showering gallons of water into a fifth floor tea room and over the aide side of the building Thirty-one Thirty In major a j o 0 r downtown Seattle buildings suffered extensive extensive extensive exten exten- sive damage Fifteen of them were roped off and citizens were advised advised advised ad ad- not to go shopping until officials officials officials declared the entire area safe Serious Danger C C. W. W Morse water department superintendent reported serious danger In Seattle's south enc end where the water level was lowered by 11 major breaks in water mains n Millions 1 of dollars worth of damage damage damage dam dam- age was caused to groceries in m th the warehouse district where water mains flooded basements and sen sent water brimming to street level Among Amons- Seattle buildings suf suf- cring wall cracks a and nd othE age go were the Oly OlYmpic hotel hater mond M eanY hotel Vance ing ng Dexter Horton e un city building T Lions Elevators stalled I t lIons ions were m buckled disrupted r y v throughout th the hundreds of hom homes g basements report and toppled d Whole wall n sections the old Lafa Lafayette Y eft e School crumb the West Vest Coast Const P bu Paper ing ng U U. S. S Rubber Co Ca Co Co and several old bui Seattle's skid II gl row row Scores or of automobile automobiles i h in S r L J Tacoma Olympia Olympa and oth other er were wrecked by falling tailing bl bri cornices s n I |