Show MUCH MINOR DAMAGE DONE IN EVERY SECTION OF oil CITY Pupils Are Dismissed Subject Sub Subject Subject to Call Call Pending Buil Building ing Check SAFETY SAFETY MOVE STRESSED City and t. Coun County ou Structure Is Also Vacated Salt Lake public schools were dismissed dis dis- dis missed subject to call caU following the serIes erics of ot earthquakes Monday morn morn- ing ng The schools were closed by Superintendent Super Super- L. L John Nuttall Jr who immedIately ordered a corps of engineers en en- and architects to inspect every very every school building for possible damage Howard Barker superintendent of buildings and grounds took ook charge of ot the inspection crew City Commissioner George D. D Keyer Keyser Key Key- ser se- er acting mayor and County Commissioner Com Corn missioner er E. E E. E Howe How ordered the cIty city ity and county building vacated pending ending a minute inspection and several everal downtown buildings were being beng be be- ing ng vacated after rumors rumors of ot impending impend impend- ing ng shocks were circulated Superintendent Nuttall ordered the thc schools dismissed on recommendation ion Uon of Chief of Police William I L. L Payne Will Check on Safety Children will vill not be permitted inside inside in- in side any building until we are satisfied satisfied sat- sat beyo beyond d question as as' as to th their ir safety Dr DT Nutt Nuttall ll declared Thus far we wei have hav not found any evidences of structural weaknesses which would not appear from natural seasonal contraction and expansion Mr Barker said after the thc inspection had lad been underway more than an anh h hour DeVoe Woolf principal of the South high school reported that students stu stu- dents at that school were badly frightened Tightened by the thc tremor at 1123 a. a m. m Mr Woolf Wool informed the superintendent superintendent super- super however that classes m maintained order as they Shey marched out of the building housing 1555 excluding instructors Wall WaIl Slightly Cracked South high school is fe feet t long the longest school schoot structure in the city and naturally anything resultIng result result- Ing ng in the slightest settling would how show in the walls Mr Barker said The only effect of the quake in that hat building was a slight cracking o 0 of a wall near the ramp on the third floor loor Sara H. H Young principal at Ensign En En- sign Ign school Ninth avenue dis dismissed missed her classes without waiting for tor or the superintendents superintendent's formal al or or- der The school is a three story structure housing pupils in elementary elementary ele eTh- grades It was emptied in n one minute nine seconds the principal principal prin prin- cipal reported Typical of the thc loyalty of more than 1000 teachers to their charges one woman teacher called the superintendent te dent back after issuance ce of the adjournment order rd r to ask If teach teach- teachers ers were included ded and thereby privileged to leave their posts in the various buildings Relief Operators Called Relief Relle telephone operators had to tobe tobe toe be e supplied for tor the thc private switchboard switchboard switch switch- board in the thc school administration offices as alarmed p parents swamped the thc office with calls in an effort to reach various buildings where their children were in in classes No casualties were reported from any school building m many of which were evacuated under fire drill orders orders orders or or- ders issued by principals Following a n joint meeting of ot the e city and county commission sho dy after 1 p. p n m rn C City ty commissioner om oner Key Keyser er and nd county Commissioner loner Howe issued a joint statement dismissing dismissing dis dis- dis- dis missing rowing all cit city and county and closing the building for the thc remainder remainder remainder re re- re- re of f the day This building is not reinforced as many ot oftie e modern office buildings building are the thc commissioners said therefore therefore there fore we deem it advisable not to take tak any chances on on the thc earthquake Dr Keyser pointed out that he himself had no fear tear of ot a catastrophe catastrophe catastrophe phe but inasmuch as eminent geol have predicted a recurrent tremor tremor tre tre- tre mor he felt it advisable to evacuate the thc building |