Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-20 | Page 5 | Quake Series Rocks Manila, Wild Confusion Grips City

Quake Series Rocks Manila, Wild Confusion Grips City MANILA, P. I., Aug. 20 (UP) A series' of three violent quakes, following each other in rapid succession, shook Manila tonight, throwing the city into wild confusion, cracking modern office buildings, build-ings, bursting water mains and imperiling hundreds of persons, hut annarentlv causing? no serious casualties. make a survey to determine the extent of the damage in outer sections sec-tions of ths province. Coastline Followed Weather observers said the temblor tem-blor apparently followed the western west-ern Luzon coastline, but they had not located the center of the disturbance. dis-turbance. They believed the quakes, decreasing in intensity, would continue con-tinue throughout the night Among the 390 refugees arriving on the President Jefferson from China were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt Jr wife of the former governor gover-nor general of the Philippines, and an eight-pound girl, one day old, born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Ed C. Meisler of Sandusky, Ohio, aboard the steamer. ' Refugees who bad just arrived from war-torn China were disembarking disem-barking from the liner President Jefferson at the time of the first shock at 8 p. m., Manila time. Nearly Near-ly 400 of the former residents of Shanghai were crowded on pier 7 or leaving the boat when the shock, accompanied by a deep, rumbling roar, waa felt Several of the passengers fainted and had to be cared for by companions. com-panions. The second shock followed 20 minutes later, but was of lesser intensity, in-tensity, as wss the third, which was felt at 10:33 p. m. Officials at the weather observatory observa-tory said the first shock wss of "intensity six." which was described as severe, and that there probably would be a succession of shocks of lessening intensity throughout the night Hundreds of persons rushed from theaters and churches, where Friday Fri-day night mass services were being said, and several were reported to have been injured when trampled underfoot Telephone and power services were disrupted in many parts of the city and wide sections of Manila were plunged into darkness momentarily. mo-mentarily. The rumbling of the quake was accompanied by the sharp sound of breaking glass as show windows in store fronts were shattered. Flying glass imperiled pedestrians, as did ornamental copings, which were loosened from buildings. Elevators Jam s Elevators jammed in downtown buildings and the panic of persons trapped in the lifts added to the confusion of the scene. A two-inch crack opened on the front of the Insular Life building, one of the most modern in ths city. Bursting water mains sent geysers gey-sers of water into the streets, adding add-ing to the disorder of the scene and to the difficulties of officials who were attempting to make a survey of the damsge. City officials reported, however, thst they were organizing survey patrols rapidly and territorial officials of-ficials said they were attempting to