Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-04-23 | Page 9 | Three New Shocks Rock Towns in California

I 1 I THREE NEW NE SHOCKS ROCK TOWNS IN I CALIFORNIA San Jacinto and Hemet Recovering Recovering Recovering Re Re- covering From Severe Shock of Sunday S SAN N J JACINTO CINTO Cal Cat April 23 Three Three more earthquake shocks during the tho night and early t today made d San a Ja- Ja cinto and Iel Hemet shiver but u added d d nothing to the destruction of ot the Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day afternoon tremors which half halt wr w wrecked the business district here and severely Ee damaged Hemet J liven Kven ven the tottering w walls of half half- collapsed buildings seemed to have gained a sense of ot balance during the I successive earth and twist twist- I I ings Ings f of their Sunday balance and Monday and retained re reI re- re It was estimated that a a. third of the I People of San Jacinto and Hemet slept outdoors last night as they did Sunday night for protection The three new shocks occurred at midnight about 2 2 a. a m. m and at a a. a 8 m. m The last which was reckoned 8 as the twelfth of the series seemed the most severe of the three windows were shaken and dishes dashes 8 rattled Aa As As' As one person said Everything that co could ld be shaken loose had been shaken shak shak- en down b by the first three devastating ing InA shocks of or Sunday Sunda afternoon Gas electricity and water services ser were wre resumed late yesterday and condi con di gradually were approaching normal again here and at Hemet Reconstruction Reconstruction Reconstruction Re Re- construction work was under wa way Wrecking gangs gangs' began their second days day's work clearing the streets street and starting on on the tangled wrecks of the business districts of the two towns to make way for the second rebuilding of ot the towns half obliterated by a sim sim- violent earthquake Christmas day 1899