Show CAll FOR AID MADE BY STRiCKEN AR AREA OF SANTA BARBARA BARBAR I Quake City Seeking Fund Fundin in N National Appeal SANTA TA BARBARA BARBAnA Cal June 30 AP Santa Ar-Santa Santa Bar Barbara ara today through i its s clearing house association association association tion Issued an appeal to the nation for a earthquake fund and to bankers and clearing houses of or the country for a loan reconstruction fund S Acceptance of offers of ot aid from San Francisco and Los Angeles was voted by a representative gathering of the city council chamber of commerce commerce com corn merce and clearing house tion Structural engineers were asked for Immediately The following telegram was sent to the chambers of commerce of Los Angeles and San Francisco Accept your our offer otter of assistance Send us today three or five superior superior supe supe- nor structural engineers to act In advisory capacity to city government government govern govern- ment in an Immediate survey for reconstruction of ot Santa Barbara Some two million dollars In earthquake insurance was carried on tho the business district wrecked by the Monday earthquakes ac according according according ac- ac cording to estimates by insurance brok brokers rs here A meeting of adjusters adjust adjust- ers era was called for this afternoon under direction of D. D C. C Daniels manager of the San Francisco underwriters un un- un- un SANTA BARBARA Cal Cat June 30 AP A AP-A A hot June sun rose today I on a physically prostrated city by bythe bythe bytho the tho blue Pacific that throbbed nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless nev nev- II through every ery pile of oC her earthquake debris with the indomitable indomitable I table spirit of reconstruction The tablets of death indicated I that nine victims had paid with their lives their portion of tho toll tol taken by earth tremors that si yesterday morning at and continued at various intervals throughout the day and on into the night In the hospitals lay thirty injured Conservative estimates of ma material mate mate- te- te rial damage which however cannot cannot cannot can can- not be definitely confirmed until an architectural survey is made today fixed the loss at More lore liberal surveys ran the damage as high as ONE HOSPITAL STANDS The injured were treated d at Cottage Cotlage Cottage Cot Cot- tage lage hospital the only hospital re remaining re- re maming fit to receive pa patients No Noih ih chck ck has been possible of those for Injuries ta n their homes State street the main arter artery of th the the- torn and twisted business district district dis lis- presented a ad d desolate llla appearance appearance appear appear- ance that threw Into bold 1011 relief eilef the optimism of the men and women who owned the wrecked stores In front of one shop lay what was left of a small auto automobile obile Blocks lof of stone stono weighing or pounds I each had crushed it flat and in their fall had ground d out the life Ute of William Proctor window cleaner clean clean- er who had just driven up to his early morning Job when he first temblor came Across the way stood a ton five truck one of the burly giants of the highways shattered under a similar avalanche a of stone brick and mortar TANK SPREADS DEATH In the crumpled ruins of the exclusive ex exclusive ex- ex elusive Hotel Arlington the mecca of world travelers for years the fall tali of a tank containing gallons gallons gal gal- lons Ions of water had swept to their deaths death Mrs 1 II Charles E. E Perkins aged millionaire widow of Burlington Burling Burling- ton ton Iowa and Bertram B. B Hancock son of G. G Allen Hancock wealthy Los Angeles realty dealer The hatter latter latter lat hat ter escaped with three broken ribs and scalp wounds after falling failing and sliding three stories to the ground from the room beside that in which his son met his death Diehls Diehl's grocery said to have hav been one of the finest stores of its type in the West Vest which represented an outlay of was a mass of Junk The San Marcos building a block below the Arlington hotel recently finished and held to be one of the finest structures in the city was a paradox of stability and ruin The center caved In when the earth Continued on page 11 Santa Barbara S Issues Call Callor For or Quake Fund un Continued from page 1 1 waves struck the community The wings stood apparently Intact but close survey showed them to be badly cracked and twisted NEW HOTEL WRECKED At the other end o of the tho fourteen blocks of State street which approximately approximately ap- ap proximately marked the extent of the serious business district damage damage dam- dam age ago the brand new California hotel a hostelry of rooms completed within the week was a total wreck The roof had collapsed In several places and throughout Its entire height one corner had been ripped baro bare exposing the tho keds as they stood prepared for guests careenIng careening careen careen- Ing ng at a dizzy angle and threatenIng threaten threaten- Ing ng at any moment to skid out Into the littered brick-littered street Another comparatively new hotel botel tho the Carrillo two large Jarge wings of filled billed concrete construction was badly shaken In Its two lowest floors but above that the walls seemed to be as good as new The Tho interior furnishings however all showed the mark of the temblor Here and there throughout the downtown section the pavement bulgEd and cracked while in some locations It had been slashed and chopped into fragments a foot square by the tha grinding force of the successive o tremors WOODEN HOUSES LEAN In the older and less pretentious residential districts the tho earthquake had lad played queer pranks with the wooden homes built a quarter and half a a. century ago One Ono sagged crazily In front Its gable hanging two feet nearer the road than Its foundation posts Another Another Another An An- other had buckled In the middle and leered at the passing world through bare bay windows which until yesterday yesterday yes yes- had been sheltered from the summer sun by an old fashioned veranda Immediately next door was a a. little little lit little lit lit- tle home bome of two stories which Joked much weaker In build than its neighbor but here not a bit of damage had been done except to the chimney cap which had been catapulted Into a bed of roses Torrents Torrents Torrents Tor Tor- rents from broken broke water mains had rushed through a number of home tracts burying gardens and sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks under a layer of mud several inches thick Back on the hills the old mission of Santa Barbara Darbara founded by the Spanish fathers who came with the conquistadores to the tho new world still stood in part defying its second second second sec sec- ond earthquake It had gone through a similar shake In the early eighties and was rebuilt only to suffer again yesterday MISSION TOWER FALLS The She he missions mission's towers with Its toned sweet bells crashed while whilo a kneeling congregation bowed bowel with with- in Then the congregation walked out over the adobe wreckage led by the priest who had celebrated the mass Walls that could be saved were propped up with great timber Umber stays but here and there throughout the night notably at the Hotel Arlington Arling Arling- Arlington ton crews worked steadily clearing away the ruins Now and then a a. new temblor made Itself Itsel felt elt a reminder of the terrifying leading shake that had started the work of damage and the pickaxe and shovel squads sprang b back ck for a moment beyond the swaying piles awaiting its passage passage pas pas- sage before resuming their work Nowhere or only in very rare In Instances Instances instances In- In stances did the men women and children of Santa Barbara spend last night within doors Many whose homes were wrecked were forced to bed down In the open under the segment moon The slept on their lawns from choice not knowing when a fresh tremor might bring their ceilings down about their ears Two facts stood out from m ms many ny striking features In this city today One was the continued determined calm with which Its citizens faced their destiny and their duty and the other was the absence of any serious fire which In earthquakes elsewhere had added to the horrors of stricken communities RECONSTRUCTION PLANNED Early today the leading bankers and business men of Santa Barbara plan to meet In general session and outline the reconstruction Last night they started the program by raising In ten minutes at a hastily summoned assembly to finance the clearing away of the wreckage Just how the volume of insurance carried In the demolished territory will compare with the loss could not be ascertained early today This will be one of the estimates likely to be prepared at the business mens men's session this morning No Insurance adjusters were observed ob observed observed ob- ob served at work yesterday or last night and these in all probability will not take up their tasks until the city engineer and his staff surveys surveys surveys sur sur- veys the wrecked buildings today It was freely reported about the streets that there was but little earthquake Insurance In Santa Bar bara but the statement could not be verified SHIP FURNISHES GUARD The landing of the first forces from the U. U S S. S S S. S Arkansas was a signal for the reorganization of the guards about the quake-numbed quake city Thirty-five Thirty members of the ships ship's company came ashore at daYbreak daybreak daybreak day day- break break- among them a land radio outfit In ana corom-ana or of Radio Madio Gunner C C. C S. S Denton which immediately established a plant for communication tion between the shore forces and Captain Frank Prank Lyons commanding the battleship Naval officers estimated that a battalion of would be beashore beashore beashore ashore and in major command of the guard duties before noon They will be under command of Lieutenant Lieuten Lieuten- ant Commander H. H B. B Sampson Chief of Police Pollee of Santa Barbara Darbara announced that the ho police and sheriff forces o of Sana San San- a to ta a Barbara and Los Angeles combIned combined com com- com com- numbering about men be reorganized for more guard juard duty at once Some cases ot or looting were reported during the night RED CROSS ON GROUND At daylight a unit of lied Ked Cross nurses and rehabilitation experts arrived from San Francisco under the direction of ot J. J V. W. Richardson relief organizer and Dorothy Led Led- arde director of nursing activities in th the Pacific division of af the Red RedCross Cross Announcements were made that a meeting of all lied Hed Cross workers In the tho stricken area would be held at once to plan a more efficient re relief relief ro- ro lief organization The Tho battleship Arkansas experienced experienced experienced some difficulty in to feeling her herway herway herway way into the harbor before daYlight when her navigation officers strained their eyes to locate the Santa Barbara Darbara light The lighthouse had been cut down by th the quake Ranchers coming into the city this morning reported heavy landslides across the highways fifteen miles north of here in tho the direction of Paradise camp In the tho Santa Ynez valley They said however that no other damage had occurred In that section In this territory Is the Gibraltar dam source ol ot Santa Barbaras Barbara's water water yater wa ya- ter supply which earlier reports yesterday said had been demolished but which was found later to be Intact Floors Rolled Up Woman Victim Says SANTA BARBARA June 30 30 So dusty there so hard to breathe Thus tho the complaint of year old Mexican scrub scrubwoman scrubwoman scrubwoman woman taken from the wreck wre ot ut an an office building after almost 2 20 hours hours' imprisonment I am scrubbing the floors when they roll up uli at me mei she explained from her bed at nt Cottage hospital Then the wall It fall all over me and I go down down down-down down so much I can hardly breathe But I Just watt walt and wait because I can hear the scratching as liS they dig for me and In time they take me out eyed Dark-eyed has a R. broken arm a bruised and sprained back and internal injuries s. Her life is In the but sho has the will to live It is her cruel injuries that the memories of the night of horror remain it is that duat so dust so hard to breathe L. L D. D S. S Members Es Escape ape Injury Members of the L L. D. D S S. S church churchIn In Santa Barbara were ero not among the killed or injured injure according to toa toa toa a telegram from itom Joseph Joset h V. W McMurrin rin president of the California mission mis mis- sion Mr McMurrin gave the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing former Utah and Idaho citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens as now residing In Santa Barbara Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara Audrey J J. J Parker and wife Vallace Wallace Wallace Wal Val lace Blaine Elaine Miss M M. Green Mrs M M. Parks Mrs F F. F Thompson Miss T T. Campbell Miss D D. Hendricks F F. Hansen Mrs B B. Miller l Cloudburst Blocks Tejon Pass Road BAKERSFIELD Cal June 30 30 A cloudburst In Tejon pass forty- forty four miles mlles south of here on the ridge route at 3 30 yesterday rester Jay afternoon delayed all traffic for nearly three hours Tons of debris were washed over the mountain highway and a crew of fifteen men with trucks and scrapers were necessary to open up a way one-way passage Camp resorts In the mountain pass were Injured by the debris that poured down the the- mountain sides No lives were lost The cloudburst was preceded by n a a. thunder and I Iwas lightning storm An ordinance annexing to the city I that section lying between Seventeenth Seventeenth Seven Seven- seven seven-I and Twenty-first Twenty South I streets from the tho old city limits to Twenty-third Twenty East street was I passed by the city commission Monday night |