Show I 7 t eoy l j t. t ADVENTURERS ADVENTURERS' CLUB ti rg A HEADLINES ES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF When Clocks s Stopped By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H HELLO ELLO everybody Bryan Carlock of Bloomington Ill iii is one man who knows exactly when his adventure started Other folks may be a little vague about the exact enact hour and minute of their lifes life's biggest thrill When death Is staring you In the f face ce you dont don't stop to look at your watches and say Ho hum i if I dont don't get out of this mess pretty quick Ill I'll be late for dinner Neither did Bryan for that matter But he knows the time ne He knows it because when the blow struck all the clocks and watches es stopped It was the end of time The end of or the world V The end of everything The Tise day was March 10 1 1933 33 and Bryan Dryan had arrived in Long Beach Calif just that morning to visit his sister who was married to an army officer Chester Linton She and Bryan had gone down town In the afternoon and returned home at 5 The clocks and watches stopped at exactly It Was Vas Just Before Dinner When When- In the meantime they were busy getting dinner ready Chester Linton had come home Sis was in the kitchen en making salad and bis big cults Potatoes were boiling bolling on the stove and the roast was in the oven oven The rest of the family was in the living room Bryan was reading and the children a a girl and three boys were boys were playing on the floor Sis came In and said Are you all hungry Dinner will be read ready y in a few minutes And then then then- And then then terror terror The words were hardly out of his sisters sister's mouth when the building began to sway and rock There was a roar that sounded like thousands of firecrackers exploding all aU at once Tables and floor Door lamps fell over Plaster crashed down from Crom the ceiling and the floor bulged upward and burst o open n. n Says Bryan I thought the world was coming to an end The whole house was rocking like a boat I couldn't get my voice for fora a moment and when I did I cried out What is it Then I heard Chester say Earthquake Earthquake Earthquake Earth quake Get out As he said it the wall beside him crumbled and fell out into the street The More 1 He Struggled the Worse Vorse His Fix The apartment was on the second floor of a brick building at the corner of Broadway and Linden They started for the stairway and Bryan says when he reached it It was moving like an escalator Sis ai Yil 4 1 The stairway was moving like an escalator and the kids were safely at the bottom The lieutenant was behind him Bryan was half way down that tottering stairway when his foot went through a broken step and caught there He lie struggled to extricate himself but the harder lie he tried the tighter he seemed to be wedging himself in Now the lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant was nas at his side trying to get him out Plaster was Vas still falling from the walls and ceiling At last the lieutenant got him Wm loose and they ran out into the street On the other side of the street a neighbor was lying dead on the lawn lawn lawn-a a great chunk of cornice beside him H He e had run out of ot his home at the first shock of the quake just as the cornice fell and it killed him The whole neighborhood was in confusion Some men were ere carrying a woman into the th-e bungalow next door her leg torn and bleeding Tidal Wave Vave Threatens Destruction and Hunger And then another terrible cry was passed from mouth to mouth through the stricken area Tidal wave coming We were only three I blocks from the ocean says Bryan and we took the kids and began running inland We had had nothing to eat The roast and potatoes and other food lood back home had been blown against the north wall of the kitchen When we couldn't run any more we ve walked We went on that way for two or three hours through streets filled fined with debris debris de do bris and ruin and desolation Before BeCore long the city was under martial law About or o'clock we struck a place that I hadn't suffered quite as badly as other sections of the town They were serving soup sandwiches coffee etc so we stopped and had something to eat He Didn't Even Feel Fee Nail in His Leg They were all exhausted by this time There was still no sign of ofa ofa ofa a tidal wave and tidal wave or no tidal wave Bryan wasn't g going ing to go goa a step farther They held a council of war and decided to return to the neighborhood of home They wandered back toward the ocean and within a block of or wrecked house they found an apartment building which was still In pretty good shape and managed to get shelter for the night For the first time then Bryan Bran noticed that his bis right foot was damp He De pulled up op his trouser leg and found the foot Coot covered with Uh blood There was a nail In the the- calf of or his leg Evidently it had been thrust there when he got caught in the broken stairway There was a doctor in the house he says and he dressed the wound I was walking like a drunken man and the doctor told me I Iwas Iwas was earth shocked Calls Quakes Quake's Effects Worse Vorse Than War 11 a aThe vi The tremors continued all through the night They stayed in the j r t i apartment house but In the morning they had to move on for Cor the city's t i i mains had been broken and there was no gas or water They went to City Hall p park rk where relief work was getting under way and there 1 i they were put into a truck and sent to Lennox about twelve miles mUes from frem Los Angeles where here a a. a women's club had been turned into a dormitory j They gave ave us medical attention there says sas Bryan and a alot alot lot of us needed It A lot of the women were h hysterical One of the nurses there had been in hospitals in France during the war and had been bombarded by the Germans but she said it didn't j affect her nearly as bad badly y as the quake did 1 Our little group got off oft easily costly My sister and her little girl had ad been hit by plaster and the three boys had their legs skinned The lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- j tenant had had the presence of mind to hold a n chair over his bis head and he escaped without a scratch But the thing that saved us all from dea death j was our delay In getting out of the house If we le had gone one out while the debris was still falling we would have met the same fate late as our neighbor neigh- neigh f t bo bar bor across the Ule street j O O Service 1 |