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Show 0 Casualty Report Shows Six Dead; Many Injured In Quake Br United Press , Following is a report on casualties cas-ualties and damage caused by yesterday's earthquake, described by University of Washington seismologists as the worst in Pacific Pa-cific northwest history: 1 SEATTLE One dead. At least 14 hospitalized, scores of others suffering minor injuries. 'Property damage will run into 'millions of dollars. At least 31 major buildings suffered damages dam-ages varying from wide cracks In walls to collapsed roofs and Experts Warn Of More Temblors In '.Northwest Areas (Continued from Page One) age will run into the millions. It is incredible there were so few 1 casualties." Seattle Fire Chief William Fitz- gerald said "Thank God, - most i school children were on Easter vacation." Dr. Eijo E. Vesanen, University E of Washington seismologist, des- , ' cribed the quake as "the most se-l se-l vere in the recorded history of J the Pacific northwest." He meas-: meas-: ured the quake's intensity at : eight. Twelve is the highest. Ves-' , anen attributed the quake to a ' moving fault and placed its epi-! epi-! center at 90 miles southwest of Seattle. '; Chimneys toppled, fires broke out but were quickly extinguish-J extinguish-J ed, cornices gave way piling rub- ble on noontime shoppers scur-l scur-l rying from stores. A half dozen schools, three state institutional , buildings at Olympia and a church collapsed. ; Hysterical women blocked doorways and stairways in down- f town Seattle department stores I but miraculously no one was in iured seriously. Hundreds of worshipers assembling for noon ( devotions as part of Holy Week I observance fled' from churches. J All fatalities occurred in Wash-; Wash-; ington state. ? School Roof Collapses i The roof of the Lowell gram-' gram-' mar school collapsed in Tacoma, killing Marvin Klegman, 11, a ' junior patrolman who was leav- ing class early to take his post. , Three other youngsters were injured. in-jured. Jack Roller, president of the Castle Rock high school student body and a star athlete, was killed kil-led when a brick facing on the school building collapsed as classes clas-ses were being dismissed for noon lunch. Percival N. Bisson, 62, a steam-fitter steam-fitter at an Olympia veneer plant, died of injuries suffered when a brick smoke stack toppled over and crushed him. Mrs. C. W. West, of Olympia, died of a heart attack. Mark Jurvic, 65, was killed under un-der a falling wall at Centralis as he was riding his bicycle along the sidewalk. His dog, riding in the bicycle s front basket also was killed. , Abraham Hedstrom, 69, died of a heart attack shortly after the quake rocked Seattle. Coroner John P. Brill said it was apparently appar-ently the first one Hedstrom ever had. Heart Attack Victims Konrad Sorenson, 75. Grays Harbor county "pioneer, died of a heart attack a few minutes after the shock. An eighth man, Alfred Welan-der, Welan-der, 60 died of a heart attack in Seattle, but the coroner said the quake apparently had nothing to do with it and listed his death as from natural causes. Mrs. Freida Leaf, 71, jumped from a bridge over the Duwamish river near Seattle and was saved from drowning by a passing motorist. mot-orist. Ray Dow, her rescuer, said he saw her run across the road and out on the bridge during the earthquake, then jump. The 170 inmates of the state training school for boys near Chehalis narrowly escaped death or injury when they were ordered from their dormitories 15 minutes min-utes earlier than usual for lunch prior to an early afternoon baseball base-ball game. The quake strjek a few minutes later. Walls crumbled, crum-bled, and portions of the roofs collapsed. Federal Funds Not Available For Quake Damage WASHINGTON, April 14 (U.R) A federal works agency spokesman spokes-man said today the government has no plans at present to use federal funds to aid Pacific northwest areas rocked yesterday by earthquake. P. F. Seward, director of the Bureau of Community Facilities, said "There is no chance at the moment of declaring the Pacific northwest to be a disaster area." Under the law, President Truman Tru-man must declare a section to be a disaster area before any federal fed-eral funds can be allocated for relief. Only three Americans who did not serve as president have their pictures on U. S. bills Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Salmon P. Chase. Ever? Afternoon 'Kxceptlng Saturday) Sat-urday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morning PuDllshed by The Herald Corpora Won 50 South First Weal Street Provo Utah Entered ai second class matter at the oostotfice tn Provo Utah, under the act of March S, 1879 Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county SI 00 the month $8 00 for six months in advance. S12 00- the year in advance By mail anywhere in the United States or its posses, sions, 11 00 the month, $6.00 for six months. $12.00 tha year la advances walls. Todd Shipyard Harbor Island plant closed down' with major damage. Five newly con structed $15,000 homes destroyed in earth cave-in. Eleven major breaks in water mains. Two drawbridges jammed. Radio tower tow-er snapped off. Dozens of auto mobiles wrecked by Jailing cornices corn-ices and debris. Communications lines broken. Scores of chimneys toppled at roof line. Hundreds of basements flooded. Pavement on several streets buckled. Several small fires extinguished. TACOMA One dead, seven hospitalized, scores of others with minor injuries. Two preg nant women suffered miscar riages. Several downtown build ings damaged and roped off Grammar school roof collapsed. A 23-ton tuock of steel toppled 507 feet from top of east tower of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge under construction, sink ing a barge at its base. Scores of chimneys toppled. Tall smokestack smoke-stack at Point Defiance aquarium aquar-ium crashed into boat deck below. be-low. Two hoses from area seen floating in Puget Sound. OLYMPIA Two dead .at least six injured. State capitol building slightly damaged and five other capital buildings dam aged an estimated $2,000,000 when huge chunks of masonry fell from sidings. Old capitol building declared unsafe. CENTRALIA One dead, extensive ex-tensive interior and exterior damage to several downtown buildings, including fallen walls on one. Water mains broken. CASTLE ROCK One dead, nine iniured when roof of senior high school caved in. LEWISTON a,n d C O E U R D'ALENE, Ida., More than 300 miles east of the destruction area, also reported feeling the tremor. Quake Sidelights Five Nearly Completed Homes Destroyed In Seattle Quake SEATTLE, April 14 (U.R) Sec onds after yesterday's earthquake, a man was seen walking rapidly down a street clad only in his underwear and sport shoes, -o- SEATTLE, April 14 (U.R) Re altor Ralph Gilbow stood admiring admir-ing his five nearly-completed $15,000 homes when the earth quake struck. The soft earth in fill supporting the houses gave way. All five homes were destroyed. des-troyed. -o- TACOMA, Wash., April 14 (U.R) Warden T. J. Aquier of McNeil Island penitentiary reported that he had sighted two houses adrift on Puget Sound between the island is-land and the mainland. The houses hous-es apparently had tumbled from cliffs along the Sound after the earthquake. A prison boat investigated in-vestigated and found no one inside in-side or on top of them. -o- SEATTLE, April 14 (U.R) Twenty-four prospective officers raced out of Seattle's police train-ing train-ing school as the earthquake the BEST in RERIGERATION At New Low Prices! This Big New S.6 cu. ft. Now Only 239.95 A Full Carload Shipment To Select From Choose from 13 new models, all at reduced prices. Everyone featuring Kelvinator Beauty Kelvinator Efficiency Kelvinator Dependability Depend-ability Kelvinator Extra-Value features that give you more for your money. Now you can buy a genuine new Kelvinator for as low as. EASY TO BUY EASY TO PAY FOR A small down payment delivers your choice. ENJOY YOUR NEW KELVINATOR While You Pay For It Student Tells How Quake Hit High School (Editors: Following is the ac count by a senior high school stndent of the earthquake tragedy which struck the Castle Rock high school in southwestern Washing- ten yesterday.) BY MARILYN MYKLEBUST As Told to the United Press CASTLE ROCK, Wash., April 14 (U.PJ It's funny but you'd think the first one out the door would have escaped. But he didn't. The lunch bell had just rung when the building began wobbling. wob-bling. Everyone rushed for the doors. The teachers tried to stop us but no one seemed to hear. Jack Roller was the first out followed by Beverly Ward. Jack was the president of our student body and a star athlete. Just as Jack went through the door bricks began showering down. I prayed he made it all right but I couldn't see anything after that. Everyone was pushing and yelling. I was told Beverly suffered an arm injury and Jerry Windham was hit by several of the falling bricks. I don't know how I got out or why I wasn't first. I don't think I'd taken a step if I hadn't been literally carried along. I was too frightened to move when the building began rocking. A lot of people began removing the bricks from Jack's body and I guess he was still alive because they rushed him to the hospital. I heard one of the men helping free Jack say "My God! I was only three feet from him when it happened." He took some of the injured to the hospital. I keep on thinking we should have listened to our teachers. Angel Falls, in southeastern Venezuela, drops more than 5500 feet in a single unbroken sheet of water. struck. In a body, they stopped, turned and ran back. They had just left the showers stark naked, -o- SEATTLE, April 14 (U.R) Mrs. Freida Leaf, 71, frightened by the earthquake, leaped from a bridge into the Duwamish river. A passing pass-ing motorist, Ray Dow, saved her from drowning. -o- SEATTLE, April 14 (U.R) Na ture apparently attempted to mark the University of Washing ton football field in its own way yesterday. The earthquake left a crack JHTyards long, a foot wide and three feet deep about 100 yards from the open end of the stadium. -o- SEATTLE, April 14 (U.R) A six-pound boy was delivered -by caesarian section to Mrs. Dorothy Rogers, 29, during yesterday's earthquake. As the surgeon worked, work-ed, the lights went out and the anaesthesia and oxygen feeders failed. 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Elder Merrill will meet with officers of the stake in a special leadership meeting at 2:30 p. m. in the Manavu - Ninth ward chapel. Those who will participate partici-pate in his meeting include the stake presidency, high council, Melchizedek priesthood quorum officers, stake priesthood com mittees, bishoprics stake ward teaching committee, and Aaron-ic Aaron-ic priesthood general secretaries. In connection with the conference, confer-ence, a farewell program will be held at 7 p. nn. Saturday in the Joseph Smith auditorium in honor of Pres. Robertson. The public is invited to the program, according to Harold W. Lee, program pro-gram chairman. DENVER REPORTS STRONG QUAKE RECORDING DENVER, April 14 (U.R) The Pacific Northwest's earthquake yesterday was one of the strong est ever recorded at the Regis college seismograph center, it was reported today. The Rev. Joseph V. Downey S. J., college seismologist, said the quake was first recorded at 12:55 p. m. Denver time. 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