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Show X 1 0 Sunday Herald . r Describes Horror of Alaska Quake Eye-Witne- ss Roundup Of Earthquake Losses City-by-Ci- ty five-stor- city-by-ci- ty Alaska KODIAK Fifty persons were killed in this island city and 50 others are missing, Gov. William A. Egan's office reported. Joseph Rothstein, assistant to Gov. Egan, said: "There are communities along the perimeter of Kodiak Island that according to reports seem to have disappeared." Gasoline storage tank fires were reported still raging. The Governor's VALDEZ office reported 28 dead in this port community, which was hit by at least two big tidal waves after the temblor. dock splintered with the shock of the quake, then causht fire when oil tanks burst into flame. The tidal waves swept longshoremen and other people on the docks out to sea. Most of the town's 300 residents fled to the summit of Thompson pass to escape the water. Three persons SEWARD were reported killed in this port city. More than 20 were reported missing and several were injured. Gasoline storage tank fires raged hours after the quake, and highway and rail routes in and out of the city were impassable. Because of the damage at Seward, the gasoline supply at anchorage, 75 miles distant, was tightly rationed for emergency use Val-dez- 's only. ANCHORAGE Large sections of Alaska's largest city lay in ruins, but only three deaths were confirmed immediately. Some building sank 30 feet below their original levels, andin cracks two-foot-wi- de and Sitkinnak were damaged, but no deaths were reported. OLD HARBOR This village, site of the oldest white settlement in Alaska, founded by the Russians, was damaged extensively. HOPE This town across Cook Inlet from Anchorage was reported to have suffered little or no damage. WHITEHORSE, Yukon TerThe quake was felt, ritory but damage was light. California CRESCENT CITY A tidal wave raced 1400 miles from Alaska to smash into this northern California coastal town early Saturday. At least nine persons were killed as a wall of water knocked buildings off their foundations and swept over a block downtown area. Every one of Jhe town's 150 down-t- . town shops suffered damagei Fire broke out at a Texaco fuel storage facility, and five petroleum tanks went up in flames. Gov. Edmund G. Brown inspected the damage and said he was Other California coastal cities the tidal waves ripped hundreds of small boats from their moorings, and damaged pier facilities in many areas, but no deaths or major devastation were reported. Oregon A wave DEPOE BAY swept across a family of six sleeping on the beach at Beverly Beach Stake Park. One small child was drowned and the other three were missing. The family was that of Monte McKenzie of Tacoma, Wash. SEASIDE Tidal waters pushed the Necanicum River back up its bed, flooding a 56-squ- ." the pavement of downtown streets. The front y wall of a department trailer park. Tidal CANNON BEACH store collapsed into the street, killing two women. As many as waves toppled several houses their foundations and 50 cliffside homes in the swank from of small craft moored numbers district residential Turnagain to were swept to sea wharf a were reported to have tumbled with a cliff into Cook Inlet. after the wharf gave way. GOLD BEACH Water ripped Soldiers from nearby Fort out docks and smashed small downRichardson patrolled on the Rogue River. boats and victims aid town streets to FLORENCE-A wall of waprevent looting. CORDOVA Cordova was re- ter surged into the Suislaw ported badly damaged and River, roaring eight feet high burning, but detailed informa- in eight seconds. British Columbia tion was unavailable. A VANCOUVER ISLAND Residents KETCHIKAN tore 50 surge moved to high ground because foundations from homes their but of tidal wave warnings, of hundreds the tide flunctuation was only and damaged four feet. Negligible damage others. No deaths were reported. was reported. Little damage was SITKA reported at Sitka, which is on Baranoff Island on the southeast Alaska "panhandle." The Coast Guard said a dock collapsed at Sitka, but none of the outlying communities on the peninsula reported damCOLORADO SPRINGS (UPI) age. The North American Air DePALMER The only damage Command (NOR AD) confense in this Matanuska Valley agricultural community, known as firmed Saturday that a RusAnchorage's "bread basket," sian satellite apparently burned was broken window glass. up Thursday night over the The Coast north central United States YAKUTAT e to navi- and south central Canada. aid Guard's The main body of the satelgation (Loran) station was evacuated as waves smashed lite was believed to have landInto this site of the 1958 earth- - ed in the Atlantic Ocean. opened half-doze- ...".i. five-foot-hi- gh "awe-stricken- ANCHORAGE, A newswoman By United Press International quake and tidal wave that Here is a report "swallowed" Khantaak Island of earthquake and tidal wave with the loss of three lives. damage resulting from the Lighthouses at Cape St. Elias great Alaska earthquake. Alaska (UPI) today told of two of the J. C. walls seeing y building colPenney's lapse into the street, killing two n women and crushing a parked automobiles. She gave a graphic description of the earthquake which damaged portions of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, Friday night. Jean Chance of station KENI was waiting in an Anchorage police station when her young son ran in and screamed that the large department store building was collapsing. She ran outside. "Sure enough the front wall was crumbling and falling into the street," she said. In a radio equipped automobile she sped to the site of the building "before the police or fire department really knew what was happening." "I saw women and children and men running from the building," she said. "The front wall had collapsed and had crushed half a dozen cars. There was one woman in one of the cars and one woman on the curb both crushed by y the building wall." She said a side wall also collapsed, crushing parked autos. Intense fog blocked efforts to pull down the remaining walls that were "extensively damaged," she said. The fog also I five-stor- Russ Satellite Burns Up Over United States long-rang- II Ill " inlfilMltffliiriiii mill TIDAL WAVE DESTRUCTION IN CRESCENT CITY Martial law was declared Saturday in Cres- cent City, Calif., where debris littered streets after Crescent City .... ir r,iiriNa.!tnr1,ri The wave brought with It floating debris which smashed into store fronts. One log swept through and destroyed a small cleaning plant. Broken power lines apparently ignited a fire at the hussey Texaco Fuel Storage plant. Five tanks went up in flames. For a time flames threatened Union 76, another fuel storage facility, but they were brought under control before reaching the Union tanks. The wave struck Crescent City at 12:09 a.m. PST., five hours after a tremendous earthquake devastated much of Anchorage Alaska and several smaller towns along the Rugged Alaskan coast. Debris left in the aftermath of the wave littlerd the down town area of Crescent City. Police and sheriff's deputies patroled the business district to prevent looting. STAMPS FOR ROOMS NEW YORK (UPI) During From Two Sides The town was flooded from two sides. Much of the water backed up Elk Creek along the edge of town, then sloped over the banks to flood a four by eight area. However, damage there was nowhere near as extensive as in the downtown area. Fires also reportedly destroy- ed the Nickols Pontiac Agency, and damaged numerous other structures before being brought under control. The fires were the worst the city had ever suffered. Gov. Edmund G. Brown flew to the stricken community for a first hand look at the damage. He had been in town only yesterday surveying a controversial freeway site and had spent the night in Eureka, about 80 miles to the south. There were no immediate accounts of how the nine per- - 1964, an estimated 1,000 guests at one New York hotel will have at least one thing in common, They all saved trading stamps to exchange them for rooms at A MAJOR DISASTER AREA JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) ka, and I have assured Gov. the Hotel Eclison, believed to be the first hostelry to make that William A. Johnson four-foot-thi- ck ide ., tidal waves destroyed 150 businesses and killed at least nine persons. Part of the destruction is shown above. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) LBJ DECLARES ALASKA (Continued from Page One) imlimm.,n...m.il. President Saturday declared earthquake - ravaged Alaska a major disaster area. He pledged the Federal Government's full and prompt assistance and kept in close touch with the tragic developments. The president, in a statement, assured the people of Alaska, the nation's "warmest sympathy" will be "backed by action." "To assure full federal action, any poss Egan ible help will be made avail such a trade able." ...... .... The President directed all federal agencies to rush to the aid of the stricken state. He dispatched Edward A. McDer- mott, director of the office of emergency planning, as his: personal representative to sur- vey the damage. McDermott was to depart aboard an Air Force plane with 'li 'fMtiffiVJpyMJjtl'Q'll five-stor- -- teh 11.11 . . .Ml J ItCI Si. NATIONS No.1 SINGING SENSATION lr 113 Si" away from the C. Penney store, she "dis- covered a whole k area had collapsed and had fallen into a hole it had created ittwo-bloc- self." She said the whole area had sunk to a depth of about 30 feet and that as a result, plus the fog, the number of dead or injured "was impossible to determine immediately." Mrs. Chance said civilian and military personnel passing through the area on their way home from work "jumped out of their cars and helped to di- rect traffic." "This has been a tremendous help." said the city was receiving aid fron nearby Air Force Base and the Fort Richardson Army post despite some damage suffered there. She El-mend- orf KENTUCKY EXPLORER FRANKFORT, Ky (UPI) Thomas Walker (1715 - 1794), physician, soldier and explorer, born in King and Queen County, Va., was the first white man to make a recorded exposition to Kentucky. He discovered and named the Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Gap and Cumberland River. of Sunday, March 29, 1964 PROVO A Tiger Walks Academy by Walt Disney. Paramount Captain New G. man with Peck and T. Cur tis. Uinta Surf Party plus The Young Swingers. Pioneer Seven Days in E. with O'Brien. May OREM Move Over Dar Geneva ling plus Young Guns of Texas. Closed. Scera sons met their deaths. It was thought that most had stood out on t h e unprotected beach to watch the waves sweep in. Some witnesses said they saw five bodies floating in Elk Creek. Seaside Hospital- said nine persons had been treated for serious injuries and another 50 were treated for minor cuts and bruises and released. In a telegram to Johnson, the governor said a complete evaluation of the damage and loss of life from the earthquake, naal waves and fire was nov yet available but "information fc.. ,k t,....,, mTa. T 'MMwmrr at hand confirms likelihood ot jwtiiiWIBifeSi a billion dollars DEVASTATION . . . AND DEATH ! The body of the son of throughout widespread areas." William on laid of hood a car and the Crescent Wright, wrapped City police White House Press Secretary in a man found minutes was before at unidentified the bedspread right in George E. Reedy said Johnson 101 debris of giant of Crescent as south aftermath along- Highway City Calif, is being kept "fully informed" tidal wave. An hour before searchers found the body of Wright's daughter and is awaiting developments to at the s,ame spot. 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