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Show EARTH SHOCKS j STILUEVERE Three More Quakes During j Night Make San Jacinto and Hemet Shiver. SAN" JACINTO. Cal., April 23 Three more earthquake shocks during dur-ing the night and early today made 'San Jacinton and Heroet "shiver," but added nothing to the destruction of the Sunday afternoon tromnri which half wrecked the buslnecs rl i s-trici s-trici herp and severly damaged Hemet. Even the tottering walls of half collapsed col-lapsed buildings seemed to have earned a sense of balance during the .successive parfh rockings and twist -ings of Sunday and Monday. People Sleep Outdoors. It was estimated that a third of the i people of San Jacinto and Hemet slept 'outdoors last night as they did Sun- I day night for protection The three new shocks were about j at midnipht. 2 a. m., and at 7 15 a. m. The la i . which was reckoned as the twelfth of til.' series, seemerj the most severe of the three. Windows were shaken and dishes rattled As one pr-r- I snn .-aid "everything that could be I shaken loo-- had been shaken down ' by the three first devastating shocks of Sundav afternoon. Gas. electricity and water service 'were resumed late yesterday and conditions con-ditions were gradually approaching normal acain here and at Hemet. Re- construet ion work was under way Wreckinc gancs bean their second day's work clearing the street, and starting on the wrecks of buildings of I the two towns, to make way for th" second re-building of the towns halt obliterated by a similarlv violent I earthquake Christmas day, 1899. |