Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-16 | Page 1 | Los Angeles is Shaken by Earthouake

EN SCREAM, U SOI PRAY AS l TREWS FELT H Sidewalks Nearly White With I Mortar Shaken From I Older Buildings BIG BUILDINGS ARE I EMPTIED WITH SPEED Quake Apparently Had Center I in Los Angeles City, Suburbs Quiet I Los ANGETjES, Calif., July 1& H --A Revere earthquake at 10. in o'clock this morning apparently (entoreil m i.ns Angelea cii, caused slight damage to some of i ili older buildings in tho way of ir dislodging mortar and plaster and ' breaking plate glass windows, and I' frightened the citizens generally. Xo extensive damage was re- Kl ported. JM Varmus departments ol the sn- I perior and police courts had bare- I ly opened the morning sessions when the shock came. . I People ran in fright, women screaming, with here and there one r maining to i ra y or falling i! to the fl'ior in ; faint. In the older parts of the city, it L was reported mortar was shaken 1 i ruin the walls of brick buildings until the sidewalks were nearly v bite with it. Throughout the city there was a general emptying of buildings. frightened people no! knowing :just wher to Se k safety, ('rowds fl gathered fn man places searching search-ing walls of buildings With thci! J I eyes for possible cracks. Plaster was shaken from thi walls and ceilings in the court- bouse and slight damage d to a platform connecting that Btruc- MM ture with a newer building, the Hall of Records, .One downstown department si ore reported plate glass windows Reports from various points in j California indicated the earth-quake earth-quake was felt chiefly in Los Angeles An-geles and some of its suburbs Orange and Santa Ana. in Orange county, reported there was do earthquake there. Ventura felt nothing anJ Los Angeles harbor reported similarly. H nglewood reported no damage today.