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Show EARTH TREMORS VISITGALIFORHIA THREE KILLED AND MUCH PROP. ERTY DAMAGE RESULT OF EARTHQUAKE. Two Small Towns in Southern California Califor-nia Wrecked, Property Damage Being Be-ing Immense Shock Felt in Utah and Arizona. Los Angeles. All of southern California Cali-fornia and part of western Arizona and Utah were shaken Sunday at 3 :32 p. m. by an earthquake which wrecked virtually all buildings and residences in Hemet and San .Tacinto, two inland towns forty-five miles southeast of Riverside, Cal., and caused 'minor property prop-erty damage in practically every town and city. One man, Frank E. Darnell of this city, was trampled to death in a panic at Santa Monica. A woman was injured by falling from a second-1 story window at San Jacinto, and a number of persons were injured there and elsewhere, none seriously. Three men entombed in a magnesite mine tunnel near Hemet were saved by fellow fel-low workers, who drove an air shaft to them. The severity of the shock seemed greatest inland, but it was distinctly apparent at nearly every point over California south from a line from Bar-stow Bar-stow to the coast and in some parts of Arizona, although no damage was reported re-ported there. In Los Angeles and vicinity the damage dam-age was apparent mainly in broken windows. Hundreds of large plate glass windows here were shattered. Several large buildings showed cracks or bulges, but the extent of such damage dam-age to buildings could not be definitely ascertained.. Homes all over southern California were shaken, dishes rattled, furniture moved, and, in many places, the shock was such as to cause the occupants to vacate hastily. In Arizona the shock was reported to have extended as far east as Selligman and Milford in Utah. |