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...erupted. Two minor shocks did not retard inspection of the city's gas mains, some of which were sprung by the earthquake two weeks before. Compton's main street and six blocks in Long Beach were still roped off, but elsewhere in those towns and throughout the stricken area refugees were returning to their homes as fast as the gas was turned...
Friday night at 5:55 we were listening to the March of TIME. At 5:56 we thought it was the beginning of the end, for one terror-stricken moment...
...Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices began to fall. The floor he was standing on bent gently up and down. An old Californian at his elbow said: "This is going to be a bad one." A cloud of dust began to rise through the stricken town...
...south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...
...that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo in ruins. Four relief planes, soaring to the scene of disaster, were beaten back by the blizzard, had to return to Tokyo. Ten Japanese destroyers tore through choppy seas, landed doctors, medical supplies and food at ports along the stricken coast where over 100 small towns & cities lay in sodden ruins...