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Automoble crash victims Lucas F. Smith and Duffey Seay, 1934

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This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 6, 1934, Pair Periled in Auto Plunge, Two Escape as Lawyer’s Auto Plunges Down Hill, Attorney, Facing Investigation on Estate Funds, and Fitts’s Aide in 250-Foot Descent. Facing investigation in connection with his handling of the estate of Mrs. Mary J. Chamberlain, Lucas F. Smith, an attorney, was reported by authorities yesterday afternoon to have been in a spectacular dash of his automobile, in which a District Attorney’s investigator, Duffey Seay, was also riding, through a heavy rail on Huntley Drive and a careening trip of some 250 feet down a precipitous hill leading to Second street. Neither of the two was injured to any extent and the car remained upright …
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Automoble crash victims Lucas F. Smith and Duffey Seay, 1934

San Francisco City Hall and Hall of Records after earthquake and fire, San Francisco, 1906

Description:
Related to the article, “Heart is Torn From Great City. San Francisco Nearly Destroyed by Earthquakes and Fire, Hundreds of Killed and Injured, Destruction of Other Coast Cities, California’s Greatest Horror.” Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 1906. The article states: San Francisco, April 19.—It looks now as if the entire city would be burned, following the great quake of yesterday. ... At 10 o’clock at night, the fire was unabated, and thousands of people are fleeing to the hills and clamoring for places on ferry boats. The damage is now believed to have reached $200,000,000 and 50,000 people are thought to be homeless. ... At 10 p. m. last night the newspapers ceased all effort to collect news, and the Associated Press force is compelled to act independently. ... Tossing Six Hours on Seismic Waves. San Francisco, April 18.—During six hours of mortal dread and nameless terror San Francisco was today tossed upon the seismic waves of the most disastrous earthquake known to the history or the traditions of America’s west coast. In the mad confusion and helpless horror of this night uncounted bodies of dead men and women are lying in morgues and under uplifted walls. ... Fire and flame have added to the destruction, the ruination and despair. The material losses are beyond computation. ... There is no witness of this day’s story whose tongue or pen can describe the wreck and ruin, the death, the doom, the despair and suffering that lies on every hand. ... surrounded by explosions of illuminating and sewer gas. … The Southern Pacific is doing its utmost to get people out the city, and not charging refugees for transportation. ... Prof. George Davidson, of the University of California, formerly connected with the United States Geodetic Survey, said tonight: “The earthquakes came from north to south … Regarding the cause, I maintain, as I always have, that it is the earth cooling on the inside. The cooling brings about contraction, which is bound to bring about a readjustment of the earth’s surface. …” The entire waterfront district of the metropolis is made ground … Included in this area … Palace and Grand Hotels … Merchants Exchange … Stock Exchange … Nevada Bank, Western Union and Postal telegraph offices, the Crocker building … the Chronicle, the Examiner and the sixteen-story Call newspaper building. … From the ruins of the buildings shaken down by the five quakes that followed in such close succession, arose great bursts of flames which swept inward from the bay. … With water mains broken, fire department powerless, and flames spreading; with morgues and hospitals filled to overflowing; with electric lights and power wires down, and telephone and telegraph communication cut off; with railroads crippled … and with panic rampant, the condition of San Francisco was one of almost benumbing horror. …
Date:
April, 1906
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
San Francisco City Hall and Hall of Records after earthquake and fire, San Francisco, 1906

Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937

Description:
Train accident in railroad tunnel with the resulting pile-up seen in the tunnel's entrance. Bystanders, men, stand throughout the image, on the bridge above the tunnel, in the nearby hillside, and around the wreckage. The bridge has the year, "1915" etched into it. The surrounding area is a rural, grassy field, with barbed wire fencing and trees.
Date:
[Probably March 15, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937

Firefighters at base of ladder around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
About 3 men, and possibly 1 woman, bent around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, legs visible, on wet and dirty sidewalk, with 2 men nearby, another man in foreground holding fire hose, at base of ladder leaning on 2-story building marked 1243, Western Candy Box Co., with smoke coming from upstairs windows and roof
Date:
August 12, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Herod, Jack, b. ca. 1916
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Firefighters at base of ladder around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, Los Angeles, 1938