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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH EARTHQUAKE SHAKES TEXAS. NORTH MEXICO PAGE '4X TWO MEN BADLY HURT WHEN AUT0H1TS POLE Neither Able to Explain Why Car Left Manchester Road Near Geyer Crossing. Spring Spouts Muddy Water for Hour Property Damage in Southern Republic UJ LU 'TDSDnD I 73 possibly fractured spine.

Harvey Williams, 1302 South Broadway, reported he was riding with Higl on Eads Bridge last night when the machine collided with another car and Higi got out and walked toward the other machine. When he again observed his companion, Williams said, Higi was lying In the roadway, having been struck by a passing machine. Others injured in automobile accidents over the week-end were: Nicholas Lotz. 2820 Missouri avenue, fractured skull and ribs; Mrs. David Kelly.

5219 LabaCIj avenue, fractured skull, and Arthur Mea-cock, 1018 North Cardinal avenue, fractured right leg. A horse was killed in a collision between a milk wagon and an automobile at Loughborough avenue and Morganford road early today. The driver of the machine left the scene without revealing his identity. Louis Muckerman, 2211 Angelica street, driver of the wagon, was uninjured. St.

Louis Child, 5, Killed by Auto on Illinois Highway. By the Associated Pres VAN ALIA, 111., 17. Jean Frances, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A.

Steenrod, 514 tf Kingshighway Northwest, St. Louis, was killed yesterday when struck by an automobile on State Highway No. 11, 12 miles west of here. The Steenrods were returning from a vacation in Detroit and the father had stopped at the side of the road to rest. Jean Frances and her 8-year-old brother, Richard, had been picking flowers and were crossing the road toward their father's car when she was struck.

The driver w-as Stanley Robertson of Chicago. A Coroner's verdict of accident was returned. LkJ attAil.il By the Associated Press. DALLAS. Aug.

17. Earth tremors shook West and Central Texas yesterday. No loss of life was reported throughout an area of which San Antonio was the largest city to report the shock. Chihuahua City, Mexico, reported shocks and several persons were reported injured at Oaxaca, Mexico. L.

A. Neison, head of the Department of Geology at Texas College of Mines and Arts, said the shocks propably were the "tail end" of intense disturbances in Mexico. The Weather Bureau at San Antonio reported the tremors lasted 72 seconds. Valentine, in the Southern Sierra Vieja Mountains, seemed to bear the brunt of the shock. Adobe houses were wrecked.

A brick school was damaged badly and every chimney there fell. Corsicana, was the farthest east city to report the tremors, giving the shock zone a width of at least 500 miles in Texas. Comanche Springs, flowing gallons of water daily, spouted muddy water for an hour after the earthquake, but apparently the flow was not otherwise Here's Why DisceriniSuijgi People are Buying im LammeirC-'s Gceoter August1 ScsSes John ts. Sprenke, 2326A South Compton avenue, and Joseph C. Boiling, 7S15 Pershing avenue.

University City, were seriously injured early yesterday when their automobile ran off Manchester read, near Geyer road, and crr.ihe.1 into a telephone pole. Sprenke, a clerk for V-r Public Hervice suffered fnactttres of the skull, both legs an! I arm. Boiling suffered scalp woui.Js iind an injury to the back. Neither was able to explain the accidr t. Two young women werr.

injured early yesterday when the driver cf the automobile In which they were riding swerved to avoid two other machines, which had collided, struck a traffic signal standard, and ran into a vacant store at Grand boulevard and Arsenal street. AutomobKes driven by Kay Conrad, 1446 Cass avenue, srd Kdgar Schreit. 3 66 6 Alberta street, Schreifs car overturning Edward Lehman, 3415 Keokuk street, swerved to avoid the wreek, struck the signal, and crashed into the store at the northeast corner, breaking two windows and causing damage estimated at $800. Miss Bertha "Weaver, 4440A Oakland avenue, suffered a fractured ankle, and Miss Billie Jackson, 4026 Mcpherson avenue, was cut and bruised. William Selonka, 3S31 Meramec street, suffered a fractureJ.

skull early yesterday when struck at 4 8O0 South Broadway by an automobile. The driver jumped out and fled. Later Lawrence Moore, a Negro, 2005 Chestnut street, surrendered to police, admitting that he drove the machine which hit Selonka. Folice are investigating the case of Jacob Higi. 1020 Market avenue, East St.

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