Cable Topples Spire of Quake -- Damaged Church. While slight earthquake shocks were recurring March 12, "echoes" of the major earthquake that devastated the city two days before, work of reconstruction in Long Beach, Calif., got under way. Photo shows a broken steeple on Saint Anthony's Church being torn down by a cable manipulated by firemen.
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Cable Topples Spire of Quake -- Damaged Church. While slight earthquake shocks were recurring March 12, "echoes" of the major earthquake that devastated the city two days before, work of reconstruction in Long Beach, Calif., got under way. Photo shows a broken steeple on Saint Anthony's Church being torn down by a cable manipulated by firemen.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1933]

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[Information from item housing] Earthquakes - U.S. Except New England

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