Shocked Helena

As though it felt the chill of approaching winter, the earth shivered last week from Yellowstone Park to Spokane. At Helena, Mont., snuggled under the eastern wall of the Rockies and at the foot of the Continental Divide, the ground trembled as with palsy. In ten days, 327 shocks of varying potency burst store windows, extinguished lights, crumpled a wall of Intermountain Union College's gymnasium, destroyed a National Biscuit warehouse, put to flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town or slept in automobiles along open highways. To add to their fright and misery, snow came down.

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