People, badly frightened, ran from offices, stores, and homes and gathered on vacant lots in the residence districts or in the center of street intersections in the downtown districts, or, when too busy to stand still, walked down the center of streets. Water mains are reported broken in Hill street between First and Second streets. Injuries are reported.

LOS ANGELES—2:43 p.m.—(By A. P.)—Edward S. Chenkle, aged 63, was taken to a receiving hospital with a broken leg received when he was knocked down by a brick falling from a building at First and Broadway. Others are reported slightly injured.

ELWELL MURDER DEATH OF NOTED NEW YORK SPORTSMAN STILL SHROUDED IN DEEP MYSTERY NEW YORK.—Every element of the classic detective tale appeared in its most dramatic setting in the Elwell case, which since June 11 has defied solution by the foremost sleuths of this city. Wealth, divorce, the glitter of Broadway night life, beautiful women gowned and jeweled for the ball, the race track, the gambling table, and, far removed from the frenzied whirl of the "bright lights," the doting parents in their vine-shaded home in the country—all these are woven and interwoven into what has been pronounced by detectives the deepest mystery in years. 