Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-09
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Earthquakes in California Great
Damage in San Francisco-Several
Lives Lost md mnny Injured
Grent CONFEDERATION.
SAN Francisco, Oct. 8-8 p. NJ.
There was a light rain last night, and
about daylight, this morning, quite q
shower. The weather, this morning, was
clear and warm, with a fresh breeze. At
precisely l2:45 P. NJ. the heaviest earth
quake shock which wa ever felt in San
Francisco occurred. The motion was un-
dulatory, from northeast to southwest;
and everybody instantly rushed for the
streets. Five seconds later, another and
far heavier one occurred, and the uproar
caused by falling walls, glass coming
down in showers on the sidewalks, the
frenzied stampede of thousands of people,
horses running away, bells ringing, &c.,
was in~describable. Women tainted, men
screamed, church congregations piled over
each other in the excitement to escape,
and many people jumped from second
story windows, in some cases receiving
severe injuries. A Chinaman, in Stones
Alley, was killed. The chimney falling
from the Lick House into the area of the
building, crushed the kitchen, and injured
thee servants, none fatally. Three men
were injured by falling bricks at Crowell's
Warehouse. One man jumped from a
window went through the skylight into
the Metropolitan Market, and was badly
injured. Many similar incidents occurred.
The congregation in Catholic Church on
Vallejo street, carried away doors entirely
in reaching the street, and several women
and children were injured-none fatally.
The fire wall of the New Orleans ware.
house, on Davis and California streets, six
feet high and lS7 feet long, came down in
a body. A large section of the cornice
and FIRE wall of the Exchange building,
opposite the Custom House, fell. A new
brick building on Sd and Mission streets
will have to be pulled down entirely.
The rear wall of the store No. ll5 Califor-
MIA street, next to Geo. F. Bragg s. Co..
fell out. The front of the brick building
on the northwest corner of Sacramento
and Battery streets, fell out. A one-story
brick building on the corner of Market
and Pine streets, was entirely destroyed.
The City Hall walls were cracked
throughout and the plastering thrown
down. The whole structure ought to
come down, for safety. The City Hall
fire bell rang from the shock. Many hun
dreds of windows were broken into
pieces smaller than a mans hand, and
three-fourths of the brick buildings on the
made ground part of the city are more or
less damaged. Many walls were thrown
out of line, so that doors can't be opened
or closed, and it will probably be many
days before the full extent Of damage
can be ascertained as it now appears,
S25O,OOO would not repair damages. The
injury done through the loss of confidence
in the stability of large brick and stone
structures, is incalculable. Everybody
is congratulating his ~neighbors on their
escape from death. In the present con-
dition of the walls another shock of equal
violence would PROSTATE at least one
third of the brick buildings in the city.
From nearly every store in the lower part
of the city people are sweeping out broken
glass and fallen plastcring. Clocks are
stopped, water jars upset, and in some
cases people were thrown off their feet BY
the violence of the shock. There is a
a lively talk of the immediate repeal of the
Fire Ordinance. The Occidental, Cosmo-
politan, Russ and Lick houses, being on
natural ground, suffered far less than the
buildings north and east Of this point, and
on the flats south of Market street. The
fre-wall for the whole lenth of Mays
building, on Sacramento street, between
Montgomery and Kearny, fell, and Sec
tons Of similar walls all over town came
down on the sidewalks in great guam
titles, rendering it indeed almost incredible
that so few accidents occurred. How the
people on the sidewalks escaped so gener-
ally is past comprehension. In the vicin-
ity of Folsom, Mission, Beale and Fremont
streets the underground is disturbed in
some places two feet, throwing walls out
of line and moving buildings bodily four
inches. Stoddard's warehouse settled
eighteen inches, and water is oozing in
upon the main floor. Mission Wharf is
reported damaged by the sliding of the
mud of the bottom in which the piles are
driven, and three frame buildings on Beale
street, between Howard and Mission, fell
in. The Gas Works are considerably
damaged.
LATER.
SAN Francisco, Oct. 81 P. M.-An-
other severe shock of an earthquake was
felt at 10 o'clock this morning. The dam
age resulting from the shocks yesterday
is estimated at from five to seven hundred
thousand dollars. There are but few
brick buildings in the city but were in
jured. City Hall is a partial wreck.
The building purchased by the merchants
for an Exchange, also buildings On Third
steeet, have lost their front. Plastering
shook down and all manner Of small dam
ages were inflicted. Two Cinnamon were
killed in Stout's alley.
The earthquake did some damage at