The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-10-23
SOME PARTICULARS OF THE GRHAr
EARTHQUAXE IN CALIFORNIA

ts0NE PARTICULARS OF THE GREA1
! EARTHouAKE IN CALIFORNIA
/ We copy the following account o.
the great earthquake in California from
the telegraph columns Of yesterday 4
Enterprise 4.t,. --s--
SAN FRANCISCO, October 81.
At six and half minutes before o'clock
this morning San Francisco was visited BY
the severest earthquake shock it has ever
yet known. The general direction Of the
shock was southeast and northwest. The
shock lasted AZ seconds, and gathered in
violence as it continued. until near the end.
The time of the second shock was 9:23
o'clock, and its duration seconds. The
direction was the same as before. Lighter
and briefer tremors occurred at intervals of
about half an hour, until Is minutes past II.
The more pronounced Of these caused fresh
stampedes to the street of those who were
attempting to conduct business or trying to
work. The initial shock was most severely
| felt along the eastern side Of the city and
within the limits Of the made land between
Montgomery street and the water. On the
solid land outside of the thickly built bust
ness portion of the city no serious damage
was done to any we'll constructed house.
Within the limits of the made land at least
score Of brick buildings were so badly
strined or cracked that business cannot be
resumed in them. and they may have to be
pulled down. Owing to the excitement.
business was generally suspended. In every
case but one the fatal casualties resulted
from the falling of cornices or fire walls on
the sidewalks beneath. Had the shock &C.
CURED half an hour later, when a large num-
Der Of persons would have been on their
way 70 business and labor many more would
nave been killed and wounded. The great
est damage has been in a belt extending sew
eral hundred feet wide and running about
northwest and southeast, commencing near
the Custom-h house and ending at Folsom
street wharf, injuring and demolishing in its
course the following buildings:
Graves Wire Works on Clay street
Howard's building on Clay and Sansome );
A. S. Rosenbaum & Co, corner Clay and
Battery; s. P. Taylor & Co. and J. Frank &
Co, California street NJ. Reese's building,
California street, near Sansome the old
one story brick building opposite the New
Orleans Warehouse Coitey Risdon
ne W building, corner Bush and Market
streets Booth & Co., Mission and First
Gas Conpany's building, Howard and Ere
mont streets, and the Folsom street wharf.
The Custom-house is terribly damaged, |
and it is questiond whether it will admit of
repairs. ut 10 IioSeos tbC
ness of the department being temporarily |
removed to the Internal Revenue Office.
Coffey & Risdon's building, the walls OF
which where very thin, is completely de-
moli>hed. Benchley's building, the Orien-
tai Block, and Murphy & Grants building.
all adjoining CoEey & Risdon's, were no;
injured in the slightest degrees.
The roof of the old Mechanics Mill. en-
Mission street, at the corner Of Fremont,
was Frustrated and the walls Of the building
topped over into the street.
In several places the Mechanics Coop
erative Mill, on Mission street, was badly
damaged and the machinery thrown out of
place The floor was sunk down IN places
and raised in others several feet. and the
FIRE wall in the mill sunk down. The plank
ing in the centre of Mission street, in front
Of the mill, exposes an opening of eight to
ten inches in diameter, and opening of the
ground are also plainly to be seen on Ere
mont street, in the same vicinity.
The floor of the Pacific Foundry was
-aised acout two feet in places, and i'll the
Mission, most of the machinery was dis
placed.
The San Francisco Gas Works suffered
severely. The tall chimney fell through the
oof, and the main walls were badly cracked
m Fremont street. The destruction here
vas still greater because of the quantity Of
,oal which was stored in the building, and
he pressure of the mass forced the wall
tut on the Fremont street side from the
oof to tho foundation, for the space Of about {
fifty feet.
The City Hall is in bad condition, and
he only persons permitted to enter are the
'tticers of the Fire Department. The courts t
lave all adjourned, and the prisoners taken
rom the station-house to the county Jail,
nd line has been stretched across the
ront of the City Hall to keep people away. I
A part of the walls of the news Cavalry
'nurch, corner of Geary and Powell streets, (
ell down.
About 100 feet Of the merchandise shed on a
he south side of Folsom street wharf was
ompletely wrecked.
At the corner of Market and First streets |
he ground opens in a assure several inches v
ride and forty or fifty feet in length, and in t
Their places the ground opened and water I
'as forced above the surface.
At No. 1873 Natoma street Charles Mon
ypenny's brick boarding house was made
,tal wreck and most Of it was thrown down.
At No. LA, same street, John Farmers
ouse was badly injured and most of his Il
,rniture destroyed. r
All the patients in the U. S. Marine Hos :,
ital were removed, the structure having
cen declared IN safe. q
At Towards building, on Battery street, a
ptween Clay and Commercial. the cornice .
nd portions of the fire wall fell in and de- 2
olished the wooden awning and lower cor
ice.
The New Orleans Warehouse, corner Of v
alifornia and Davis streets : the fire wall .
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