The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-04-05

Dennison as fit candidates for the
two highest offices, and not properly
part of the platform of the party in
Ohio.
The Great Earthquake in California.
SAN Francisco, March 30.-Des-
patches from the volcanic districts
in lingo county, four hundred miles
southwest from San Francisco, give
additional details of the earthquake
disaster of Tuesday last. The shocks
continue, though with decreased vio-
lence. 1t is remarkable that only
the single slight shock of Tuesday
was felt IN central and norther Cal
ifornia. Cerre Gordo was badly
damaged. Some buildings wee
thrown down, but only one man kill
ed. Lone Pine appears to have
been directly over the center of the
disturbance. Among the killed in
the latter place was Mr.. Gray, aged
forty-two, native of Texas. The
remainder were all Spanish Ameri-
cans.
The first shock is described as like
a park of artillery fired beneath the
town. Colonel Whipple who was in
the second story of the Adobe House
states that he had just time tojump
from bed and get to the doorway,
when the house appeared to crumble
beneath him. He was buried among
the ruins, but succeeded in extricat-
ing himself from the deblis, saffer-
ing from several painful wounds.
The scene beggars description; near
ly the whole population was buried
beneath the ruins. Cries for help
and screams of pain from the woun-
ded filled the air, while those who
escaped from the ruins were calling
for help to rescue fathers, brothers,
wives and children. The first shock
was followed in quick succession by
three others. Over three hundred
distinct shocks were felt between
half past two o'clock and sunrise.
In fact the earth was in a constant
shake and tremble for over three
hours. A chasm was opened ex
tending thirty-five miles down the
valley, ranging from three inches to
forty feet in width. Rocks were
tbrn from their places and rolled
down into the valley. Everywhere
through the valley are seen eviden-
ces of the terrible convulsion of ma
ture.
At Swanza, Colonel Tregallas, of.
the smelling works, was killed.
There is much desolation among the
inhabitants. A Lone Pine dispatch
to-day, from Visalia, says that sew
eral shocks were felt in that city last
night, and are still coming from the
southeast. Persons anticipate the
finding of immense chasms in the
mountains east of us, as soon as the
snow disappears enough to admit of
an investigation. There are rumors
of a volcano in active opera
ton, which has been seen
from the summit of Green Hood
mountain, sixty miles south of Visa.
liza, but it is considered at least du-
bious. The Indians in that vicinity
have all left fearing the recurrence
of general convulsion of nature,
which, according to tradition occur
red there some hundreds of years
ago, and created WI at is now known
as Owens River Valley. but what
was before a chain of mountains.
The sections affected by the earth
quake are sparsely inhabited, main
ly by people working silver bearing
and lead mines.
SAN Francisco, March 31.-Ad-
ditional advices from lingo county,
place the number of killed by the
earthquake on Tuesday at thirty,
and the wounded at one hundred.
In Desert county, stretching from
Owens lake to the Mexican line, are
the craters of Innumerable VOLCANOES,
and not long extinct. Several mud
volcanoes are active. 1t is supposed
that some of these old volcanoes NAV
be eruptIve again. A gentleman
from Independence asserts that the
smoke and ashes from a volcano
we're distinctly seen southwark of
that place, and word has been
brought there that lava was seen
flowing down the mountain. The
report is not authenticated. The
shocks continued but decreasing in
force up to Thursday morning, when
over one thousand had been united.
At Ribbett's Rancho, fifteen miles
above Independence, forty acres of
ground sunk seven feet below the
surface of the surrounding country. |
Big Owens lake has risen four feet
since the first shock. Ovens river
ran over its banks, depositing shoals
of fish on the shore. Afterwards if
receded for a distance of three or
four miles through a line of pine.
The earth cracked on one side and
remained stationary, while the other
sank seven or eight feet, leaving q
wall of three miles in length, where
there was a level plain.
cracks were made
throughout the valley. Kern and
Owens rivers turned and ran I'D
stream for several minutes, leaving
,heir beds dry, and finally returned
with a largely increased volume.
There is no parallel of this earth,
quake since 1912, when the missions
If San Juan, Capistrano and La Pur-
ssima, in Southern California. were I
destroyed. Of course the matter is $
he common conversation in Califor-
ia, but creates not the slightest ap-
rehension outside of the district I
ffeoted.