Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-24
AT ANAHEIM.
The Gazette of the 22d says:

Inc GdEette or the I'D says:
On Sunday as we sat in our sanctum
reading paper we felt the building
culver from several rapid shocks. We
looked at the time, and finding it O
quarter past eleven, concluded quietly
that we had better lay aside the paper
and go to church. 1t is said that men
can become accustomed to everything
save earthquakes-the habitade OF
birth and education shape and adapt
the mind to anything to which it may
have been accustomed, so that it can
regard with compOsure, things which
would seem dreadful to any one
stranger to them. A soldier, with his
mind indurated by warfare, can charge
with his companions over plain
strewn with dying men and feel no
sensation save the martial glow, the
grdudid certdnainiS of his profession
the duellst may come upon the field
and face his adversary with nothing
but pride and resolution though he
know it to be contrary to the laws of
God and man-but no frequency of oc-
currance can make us used to earth
quakes, and that is the reason why we
laid our newspaper down and went to
church, so that in case of accident we
might die in good company. This
earthquake was unnOticed by many
persons-perhaps many will hear of it
for the first time when reading this,
and yet it may have wrought greater
changes underground somewhere,
than the labor of ten thousand men
could have accomplished during all
their lifetime. In this respects it re-
minds us of some of those national
convulsions which, with silent force,
may weaken and cause almost to fall
the proudest of our political insttu-
tions without the unregardful people
at large being aware that any such
baneful powers are at work.
SIGNS AT SANTA BARBARA.
Perhaps one of the features of the
physical phenomenon was the severe
wind storm at Santa Barbara and vi
cinity, which prevailed all of Satur-
day night preceding the earthquake
shock. We give an account of it
in this connection for what it is worth.
Let the philosophically inclined de-
eide the matter:
On Saturday night Santa Barbara
was visited by severe wind storm.
1t commenced about o'clock and
continued with increasing violence
throughout the night. Several casu-
altes occurred. Two or three of the
windows of the college were blown
out, the telegraph wires were torn
from the posts, and large cypress
tree on the Kimberly property was
torn up by the roots. Towards Car
pinteria several of the telegraph poles
were blown down, and the line gener-
ally demOralized. Some very tall lam
guage was caused by old Boreas impo-
litely taking peoples hats off and roll
ing them in the dust. The storm was
refreshing as novelty. We like to
resemble the rest of the world now
and then, but Saturdays blow will
last us for some time. Real estate
transfers were very lively that night.
Santa Barbara Press.
At Whitewater and on the Colorado
the shock was quite severe, but we
have not learned of any damage at
that point. In Los Angeles the mo.
tior of the earth was hardly percep-
tible, and was noticed by only a few
people. So far as our Information
goes we judge that the real earthquake
was in Arizona, and that the undula-
tions gradually decreased in force as
they extended Westward.