The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-30

the walls swayed to and fro three distinct times
The party, which was discussing some point In
surgery, broke up abruptly and all the dodgers
in the building fed In haste. One woman tried
TO jump out of a window, but was prevented by
n cooler headed neighbor A sick man leaped
out of bed and hob5led down stairs in his night
shirt.
At the Standard theater the afternoon per-
Torrance was abruptly broken of Part OF the
audience fled in one direction and the per-
formers, in their stage costume, wigs and paint,
in the other. The audience did not stop TO de-
mand their money back, Blu, were glad to get
out alive.
The Mug saloon, in the Winehill building, at
the corner of south Third and Main streets, was
crowded with about fifty drinkers, when the
first tremor stopped conversation and provoked
wonderments second and more violent shock
caused all TO leave their mugs half empty and fee
pell-mell like rats escaping from flooded cellar.
The occupants of the two upper floors also fed
with screams of terror, amid which the startled
cries of an old blind man could be heard as he
CROPPED his way blunderingly alone and called
for help The shocks cansed two cracks to
open in the front wall, one beginning near the
roof and stretching in zig gag down the wall
ior a distance of ten feet. The other also be-
gar at the roof, but was narrower aud only
about four feet long.
The Northern Pacific depot was rocked to and
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The shock was felt very distinctly on the first
hill rising from the business district. The
Rainier hotel received slight shaking. Col
onel A. \. Hamilton, who lives on Columbia, be-
tween Eight and Ninth streets felt but one
shock. and that had the same effect team
running into the house. Everything in Provi-
dence shook or ratified or swung to and fro, but
so slightly that few noticed it. John Simison,
at his residence on Eighth street near Columbia,
felt eight distinct t-amors They an
peared to him to come from the south. The
windows ratified, chairs and tables moved and a
vase on a mantel toppled and almost fell. DR..
g. A. Rawson, at Eleventh and University
streets, felt the movement plainly, all the chan
deIers shaking AT Otto Ranke's house, on
Pike, between Fourth and Fifth streets. the bill
lizard balls rolled To and fro Cd the table without
apparent provocation. L. H. Griffith, who was
in Dubbs' drug store at Fifth and Pike streets,
felt the motion distinctly from south TO north.
James Moran says that he is sure he felt an
earlier shock as he lay awake in bed at ,0l2
Pike street about O'Clock in the morning.
Further out in the suburbs every body felt IL.
ID. w. Cross, the undertaken on First street, in
North Seattle, says that there were two distinct
shocks from east TO west, the first being slight
with six waves aud the second more severe with
1ye waves. At Welch & Ericksons grocery
store. in the Walla Walla addition, number of
candles were rolled off a shelf by the vibrations.
AT Ballard three shocks were felt from east to
west, lasting half minute in all The congre-
CATION in the Episcopal church was startled by
them
&. +. Stone. at Fremont, says that he noticed
the shock very plainly. The women in his
house all ran out screaming, the dishes ratified
and the Chandeliers swung He only noticed
one shock, and that was from east TO west.
About the only persons in town who did not
notice the shock were the street car motormen,
gripmen and conductors and the passengers who
happened 10 be riding at the time. Posi-
lSrELLIGENCEs reporter was riding up Front
street on the electric road and had just reached
the top OF the hill at Lenora street when the
shock came. By the time the car had reached
the foot of the hill the sidewalks on both sides
OF the street were lined with men and women
who had rushed down out of the buildings on
either SIDE Their faces were pale and showed
fright. and each one at first thought that some
thing had happened to his own particular build
ing. When the car reached the end OF its run in
Queen Anne town the men on the car first
learned that there had been an earthquake from
the people living around, who were still afraid
to go into their houses