The record-union., 1892-04-22
MORE TERRESTRIAL CHILLS.
Sacramento Shivers Again, But Not
Damaged to Any Extent.
A Few Topplinge Chimnys Fall, Plas-
tering Loosened and Dishes Ratified
Some of the Incidents.

Terra firma took another chill yester-
day morning. and shivered quite merrily
for few seconds.
Sacfamentans are not used to this kind
OF sport, and despite their declarations of
intention TO sit still and smile when the
next temblor arrived, they stampeded
again yesterday. Then they laughed at
each other, and resumed the even tenor of
Inelr way as if nothing had happened.
The shake occurred at 9:43 o'clock, and
the experts say, lasted eleyen seconds.
While it made the dishes rattle and the
door-bells ring, no damage to amount to
anything has been reported, except the
loosening OF plastering in
RICKETY BRICK STRUCTURES,
The tunlbling of few balancing CHM
neys and the disturbance of other like
structures. AS a rule, the brick build
lngs in Sacramento are of a substantial
nature, with thick walls well anchored.
IL would require great deal Of shaking
10 damage them TO any extent. Only
poorly constructed buildings, with thin,
unanchored walls, suffer during such
quakes as have visited this part of the
continent during the past few days.
At the Courthouse the county officials
made lively tracks for the streets. The
old building creaked and rum bled and rid
itself of quantity of dust that had col
lected in the inches during the past two
decades. The plastering in some places
was cracked and looseued, but no other
damage done. The rear wall of the
building, which has been expected to
tumble in of its own accord some day,
was cracked
1t is a matter of history, though, that
thirty years ago, when the old building
was the State Capitol, great quantity of
plastering tumbled i'll, when there was
no earthquake at all, but, instead, burst
OF applause in one of the galleries.
RATIFIED THE CRoCKERY.
The glass and chinaware in the crockery
stores ratified merry tune while the
vibrations lasted. AT several of the stores
some of the dishes were broken.
Two chimneys toppled over at Second
and X streets-saving the wind the
trouble Of blowing them overland fell
through an awning beneath
The Capitol was given lively shaking.
in the course OF which a small portion OF
one of the plaster statuettes tumbled off
and the Assembly chamber ceiling
cracked. OF course there was a general
exodus of State officials and clerks. too.
Police Officer Higgins has distin-
guished himself as being the ONLY man
injured by the earthquake. When he
felt the earth begin TO waltz he was in the
second story of the Station House, and
forthwith made for the stairway, down
which he went regardless of expenses and
most of the steps. If he had gone down
two flights instead of one he would have
fractured himself as well as the record.
As 1t IS he was laid up in the receiving
room with Sprained ankle while several
OF the force prescribed for him. Officer
White wanted to saw his leg off with a
woOd-saw, but McManus objected, and
prevented damage to the saw.
BACK TO IT'S OLD POSITION.
Everybody who could got out of the
City Jail building-just to give the earth
quake fair chance at the structure
The shake occurred just a few mo-
ments before the Police Court convened,
and while Judge Cravens, Chief Rode
ers and City Attorney Hart were plotting
together up stairs.
Rodgers withdrew, the Judge left. and
Hart took his departure. and all of them
got under full sall for the street at once
with Officer Higgins in pursuit. They
got down stairs with admirable agility.
officers McManus, White, several
newspaper reporters and spectators
promptly adjourned from the lower floor
and swelled the assemblage in the street.
The old jail, water-tank and the ag-
81 Csdl4'll VI liIO1uy ClJN property IN the
vicinity stood up on one corner for
awhile, turned handspring, but ulti
mately settled back in the old position. to
everybody's regret, uninjured.
CAUGHT IT MAPPING.
John Rock, colored bootblack, in
vented an earthquake alarm test some
time ago ana for some time kept it on tap
in the K-street barber shop where he is
employed. But no earthquakes put i'm
an appearance and he slowed his inyen-
ton away. When Tuesdays shock ar
rived John with the balance of the popu-
lation bOlted for the street and forgot all
about his invention, and so the public
was deprived Of accurate registry of the
quake other than that furnished by Ser
geant Barwick.
But Rock knew that another was COM
ing and he set his trap for it. He caught
that of yesterday morning. He furnished
the RECoRD-UNION with an official re-
port which was to the effect that 1.-The
earthquake occurred at twenty minutes
TO 10; the disturbance travelled from north
to south; lasted . seconds and the earth
slanted IL inches in the direction of
SOUTH"
ANOTHER SHOCK,
There was another slight shock of
earthquake last evening at 7:12 o'clock,
IL only lasted two a T fhrap Sacppde