Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-20

there ls feeling OF gratitude that no
loss of life attended the disaster.
At Elmira the chimneys on the Occi-
dental hotel were toppled over and the
fronts of the Odd Fellows hall and
Jamison building were thrown out to
such an extent that they had to be
propped up to prevent them from fall
ing into the street.
THE SHOCK AT WINTERS.
Nearly 100000 Damage Reported.
Panic-Stricken Hotel Guests.
SACRAMENTO, April 19.-A special dis
patch from Winters to the Bee says !:
The shock at Winters caused great dam
age. There is not a chimney standing
in the town. Nam street presents a
badly wrecked appearance, although the
buildings are all standing. The large
new D. V. Bliss hotel suffered consider
ably, much brick from the walls caving
into the street. There were about forty
guests asleep in the hotel when the
shock occurred, and men, women and
children ran terror-stricken down the
stairs, Reaching the Office they found
chaos all around, the plaster having
fallen, the walls opened and the furni-
ture scattered in confusion. The kitchen
was also badly shaken up, and the wife
of the cook, Mrs. Bertha Roberts, was
rather severely hurt by falling plaster.
So far as known this is the only person
receiving injuries, although many mir
aculous escapes are reported.
Crowds gathered around the scene of
the greatest wreck, and the insurance
men are figuring. The shelves in Day
& Wright's drug store, near the hotel
were emptied of their contents. The
firms loss will reach $2500. A great
smoke was caused by the mixture of
chemicals, but fire was arrested by Mr..
Wyatt, who sleeps in the store.
There were narrow escapes from awful
fires and deaths by the falling of burn
ing lamps in sick rooms. No lives were
reported lost, however, and very little
injury to persons is reported.
The bank building on Main street was
wrecked. In the Office of the Express
(newspaper) forms were pied and the
type emptied from the cases. A Wash
ington press, weighing over ton, was
knocked over. The big job press suf-
fered similarly.
Sixty feet OF the frewall of the new
Chadwick building on Main street top
pied westward upon the frame roof of
Judy Bros. stable, and crashing
through, completely buried six horses
in the stalls, though singuiarly, not
badly hurting them.
Today school house, just finished,
was to have been turned over to the
trustees. The brick foundation was
cracked, the chimneys thrown to the
ground and plaster torn. The school
house was so badly wrecked that no
school is being held today.
The loss to the town is estimated at
between $4,000 and 100000.
At the graveyard tombstones were
wrenched around or completely shat
tered.
Near town the bank of Putat creek,
ten feet wide, caved in, and along the
bottom of the creek for great distance,
rents were made by the shocks.
West of here about three miles an
acre of ground slid into the creek. On
the country road this side of the cave
there were great cracks in the ground.
Reports are just beginning to come in
of damage in the country hereabouts.
Two miles southeast of Winters j. R.
Wolfskill's large storehouse was totally
wrecked. In Pleasant valley. in the
residence of J. A. Develbliss, the walls
were separated from the floor 80 that a
man might put his leg through the
aperture.
Up the Berryessa road the passage is
blocked by immense boulders, some
weighing several tons. They were
sides into the road.
A rumor was afloat this morning about
the demolition of the little town of Mon
Courlers arrived this afternoon and re-
ported the damage nominal.
DAMAGE At DIXON.
The Ouake's Work of Destruction Aug
mented by Fire.
SACRAMENTO, April ia special to
to the Bee from Dixon says:
The earthquake early this morning
did considerable damage to Dixon, and
was accompani led by fire. The Masonic
hall, fine twostory brick building on
Main street, was so severely damaged
that it will have to be taken down. The
walls are so badly cracked and buIged
out in all directions that it cannot posi-
bly, stand. The cracks in some cases are
several inches wide. Dugan's drygoods
store, also brick building, was crushed
in by the falling of the south frewall of
the Masonic building, while the north
firewall of the latter building fell on j.
Rockford's brick butchershop, COM
pletely crushing it in.
To add to the horror of the situation
at this juncture, fires broke out in
Dugan's and Brown & Coleman's stores.
The flames were soon extinguished,
but not until considerable damage had
been done, especially in Dugan's es-
tablishment.
The north frewall of Eppinger &
Co.'s brick building fell on an adjoin-
ing frame saloon, owned by John Be-
huke, crushing the light frame like an
eggshell, and severely injuring Be-
huke.
The old Blnm building was badly
wrecked, the walls being cracked and
bulged out. The Prevails both in front
and back of the Ross building fell in,
doing considerable damage. All of the
firewall on the north side OF the old cor
ner saloon building breke and fell,
crushing and destroying the porch.
All the buildings in town having brick
chimneys report some damage, nearly
all being cracked, while several were
thrown down.
The goods in nearly ali the stores were
thrown from the shelves and coun-
ters, while all over town doors were
wrenched and torn from their hinges.
All the private residences report dam
age to crockery and bric-a- brac. Mr..
Ross, one of the sufferers, states that