The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
Through Many Sections of Hi
noiS the Temblor Was
Felt.
SLIGHT DAMAGE RESULTED.
Most Badly Frightened of All Were
the Inmates of Female
Seminary.

CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. 81. - The first
earthquake on record visited this city this
morning at 5:15 o'clock, but it was almost
harmless one although distinct The
disturbance extended throughout Illinois
without doing much damage. and reports
| received from towns in Indiana, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas, Nebraska
and Ohio state that the earthquake passed
north and west as far as those States
while to the south it spread through Mis-
souri,, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ken
lucky, Alabama and Louisiana.
In nearly all the Western towns the
people had the same experience to tell, but
it was their first of the kind in most cases.
The destruction of property was confined
chiefly to fallen chimneys, and plaster
cracked walls, and broken household arti-
cles. while nervous systems suffered a
shock.
Chicago's maiden shock lasted about a
minute. In many houses pictures were
thrown to the floor and crockery broken
and some chimneys fell. The shock was
unaccompanied by any audible rum blings,
coming in gently from the lake and disap-
pearing across the prairies of the West. 1t
was most severely felt on the north side,
where probably the majority of sleepers
were awakened. In the suburbs many
persons dashed out of their houses in
scanty clothing.
At the lake-front hotels the shock was
felt palmer than at those in the central
part of the business district. Nearly every
one in the Victoria was aroused by the
shock. Half dozen people came down.
stairs to complain about the noise of the
machinery waking them up. Several
thought the engine had exploded.
The Great Northern. which is the highest
hotel building in the country, was only
slightly Jared. One guest on the tenth
floor ran out of his room when the trem-
bling of the building occurred. The shock
was noticeable in nearly all the high office
buildings, but no serious damage was
done. In some instances the occupants of
upper floors were badly scared and i'm
agined that the build ings were tumbling.
The enunciators at the Central Tele-
phone Exchange all dropped with one ac-
cord at the first shock of the earthquake.
distinct vibration of the building and
the jostling of desks against each other
followed the drop of the instruments and
alarmed the operators on duty. The shock
was felt all along the river. The boats
rocked from side to side and rose as with a
tide, and large vessels rocked against the
docks with great deal of force
The force was great out in the lake, as
books were thrown from the shelves in the
house of the mile crib b-keeper and the
lamp and ornaments upon the table in his
room were overturned. Keeper Doll
rushed to the top OF the crib, thinking
that gale had blown the top off.
In the Maxwell station eighty
patrolmen were asleep upstairs and the
men, scantily dressed, rushed for the
stairs leading to the squad room below
The plastering in several places fell from
the walls on the bare heads of the officers.
A crack in the wall reaching from the roof
to the second floor resulted from the shock.
AT Pekin, H.. the shock rolled man