The San Francisco call., 1898-04-01
WARD SEVERELY DAMAGED Havoc Caused at Mare
 Island by the
 Shocks. It Will Take From a Half to Two Million Dol
 lars for Repairs. At the Navy Hospital the Seis- mic Force Causes Great Destruction. OTHER BUILDINGS INJURED land, and Catholic Church
 at Vallejo Suffers.
At the Navy Hospital the Seis- mic Force Causes Great
 Destruction.
OTHER BUILDINGS INJURED
The Ternblor Also Felt on the Main land, and Catholic Church
 at Vallejo Suffers.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

@ VALLEJO March 31-Thereig @ @ another holiday in sight for @ o @ great number of the men on the @ @ navy-yard at Mare Island, for 1t @ @ is problem how long it will @ @ take for the island to recover @ @ from the shaking up 1t received @ @ last night. @ @ Estimates of the damage vary, @ @ and 1t will not be until the nu- @ @ merous boards appointed and to @ @ be appointed shall report that @ @ anything like even an approxf- @ @ mate estimate can be made. At @ @ present it is believed the damage o @ can be repaired for $500, 900, but @ @ that will be only the rebuilding @ @ of what has been badly damaged @ @ or destroyed Some of the @ @ buildings show no outward ef- @ @ fleets of the shock, but shafting @ @ has been twisted, corners sprung, @ @ and it may be that all but two of @ @ these buildings will have to be @ @ rebuilt before last nights earth e @ quake shall have ceased to leave @ @ it's mark Should the buildings @ @ have to be rebuilt s2,000,0O0 will @ l @ not represent the damage. e To @
 The shock seemed to be heavier on the island than on the mainland, and where the seismic force wrought it's greatest harm was at the Navy Hos pital, massive building of brick, standing on the north slope of hill on the southern end of the island. Originally the building cost s175,- 000 It was built in the most solid manner, and the thickness of It's walls can be measured in feet. It has stood twenty years, but last nights shake has split it in hundred different directions, and daylight filters through some of the rents in it's walls. There were two water tanks, one in each of the towers, beside the main en- trance, and both of these were filled each with eight tons of water when the building began to rock. The walls rumbled and lurched from side to side, throwing some of the patients from their beds to the floor, rousing all the inmates and driving them half dressed out to the lawn in front of the build ing. There were fifty patients, besides the attendants, but all escaped unin- jured.
 A board will investigate and report on the building tomorrow. The re- port will probably recommend that the building be torn down. Both towers are twisted fourteen inches out of plumb, and cracks run up the front walls from the foundation to the caves. A partition wall four feet thick Is cracked from basement to attic. the granite Intel over the main entrance Is bent down several inches and a big crack runs through it and on up through the bricks to the roof above, the arches In the railways are split and scanned, corners of rooms are cracked from floor to ceiling and the whole building is like house of cards; massive as it Is, it seems as if strong wind would tumble 1t iii ruins. The patients ana attendants will be moved at once.
 The sawmill, where the shock played it's most spectacular freak, Is con- fused heap of bricks and rafters. There was s100, 900 worth of machinery in the DuuQlDS value to save any of it. There was also a lot of work under way, and this, too, will be lost. The building was not strongly built. and it was on made ground-two facts which seem to have materially contributed to it's complete destruction On the upper story was where the plans of ships were laid out. and some valuable instruments were destroyed.
 Some estimates make the sawmill loss s15O, 900, but others place 1t at not more than s1C0,00 Beside the sawmill was a little paint storehouse, and it is now a liberal education In the mixing of colors. Paints are strewn in every di- rection and walls and roof and floor ing are mixed in an indiscriminate mass.
 Next to the hospital and the sawmill the most extensive damage apparent is to the big brick chimney of the cor. struction and repair department It is over 100 feet high and nearly 3n feet square at the base and s10,O0O will hardly build another, but it seems as shaft is cracked clean around about sixty feet from its base, and up ana down the sides the cracks run in some places for at least twenty feet.
 There is another big chimney in the steam engineering department, but it escaped injury. It was different with the brick buildi-- gs on either side, how ever. One is a foundry and the end Is 1 thrown clean out and the roof is