The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-31
WERE RUOELY AWAKENED
California Was Visited by a Sc
we're Earthquake.
PANIC STRICKEN PEOPLE
II Cave San Francisco a Thorough Shak-
ing Up-Tenement House Collapsed.
Chimneys Fall to the Pave.
INSTANTANEOUS Broken.

San Francisco. March 30-At Has
o'clock tonight this city and state
were shaken by one of the most severe
earthquakes ever experienced in Call
fornia. In San Francisco buildings
were swayed violently for fully 10 sec
onds. though reports from other places
state this the vibrations continued
for from 80 econds to a minute.
A tenement house on Clementina
street between Fifth and sixth streets
collapsed, but no one VAS seriously in
jured. Nearly every window of the
Strathmore apartment house on Larkin
street, opposite the new city hall. was
broken. the plaster fell from the walls
and pictures and were
thrown to the floors. The building on
Larkin street near McAllister. formerly
occupied by the supreme court. was
slightly damaged. Its chimneys fell to
the pavement. but fortunately did not
hit any of the panic-stricken people in
the street. IL is reported that although
the History Claus Spreckels' building
stood the terrific strain without appar
ent harm. the elevators cannot be run
above the 18th floor. and the occupants
Of the upper stories experienced a feel
ing of nausea. Glassware in several
stores and saloons was broken. At the
Office of the associated press telegraph
&c ommun1cdtlO WAS interrupted 101
20 minutes. The earthquake caused the
same condition of affairs at the West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph Of
fees.
The guests of all the hotels and lodg-
ing houses, many of whom had no idea
OF the cause of the trembling of the
earth. were intensely excited. and
rushed from their rooms without wait
ing to dress. A lamp was upset i'm a
small house on Third street. and a
blaze was started, which was soon ex-
tinguished, but the calling out of the
fire department added to the excitement
of the night. At midnight the down
town streets were thronged with men.
women and children. and in the resi-
dence portion of the city lights were
burning i'm nearly every home until a
very late hou
A woman tainted on Market street
and was carried to the receiving hospi-
tai. causing a rumor to be circulated
that she had been killed. She was soon
revived. No person vas injured. so far
as the hospital authorities know.
The shock was felt throughout the
state. but very meager reports have
been received. owing TO the demoralized
state OF the wires. At the San Quentin
pen some of the guards thought thai a
general break for liberty had been made
by the prisoners. who had exploded a
dynamite mine
The convicts in their cells were terrified,
and hearing loud orders from the officers
of the watch. also imagined a prison de-
livery had taken place. At Santa Rosa
several chimneys were thrown down and
many windows broken. Professor David
son. the eminent scientist. declares that
the earthquake has seldom or never been
exceeded in violence. and considers IL re-
markable that no loss of life or great
damage to property was occasloned. The
waters of San Francisco bay rose I'm a
tidal wave two feet high, but almost i'm
mediately subsidized.