Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-31
WHAT THE EARTHQUAKE DID.
Throws LOO Msh Gu, of Work a. Mare
Island Navy Yard.
Otherwise the Damage by the California
shake-up Wednesday Night Was
Not Very Great.

San Francisco. March Slowing to
damage done by last nights. earth
quake work has been shut down at the
Mare Island navy yard temporarily,
and the LOO employees are idle.
Only two of the buildings escaped
damage.
Now that the excitement over last
nights earthquake has subsidized 1t is
learned that very little damage was
done. The shock occurring so late at
night when most people We're asleep
seemed more severe than 1t really
was to the frightened Inhabitants OF
this and other cities. The only thing
approaching a casualty in San Francis
co was the collapse OF frail tene-
ment building on Clementina street.
This building stood on the sand sup
ported on thin wooden uprights and it
sank gently to the ground.
The five families inhablting 1t We're
got out in safety.In other portions of the
city a few bricks Were thrown from
chimneys. windows cracked, clocks
stopped. pictures thrown down and
various other little happenings incident
to earthquakes. We're noted. The earth
Quuht SttIllS 10 nave UttH 10
within radius of one hundred miles
of San Francisco Bay. Considerable
damage is reported from Mare Island
navy yard. where the sawmill was
levelled to the ground and in the town
of Vallejo nearby, water mains were
broken.
At Martinez, a few miles from Mare
Island, the earthquake lasted forty sec
onds. Chimneys were toppled over and
the brick library building and the
court house walls were cracked.
In San Francisco after the people
discovered that buildings were not
topping about their heads many
down town hotels, especially,
those from the east rushed out into
the halls and courts and even so far as
the street without stopping to dress.
An alarm of fire turned in a few min
utes after the shock added to the ex-
element. but the blaze was only a
small one caused by the overturning
OF lamp and was soon distinguished.
The most serious phase of the earth
quake was the Generalization OF the
telegraph and telephone service for a
few minutes, Circuits were broken and
for short time, San Francisco had
no telegraphic connection with the out
side world s
The earthquake served to demon
strate that modern architecture Is i'm
pervious to the effects o: seismic dis
turbance. fir-
The big building recently erected in
this city although they swayed In an
alarming manner. did not suffer any
injury. Not beam or n girder was
displaced nor a brick nor stone
moved.
While the scare last night was gem
uine while 1t lnsted San Franciscnns
are today laughing over their expert
cnces and affairs here have settled into
their normal conditions.
EFFECT AT. THE NAVY YARD.
Vallejo, Cal. March 3l.--Work on
the navy ward has been shut down
and the 100 employees are idle on the
stress OF Vallejo. A conservative es-
innate of the damage at. the navy yard
Places II at half million dollars.
Only two buildings on the Mare Island
navy yard escaped damage, the ad-
ministration building and ordnance
storehouse and Workshop, The saw
mill and paint shop are mass OF
ruins, and every building except the
two mentioned has sustained some
damage.
The hospital. q three-story brick
building, Is cracked from top to bot
tom. and every Joint seems loosened
while the plastering Is strewn every
where.
Several narrow escapes are related
and many patients received sever
Shocks. In the officers room eVaiS