The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-04-01
MARE ISLAND MAYNARD DAMAGED BY
THE EARTHQUAKE.

inent buildings were more or less dam
aged. The Claus Spreckels building
was not injured in the least. The first
thought of nine out of every ten per-
sons was how the tall building stood
the shock, and many were the express
sions of admiration and qualification
that the mammoth structure had es-
capped unscathed-
The shake caused considerable dam
age to the dome of the City Hall, at a
point about 100 feet from the ground,
where a large number of terra-cotta
plates forming the outer wall were
shaken loose. A number of large
patches show where the square pieces
of terra-cotta dropped out and we'll
defined crack extends about one-third
the way around the dome. The wingless
angel remained intact. In the interior
of the hall no damage was done be-
yond the shaking down of a few pic
lures and ornaments in the Mayors
office, the flooring of few books in the
libraries and the stopping of the clocks.
The crew of the ship Rufus E. Wood
had an experience while the earthquake
lasted that they will not forget in a
hurry. The vessel at the time was in
the vicinity of Point Reyes, and the
second mate was in charge of the deck.
Without warning everything was
thrown aback. The vessels Roadway
was stopped and she shivered from
stem to stern as though she had come
in collision with a sunken rock. Cap
tain Mclean and the watch below
rushed on deck in their night clothes,
thinking that the Wood had been run
down and might be sinking. At first
the phenomenon could not be accounted
for, and the general opinion was that
the ship had struck a sunken wreck. A
search was made of the waters around
the ship, but as nothing could be found
Captain Mclean came to the conclu-
sion that it was some submarine dis
turbance, and only learned that it was
an earthquake when the ship reached
port.
On board the pilot-boat America Cap
tain Jordan and the pilots who were
with him had almost a similar expert
ence. The schooner was cruising off the
Farallones when the conclusion came,
and everybody on board came to the
conclusion that the powder works at
Pinole Point had blown up.
Chief Engineer Hawley OF the rev.
enue cutter Hartley had a narrow es-
cape. He was in the engine room at
the time and was knocked backward
into the machinery. Luckily the en-
gines had been stopped a few min
utes previously, so he escaped with o
few bruises.
Heine Benges and Harry Johnson
had a rough and tumble experience at
the Folsom street wharf. Heine was
going north on the cannery ship St.
Nicholas, and while waiting for some
other members of the crew he went to
sleep in Johnson's boathouse. Harry
also dozed off, and when the quake
came it rocked the two men as though
they were at sea. Heine grumbled, II
don't want to get up; let me sleep"
while Harry growled, Leave me alone.
- you" AS the earthquake in
creased in severity they were both
rolled out on the flor, and each
bunk on purpose A fight followed and
both of them were considerably bat
tered up before they discovered their
| mistake.
Custom-house officer Sprague de-
serted the barge Office at Meiggs wharf
in a hurry The building, according to
him, was rocking like a ship in a gale,
so he did not wait to put on his clothes,
but ran bare-footed and bare headed
out on the wharf. He spent nearly all
day yesterday in picking slivers out of
! his feet.
The force of the earthquake was con-
centrated along the north shore of the
bay, from Vallejo to Santa Rosa, as
shown by the arrangement Of the San
FRANCISCO anu t>oItH dcllc pIluSeS.
| The heavy steel draw over Petaluma
| Creek at Black Point, on the Sonoma
Valley branch, a 1S0-ton structure. was
| lifted bodily one foot vertically and
two feet laterally. derailed from its
circular running gear and rendered
useless. Passengers by this railroad
are now being ferried across the creek
in boats, and the bridge will not be in
working order again for a week The
/ drawbridge across Sonoma Creek was
also thrown out of gear, but was re-
paired by gang of men yesterday
morning.