The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-21
ROCKED LIKE 4
GREAT Cradle.


from fhs prehistoric age 20 the present
day tif the famous land experience such
an uphssvaL u shook. auaksd and
groansd
There we're, they say. tvo distinct earth.
aaakes. one Sunday. september :, and .
second Sunday. september 10 The lat
ter created the greatest havoc. In and
about Yakutat the earth ard iss
added weight os mountains climbing
thousands % feet towards the heavens
rocked like cradle. Several islands.
notably kanah. one great In extent ana
situated . few miles on Yakutat, settled
from twenty to twenty-five feet A. the
terminus Of long. narrow strip % land
snisndins into yakutas bay the Indians
and Russians maintained buryins
ground This has disappeared. being
marked only By a Catholic cross which
risss Scarcely above the waters surface
at high tide.
And white the islands and mainland
have settled from twenty 20 forty feet the
sea bed appears 90 have been forced up
. corresponding height. rendering por-
items ~ the waters between yakgtas and
Juneau formerly 81 safe depth no longer
nayissbls for deep draft steamships. This
was particularly noticeable 20 Capt jos
hansen, master Of the Dora, In places
where the wafer previous 10 the earth.
quake registered . depth Of forty and
nffy feet the Dora on her last voyage
from yshaiat all but dragged bottom.
The upBsaysi 81 the ssa bed appears 10
hSys been greater than the depression
~ the mainland
esssstr W.sb ~ shs EssshSwsks.
Geo NJ Estsfiy, q Kodiak island min
iea man, heard many srstshaBd reports
~ the srratie doinss - the earthquake
from the DofA's passengers, some u
- 90 AtnlufISd soglf9As
iIe boarded tho Dora ~ Kodiak, after
abe had touched ~ Homer
"i' wss not" NJ. Esisfiy said, very
easy a. sss reliable particulars owing 10
the excited condition II the people from
the disturbed district They have basB
greatly upset and some ~ them are not
yet over their scare. There were two
earthquakes one occurred September 4.
Sunday, and the second, Also sunday, q
week later. The 6fst reached - far 10
the coast - Homar Alaska, and II may
have Travelled on down The course ~ the
Aisg,lan islands for aushf know, Prob
sBiy tha second visitation Included the
ro9k Inlet section sis0, but ~ that wa
d. not know, f0f the Dora left Kodiak
for juneau September 7 tut We heard
much ~ tho second earthquake. ~ was
particularly severe NJ Port Valdez, Cfea
ard yssgfst Some ~ the Islands are
said a. nave sunk ~ ssfilsd twenty ~
twenty-five feet and n point ~ land ess
tending into fstsfst bay, rear the tow6
~ Ysku'as, settled clear ous ~ sight
sUtmsfsIts. nm Indian graveyard Thu
Dora psoplasnoflsed thIs ard esiisd our
attention o. cross vhieh xhs visible
sbevs tte surface ~ me wsssv
fSAtsss viii never Mstsss.
THE mainland ~ fakDsss and uetnity
70 said 80 have settled twenty of thirty
feet The Indians 81 tahvfst district
we're pftisble ~ insfr ffisht They prayed
~ never before, and declared the Great
ts,bsr vas mad, Their tuss and cabins
we're shaken ard moved from their foyn.
fatioss go that the Indians had 20 prop
them ~ win poles"
Many ~ shs indians are reported 10
be leaving its country teeagsa % shs
esrfhqusts scare Fyrns ~ them IN fact
reached lynn canal before me Dora got
10 Juneau Tbsy ssr they vili never fs-
turn. interpreting the earthquake ~ 4
msnifessssion ~ ODDS wrath sssibW
both fsds snf whites
fr. = w. Chamberlain, q deni.sA ~ Ts~
e@rs. wno hes teen copper mining IN the
trinfs William s1WsS coys,fy, wss pas
ssnssr on ihs Tofs Us Gays ,hs, ~
Esyss. which 10 about ~ siss 1s< ~ ~.
tBfss IRE shocks vsfs 80 severe ira, the
fepe ~ ssvsrsi mountains we're dls1fss1
SRI fgnbIef frso fbs 0essn ~ fBA,r bsss
This 10 = sandstone rssss. snf great si5t,Ss
~ Just we're rent 80 into che slr.