Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-11-21
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE VISITS
SOUTHERN UTAH TOWNS.
EVERY VILLAGE WITHIN FIFTY MILES OF
MOUNT BAL0Y SUFFERS DAMAGES.
As Many as Thirty-flve Distinct Shocks Felt
Valuable Buildings Badly Injured and
Many Residences wrecked-Many
People Camp in the Street
by Bonfires.

The southern half of Utah was badly
shaken by earthquakes the night of
the 18th and all day the 14th. In many
villages valuable buildings are totter-
ing and ready to fall, people were
driven from their homes into the streets
and roads and huddled around bonfires.
AS near as can be ascertained, Mount
Badly and Mount Belnap, among the
high peaks of Utah, constituted the
center of the earthquake, and from
there the shocks seemed to radiate in
all directions. The greatest damage
was done through the southern end of
Sewer county, and not town or viii
lage escaped. In number of places
buildings were completely ruined.
Next in damages suffered are Beaver,
Piute and Millard counties, in the
order named
Probably not a village within 100
miles of the center of the disturbance
escaped injury.
At Richfield the greatest damage was
done to the fine new tabernacle. 1t is
badly shaken and crushed, and it will
require at least 1000 to place it in re-
pair again. A large portion of the
walls may have to be torn down. The
gable end of the o. X. Salisbury resi-
dence at Richfield caved in upon a bed
in which two babes were sleeping, but
neither of them were injured.
In Monroe the beautiful residence of
Bishop Orson Magley was damaged to
the extent of $500. Charles Windle's
unfinished brick house was SO badly
damaged that the carpenter work will
have to be done over and the walls re-
built from the foundation. Large win
dows were broken in the stores and
the buildings otherwise damaged.
Many buildings were damaged to the
extent of from $25 to 800 EACH One of
the main streams of the Monroe hot
springs stopped flowing, while others of
them are enjoying largely increased
flow of water.
The choir was practicing In the
meeting house when the building
began to rock on its foundation and it
seemed to many that the end of the
I world had come. The panic among
the people assembled was terrible.
Several jumped through the win
dows and were badly cut, but no SER
tous accidents are reported at this
| time
| The town council was in session in
the town hall. The first shock brought
down the ceiling upon the heads of
the councillors; they fled in disorder,
leaving the building almost a complete
wreck.
AT Elsinore the Chris Jensen hotel
was damaged to the extent of 5000 and
the guests were driven into the street.
The new school house that cost Sl2, 900
was badly cracked and large part of
1t will have to be rebuilt. The Coop
store, SnYder's new building and a
number of others were more or less
damaged.
The gable of Peter Christensen's
house fell in. The house was occupied
by Thomas Fonts and family. The
falling wall crashed through the floor
and into the family sleeping room
Fortunately no one was in bed and all
escaped without injury. A number Of
the buildings in Elsinore will have te
be torn down and built up from the
foundatio ion.
| AT Joseph the young people were In
the school house at the time of the
earthquake. The panic among the