Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-25
UTAH W0MAN'S HOME GONE.
lIalf-IIumorous, Half Serious Remind-
or, Tomorrow May Never Come,
so Get Busy at Once"


gIyu q glpnce at the cracked cornices,
the warning sign danger hung on
the ropes that stretch In front OF
cracked buildings and the fact that
there is hardly chimney great or
small standing In Oakley or Berkele,
ON this side OF the bay. Even the grim
sign that can be seen tackled on al,
Office wall laid bare on Eighth stree,
only arouses n cynical smile,
Tomorrow May Never Come. So &c,
Busy" 1t runs. The sign, which Is al
old one, under other conditions would
provoke resentment. But the populacV
Is too stunned even to turn on the u
told-you-so" man.
FORMER SALT LAKE WOMAN.
At b47 Telegraph avenue, Berkeley,
resides Mrs. Louise Barton, who wa
we'll known In Salt Lake some fVr
years ago, having resided IN utah all
her life up 10 that time, Tho house n
situated on the corner Of Jones street
and ls opposite a beautiful new rock
Baptist church The word beautiful II
used with a reservation for the massiN
steepe lies n wreck at It's base, Wnlle
the building Is cracked and thoroughly
knocked out Of commission. Al oil
the steeple did not come down, nut 70
make the Job complete man, for ,ns
consideration OF sl75, climbed up th,
lettering walls and placed wire caoie
I'm position with the business end
hitched TO q street car. and the result
ant crash and cloud OF mortar gave III,
late corners some Idea Of what happen
ed when the real earthquake was get
ting busy.
FLAT Is WRECKED
Mrs. Barton's fiat II wreck rs far
as brio brac, furniture and plaster
60 At 5:lb a. M, on Nednesuas
morning tho chimney came through
the roof breaking the water pipe anu
flooding her as she lay In bed Wni,o
the piano waltzrd for two feet towarns
the center OF the hardwood moor IN the
front room,
This is about typical OF what hap
pened in Oakland IN practically every
Hat At the Hotel Metropole guests
are sleeping In rooms that are all shot
10 pieces as far as plastering eoes
and those who are over modest IN
these piping times are wont to unpack
their grips and extract all available
clothing 10 pin up on the laths py
way Of screens.
ONLY SIX KILLED.
In Oakland only six people were
killed but the damage done amounts TO
thousands OF dollars. There Is enough
plate glass cracked and broken to
afford raw material for the big east
ern brewery bottle plants.
cornlces are down all over town and
score Of business houses have been
condemned
According to Prof Edgar l., Lar
kin this upheayeal will take rank as
one of the most intricate and complex
upheavalslon record. First impressions
were that It Is a typical circular wave
earthquake, not of the we'll known
linear form. Here are facts Cleaned
I'm the Laurel Hill cemetery--rough
determinations. made without instru-
ments with which to measure ampli-
tudes Of displacement Of pillars and
columns:
IN THE CEMETERY.
I'm am area dedicated To the San
Francisco Volunteer firemen an oval
| space perhaps 100 feet I'm diameter,
| a number OF monuments Of marble and
| granite are thrown TO the ground
| Four Of the fallen ones point towards
| the north three west, one south, one
east. two northwest and two north
/ east The heavy and massive shafts
| were toward the north ana northwest,
while those small and easily over
| thrown were I'm the other directions
! To make a vertical obellsk fall toward
| The north the wave must come from
! the north, and 10 the west from the
west. and so on; for the columns fall
toward the waves that hit the bases
! under them Now the small Enclosure
| presents overthrows indicating all these
| motions The earthquake was COM
| pick: that Is. the first motion Of the
| earth's surface was compounded oi
several at once, and the surface was
| aCtuated by one great impulse, follow
ed by others weaker and weaker, able
only 10 throw over the weaker col.
umns IN varying directions. II one
| compound shock, made of several act.
Ing simultaneously therefore appear
ing to be one) occurred that moved
the heavy monuments, and then many
lesser shocks came, distorting the
lighter columns then there are
EARTHQUAKE STUDIED.
During more than a century, earth
| quakes have been studied with ever
! increasing accuracy, and In the latter
| days these researches have been aided
by delicate Instruments. And the net
results Of hundred years is that when
the first impulse Is single, or, II com.
pound the varying impulses appear &c
be merged into one severe shock, then
this initial shock may be folloyed by
J one, two or tire others; they rapidly
weaken wane and wear away into i'm.
pereeptible tremors And that is what
the earthquake here has done. II Is
typical. From these results Of many
years investigation In all parts OF the
/ hxt al tha rlta ha,
hesitancy In advancing the opinion thai
the shocks are either at an end or near
the close. have asked many here, and
they say that there have been from
70 TO 30 impulses
TWISTED FROM BASE.
In the cemetery many monument:
are twisted around on their bases
Nearly all these have had their north
sides skewed around so that they now
face the northwest. At first It wal
thought that all were 80; but two light
columns have their north sides shifted
10 face the northeast, Indeed, the o.
citations were complex. One stone
gives the history OF the earthquake In 9
most impressive manner. On the heavy
base rests a huge square stone, o.
this stands human figure In massiv,
marble. But the figure and heavy has,
have actually been moved 10 inches TO.
ward the northeast To me this stone
speaks OF mighty force. The weight
moved against great friction, required
formidable horizontal power acting
from the southwest. But ye people oil
the stricken city, see what colossal
force was hurled against your greal
buildings, your palaces. temples
| churches cathedrals and mansions