New-York tribune., 1906-04-19

Market street, suffered somewhat by the breaking
%a he In Het he finish h 96 5 of The
showeo signs OF the shock, its walls being cracked
state showed that while the shock was severe no one
was as INJURED 4en and the property loss nominal
part OF California shaken more or less Sc
small tOwn in Riverside County The A business BUSINESS
TWO story buildings, some of brick. suffered most
LANDSLIDE FOLLOWS SHOCK
This shock caused part of the San Jacntc
, Mountain, in California to slip into a subterranean
cavern Territory covering six hundred acres at
an elevation of four thousand feet was dislod dged
and slid one hundred and fifty feet downward The
s9res @s Ine new valley was cracked with many
STONES t, cropped into the creyices We're not heard
was as followed by score of light shocks
oHeeS m bsd LOO IN Lower California. earth
region causing them TO spout with redoubled force
1ian fernand9 and other points south and east in
c!uuIhg san Diego The mud volcanoes on the des-
Iong PERIOD OF rest and began spout again The
aiesca, naturat gas wells near Yuma which had been
Lighted ana the glare at night was seen for miles
me tme glOund: @ twenty or more feet in length and
On December %. 1903. a severe earthquake lasting
s5 ocioc seTohds % & shook Los Angeles It came at
The business wayed for an ne nstap 1g 3dPgS m IN
uS ran ana people rushed into the streets
age. however was inconsiderable On the same
St awrepca trem0r was felt all through Northern
trerbled violently Madrid The SHOCK Puii9ings @ @
from their beds. ~ "oNe 'he peopIo
LAKE A SULPHUROUS CAULDRON
As the result of the earthquakes of 1903 Evans
Lake, in Riverside County was changed frorn
clear, limpd body of water into a great sunburor.
cauidron. In July fumes OF sulphur began to bubble
up through IT, coloring it saffron hue All the
reeds the border of the lake turned yellow and
died Ten miles away well known sulphur
the earthquakes opened a fissure and made CON
necton between the sources of the springs and the
On august 3 1908. an earthquake centring in San
Jose nifty miles southeast of San Francisco had a
succession of tremors lasting thirty seconds. ex-
tending, over longer, time than any shock Cali
me death Of Mrs, P N Lusson of San jose. SG from
jose tSe shoe was the besTss al S San
that institution. The indicator Of the seisinograph
Shocks were felt in the yosemite %aes Three
ion on June H. iSG sharp shock shook San Fran
a. rev weak Gn-imneyS - 10 topple; The earthquake
geant Oakland and Santa Margarifa and On the
seStr sef af de b1TST At San the shock
80 AGcGTdng TO PT2fessor E S Holdens catalogue
OF Calfornia earthquakes, covering the wears be-
tween l76s and 1885; there have been fen quakes
called serious As for lighter quakes' u there were
during I the thrty-sx years between 1850 and 1856
54 in whole state OF california alone
by that It Ra .ees SO aFsspqsnsy v5sd S
few years ago, 10 erect ta buildings in San Fran
clseo- ~ was only with the advent of modern steel
cohsTuctlon which was believed 10 render tall
bulldinss safe from the earth's trcmors that sky
Coast. va tHe ''
if ~ mas been noticed before that nearly every
seismic seismic disturbance on the Pacific Coast has been
preceded by more less violent disttrba nces or
volcanic eruptions in the South Seas or near Japan
or d Addstrsia ana the shocks of yesterday morning
would seem 10 have as their precursors the recent
disturbances a Forrnosa.
"A man named Erickson prophesiad that San
Francisco. Oakland. Chicago and New, York would
De DESTROYED by earthquake on April a. 1880 The
approach of this date caused a slight panic in San
francisco. and early in April real estate values !
actually suffered serious depreciation ar a result /
and many tinlid people left the city The l4th of |
April CANA however. and nothing happened j