The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-19

ports of disturbances at sea on March ', between San Francisco and Honolulu, and at the Highland Springs there was a sharp vibration which lasted fully a minute.
 On March 30, 1898, occurred the hea- viest shock Of earthquake in California since 1892. This was recorded in San Francisco where the greatest disturb ances were felt at Mare Island navy yard, Gallijo and Benica At the navy yard number of buildings were par tially destroyed. and much damage done to machinery. The commanding officer estimated the total damage at $342, ,000. In San Francisco number ot chfnneys were cracked, the Girls High school damaged to the extent of $2OOo, and the Whittier school on Harrison street near Fourth so injured that It cost s, GOO to repair it. At Mount Ham, ilton the vibration was from northeast to southwest. The observation clock was stopped and five distinct shocks recorded. At Berkeley university Fro lessor Frank Soule reported that thls shock was the worst yet recored at that place. A professor at College park who was awakened at midnight, salu that before he could arise and light a lamp to see his watch he had counted ffty-six seconds and the building was still shaking violently. At San elulntlh prison the building was badly damaged large cracks being rent in the walls. At San Jose the shock was so severe at midnight that the inhabitants ran into the streets. At Stockton telegraph wires were snapped and five distinct shocks passed across the city inside or two minutes, the vibration was rom east to west.
 Al the navy yard, where the greatest damage was done, the hospital walls were injured, the roof over the chlef engineers office thrown to the ground, and the residence of Rear Admlral Kirkland and Pay Inspector Bacon par tially destroyed. The belfry tower ot St. vlncent's church had to be rebuilt Remarkable to say, no one was in9ur- ed. At Mendocino, much damage was done to the houses of business men, and over a dozen monuments overturn- ed in Evergreen cemetery.
 On June 30 Los Angeles was visited by d disturbance near midnight. This was mild, however, but was felt sur" I fieiently to alarm people living in the upper floors of houses. On August at San Francisco, another slight shock was felt about noon. The recording in- strument a tBerkeley noted two shocks, Other slight tigrations were felt through the last months of the year and on December heavy shock ot x four seconds, accompanied by q grand 1 ing noise, was recorded.
 Y The last earthquake that occurred in San Francisco was in January, lsOO Several distinct shocks were felt early | in the morning, causing the vibration of buildings all over the city. The chief building affected was the St. Nicholas hotel, which was severely shaken. The walls collapsed in certain parts of the structure, guests were thrown out oi their beds, and furniture was destroyed
 Indeed. the Pacific cast has been SC frequently visited by earthquakes that l it was deemed un*ise, until few years ago, to erect tall buildings in San Fran cisco It was only with the advent oi modern steel construction, which wal believed to make tall buildings safe from the earths tremors, the sky scrapers" made their appearance on the Pacific coast In the past fifty years more than 25O earthquake shocks have | L., Ivroy rfc oIf gether. The most severe of all of these were in 1868 and that in 1898 described above.