The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-19
NEW HAVEN STIRRED.
SAN FRANCISCO HORROR DEEP
 LY FELT HERE.

Fated NeighbOrhOOd-PrOfe Barr
 relI snys Shock Was Not Related to
 the Vesuvius ActIVities-NO Record
 ten Predicts More Disaster.
 The absorbing topic of conversation in this city, as doubtless over most of the civilized world, last evening was the terrible calamity that 50 suddenly wrecked the city of San Francisco early yesterday morning. In addition to the natural horror iii contemplation of the effects of so vast and invisible Q force and the almost instant destruc- ton cG so many lives here is the fact that many New Haveners have friends and relatives In or about that part Of is much solicitude.
 A brother of Moritz Spier, the State street coal dealer, resides in the city of San Francisco. Ernest Q. Leigh, brother of Harry and Walter Leigh, IS another San Francisco man. Captain Fl. 0. Greuner of the New Haven Grays has 8 brother, E. Leopold Gruener, who is night editor of the San Francisco Call, whose handsome skyscraper office building is reported destroyed.
 Rev. I. c. Meserve former pastor of the Davenport church, and his wife, formerly Miss Cora. Damn of this city, and family are also residents of the city where Rev. MT. Meserye is now pastor of church.
 A married daughter of Prof George J. Brush lives in San Francisco also.
 Three sisters of General Manager John J. splain of Polls theaters are among those for whose safety anxiety is felt
 Ex-Alderman Michael sonnenberg has three nephews Albert, sigmund and Julius, all In business in San Fran cisco.
 Edward II. Coleman, a merchant of San Francisco, is the son-in-law of the late Policeman James Reynolds of New Haven,
 T. Joseph Hushion, formerly of Ferry street, went ito San Francisco to reside about year ago.
 Jack Lawlor, the old New Haven left fielder, is now playing on he San Fran cisco nine.
 Thomas F. Nunan, formerly a mem- ber of the repcrtorial staff of the Reg ister, is now on the staff of the San Francisco Examiner. He resides in Oakland.
 Attorney George l.. Dickerman of this city left here six weeks ago on trip to the Pacific coast and to San Francis co. It is not known whether Mir. Dick erman is in San Francisco, at the pres ent time.
 Other New Haveners who are now residents of San Francisco are: John ]. Flanagan, formerly of Hamilton street, who has been there twenty three years, an employs of the health department; the Misses Nellie and Katherine Cronan, formerly of Elm and Trumbull streets; former County Com missioner D. Hart Munson has been staying the Palace hotel in Frisco
 There is a considerable amount of New Haven capital invested in San Francisco and as yet there is no way of knowing how much loss will be felt in this city
 The strouse, Adler Corset company of this city has an office and storehouse in San Francisco and if the have been destroyed the loss will be quite heavy nfha, 4,,f tion.
 Professor Joseph Barrell, of Yale, who Is the authority here on earth quakes, was asked if the shock in San Francisco yesterday morning had any, thing to do, in his Judgment, with the cessation of activities at Mt. Vesuvius. He said that he did not think that there was any connection between the two. When asked if there was any instru- ment at Yale which would record the earthquake when it occurred he said: No, we have no such instrument here, but there are several instruments in | the east which would record an earth- quake in any part of the world"
 In his judgment severe shock such as was felt in San Francisco yesterday morning was probably noticeable by | the movement of the church steeples and the tipping over of glasses as far as a thousand miles from the scene of the disturbance and a slight trembling of the earth discernible to the inhabl- tants was dikely felt 1000 miles away Professor Barrell said that slight earthquakes in California were of fre- quent occurrence, the earthquake in- struments probably recording slight disturbances as often as once a week there, but that there had been no very bad shock since about 1870, when there was a severe earthquake recorded. At that time, he pointed out California was only sparsely settled, so that, all though the shock was very severe one, the loss of life was comparatively small.
 A. A. Kellogg, the State street gun smith, reports that during Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning he felt rocking of the bed and shaking of window panes, although he failed to note the time. His wife also reported shaking which alarmed her consider ably.
 The Yale observatory was deluged all day yesterday with telephone calls from nervous citizens anxious to know If the seismic disturbances were work ing east and if New Haven was slated | for attack.
 Professor Chase informed callers that there was no apparatus here for re- cording the shocks, and with this in-