Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-01-31
|,,1nNE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
 THIS CITY.
..ore Temblor Extends from seligman
 to Gallup, N. M.
From Friday's DAily)

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 ,.,o,,h the shock was not of an
 ,miuc nature in this city, it proved ra,o at Flagstaff and Williams.
 ri. seismic disturbance, according
 d.,,t,hcs received by the Journal
 .,- extended from Seligman to Gal. New Mexico, the direction gener. nv n.ug in a northeasterly and ,n,bw,,tcrly direction. One peculiar ...t o, the tcmblor was that it affect. oply the eastern part of town, the hock being quite marked in that sec. Ia, eas, of Cortez street.
 Al Flagstaff cbimneys fell down, Io,,le. and crockcry crashed to the nor. and the pupils in the public .hool fled in terror from the building. ney were so frightened that it was uoossiblc to resume school that day.
 William. was also shaken up and Bellcmont, a station east, ice was A,okcn to pieces in the pond and the ,,,er was disturbed into waves by the emblor.
 This earthquake is said to be the rst that has visited the territory with. inc memory of old residents, and
 may be true, as was remarked yes s,day. that "Evcn the earth tfembles the thought of joint statehood"
 Many persons felt the shock yes. srlay and the relation of the sepsa. ions they experienced is interesting. Allen Hill, when interviewed regard. rr the seismic disturbance, stated: {: "A little after 80 p. m. l was sit lining in the chair in front of my lesk talking to friend when I felt n locking sensation. saw the pie. lures on the walls move, in fact quite no,iccably. The building trembled, he windows rattled, and l believe that hhe shock lasted from 15 to 20 secs. I Enough, when l felt the first trembling movement that boiler had exploded in thc ncighborhood or that perhaps the chimney had fallen from the building" " Il. Wm. Stevens, who was visiting in the offices of R. F.. Morrison, when the temblor came along, said "I have felt .arhquakcs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but l never experienced one cf such duration as this one. The chan. |delers in the Morrison offices moved. rocked in the chair that was seated in, the pictures moved on the walls snd the windows rattled perceptibly. later called into the offices occupied by Mr. Job in the same building, and tho nenographcr there stated that sh' plainly felt the earthquake, but dit no, realize what was the cause of tho shaking.
 The Morrison and Job offices aret sit ua,ed in the second story of the Fec trc Light building, which opens int the Bank of Arizona building. Inquiries in tho various offices in the Bank O Arizona building proved that none O the other occupants felt any shocl whatever and were surprised when toll that there was an earthquake.
 Henry T. Andrews, when called upo' in his offices in the Bashford building stated "l was lying asleep on the sof' in my private office, taking my usua afternoon nap, when I was awakene by the rocking of the sofa, which rest on rollers. The sofa is in an easterl and westerly position in the room, bu 'he motion of the earthquake was aT parenily in a northerly and southerl direction. The chair at my desk raj ted pcrceptibly. and then suddenl stopped for a moment, which was fo lowed by second rattling. muc stronger than the first. also hear some noise as if a cracking sound an Wen, to the foot of the stairs to il ,estigatc. I examined the walls at tf entrance of the building. and fndin nothing alarming immediately r gained my eomposure and returned my office. l am certain that it was real earthquake"
 r. D. Cope, bookkeeper in the ofh of Cecil q. Fcnncll, also in the san building, when asked to relate experience said "I was sitting on q Stool at work at my desk and sudden 'eIt rocking motion, the motion W quite perccptible. The windows sho' ard rattled. did not think of earthquake. ! thought it was due
 an explosion in the ncighborhood
 tho time."
 The tcmblor was also felt in the off Of Attorney Reese M. Ling in the sa' la |