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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-23
PAINTER THROWN OFF
LADDER BY THE QUAKE
Cracks Made in Brick Walls of Solid
ly Built Homes in East Water
loo and Elsewhere.

So severe was the quake in East
Waterloo that heavy brick walls of
residences were cracked. Brick walls
in the residence of Bishop A. H.
Woodruff Of the Waterloo ward, sit
uated at Fifth East and Eleventh
South streets, were cracked in many
places. The residence was recently
completed and had been considered
one of the stancnest homes in Wa
terloo. 1t was found that the assures
in the walls did not follows seams in
the masonry, but brick had been
broken in two. None of the crevices
in this building are more than half
an inch in width, but they extend
from foundation to caves. Crockery
and glassware was hurled heller
SHELTER.
Walter Raleigh of Curtis and
Fourth East streets was on a ladder
painting his house when the heaviest
shock came. The tremendous jar
threw him from the ladder and he
fell fifteen feet, but escaped injury by
landing on heap of sod He was
covered from head to. foot with the
contents of his paint pail. He says
that as he lay back in the heap of
dirt he could actually see the walls of
his home shake.
A crevice nearly an inch wide was
opened in one of the heavy walls of
the partially completed brick store
building which is being erected at
Fourth East and Eleventh South
streets by J. E. Myer.
In the rear wall of the home of c.
l.. Woodbury., 1910 South Fourth East
street, a crack opened one and one
half inches in width, and extends
from the foundation to the caves.
Mrs. A. Shank, who was gathering
vegetables in her garden at Sixth East
and Eleventh South streets, says that
she was thrown to the ground by the
shock, and that the rocking of the
earth made her dizzy.
Read Herald Republican Want Ads.
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SALT LAKE SLIPS,
SAYS PROF. PACK
While There Is No Danger of
of Destruction, Earthquakes
Are Likely to Recur.
HE PREDICTED THIS ONE
PROGNOSTICATED AFTER THE
SHOCK OF OCTOBER, 1909.

Shortly after the disturbance on Oc-
tober 8, 1909, when Salt Lake and i'm
mediate vicinity were shaken by earth
quake, Professor Fred ]. Pack Of the
University predicted that there would
be occurrences of earthquakes within
the local zone, and that they might be
expected to grow in violence, although
he did not predict disaster such fas
San Francisco suffered from being
situated over such an agitated part OF
the earth's surface.
DR.. Pack at that time pointed out
that the basin in which Salt Lake is
situated was formed, not by erOsiOnal
activity, bat by crystal movement,
which elevated the rim around the now
enclosed area. He also said that Salt
of the western Utah valleys, is not a
valley carved out by weathering agen-
cies, but is the result of unequal crus-
tai movement which brought the Wa
satch mountains to their present eleva-
ton.
'tIn the early Christian era" said DR..
Pack, "the Latin people of southern
Italy built their homes and farms far
Their and farther up the slopes OF what
appeared to be an extinct vocano- In
10 A. d. Vesuvius broke out in violent
fury, destroying the cities and people
of the adjacent county And some
times when We look back at the his
tory Of these people we permit our
selves to wonder why they could have
been so foolish as to have stepped i'm
mediately within the imminent danger.
But it will be remembered that the
volcano was considered to be fully ex-
tinct, as even now we look upon Mt
Hood and Mt. Shasta of our western
coast.
Evidences of Slipping.
Evidences Of recent slippings along
the ola WaSatch fracture may be seen
at almost every point from Nephi in
the south tC Collingston in the north.
The old shore lines high up on the
flankS of the mountains surrounding
the valley bear mute evidence of the
existence of a large inland sea within
recent geologic times. The streams
flowing into this great lake built del
tas at the points of entrance. Little
Cottonwood canyon afforded a passage
for great glacial masses which swept
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-23
BOSTON BUILDING
SWAYED BY SHOCK
Top Floor Rocks While Quake
Puts QuietuS on Two
Clocks in the Office.

What is considered one Of the best
evidences as to the exact time Of the
first earthquake yesterday is the fact
that both the big clocks in the local
weather bureau office stopped together
when the quake came. at precisely
1928. The clocks are of the same make
and are hung in different rooms but on
the same corresponding walls, and fac
ing the same way. Both stopped in
stantly and, while one later was started
going, the other was left to bear mute
testimony as to the time of the initial
shock.
The office wired a report Of the
shocks to Washington early in the day
Assistant Observer J. B. Snyder was
in the office early, the requirements
of the department of agriculture being
that some employee of the bureau shall
be there at o'clock every morning
Probably Mr.. Snyder, being wide awake
and at the top of one of the tallest
buildings in the city, had a little better
opportunity to note the effects of the
first shock than anyone else; at least
he had as good chance as anyone
Snyder says the building sWayed and
rocked, until he verify believed il was
about to tOpple over. There was no
doubt in his mind as to the cause; no
thought of an explosion, as it would
not have affected the upper floor in
that manner, and the weather man was
wondering what he should do and
whether death actually was facing him,
when the swaying ceased.
The weather bureau people, of course
are not experts on the subject Of earth
quakes- They made no prediction be-
fOrehand and had no scientific or tech
meal explanation to make afterWard.
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QUAKE STARTS PANIC
AMONG PATIENTS
Continued From Page One.)

he looked upward and began to pray.
-'Da world am sho' comm to an end. %
walled Washington. "Da tail OBJ Hal
1ey'S comet done walloped il a side
SWipe an all oh US good or bad am
gOin' to perish. Ise known it all da
time dat dat comet done goin' destroy
the earth an we've all got TO cash
In"
''Shet 70 fool head" retorted Frank
lin, who trembled with fright as other
occupants of the big rotary were be-
ginning to make Outcries. He was
about to hurl abuse at Washington's
chicken heart when jailor opened the
rotary door with a crash.
AT Brink of HeII.S
Such as have been attempting to
evanSelize the city jail on Sunday fore
moons by explaining to prisoners the
woes Of iniquity applied for admission
into the cell houses an hour earlier
yesterday than usual. And while 1.-THE
iron of the earthquake was still hot
they told DRINKS, thieves, Migrants and
a Turkish vender Of rugs who was ar
rested Saturday night for peodling In
the restricted district that they were
all sanding at the brink of hell"
The sermons after the earthquake
are said to have been effective the
earthly disturbances having tended t.
soften the hearts of the prisoners
When stories Of RE signs of the times
indicating the end of the earth had
been told TO the prisoners, they LEM
eager ears and several raised theil
hands and said that they would try &c
lead better lives in the future.
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q HRIEKING Earthquake! Earth
- quake" at the top of her voice as
she rushed wildly down the halls
of the fifth floor of the Cullen hotel
at 1850 yesterday morning, clad in night
clothes, Miss Mabel Henderson, beauti-
full daughter of a wealthy mining man
OF San Francisco, pounded furiously at
no less than twenty-five doors in an
effort to arouse Slumberers from what
she supposed was to be a duplicate of
the great San Francisco quake which
took her mothers life.
Awakened not by the Earring of the
quake, but by his daughters screams as
she fled down the halls, II. A. Hender-
son, her father, leaped from bed, I'M
locked his door and. also clad only in
q night robe, pursued the girl. She had
turned into a side hall by the time he
got out OF his room, and he traced her
by the sound of her voice.
All day yesterday Miss Henderson
was confined to her room in condition
bordering on nervous prostration, and
attended by a physician. Last night
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she had recovered her composure to a
degree.
Mr.. Henderson and his family were
staying in one of the big San francisco
hotels at the time of the disaster that
nearly destroyed that city The shock
of the scenes which attended the fire
Frustrated his wife, who was a suffer
er from a nervous malady, and she died
in less than a month. The daughter
inheriting her mothers nervousness
has been apprehensive of earthquakes
ever since. Her father, who travels q
good deal, always takes her with him
Saturday night they were assigned
to rooms 535 and 536 at the Cullen, and
retired about IL o'clock.
Mr. Henderson says he did not know
anything about the first quake until he
was aroused by his girls voice as she
fled past his door. Most of the guests
of the hotel had been aroused by the
jar, and those on the fifth floor hastily
opened their doors, to see the scantily-
clad girl, her hair streaming down her
back It was only by main strength
that the father took the half-crazed
young woman back to her room
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Flight of Time Is Interfered
With by Severe Earth Tren1Or

20 far as the standard clocks in the
- stores Of the various jewellers are
concerned, the first and more severe
earthquake shock yesterday might have
occurred anywhere from 7:25 to 7:35.
That there is an appreciable difference
in these standard timepieces-by
which passersby and the public gener-
ally are invited to set and regulate
their own watches and clocks-Was
shown with sudden clearness when a
majority Of them stopped or We're
otherwise affected by the jarring.
Seven large jewelers. clocks promin-
emily displayed in windows stopped be-
tween 7:25 and 1880, but others were
Caught IN the act' all the way from
1913 to nearly o'clock.
In explanation one jeweler said the
clocks might not all have been stopped
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Bulletins Served Hot as News
Fragments of Salt Lakes Quake

IF 1T HAPPENS, it's in The Her
ald-Republioan."
= Bearing this often-proved tru-
ism in mind, thousands of Salt Lake
citizens-men, women and children
gathered in front of The Herald-Repub-
lican office soon after the first of the
two earthquake shocks yesterday morn
ing, knowing that there, if anywhere,
the truth could be learned as TO the
nature and extent of the quake vista
ton.
The neutrality-suspicious. editorial
force, having finished the work of get
ting out the Sunday morning edition
only a few hours before, was sum-
moned back to duty almost before the
last tremor had ceased vibrating, and
in an hours time the entire city was
covered in the work of getting at the
exact situation.
BY the time the crowd about The
Herald-Republican offices had attained
good-sized proportions, the work OF
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bulletining the news as fast as it was
verified had begun, the first bulletin
announcing that there had been no loss
of life.
The stamp of approval of this papers
bulletin service was placed not only by
the public, but by the Salt Lake Trib-
une, which. an hour after the first of
The neutrality-suspicious. bulletins had
been posted, sent messenger to this
papers office to copy 1t, and others.
Somewhere around noon the Tribune
mustered its force together in an at
tempt to find out what had happened.
The neutrality-suspicious. continued
bulletining all that was worth while
all day Its comprehensive staff of
correspondents about the state early
were ION the job" and the telegraph
and long distance phone lines were kept
hot all day. The bulletins gave the
gist of the news from Bingham, Provo
and other places and were read and re-
read with intense eagerness-
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-23
Link Fear of HaIley's Comet
With Tren,ors of the Earth

TTAD Salt Lake been visited by an
n earthquake four or five days
= = ago, instead of yesterday, there
unques tionably would have been a panic
OF much greater magnitude, for by
thousands the earth's CONFUSION would
have been attributed to the comet OF
its tail. and 1t would have been be-
lieved that the dreadful besieging of
the earth by gases had begun.
Numerous instances of surprise and
fear occasioned by the shocks are be-
ing related that SAVIOR of humor, since
the Jars did no great harm A waiter
who works nights in the Denver coffee
house says he reached home just be-
fore the first shock. His wife, awak-
ened by the building shaking, saw
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-23
Travelling Public Mysmied
at the Early Morning Alarm

queries kept the phones busy, and in
addition the hotel forces had a lively
time preventing some of its specially
excitable guests from going down the
fire escapes
One old man at the Kenyon insisted
In dragging his trunk from his room to
the elevator, regardless of the fact that
he had forgotten to don trousers, and
IT took considerable assurance on the
part Of an Industrious porter to con-
vince him that trousers, even in earth
quake times. are quite the style.
The limit was reached at the Knuts-
ford, when a woman tourist with q pet
dog telephoned to the clerk:
Send somebody up here quick to
take my dog down. can take care of
myself"
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at once; some might have gone on tick
ing little while. but generally 1t was
conceded that a shock sufficient to
stop one Of the large timepfeces would
be sufficient TO stop them all, at least
within a period of two minutes.
Some of the larger clocks did not stop
at all, however, particularly those in
stores situated in the stone buildings,
but all showed an appreciable slacken-
ing OF time, as the pendulums struck
either on the sides or back and front
of their cases, or, If swinging open,
against the wall
A popularity in connection with the
quake's effect on the clocks in the Jew
elers' stores is that the smaller the
clock, the less IL was affected, and the
ordinary alarm affairs went right on
ticking off time as though nothing un-
usual had happened.
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QUAINT QUAKERS AND
HOW THEY WERE FELT

CCORDING to William Johnson, a
"A rancher of Corinne, who came
into Salt Lake from Garfield
shortly after the shocks, Garfield was
hard hit in certain places, particularly
in the smelter company's drug store.
Mirrors were broken in a number of
hinges. In the drug store, says Mr..
Johnson, by some peculiar freak either
of construction of the shelves or of
special force on the part CT the earth
quake, a large number of bottles more
or less filled with medicine were brok-
en-, and there flowed together down
on to the floor, making a wee river.
an odd conglomeration of vari-colored
liquids.
A. B. Hirth, city building inspector,
said yesterday morning that he be-
lieved the damage would be slight, in
asmuch as the shock seemed to have
been of an easy, rocking motion and
None of the new buildings either com
pleted or in course of erection had
been damaged, so far as he knew.
81 was awakened by the shock and
shaking me violently. The two-story
brick house in which live was swayed
so violently that l could hear the win
dow weights rafting in the castings.
X X
Fort Douglas suffered no damage
although the shock was felt severely
in the old buildings. Many of the in
mates of the new structures were not
awakened at all
x x X
At the Judge Mercy hospital. the
sisters and attendants, most of whom
were on the top floor of the build
ing, felt the shock, and the whole
building rocked alarmingIy for several
minutes Examination OF the founda-
lions revealed no damage. There are
no patients in the building yet
X X x
S. 3. Ricaby lost a bottle of Flor
ida water through the earthquake. Mr.
Ricaby, whose home is in New York
but who recently came to Salt Lake
from Portland, Ore, to act as pub
LEFTY agent for the COmmercial club
occupies one of the top floor rooms
at the Knutsford. He was asleep when
the shock came, but it aroused him
and he sat up in bed just in time
he says, to see a tall bottle of Flor
ida water, which he had left standing
on dresser, topple over and fall with
crash to the floor, breaking into
many pieces and nicely seeming one
of Gus Holmes bedroom carpets sc
that II will be perfumed for some
time to come Other articles on the
dresser, Mr.. Rfckaby says, were not
even jostled. The publicity man was
about to make for the hall and the
stairs, when the Earring ceased.
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things trembling in the room and saw
her spouse stagger slightly as he start
ed to open the door.
She at once demanded to know what
he had been drinking.
ITS Halley's cometi Oh, it's HaIley's
comet" Historically screamed an old
woman, rushing out of her back door
on North Third West street and pre-
Sentfng a scared face to a neighbor,
over the fence that divides their yards.
''The worlds coming to an endi It's
coming to an end sure this tirnei I
knew it, I knew itr'
IT was late in the day before she
was convinced that Fate had given
earth another chance.
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NO DAMAGE AT BINGHAM.

Bingham, May 22.- Quite a heavy
earthquake shock was felt at Bingham.
While the vibrations were not very
rapid, they were very distinct, caus-
ing considerable alarm throughout the
camp. Many rushed to the doors OF
their houses. No considerable damage
was done, however, though dishes rat
tied and furniture was Jared. At the
home of Mrs NJ T. Miller about $40
worth of dishes were Jared from the
shelves and destroyed. No shutdowns
were rendered necessary at any of the
mines, though the plants were badly
shaken.
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a n earthquake is so unusual g
~ thing in the lives of most per-
sons that that portion of the army
of persons known as the travelling
public which was in Salt Lake yester-
day morning had some difficulty in
coming to a realization of the fact that
It was really earth tremors they felt.
Many hotel guests had the idea there
and in those hostelries which are
equipped with room telephones the
clerks had q busy time answering the
many calls.
rs there an explosion"
as there a fire?"
as the building falling DOWN.
What was that dreadful shaking ?"
These and countless other frantic
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Gins Are Frightened.
FOUNDRY is DAMAGED
BY THE EARTHQUAKE

The Union Foundry and Machine
works at Seventh South and Fifth
West streets was badly damaged by the
quake. Part of the roof caved in, and
the flying timbers and bricks did a
great amount Of damage to the plant.
F. A Pfeiffer was the only occupant
capped unhurt. An examination of the
structure after the accident disclosed
the fact that the shock had been the
cause of it settling from five to six
inc
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SHOCK At TOOELE.

Especial to The Herald-Republican.)
TooeIe, May ga distinct earth
quake shock was felt here this morn
ing at about 1880 o'clock, when houses
were shaken, clocks stopped and in one
instance plaster shaken from the walls.
Late sleepers were awakened and many
ran into the streets expecting the
buildings would be shaken down. Lit
tie damage was done, however, and no
further shocks were felt.
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COSTA RIGA? NO, NEVER!

Kansas Professor Guesses Wrong When
SeIsmOgrapk Shows Shock.
Lawrence. Kan, May 22-The seismo-
graph at the University of Kansas re-
corded an earthquake shock this morn
ing from 1897 to 2:15 o'clock
Professor H. F. Cady. who observed
the movement, said: THE quake ap-
peared 10 be about 1900 miles distant
1t had all of the characteristics shown
by the recent disturbances in Costa
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down into the lake, and later, after
the lake had fallen, into the valley.
The load of fragmental rock was
dropped at the lower end of the delta
in the form of a terminal moraine.
Since the disappearance Of the lake
many of these old deltas have been
covered with alluvial wash from the
adjacent hills"
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HELLO GIRLS ARE
BADLY SCARED
So Are About 5000 Phone
Users Who Want to Know
About Qu.F2.
MEN BECOME OPERATORS
BUSY MORNING AT CENTRAL
WHERE SHOCK rs FELT.
MEN BECOME OPERATORS

Among the first to f 4 the shock,
and among the chief sufferers" as a
result of it, were the operators in the
main exchange Of the Rocky Noun
tain Bell Telephone company. The
day shift had come on at o'clock,
consisting of about fifteen operators,
as the Sunday telephone traffic is
usually light.
floor of the Bell building, and the
tremor there was very pronounced
1t seemed as if the switchboard
was moving right towards u.s." said
Miss Anna Burt, courageous operat-
or, who remained at her post despite
the shock. st cannot tell how long
it lasted, it seemed like minute, but
1 suppose it was only a few seconds
The motion seemed to run right
along the floor of the operating room
in a snake-like way"
Several of the operators left the
switchboard momentarily, but all re-
turned quickly and attacked the vol
unle of calls that soon began pouring
in, turning the mammoth switchboard
into a solid mass of light. Miss Carrie
Schettler, head supervisor, in charge
of the operating room at the time,
soon had every available operator at
WI, anu OlA1Clo Ii O1A
their homes. The operating force was
assisted in the first rush by District
Manager G. F. Aston, who was in his
Office on the ground floor, but who
hurried at once to the operating
room.
Men Become Operators.
Allen Ansley, Charles Thompson
and Daniel Armstrong, employees Of
1.-The company, who were in the build
ing, also sat in as operators, and
were soon Joined by General Traffic
Superintendent n. B. Stfmson. who
had hurried from his home imme-
diately after the first shock.
| The telephone men who acted as
operators reported some amusing ex-
periences. They say they tried to
make their voices as soft as possible.
| but evidently they were not wholly
successful You get off this line; ]
want central" was a common reply
/ to their question, Number, please ?"
whether the shock had turned the
telephone girls into boys
| Although the vibration, due to its
elevation, was very pronounced In the
Bell company's operating room, the
building suffered no damage
Girls Are Frightened.
The officials of the Utah Independ-
ent Telephone company report similar
Experiences. When the shock came
there was only a small force of oper-
ators on duty, and the girls became
frightened momentarily, but soon re-
turned to their desks. They were in
undated with calls, hundreds of which
it was impossible to answer.
| Inquiry among the motormen and
conductors employed by the Utah
Light & Railway company who were
on duty at the time Of the shock dis
closed the fact that none of them had
noticed the shock while on their runs