Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-08
TWO MORE SHOCKS
SAN FRANCISCO AGAIN ROCKED
AND PEOPLE WERE In
A.PANlC AWHILE.
Lasted Only Few Seconds-Large Build
ings Tremble and Inmates Rush Out
Wildly-Damage Is Trivial-Western
Nevada Also Jarred-worst Since
1906 Quake.

San Francisco. Two earthquake
shocks, the heaviest since the big shake
Of 1906, and separated by only few
seconds, Jared the central portion of
California and western Nevada Satur-
day
The first sharp shock, experienced ap-
proximately at 2:O1 o'clock, was fol
lowed within few seconds by one of
similar intensity, each lasting about five
seconds.
Only trivial damage has been re-
ported from any section, but in San
Francisco and other cities in the af-
fected area panic seized upon crowds
in stores and restaurants, and there
was a pell-mell exodus from the larger
buildings.
One peculiar feature Of the earth
quake was that it did not appear to
follow the old "fault" in the earth IS
crust which has been the playground
of tremblors in the past, but extended
from the sea coast eastward to the
Sierras, including hitherto exempt
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northward of Sacramento, in the Sacra-
mento valley, southwark as far as
Fresno and to the east at Carson and
Reno New.
Heavy Stones Moved.
Some slight damage was done to
buildings in San Francisco. Heavy
stones in the cornice of the Mechanics
Bank building were moved slightly out
of alignment; superficial cracks were
made in several large Office buildings
cornices of the new postoffce building
were disarranged and minor damage
was done to the interior walls of q
number of other buildings.
Within few seconds after the first
, shock many downtown buildings were
depopulated in a wild rush to the
. streets. Telephone and telegraphi'
service was suspended for some min
utes because of the operators DESERVING
! their keys.
i One Man Dies
Herbert Sadley, lodging house in
= mate, fell dead of fright, and som
! cases of hysteria or Of cuts or bruise
q suffered in the semi-panie were treate'
at the emergency and other hospitals
. Santa Rosa, which suffered a create
, disaster in proportion to its size tina
did San Francisco in the catastrophe o
1906, scarcely felt this shock, furthe
indicating that the seismic disturbanc
y did not follow the lines of the oil
"A Hfault. -
n San Jose, another heavy sufferer j
is 1906, reported that this shock was tn
Is sharpest experienced since that tim'
sr but that it did not do serious damag,
IN Stockton and Fresno, in the San jos
e quin valley, were frightened by tn
k Earring, but there, as in Sacramento
it where the state offices were deserted
ID trice as the result of the temblo
en- the damage to buildings was trihing.
z Shock at Carson City.
In Reno, New, the shock was scarcel
s. felt, but in Carson it was severe. TIL
federal court was in session in the n
vada capital and judge, jury. and alto
neys rushed post-haste to the streets.
At the Santa Clara college observi
tory both reels were thrown off Il
seismographs. They were immediatel
replaced, but the record of the di
turbance will be incomplete because {
this fact. The clock at the observ
tory of the University of Californ
was stopped for the FIRST time sin'
n. the great quake Of four years ago.
The deep booming reverberatiol
which usually mark disturbances of
widespread character accompanied Il
IS frst tremor. In San Francisco Il
nd grooming and creaking of the straine
of steel structures in the downtown di
nd trict played a larger part in frighte
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