Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-07-13
TWO MORE SHOCKS
San FRANCISCO AGAIN ROCKED
and PEOPLE were In
A PANIC AWHILE.
Lasted Only Few Seconds Build
ings Tremble and Inmates Rush Out
Wildly-Damage Is Trivial-Western
Nevada Also Jarred-Worst Since
1906 Quake.

lSU6 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 APP
proximately at 2:01 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 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
mountain areas. 1t was felt to the
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 postoffice building
were disarranged and minor damage
was done to the interior walls of a
number of other buildings.
Within a few seconds after the first
shock many downtown buildings were
depopulated in wild rush to the
streets. Telephone and telegraphic
service was suspended for some min
utes because of the operators deserving
their keys.
One Man Dies
Herbert Sadley, lodging house in
mate, fell dead of fright, and some
cases of hysteria or of cuts or bruises
suffered in the semi-panic were treated
at the emergency and other hospitals.
Santa Rosa, which suffered a greater
disaster in proportion to its size than
did San Francisco in the catastrophe of
1906, scarcely felt this shock, further
indicating that the seismic disturbance
did not follow the lines of the old
Hfault.D
San Jose, another heavy sufferer in
1906, reported that this shock was the
sharpest experienced since that time,
but that it did not do serious damage
Stockton and Fresno, in the San Joa-
quin valley, were frightened by the
jarring, but there, as in Sacramento,
where the state offices were deserted in
a trice as the result of the temblor,
the damage to buildings was trifing.
Shock at Carson City.
In Reno, New, the shock was scarcely
felt, but in Carson it was severe. The
federal court was in session in the Ne
vada capital and judge, jury and attor
neys rushed post-haste to the streets.
At the Santa Clara college observa-
tory both reels were thrown off the
seismographs. They were Immediately
replaced, but the record of the dis
turbance will be incomplete because of
this fact. The clock at the observa-
tory of the University of California
was stopped for the first time since
the great quake Of four years ago.
The deep booming reverberations
which usually mark disturbances Of a
widespread character accompanied the
first tremor. In San Francisco the
groaning and creaking of the strained
steel structures in the downtown dis
trict played a larger part in frighten-