The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-02
,hone Offices had begun to tremble vio-


phone Offices had begun to tremble vio-
lently
Stories are told of goods being shaken
from shelves IN department stores and
shops and tho scattering about Of other
objects not nailed down. The streets in "a
ohort time we're filed with the outpour-
ings from theatres. hotels. store and other
buildings Market street with its thou
sands of workers, was thronged In Third
and Fourth streets the sidewalks were
Uttered with small fragments Of cement
and other materials used in building con-
str,iction. which the shocks had shaken
to the streets In Fillmore street. where
many buildings have been erected on filed
ground many store windows we're broken
As the shocks were not severe enough
to interfere seriously with telegraphic
communication with outside points mes
sages soon began 10 reach the telegraph
Offices and newspapers here of shocks felt
generally throughout the central part OF
the State and in Nevada
From Oakland across the bay came
word that the town had been shaken
up first al 1855 p. NJ and that there were
subseoucnt tremois a few seconds later
No dana se had been done. but the shocks
had caused great deal OF fright
Then came message from Carson
City, New. that while court was in ses-
sion there the chandeliers began to sway
80 dangerously that Judge. attorneys,
jury and spectators ran on. ofthc court
room to the street About o'clock also,
according TO kilograms received here.
shocks were felt in stockton. Vallejo.
San Jose. Fresno and Sacramento.
The shock was slight at Stockton and
no dana &c was reported At Sacramento.
however. the State Capitol building
swayed and rocked so severely that State
officials fed to the street All of the cities
mentioned reported sharp earthquake
shock. much fright. no damage" Reno,
New. also felt the shock but only slightly
From the Lick Observatory word has
been received that both seismographs
we're shaken up far more seriously than
during the 1905 quakes. The Instruments
were not damaged but so violent we're
the undulations that the instruments 5
made no records of any value.
Late reports tonight show that the
earthquake was confined to California.
Nevada and Arizona A full reading Of
the OMAR seismograph at the University
of California could not be got because of
the absence Of Prof Wood. in charge of
the instrument. but partial reading
showed that the first shock occurred at
twenty seconds past o'clock. The in
str,iment showed that the shock was the
worst in five years but the area and
direction of the disturbance could not be
determined from the seismograph
The 20 inch telescope at Lick came
out apparently unhermed end so did the
u inch glass. A number Of clocks in the
observatory stopped. however. Cracks
appeared in brick walls at the observatory
and some plester was dislodged. but the
damage was trihing.
Both component: pens of the horizontal
eeismogrPrh at Santa Clara College were
thrown of the revolving drums by the
shaking end the vertical seismograph
was affected in the same way. When
they we're adjusted the south component
swung its full amplitude and it took
ninety minutes to still the oscillations.
Observer Newlin declared that the dis
turbances were local and confined to a
small area. basing this on the fact that
there were no preliminary tremors.
Prof. ". T. Foster of Washington,
D. c." Observer Newlin recalled to- ght
recently predicted seismic disturbances
on this coast before July L."
"To-day's earthquake" said Prof
McAdie, in charge of the United States
weather bureau here. lasted nearly
forty seconds and was the severest since
the shake of April IL. 1908. The move
ment was from northwest to southeast
and was felt generally in this State as
far south as Fresno and east to Reno
IL probably was the result Of the slipping
OF the old fault line. the San Andreas
fault
Thanks TO the Carnegie Fund. the
Ea thquake Society has just had c-refu
surveys of movements placsd along the
fault lines. These movements ere q,
Olema and Crystal Springs, eight in all
The work so far done shows that there
has been no displacement during the las,
four years. Another survey will have
TO be made to determine whether to-day e
quake caused any change"
ST. LOUIS. July THE Rev. Father
John b. Goesse, s. j., the member of the
faculty of ST. Louis University who has
charge Of the seismograph at the institu.
ton, said tonight that his instrumen,
unfailingly has made accurate records Of
every seismic vibration of the earth a
crust and that the seismograph to-day had
recorded earthquake disturbances.
Our seismograph, Father Goesse said
this afternoon, began to record the
vibrations at o'clock, p. NJ Readin gs
from the seismograph show that the main
shock Of an earthquake passed under st
Louis at 4:i5 O'Clock. p. NJ. The vibra.
tions ceased at 4:38 o'clock p. NJ"
Father Goesse estimated the distance
OF the greatest shock to he So degrees. {
minutes, or 270 miles, south by southwes,
on line from st. Louis to the Marq;iesse
Ialands