The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-02
70 oulvers Of the Earth Saturday
A,ternoon Sent the People
Panic Stricken to the
Street.
GREAT DAMAGE
Two Men Died From Fright But There
Were No Deaths Caused From
the Falling Of
Buildings.


HERBERT HADLEY. 80 Baird
street; shock induced heart failure;
died in the ambulance on the way to
hospital.
EMIL ANDERSON, laborer; being
treated for fractured skull at emerg-
sncy hospital; died from shocks caus-
ed by fright at quake.
Injured: Robert Dawson, waiter;
arm gashed when he ran into plate
/ glass window as he tried to leave the
cafe where he was employed.
Mamie Garrity, hysterical from
fright restrained from jumping from
an upper window. She was sent to
hospital for treatment before she
could be quieted.
Saturdays quake was the most viol-
ent en- the Pacific coast since April
is, 1906.
The shock in 1905 lasted As seconds.
Saturdays quake lasted forty sec
pnds.
persons were killed.
The quake in, 1906 had no definite
direction, Saturdays shock moved
from southeast to northwest.
tGate City Leased Wire Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July L.
Shaken by two earthquake shocks
which occurred shortly after 200
o'clock this afternoon. San Francisco
tonight Is talking of the big quake OF
1905.
Frightened by the swaying of the
buildings in the downtown district
crowds in cafes, stores, office build
ings and theatres fed to the streets
Immediately after the quakes, while
In the residence district, where films.
built frame houses predominant, The
near panic was fully as great.
The direction of the shock wa,
southeast to northwest. In the down
town district cracks appeared in th'
inner walls of few buildings, small
quantities of plaster were loosenet
and fell, but very little real damage
was done. One man Herbert Hadle.
died from heart failure, superinducet
by the fright and the shock, and on
woman, whose name has not been as
certained by the police, was over
come from fright in the district nea
Golden Gate Park.
In the streets downtown there wa
rain of plaster and cement that ha
been shaken off buildings The fras
nents fell on the crowds that rushe
from the buildings, and added to th
fright that for a brief time held Sa
Franciscans In it's grip In the uppe
stories of the taller buildings, tn
swaying. as the double shock rookie
the ground, was sickening. Within
few minutes after the first tremo
the streets were filed with crow
that gazed at the buildings as thoug
expecting them collapse.
Market street. the principal artei
oil the city, was almost jammed by tn
rush from the stores and cafes.
was some minutes before people wei
reassured and returned indoors.
Throughout the city tonight repor
OF slight damage to residences are b
Ing received.
Weather conditions are almost g
actly similar to those that prevaile
IN April, 1906. just before the meme
able quake that caused the fire whit
practically wiped out the city. T.
several days the fog that usual
hangs over the city has been abse
and instead of cool weather whipp'
by the steady blow of the trade wind
srltry heat has prevailed This
known here as earthquake" weat
er. Tonight the heat continues. Il
ports from other cities show that
damage was done outside Of San Fra
cisco, though the tremor was felt q
tinctly as far south as Stockton al
Sacramento was severely shaken.
in Oakland, lying Just across the b
to the easeward, the shock was mu
less severe than here.
Heaviest Since 1906.
STOCKTON, Cal, July 1T
heaviest earthquake this city has