The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
PEOPLE SCARED
BY BIG QUAKE
Another Shake on Pacific
Coast,
CAUSING PANIC IN BIG CITIES
Two Shocks Felt-The Most
Violent Since Quake
of 1906.
MANY INJURED DURING PANIC

San Francisco, July 1.-The CEN
trail portion of California and West
ern Nevada was shaken to-day by
two earthquake shocks which are
pronounced to be the heaviest since
the big shake of 1906. They were
separated by only few seconds.
The first sharp shock was expe-
irienced at 2:01 o'clock. and was fol-
lowed in few seconds by one of
similar intensity, each lasting about
five seconds.
In San Francisco and other cities
in the affected area panic seized the
crowds in stores and restaurants
and there was a pell-mell exodus
from the large buildings.
One peculiar feature of the earth
quake was that 1t did not appear to
follow the old fault" in the earth's
crust, which has been the play
ground of tremblers IN the past, but
extended from the seacoast eastward
to the Sierras, including hitherto ex-
'empt mountain areas.
1t was felt to the northward Of
Sacramento in the Sacramento VAL
ley, southwark as far as Fresno,
and to the east to Carson and Reno,
New, the latter place experiencing
the heaviest shock in its history.
Some slight damage was done to
buildings in San Francisco. Heavy
stones in the cornice of the Mechan-
les Bank building were moved
slightly out of alignment; superficial
cracks we're made In several large
Office buildings; cornices OF the new
Post-ofice building were disarrang-
ed, and minor damage was done to
the interior walls of a number of
other buildings.
Within few seconds after the
first shock many downtown build
ings we're depopulated in rush to
the streets. Telephone and tele-
graph service was suspended by the
operators deserving their posts.
Herbert Hadley, a lodging house
inmate, fell dead of fright and some
cases of hysteria, of cuts or bruises
suffered in the semi-panic. were
treated at the hospitals.
Santa Rosa, which suffered the
greater disaster in proportion to its
size than did San Francisco in the
earthquake of 1906, scarcely felt
to-day's shock.
San Jose, another heavy sufferer
in 1906, reported that the shock to-
day was the severest experienced
since that time, but it did no serious
damage. Stockton and Fresno peo-
pie were frightened by the Earring,
but there, as in San Francisco, where
the State offices were deserted in a
trice as a result OF the trembler, the
damage to buildings was trifing.
In Reno, New, the shock was
scarcely felt, but in Carson it was Sc
we're.
The Federal Court was in session
in the Nevada capital, and Judge,
jury and attorneys rushed to the
street.
At the Santa Clara College Obser-
vatory both reels were thrown of
the seismograph. Thew were imme-
diately replaced. but the record of
the disturbance will be incomplete.
The mean time clock at the ohser-
vatory of the University of Califor-
mia was stopped for the first time
since the great quake of 1906.
The deem booming reverberations
which usually mark disturbances
of WIDESPREAD character, accom-
panied the first tremor.
In San Francisco the grooming
and creaking of the steel structures
played larger part in frightening
people than did the tremors.