The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
Two Heavy Earthquake Shocks Jar California and Nevada
WALLS OF OFFICE
 BUILDINGS CRACK
Citizens of Frisco Rush Panic -Strick- en From HOmes-Severe Shock Felt in Carson But Reno
 Is Spared

San Francisco, July 1.-Two earth quake shocks, the heaviest since the big shake of 1908, and separated only by a few seconds, jared the central portion of California and western Ne- vada today. The first sharp shock. exprienced at 2:o1 o'clock. was fol- lowed within a 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 large buiId-
 ngs.
 One peculiar feature of the earth quake was that it did not appear to follow the old fault in the earth $ crust which has been the play ground of tremblers in the past, but extended from the sea coast eastward to ths Sierras, including hitherto exempt mountain areas. It was felt to the northward of Sacramento in the sacra- mento valley, southward as far as Fresno and to the east to Reno and
 
 riencing the heaviest shock in its his- tory. 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 build ing were disarranged and minor dam. age was done to the interior walls of bar of nth hAr hti Buildings Depopulated Within a few seconds after the first shock many downtown buildings were depopuated in rush to the streets. Telephone and telegraph service was suspended by the operators desertin9 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. sx Santa Rosa which suffered the great CT disaster in the proportion to it's size than did San Francisco in the catas- trophe of 1906, scarcely felt today shock.
 Sar yose sncther heavy sufferer in t9o6. reported that the shock redaT was the severest experienced since that time
 but 1t did no serious damage. stockton
 and Fresno people were frightened by the jarring, but there, as in Sacra- |mento, where the state offices were de- | serted in a trice, as result of the l trembler, the damage was trifling to l the buildings.
 Seismographs Disturbed | In Reno, New, the shock was scarce | ly felt. but in Carson it was severe. The | federal court was in session in the Nevada capital and judge, jury and att l torneys rushed to the street
 At the Santa Clara college observa- l tory both reels were thrown off the seismographs.' They were immediately replaced, but the record of the dis turbance will be incomplete. | The meantime clock at the observa- tory of the University of California was stopped for the first time since the earthquake of five years ago.
 The deep booming reverberation' which usually marks disturbances of a widespread character, accompanied the | first tremor. In San Francisco the grooming and cracking of the steel structures played a larger part in frightening people than did the tremors.