The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1868, Page 4

4 Nee EARTHQUAKES. The Recent Convulsion in California. eee SAN FRANCISCO TERRIBLY SHAKEN, The Loss of Life and Destruction of Property. Effects of the Shock in the Interior. Full Particulars of the Disaster. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, 1868. ‘The worst earthquake ever known on the Pacific slope occurred this morning at seven minutes before eight o'clock. Of course a synopsis wil! reach New York to-night by telegraph, enough to give some Blight idea of what occurred, but a detalled aceount e¥en cannot give a true picture of the disaster, It should have been felt first and the damage that it oc- casioned seen afterwards in order to judge rightly ®f what fearful destruction of property has been oe- Wasloned. The loss of iife has been comparatively very small, but it is fearful to think what it would ave been had the shocks continued heavy after the iret, as was the case at Arequipa and othér places 4p South America recently destroyed. a HOW I FELT IT, ‘Twas at home at the time in’ a new frame house @t the corner of Pine and Powell streets, a position ‘nearly at the top of the hill which overlooks the ‘eastern and southern portions of the city. The shock came on suddenly, without anything whatever to {indicate it, increasing in violence until it as sud- Menly ceased. The direction of the undulations, Judging ar my Own observation, was from south- east to porthwest, and the force was tremendous, ‘gatsing tie to reel and stagger, and everything in he room was in motion. It appeared as if it would hever stop, and the strength was go great that I felt Bore that brick buildings iu cne Lower portion of tho ‘clty must be destroyed. I have experienced many digetent parts of South America, but none that in violence or duration to that of this jorning, it having lasted forty-two seconds, Th lon of an earthquake so strong is indescpiba- Ne, It myst be felt to be understood, and I devoutly that I may be spared any euch feelings again, U wis confident that much damage mist have been ‘gne, although the house I was in got off with only a bevare shaking, and I Jost no time in getting dial DOWN Town. _ Upon reaching the street J found many there before me, Men, women and children in eyery kind of costume were in the mi(die of the street. Many of thelatter were crying and screaming, and al) were error stricken; it was @ fearful sight. As I reached ‘the business portion of the city the sight became painful, for the damage and destruction were seen on ‘every side; piles of brick and plaster were strewn slong the streets; buildings with cornices and fire (alls gone; others cracked from cellar to roof; splen- ‘did plate glass windows shivered into a thousand Pieces, and some houses 1n course of construction ‘were levelled to the earth. Every avenue was crowd- ed by those who were curious to see, yet who dared not venture into the cracked and crumbling build- ings, some of which, although apparently uninjured ‘outwardly, had all the plaster shaken from the walls inside. Falling walls had caught some unfortunates ‘who had not time to get off the sidewalks; some of these were killed and others badly wounded. Others ‘were wounded by their frantic efforts to get out of ‘the buildings. We do not yet know how many suf- ferers there have been, and [ think astrong effort will be made to try and keep the number of casualties from the public. Four dead are now lying at the dead house, and Tam sure that there are many others that we donot know of yet. One Chinaman was taken out from under a pile of ruins on the sidewalk in Clay street, below Sansome, this afternoon, hav- ang been there seven hours before Ne was discovered, He was, of course, dead, having been covered by a falling cornice. Washington, Clay, Sacramento, Pine and Bush streets, east of Montgomery, have suffered most in the destruction of buildings. Here the foundations are bad, for they nearly all rest upon piling, that portion of the city having been reclaimed from the bay. Many buildings here will have to be torn down, as they are unsafe, even when the earth is quiet, and ‘would fall surely with a tithe even of the shock we had this morning. PUPLIC BUILDINGS, ‘The City Hali, on Kearny street, near Washington, 1s a wreck. it is split in every direcnon and ts vacated now by all except those who have charge of the fire alarm telegraph. The Post Ofice aud Custom House are in one building, and this is also used up and unsafe for further occupancy. This, as well as the City Hall, was badly injured by the earthquake of 1865. The new Merchants’ Exchange stood the shock bravely. So did the Bank of Califor- ‘ia and the Mercantile Library and other buiidings of modern construction; they suffered only in cracked Plaster and a few corners off. What they may do, however, with another shake of like character re- mains tobe scen. I do not think they would pass ‘anscathed, for brick and mortar cannot stand many such convulsions of natyre. The principal hotels ‘were shaken up badly, but were not seriously in- jared. The Cosmopolitan, Occidental, Lick and Russ houses got off very well indeed, considering their height. They were wrung and twisted, but not se- riously damaged as far as known. Tihelr inmates left ‘witnout paying much attention to dress, especially those in the upper stories. FREAKS IN PRINTING OFFICES. In Bosqui’s printing oMce, located on the third floor of a strong brick building on Clay street, below Montgomery, a heavy Adams press has been moved boaliy over foot and thrown from its supports; the other presses the same way, In Bacon & Co.'s ofmfice, on the other side of the street, the effect has been the same and much of the standing type has been pied; indeed Nearly all the printing oMces have suffered in the same way ina greater or less degree, The agenc; of Hagar & Co.'s New York type foundry, In the same vicinity, has enffered severely. Tons of job type have been emptied into one shapeless mass wpon the floor and the shelving that held them turned up- alde down, although fastened very strongly to the walla. The building in which this establisiment is 48 one of the worst wrecked of all those damaged in Clay street, Itis split from the celiar to the roof, ‘the upper portion of the south wail has fallen out, @nd the west wall has separated from the roof over Bix inches, while every wall and partition within cracked and eplit. The porter narrowly escaped Aelng crusued under the falling type and other ma- terial. The papers had hard work to get ont their Afternoon editions and extras, for the compositors could hardly be induced to enter the bulldings and Tun the chance of what might occur should another heavy shock come on. THE eTneETs Some of the streets that were yesterday all right are this morning in very bad condition, presenting ihe appearance of having been paved many yoars ago. In somo places they are up, In others down, with seams gaping in them of greater or legs length and width, Some have opened as if split with a violent explo. sion of gunpowder, and from some of tlese openings the water has burst out as if a spring were opened, ‘The most of these places are — the made ground, few if any appearing im the solid earth, Side Ike are split in the same way, especially when the buildings they have joined have sunk, Which mauy Laye to the depth of seve poles ‘The strect raliroad tracks Lave been amt: y the convulsions thelr gri \ ular as they were yes- 5 im |, | may,say that things generally were 'y Much mixed, and it will be very long, if ever, before Y are once more 21 rage. OTHER SHOCKS. ~ Wwe been shaking ail day—that t#, the earth shaking and fo have we. Attet the first the big fellow, We had others at &:10, tie Tas, 9;20, 9:85, 10, 10:90 and 11:05 A. Ma nag NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. 30, T and 7:30 P. M.; some of them quite 'P, strong enough to drive us into the strect in @ hurry, while others were quite slight, but very per” ceptible. All, however, have been strong enous! as keep us in doubt and uncertainty and to lead us -) think that the end may not be yet—that another ans stronger one may come and bring everything down about our ears. I could go into a long hisiory “acenes and incidents” that occurred ay, soe 3 them ludicrous in the extremes nats jane age lare not combine anything of through matter go serious, 90 torrible as the ordeal which we have passed to-day. I cannot but foe With the remarks of @ HERALD correspondent who Wj ere at the time of the earthquake or pt le ag the opinion that although tt might no! comm to-day or to-morrow, OF & eRe hence, |B the time would come when San epncienp paid be destro} v4 by an earthquake, Know! Ww that of %s was from hearsay, and wi that this mol from actual 9x; ce, I foe but me to ine conclusion thi me tims oF other the tate of this city and surrouns will be like that of Arequipa, Arica, Callao and ot! ae of the volcanic region of South America. Nature proves this country to have been. panenses to great convulsions. Everything in its formation shows it. ‘There are volcanoes north of us, south and west of us, and althonae, me Tomo NES ee aya in a great entre of a volcanic region and subject “ ences thereof, The shocks that we Wo ote although alight, indicate what t) ble to, and those of three years ago say plainly we any time experience an earthquake destroy us, even if Sam Francisco were twenty times better prepared to resist it than sbe now is, This a sober truth that no one can deny; it may be an un- alatable one to those Whose interests are here, but it 18 nevertheless true ine particular. - I may not live to see ut I believe there are those now alive who will. 1t 1s @ most ai thing that after allthe experience we have had we wiil continue to constract build! that are so weil fitted to crumble and fal) should Wy earthquake goours four, five and six stories thin walls, &c., Ww! me day cause destraction of life here before that which oc- curred at Arequipa will ap; a8 nothing, and yet we keep on. e are like the nigger whose cabin didn’t want mending when there was no rain, and who couldn’t mend it when there waa, However, I am not the Legislature or the Board of Supervisors and must only, with the rest, “grin and bear it,” and ay to een a safe place. Neglected to say that there was nothing remark- able in the weather this morning. For some days Past it has been warm, not unusual at this season, When the norshwesters have ceased,and when the shock occurred it was calm and fougy. afterwards clearing and becoming a mild, beautiful day. Tho waters of the bay Were not affected; they were as calm and placid as at any time, and the commotion on land did not appear to affect them in the slight- eat degree, This appears singular when we kuow that with recent convulsions of a similar nature the reat tidal wave has been a part and parcel of them. 8 may be truly thi il that we escaped being en- gu phe; the dami and loss of life have been enough without more horrors. I Append extracts from the Bulletin of this evening, which will be found interesting, as they are correct and not in the least sensational or exaggerated. They give Saore from the surrounding cuuntry as far as Tecelved EFFECT UPON THE HILLS, Upon . Ri in and Telegrapti hills the shock docs not appear to have been so severely felt as in other Parts of the city. In some houses ornaments were not displaced fromthe mantel pieces, and the inmates did not come to tne door. In others, books and or- Ramen fell gown and marble mant were started m their places. The oscillations on Russian Hill were more pepaibly felt. There was a pretty general stopping of Clecks, some crack! of plastering and neane down of it articles. Houses oe vod flat between Boman street and Missio1 more sevérely shaken, but the damage, Save to chim- neys and plastering, is slight. custou HOUSE. The Custom House is terribly damaged, and it 1s questionable whether it will admit of cpt ell es n- eral does the destruction appear at first sig it. The chimney top at the north end of the building feli at the firat wave, uring a lady end gentleman who were opaaalng e chimney on the west side is twisted in a djrection opposite to that of its original one, The earth wrslks, aenecany, solid and firm, be- gine go loosened by the vibration that a stick could ed down several feet without dimMiculty. The building, of course, is closed, the business of the de- artment being temporarily renioved to the Internal venue ofl COFFEY AND RISDON’S BUILDING. This building is at the juncture of Market and Bat- tery streets. It is built of brick, turee stories in height, and is in an unfinished condition. The walls are Mat Be , and the mortar with which they are bullt is realy compoged of sand. The western half of the building is built on the foundation ef the old blacksmith’s shop, the roof of which wag raised for that purpose. The walls of this portion of the struc- ture have completely fallen down, burying in their ruins a Mr. Shaw, aed fifty years. When he was taken out, two and a half hours afterwards, he was still alive, though there were no hopes of his recov- ery. The rear wall of the building fell over into the office of Benchley & Co.’a hardware store, which {sa one story structure in the rear of their store, of which it forms a part. Those in the office at the time barely escaped with their lives. Mr. Bench- ley's building 1s not injured in the least, if we except the fir in front, built six or eight feet above the roof, which was cracked badly at each end. It is quite evident that but for the Substantial manner in which the Benchiey pg) ig constructed it must have been seri- ously damaged. As it is, there 1s not a crack in the walis, with the exception already referred to. And yetso great was the commotion that bars of steel reclining against, the wal jn _the inside were violently thrown down. A brief reference to the manner tn which this building is constructed will ex- plain its safety and at the same time teach a lesson as tothe mode of erecting brick buildings in this city hereafter. This section, it will be remembered, is all made ground. In the first place, the founda- tion of tue building was laid broad and firm. As the walis rose they were liberally tied by iron rods and anchors. In addition, the joists are all fastened to each other at the ends by bands of tron which circle the building a8 a hoop. The Murphy & Grant block, Oriental block and other large buildings in that vi- cinity are constructed in a similar manner, and hence their remarkabie escape, not a fissure being visible In any of them. Nothing but the fact that erear wall of the standing portion of Coffey & Risdon’s building was placed against Benchley’s building saved any portion of the damaged structure from becoming one heap of ruins, The general ab- sence of any expression of surprise at the disaster to this building among the lookers-on this morning was noteworthy. The portion mostly damaged had but one anchor for its support, and the wonder is that there is one brick left upon another, POST OFFICR, The general delivery of the Post OMce is tempora- rily suspended, although a few attachés remain at their posts, making up the mails for the interior, EFFECT ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOCKS. Several of the public clocks stopped. The one on Tucker's new bul Kory reer y atfive minutes before eight o'clock and the hour and minute hands have silently pointed out the time of the shock during the forenoon. The la pendulum ciocks in private houses also stopped from five to seven minutes be- fore eight. UNION FOUNDRY. In the Union Foundry on First street, corner of Mia- sion, most of the machinery was displaced. The en- ‘ines cannot be worked for some time. The brick rout half of the bulidi Was not Injured, but a jower buiding in the rear 1s a total wreck. The walls are broken and tne roof fallen in. The men had just gone to work and nade a rush ioe the street. All e ap but two, Who were ane it by the falling bri! \d timbers and seriously, though not fatally, hurt. On ops M med Dominick, @ mouider, The name of the other could not be ascertained, The foot of the old Mechanics’ Mill on Mission street, Corner of Fremont, Was prostrated, and the Wallis of the building toppled over into the street in several places, The Mechanics’ Co-operative Mill on Mission street the old Brookaw Mill) was badly damaged and the achinery stopped. Much of if was thrown out of Place. The floor sunk down !p places and raised in others several feet, and a fire wailin the mill sunk down. The centre of Mission street in front of the mill exposes an opening of eight to ten inches in diameter, and openings Of the ground are also plainly to beseen on Fremont strect, in the same Vicinity, The Qoor of the Pacific Foundry raised about two feet in places, and some of the machinery was thrown ont of place. Most of Lod groctah § Mills were stopped and more or lea8 injured, but the actual extent of the damage could not be estimated, The Selby shot tower stood intact. THE GAS WORKS, The San Francisco Gas Works, on Howard and Fremont streets, suffered severely, The tall chimney on the part of the structure facing Firet street waa thrown over and fell through the roof, and the main walls badly cracked. In another part of the estab- lishment, north side of Fremont street, the destruc- Vion was still greater. A great quantity of coal was stored in the building, and the pressure of the mass forced the wall out on the Fremont street side from a to foundation and for the space of about fifty fe A report circulated that six or seven men were killed here, but two hours afterwards people em- ployed on the spot could give no information about way one being killed. AT THE MISSION, The Mission Woollen Milis are damaged to a con- siderable extent. The brick engine house is cracked and the building generally thrown of line, Jt will require sume time to put the building and cracking in order. The Pacife Knitting Mill was slightiy damaged. Numerous ehimneys were thrown down ontside the line of Fifth street, but no serious damage or inju- ries. ‘The large chimney of the sugar refinery on Fighth street was badly cracked and about six to ten feet of ie top thrown through the roof, Concern runaing as usual. rhe water at the Mission was shut off by the pipe being disconnected. A sinal! crevasse, as in 1865, Was opened on How- ard siveet, beyond Sixth. he gabic ou the girls’ side of the Deaf, Dumb and Dlind Institution fell in, crushing through: the ceiling ond fulling into the washroom on the third story. Foitanately this happened w few moments before the pupils had gone in to perform their morning ablu- Tons, so that no one was injured. One of the chim- | neys A180 fell over the front door, THE GRRATRS LEE OF DAMAGE, The greatest daiwage had bean a belt extending several hundred feet wide and running about north. Wost aud southeast, Commencing near the Custom House and ending at the Folsom street wharf, injur- ing and demolis! in its course the follor buila- in, Fry 2 street, Graves, wire worker; Howard Cait Bator, 8. Taylor & Oo. Traur & Gor eardyn aria gk hed 3; New Or- leans Wj Hf & . Hush and Market ‘streets; Booth 00. Mission ated Firet streets; Gas Company Fremont streets; Folsom street a rs chim: thrown down on the er Of ofp, Byun raydgr® om te er A workman building pagweiks, on Stockton street, Market, Ori basen ground undulating like wagon in ft yo uo fe "Mizell percaboty ied end fe @ motion gol and sway backward for Be peat pe acter fe copes Sexy st of these two aaa ‘tramipe town te ‘the aon @n Glas wae Dae Mourgomery, ‘but fortu- neither was awa synagogue on Sutlef street—One small pina- cle thrown down and ae more apparently well shaken. Geary street Unitarian church tninjured. * The ferry steamer Contra Costa was near Angel Island when the shock ogcurred, gnd the sensation ‘waa so peculiar and 80 8t ly iy} that the cap- tain and passengers ght the vessel bad struck @ rock. 4 eee Se 4 A large plato glass window in the Hibernia Bank was demolis! : ae Casebolt & Kerr's carriage factory, ¢orner Fifth and Market streets, westerly cornet fire wall thrown own; bu! ored UD. : Hayes Valley iubilo detpol— wo Oninamen thrown down and m rane others in fhe Bil About 100 deet of the merc! : ed on th south side of Folsom street wharf wa3 completel: wrecked and Hes on the wharf. Workmen are en- gaged removing the débris, The long shed on the easterly side of the wharf was injured, but is now be- ing secured. pi At the cortier of Market and First Stegeta fhe ‘ound opened in a fissure several inches wide an: forty or fifty feet in length, At other places tho eae opened and water was forced above the surs face. ‘The Tehama street school house which {s of brick, . is almost intact. The plastering fell from portions of the wall, but the walls themselves oy not injured. At No, 188 Natoma street, Charles Monéypénay’s brick boarding house was made 4 total wreck, Most of it was thrown down, and workmen were émployed tearing the rest of it down. Fortunately no one was injured there. At No, 144 same street John Farmer’ epee ul] badly injured, and mowt of his furnitu: jestroyed. On the northwest corner of Mission and Third streets the fire wall of a brick bnilding was thrown off, and in falling demolished a boot black stand beneath, No one injured. Nearly all thé windows of stores on Third street, between Mission and Mar- ket, were broken. Lincoln school house is badly damaged, most of the chimneys nang broken id but none thrown dow! tering on the walls and ceilings ba and the aati tatue of Tincoin in tront of tne hardin statu b tl 1s quite med; the head is broken in two or ines legos and the trunk is shattered in several places. fanenianly, however, the statue wes not thrown off st its pede: ts A part of the wa'ls of the neW Calvary church fel] down, and the crumbling bricks and mortar perely escaped demolishing a small frame dwelling bt the side of the church, None of the hea ie pillars Sapa Sees Perea te Re PES te jarge number of peo, m for thé 80) ‘The she ro uiiding Like a cradle. The priests maintained their tions ari composure, but great co! mean ipo. he audience. Several women fain‘éd, but hey there were no casualties reported. A At No. 216 Perry street Dennis D. eae fimpéa out of the first story of his dwelling house into the street and was seriously hurt. It was not known how badly he was mjure Many chimneys on houses in the southern part of the city were thrown down, but no one was serious!; injured by them, Much furniture was destroyed in many of them. ‘The only serious injury on Kearny street was done to a building on the cast side of treet, between eee and Vermebr streets. inty punaneg was an old one. PoMer’s building, which was p' thrown down by the heavy shock three years }, 18 not injured, Nearly every wholesalé hon: Nd Sansome, Bat- tery, Front, Clay, Davis and other ts in that part of the city were closed du the day, and several buildings are so badly injured that it will probably be necessary to tear them down éntirely. The halls of the Brevoort House, on the Mission street side, were badly shattered. On California street, below Sansome, youth side of California, a large one story brick building, former! pee ree by Heinman & 0o., was ‘gee ie caa an an adjoining one, occupied by the Pacific Pump Fac- tory: was thrown partly dowh. n the opposite side of California street a house owned by Michael Reese was badly wrecked. The walls have sunken down and are broken in piecos. Some of the ornamental stone work on the Bank of California building was marred. St. Mary’s Cathedral, Grace Cath eat the Yonn; Men's Christian Association building, thé new Mor- chants’ Exchange building, in fact all substantial structures in the city on good foundatioas escaped without noticeable {njury. The wh ap isin a bad Krganlpas on the only prour inhabiting it at present are thé oMcers of the ‘ire Department. The courts all adjourned and the prisoners were taken from the station house to unty fail. A une has been stretched acrosa ‘ont to keep people away. ‘several large stones the front wall fell out and the entire structure may considered a wreck. The building occupied by the Health OMce on Jack. fon street, was also seriously injured. Windows of stores on Montgomery, Washington, Clay and Mar- ket streets were broken and shelves in many locali- ties were thrown down. Howard’s building, on Battery street, between Clay and Commercial streets, The reof of this building was recently raised and a third story built on; the cornice and portions of the fire wail have fallen and demolished the wooden awning and lower cornice. New Orleans Warehonse, California and Davis streets—The tire wall on California street de- Molished, Hooker & Co., California street—The east fire wall on their building demolished, Thurnauer & Zinn—The building occupied by them badly cracked on Sacramento street. Additional Accidents avd Incidonts in San Francisco. Miss Pattick, @ young lady aged abont nineteen, while on the sidewalk of Montgomery street, near Clay, it is said, had her right leg fractured above the ankle. She was conveyed to Steele's drag store and thence was taken home. Mr. Blumenthal, the proprietor of the Empire State Restaurant on Sansome street street, near Clay. was severely injured about the head by the falling’ material of the building. His wounds ‘were dressed at Shepardson and Gates’ drug store, A. Levy, a clothier on the corner of Sansome and Commercial streets, while attempting to cross San- some street, was knocked down by a runaway team, the wheel passing over his face and injuring it ae- verely. Aman named Straup, while attempting to escape from a box factory on Pine street, fell through a scut- tle and fractured his leg. He was taken to Dr, re omMce on Sacramento sti where hig inds were dressed. At last accounts he was doing weil. William Strong, a native of Connectt twenty-sik years, was in the Mining and Sc‘entific Press office and ran out of the building, when the f ‘all of » Graves’ building, int felt Thee hed ke he reached th sidewalk: wig him tnstantly. William Best, a native of Tretand, aged forty Seni while painting at the Occidental Hotel, on tiie ‘ohla; ney, fell and was taken to his lence, No, O'Farrell ee uiere he died soon after. Jasebol G ri factory, a fwo sto brick buliding on Market stteet, was baaty injured, acorner of it being thrown to tl ites The arch walls of the Lincoln school were badly cracked and the plastering shaken down, Cornelius Donnoyan was severely hurt at the cor- ner of Third and Mission streets by falling bricks, nan immense chimney of the sugar refinery ts d jown, inivod roof the Bank of California is reported as badly ured. The Post street wall of the Ladies’ Relief Society building is down, At the corner of Fifth and Folsom streets tho street has perceptibly sunk. The building of the Pacific woollen mills, corner of Folsom and Hightcenth streets, is badly crushed and is unsafe for occupation, The Chinamen and other employés have refused to work. At the Pacific Tannery and Boot and Shoe Com. any's works @ panic ensued. Several men were in- jared in the rush to get out and the mea kept the women from escaping first. The telegraph wires are down on Market street, above Filth. ‘The Brevoort House, corner of Fourth and Mission, is badly cracked, ‘Two horses becamed frightened and dashed through the windows of adry goods store on Fifth Atreet, near Folsom, On Elils street the front wall of Mra, Samuel Marks’ honse fell out in the street, At the corner of Brannan and Seventh streets the Oy eaeten tees as having sunk four teet. havi or on Kearny street is reported as hav: been thrown from his ladder and killed, but tiie news is not confirmed nor any name given. A la‘ly at the Mission jumped out of a window and had her head severely cut. At the corner of Folsom and Fourteenth streets a house las sunk four feet. All the gas and water pines are reported as burated and the ground open iad inches for a distance of forty feet in this vi- cinity. The Denman school building is badly crushed. On Fremont sircet the gas works are badly dam- ager vore 18 & large seat through thé Pacific Brewery on Tehama street. ‘The front wail of a brick butiding on Main street, petireen Howard aud Fotsoin streets, is ta danger of ing All of the foundries are badly stained and cracked. The drug store on the corner of Folsom and Fifth streets two men wall, and the them out. was rung to dig While the fremen were engaged in this duty a fire was discovered in the building on the northeast cor- ‘witsous much damage, 7 ow” bs Oxngulsned A lady on Main street jumped out of @ third ig earns = ses weladiee Vv low: Fourth, is badly ‘racked? * The building No. 739 Howard street badly and considered in a dangero' At McDonald’s mill, on Market street below Fron! the gro a ss the rer letting down the wi some open At northwest earner of Mission and Third Streets the top line of the wall came down. At the corner of Fourth and Harrison the ground sank bs and raised about one foot and a half, stopping 4 woman is reported killed by the failing of @ cor- ‘Bu below Sansom pid ed. iw ground oj . The Plate glass window of the Women's Co- ate Bante Union was smashed and also of the Hiber- e balding on the southwest corner of Kearny street and St. Mark’s es is badly cracked. ney at Lick House fell, and @ man jumped from a window and broke his leg. nae men are reported hurt at the Miners’ A. M. Boyle's store, on Washington streét near wa fared to the extent of $2,500, i! In unity jail the scene was horrible, the pris- oners ing and yelling with terror. man named Bin ry was cut by o fallii $. men! bel oe hea at the Einpire Restaurant on Sansoi atreet The chimney of the Mint is in great danger of fall- ing, as also is the granite front of Blake's hat store, o Montgomery atrect. he rear of the old Alta office, on Sacramento street, 1s bi cracks In the hurry of getting out of the Bulletin compo- sition rooms, Crabb, the printers, was knocked senseless on the sige A printer named Phalr jumped through a skylight in Bacon & Company's to the Pacific fruit market, and was badly cut, Patrick Warren, ne of the pressmen at Deffe- bach’s, was hurt by falling bricks, and bruised about the head. Four of the pa ere inju is aecien in Goodwin’s furniture store had his leg roken, A lady, whose name we could not learn, had her leg broken on Clay street, east of Montgomery, in front of thé City Restaurant. ‘The rear of the clothing store of G. Broderick, on Sacramento street, near Montgomery, was entirel, nets by the adjoining walls falling. Nobod! hut , bed §° e story frame buil: . ‘ht wall of the Pacific Mall 81 hip Com- pany’s oifice was thrown down. Th rent walls of the stores of A. J, Platt, No. 510, fn Wigmore, BA 612 Sacramento street, sunk Bho aix Inchés. © floor of the cellar raised up Cale A crack extended along the street about 0 walls between Coso H and adjoint pee ee RY eo fire-¥ lug, ome an ont ty aitire bane Streak front—fell into thé Street. Blumenthal, the proprietor of the restau- in the building, was hurt and another rant ian reported Killed. i the west side of Leidesdorif street jolt Piston: bunatag” anaes A Bre wal fell on the adjoint 2 Te eae euros ea Bi a > a four story brick, fl with I many of whom le northern half of rushed out withont clothing, the butidi ttled from one to two feet, break the building ih two, The walls atthe top ate divided t least a foot, Nobody was » The Clay street nt lower story is occupied by 8. P. Taylor & _ paper dealers. The front of their store ne lete wreck. One of the cast a pulls ri about fi feet. Thé building 1s owned by J. McCauley ant is kept by 8. 8. Butler, ‘The tobacco store of A. 8. Rosenbaum & Oo., ad- joining Taylor & Co.'s, on the east, is almost as bad @ wreck gs the Jatter establishment. The two build. inga, having settled in towards each Other, Len eet oné another, which is all that prevents them from falling. The heavy fire wallof J. D. Farwell & Co., Olay street, above Front, fell. Also that of Coghill & Co., Front and Commercial streets, ‘The firewall of 1. Downing & Son, wagon and car- riagé dealers, ttery ant frerekant streets, fell, crushing & nm in front. The store of Lowe Brothers, at sacramento and Battery streets, badly cracked; walls incline in and have sunk several inches, ‘The roof of G. P. Rank & Co.'s hoslery store, on Sacramento street, below Battery, was crushed in, The roof of the woollen store adjoining on the wegt is in the same condition. ‘The walls of several stores on the north side of Sacramento street, below Battery, incline inward at the top several inches. Tie walls of Dorrance’s new store, No, 305 Battery atrect, are badly cracked at the top. The front wail of e reanye store, No, 304 Battery treet, is bea cracked and ina dangerous condition, t 18 pro) up. Gomtee & intsdon’s foundry has fallen, and several men are buried in the ruins. Aman named Shaw ‘was taken out Vaid injured at ten o'clock, ‘The plaza is filled with frightened people. A rope is stretched across the street in front of the City Hall and the building is vacated. The Board of Supervisors met at two o'clock, at the Justices’ court foom, corner of Jackson and Montgomery streets, to eppeint architects to examine it, og) prisoners in hé calaboose have been taken to the county jail, @ front wall is in dai py bom mey 9 ‘The health office in No. 1 Engine house ts vacated, the building being badly cracked. All the patients have been removed from the Ma- rine Hospital. The building 1s dangerous. At San Leandro the Court House has fallen and killed the clerk. The Estudillo House is also badly damaged, and nearly all the buildings in Haywood destroyed. The ground is reported to have opened to a width of five or aix feet. One of the spires of the Synagogue on Sutter street was thrown to the ground, The school house on Post street is injured so that there can be no school for a day or two. The stores on Post street sustained much dam- age. Honahue's coal building and storehouse, corner Fremont and Howard streets, have to be torn dewn. ‘The wall is all cracked or fallen down, At the Mechanics’ and Brokaw’s mills the roof fellinand made a perfect wreck, No lives were lost. Booth’s foundry, corner Mission and First streets, and the moulding eg were badly damaged, the chimney torn down and wall bulged ont. ‘The fire wall at the top of Sam Brannan’s build- {rs felland broke through the sidewalk. Novody hurt. At Trainer's block, on the corner of Kearny and Sutter streets, the top of the building fell off and broke down the awuing. At No, 20 Kearny street the building cracked at both ends. At No, 8 Kearny street the windows were all broken, At B. P. Wilkins’, a 648 Market street, the ceflin, fell down and threw thé goods all over the floor an broke the front windows. At I. C, Talbot & Co.'s, No. 620 Market street, the ceiling fell down and the glass in the front windows were broken. A Chinaman, name unknown, was killed on Sacra- mento street. hé cuimneys from the Nucleus building fell upon he roof of the dining room, smashed through and fell between two tables while people were breakfast- ing atthem. The front wall of the dining room is badly cracked to the to) ad Chamberlain’s house on Third street sus fain ach injury, plates of glass being bro- en from the oo beneath. What Pheer House, Cg of the southwest cor- ner ol lesdorg and Sacramento stréeta, wall badly cracked—the whole side wall being cracked at intervals and may have to be taken down, th je Insurance building, a the northeast corner fornia and Leldesdoff streets, shows numerous | ging. ° in Se wee. ‘ila on Let 0 cineca a) ie ota ‘if baetharith of bull ig the southeadt Corner of Sacra- mento al idesdorff streets, .G. Hodge & Co.'s building, on the sonthweet ornér of Sa¢ramento and Sansome streets, was con- fi erably cracked and the shelving in the store was mnie out of piace. The Express hullding was badly cracked, especially 0! eck street side. ‘he Bank of California butiding, northwest corner of Sansome and Callfornia streets, had the stone or- haments on top and balustrades thrown down; also in the arches of the doors and ‘vindows the Joints between the —. opened with the shock of the earthquake, On the Yalforn iA Street side the stone cornice was brok in cés and the main west wail showing a decided crack. Northeast corner of Sansome and Halleck street, front and side wall of old buliding, American theatre parapet wall thrown down and the rest of the butid- ng in @ very dangerous condition. Brick yutlding, south side of Sacramento street, No. 425, occupied by A. Wasserman & Co., badly cracked. No, 415 Sansome street, front wall badly cracked; occupied by Williams, Bornstein & Co. Nos, 221 and 223 Battery street, east side, are badly injured, the front wall having fallen in; probably will have to come down. The southwest cornor of the building at the south- west corner of Battery and Halleck streets 1s badly cracked, a8 also parapet wail of the building adjoin- ing. ‘Funaing southeast corner Battery and Halieck streets, corner parapet wall dowm and main wall very badly cracked; may have to come down. Brick store northwest cornér California and Front streets, occupied by DeWilt, Kittle & Co., east para- pet wall almost all down. At the northwest corner of Halleck ond Front streets a brick store occupicd by Castle Bros., with parapet wails on south ride, are all down, with part of the main wall. Some of the roof bracing tim- bers also came down. The north parapet wall fell down. At the southwest corner of Sacramento and Front streets, # brick bu ing occupied by Well & Co., the north wall was so slarted that it will probably come dow! Y Pattainy , No. 317, south sido Sacramento, was cracked and the goods of L, Ficidman & Co. badly aenaings Nos. 819 and 821 Sacramento street were also much cracked aod damaged On Sacramento street, just below Montgomery, the met a @ building fell on @ clothing store under- Pt ‘The back part of Lar AA Beasson’s carpet store, on Wi down. The bi corner of Polk lane and Stockton street ta badly di ‘The front wall is very meee qenckne cea to fall at any moment. ‘The Jewish church between Broadway and Vallejo street is somewnat Brick and mortar sores Be mie fe new Bush street, Battery, fronting on in process of erection, Tell and cove! up, it 1s su) three persons. Jas) Shawl hee teen aakae out cut about the head an an arm pL corner of Front and California ‘The bullding ngs California Shirt tory will have to be torn down. Ropes are across the street to keep ped from going near. J. ©. Noonan, the of the Lick House, was hes Wie sce jumped out of the lee| and window, about ten feet from the ground, end broke his leg. : itt romored that the porter of the Bank of Call- rn . From, Alvarado and Hayward’s it is reported that all is in ruing, Not a cl is ding. The storehouge in Auvarady is deatroyed wn. The fire wall of the new building corner of Califor- nia and Battery is down. ane ate oa cook at the Empire restaurant, 18 right badly SoXndrew Folley had ‘his right arm broken at the Pacific Lodging House in jumping from @ sevond story back window. No. 318 California street, brick building, occupied by Se Works, &c., front wall consid- cracked. oMVooden building, south, occupied by 0. F. ‘Willey, pact y settied on south side, by se's building ad- joining. Reese buildings, seven two story brick, extenae to Battery street, very badly injured; the west end, adjoining Willey’s, res to fall down at a moment's notice; store undernt occupied by S. Reinstein, considerable injury is; end of store gettled about a foot and must come down; all the other buildings of the row more or less cracked, und cor- nice on sontaeast end thrown down, Bail southwest corner of Halleck and Battery, vouth wall badly cracked and leaning off from balance of the building on Halleck street; front wall may have to come down; ocumies by Enestein Brotbers, Front wall of Newhall & Uo.’s warehouse badly cracked at southeast corner, on Halleck street, ‘The building on the corner of Battery and Merchant warehouse, is badly shat- tered, the awning falling and crushing one or more Carriages. ‘The earth at the corner of Battery and Commercial streets has settled about three feet below the regular rade. & ‘The build: at the corner of Clay and Baeery streets, occupied by Breed & Chase and Sherwood, Buckley & Co., is considerably shattered. At Meigs Jawiey’s lumber yard, on Stewart street, W. T. y, the bookkeeper, on attempting to gain the outside when the shock was felt this morning, had his ankle and arm broken by the fall- ing of lumber. He Was removed to the house of Mr. Gawley. Ail the lumber piles on Stewart street have been more or less shaken by the earthquake. No damage streets, used as @ carriage ‘was done save in the expense of repiling. The mpire Mill ‘remont street, were also damaged. The flouy settled in some places nearly the shock, earth cracked about eight or gine inches and the water gushed thro the pare sees one be determined yet— t No. rr peo street the inside of the win- dows a 4nd a Chinaman in the second story fell to I ‘was killed. illed. folk any Rey, ‘leans pgeebonse the top ef ihe ee me man was injured by being struck on the head with ‘@ brick. i Ab ea sounaons, corner of Third and Market ated 8, al) of the plastering was thrown down. e building belonging to Stern, on Powell, be- tween aie and Goary streets, was very badl: ra ‘he statues in front and the pillars fe! lown. At Badger Linden! ms store, on Battery street, omat Marhant the i two feet, while in ite ers the planks were thrown up wall is down. ‘At 0, P, Ranks’ old store, on Sacramento street, the inside all fallen in, The ad House,on Commercial street, is badly cracked, Effects of the Earthquake Throughout the State. MARTINE: A private despatch from Martinez states that a very heavy earthquake was experienced there this morning at three minutes after eight o’clock. The fhe'ends of whieh tad ‘failon, eaving te bunding e ends of whic! fen, Jea) e a wreck, Nobody is known to be hurt, ALAMEDA AND BOUTHWARD. Edmonston’s warehouse, a new brick building at the bee i Haywood, seemed to move four feet. The wail roof have fallen. The hotels and brick hae are injured and cbimneys thrown down, ‘allejo Mills are also said to be down. The At ae ee the fall of the upper part of the Court Hor there is considerable damage. ‘The Estudillo Hotel and Webber House are severely injured; also the private residences of Mr. \Eatudillo, Dr. Kellogg = . H. Davi Some of Mr. Davies! family are said to be slightly injured by falling bricks. At Alvarado, five miles above ira Syed ® brick grain warehouse fell. The old mill, Horner's, is de- lished. Near San Lorenzo the chimneys of many oreliiaes: fell, among them those of Judge Crockett’s and Mr. Cohen’s houses, The house of Mr. Durbec, in the same vicinity, did not appear to be injured. At Alameda the asylum was badly damaged, alfthe chimneys being thrown down. Jabez Clements senda us the following:—I was on the Almeda wharf when the shock occurred this morning, and as everything was quiet around I had an opportunity to observe the phenomena particu- larly. The motion seemed to be crosswise the wharf, and was o severe that lt was dificult to stand—im- possible to stand still. No sound accompanied the Motion, except that occasioned by the vibration of the {timbers of the wharf, A few seconds after the motion ceased a loud noise was heard in the direc- tion of Oakland—such as might be occasioned by the falling of a building. MARE ISLAND. Mare Island Navy Yard experienced two severe shocks ofearthquake this morning. Several chim- neys were thrown down, and some of the buildings considerably shaken, but ‘no serious age Was done and no persons injured, Captain Mitchell, of the navy, informs us that the ground shook 80 vio- lently a8 almost to throw him off his feet, the shock being accompanied by a frightful, rumbling sound. Several people took fo the water, considering the giream much more safe than lerra frina—which was terra firma no longer. VALLEJO. The earthquake was quite severely felt at Vallejo, many chimneys toppling down, but ho serious injury occurring. AT 8AN LEANDRO—COURT MOUSE THROWN DOWN AND DEPUTY CLERK KILLED. A despatch dated San Leandro, October 21, says:— Our court house fs all down, an oe Clerk Jos lyn ig killed. All the prisoners are still In their cells and locked up, the key being in a safe which cannot be got at. The other adobo houses are down, also the warehouse and mill at Haywood are down. The ground opened at San Lorenzo and water came up, nepyeon our. From a citizen of that town, Who came in on the morning train, we learn that the shock was very severe at that place. The large brick court house is little better than a complete wreck. It was deemed 80 unsafe that the county officers had moved out of it. me building was considerably shattered by the earthquake three head 4 the walls having then pred several inches. Hog cuaing were then put and the gaps closed up, so that it was deemed eres y but the und is adobe, not more an two fect above the tide water of the creek, and the foundations were a uitable for such a struc. tare, ™%. il will probably bave to com down, ie side of the creek about half the front of 1's new block of brick stores fell out. The chimneys of the public schoolhouse were thrown down. per brick bulidings were pore ¢ LOW; ie joys on nos bt about two tea Doe ‘tere ro own fl id gomo slight damage of this sort oné to houses in that vicinity. "SDs PARYSVILLE, The shock hore Wb Very light, being noticed oniy by a Tew. RASS YALLBY, Quite a severe shock of eartha tia morning about eight o'clock, sing Jamp: to vibrate and occupants of second stories to vacate briskly. About five minutes after there Was another very slight suock. SONORA. A slight earthquaké shock was felt here st four minutes past eight this morning. REDWOOD. The American Hotel is very much shaken, court house id Leg but unsafe. e@ pub School is daiuaged so much that the school Is dis missed. Many chimneys are shaken down, A fire Wall on Merviii's block Was shaken down. No oueon was killed or injured, ‘ SAN MATEO. There was an earthquake shoc! M. to-day, tho severe ofe lastin, The barometer was 29 92-100 inch id the ther- mometer 48. ‘The vibration was from the north. The damage to property here is not leas than $5,000, SONOMA. ‘Two more light shocks of earthquake have been felt here, oue at about ten and one at half-past eleven o'clock A. M, The Varthqunke Disaster in San Fraacisco and Visinity—Edect en Mon and Animals Binkti f Made Ground=Action of the Cors Pornte Bodies—Real Estate Prices. {From the Aita Californian, October 22.) ‘The great shock of 1868 produced a wholly differ. ent effect on buildi from that of 1865, In Octo- ber, 1865, giags was broken and shivered to atoms in all the lower part of the city by the perpendicalar osciiiation, whke comparatively few walls were shaken down or badly Injured. The earthquake of yesterday broke very littie giass in any part of the city; but the damage by the falling of cornices, Awnings and walls was immense, West of Stockton street and north of Geary street no damage of any kind worthy of mention was done. A stranger pon through th of the town Would Mul to iscover ny traces of the ereat coyamotion which e was felt here eight o'clock A. fifteen seconds, had just occurred. Occasionally a little pi; was dhaten down, or the walla of some old oF f | constructed brick bull Was slightly opened, but beyond this there was no! On Rincon Hill the efiect was pd name = same, a Coming down from the upper part first serior the ne ward to the the destruction of windows and damage to walle te. felton “made grouna” the foundation 1s known to be Pg Rg ge Ww re are & 0 ings injured, while yone are utterly ruined, y H corner of Front and Jackson street, fered severely from too ail ing te a ground ma. oping o: foundations on the old mud bottom of the bay. This effect 1s more marked at aome points than others. At the old Railroad Hotel, on som, it 1s more marked elsewhere, On the eastern shore of the Bay, ane, in fact, all ihe wis ee built on ‘the flats ‘has severely. It a and gratifys fact that not @ Single building constructed as shoal bo nk» cizmoi te curdqunee lke sam ; this earthquake demonstrates the proposition. tha THE EFFECT ON MEN AND ANIMALS, ‘The effect on men and animals of a great earth- quake shock is peculiar. Men run into the street hing as a rule, while women sink down and ci hyal ly. This was generally the case terdag, On the lower animals the effect is varied. Horses owas snort with terror, and many run away. take to barking violently and running about without any apparent object. A lady who was stan ing in a*barnyard og her fowls when the gr shock came yesterday tells us that the chickens all ran trom her and took to the henhouse as if @ shower had occ while a turkey ran to her and Jay flat down on the ground at her feet, looking up in her face as if for protection. SINKING OF THE.MADE LAND, In the vicinity of L. B. Benchiey’s building, June- tlon of Market and Front streets, the ground sank for a foot or two, and there. was evidence that the tide had risen in the adjoining Jot at the same time, or @ pond of water collected and. remained until low tide, On Pine street, near Battery, the cobbles on the south side of the street sunk away from the curbe atone to the depth of one foot in some places, and the asphaltum sidewalk on the north side was Veer and torn out of all shape and its connection with curbstone severed. This peculiarity was Le noticeable on Clay ad House. tree! uppoaite the Railroi 01 On Mise lon street, opposite the Mechanics’ babe corner of Fremont street, the north side of the sti has settled, drawing away the plauks of that side from the crown of the street, leaving @ fissure of two or three inches in width. ite the works, on Howard and Fremont Pel there ea narrow fissure, caused by sinking, ‘and a barely perveptible crack in the sidewalk. On the ane rere corner RA Perens eta streets, the ground 0 jin aces. said that hot air and water issued from these open tt ‘the corner of Fourth and Harrison streets the tracks have settled a couple of inches from the centre space between. ‘The reports of sinking to great depths are greatly exaggerated, as we have taken DANS to prove. IN THE OUTSKIRIS. AS 8000 88 possible {ter the earth had got settled, one of our editorial staff made a visit to the proml+ nent works in the outskirts of the city, as there were Many rumors of the amount of damage done. The sugar refinery was found in operation, only & few bricks having been chafed from the adjoin ing cornice by the swaying of the chimney, which was shortened after the earthquake of 1865. The chim- ney was cracked, and will probably require the re- building of two-thirds of it; but the chimney did not fall, nor was there any damage to the build! beyond the few bricks from the cornice mention above. ras Mission woollen mills was the next place vis- ited. Mr. Donald McLennan assured us that ne? had been no dam: tothe machinery, the only in- convenience being the inequalities made in the sur- Bcc cus ae tae irseon S p would suffice to the mills at work again. The mills will not be idle more than four 8. ‘The Pacific woollen mills had also stopped wo! but there. did not seem to be any evidence dam At the Blind my eri the top of the rear wall, just under the eaves, had fallen out, fortunately without injuring anybody, and without disturbing the regu- larity of the school, for the inmates were singing happily when we passed there. ie chimneys from the Mission street public school had toppled off a couple hats full of brick without in- to anybody. ithe report that the und had gunk four feet at the corner of Fourteenth and Folsom streets was the result of hasty observation on the part of panic-stricken individual. The car tracks run ac! a low place for a couple of hundred feet, but that is because that piece never was filled up to the grade, and has been as it is for a year or two. On leaving the city, one wonld naturally seppoee as he went along the road toward the ocean that a€ each block some new horror would show itself in the shape of houses in ruins or hills levelled with the omMecial grade of Sutter and Bush streets, but such was not the case, as, after you leave the junction of Montgomery and Bush streets, nothing on the line of march indicated that sucha thing as an carth- quake had occ: ,.8 all along the line of the two streets in haa the houses were without a crack. ‘Tue Point Lobos road was tn just as excellent condl- tion as on the day previous. Mr. Foster, of the “Cliff,” informs us that nothing aside from the usual routine took place in his vicias ity, with the exception of a decided commotion In the ocean, and an impetus given to the every day wave whica sent it well inland, say fifteen or twenty Jeet above the usual mark. The shock, however. at his house did no damage, not even upsetting any of the glassware in the bar. The afternoon on the road Was one of splendor; the atmospliere was clear, the fir warm and pleasant, and the northern hinges of the Golden Gate loomed up in bold relief, and looked as calm and beautiful as they seem to be afier the first of a winter rain. The alr was undoubtediy purified by the several shocks which took place dur ing the forenoon, as we had not had a more beaut ful spell of weather this season for a few hours than we had aiter the sun had travelled well toward the west. ‘The stream of the sewer running from the Laguna to the foot of Webster street into the bay, hitherto clear, framediately after the shock became black as ink, showing that the earth in that vicinity had ex- perienced a healthy shaking up. At the mouth of the sewer and on the bay beack below high water mark, @ fissure extending lengtn- wise with the water and some eight inches in width ‘was opened. At Laguna Honda, where rumor had it that there was incalculable damage, there is nothing wort! speeking of. ‘The water was violently agitated an the waves met in the centre, throwing up a large jet several feet into the air. A prolonged investigation in the outskirts showed that the only damage had been sustained on the made ground in the centre of the city. . F eee SHOCKS, Abont seven P. M. 4 distinct shock was felt, which seemed more like @ wave from south to north than = et such as had been felt at tines during je day. " Peculiarly sensitive persons felt a slight shock at nine, another at ten and another at twenty-five mins utes to one P. M. One nervous man who is going off in the steamer would not go to bed; another pres ferred to sit up and a thtrd camped out in the plaz®, NO TIDAL WAVE. ‘There was no ‘‘tidal wave,” so far as we can learn, accompanying this earthquake. Nevertheless pase sengers on the ferry steamers felt the shock and sup> Posed for the moment that they were aground, SPRCIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISO! The Board of Supervisors met in special session al Judge Pennie’s court room at two P. M., the Mayor residing. Present, Messrs. Ashbury, Stanyan, Clay- on, Cavallier, Nunan, Harrold, Flaherty, Cole, Sh der, Shattuck and Canavan. Mr, Ashbury prescu' the following which was adopted:— ’ Resolved, That Measra, Willinua Crane, David Parquhal Grohitects, and George Cofran, Superintendent of Streets, ‘and are harsh requested to act with a committee of ‘th Bord, cousisting of 3:3 visory Sapen and Ashbary, to oxé ‘famine and report the condition of he publis buildings ‘aod re vort to thie Board at as early a date as ponel 16. : Mr, Ashbury offered the following:—That the Bailde ing Committee be requested to provide suitable rooms for the use of the various oficers of the cit; overnment and report for the approval of thi joard. Adopted. M ibury otiered the following, which was adopted:— Resolved, That the Fire Wi hereby examine the fire wails of thom: which gerous condition, tity diately remove oF tho erocted barricades in front of Uh Dr. Cole, who came in at this moment, hale | that the resolutions adopted for the protection of eet. were not sufficiently comprehensive. Re ad with reluctance Jeft an alarmed family, and his habitation, which had been nearly demolished, He desired that each member of the Board should be ine vested with the power to erect barricades around buildings in danger of being thrown down. Super: visor Ashbury contended that every member had this power; but he did hope that none but architects and persons competent stould be authorized to toar down walls or buildings. Dr. Colo offered the following resolution, which ‘was adopted: Resolved, That the Supervisors be authorized to ox Into the condition of the buildings fn their respective And where the same is nevessary in their judgmen order to protect life, to erect suitable barricades, ACTION OF THR-CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, The Chamber of Commerce held a session tn thelr chamber fa the Merchante’ Exchange, Several members spoke of the importance of transmititin, correct intelligence to the Kast and to London, x committee of four was bs ape to collect informa. tion and make an estimate of the probable lova, Mesars. Otls, Friediander, Ralstan and Gordon form the committee. These gentiemen met at one o'clock in the Pact of the Bank of California and prepared the following despatch: “A severe shock of earthquake experienced here at ten minutes to cight o'clock A.M. Consileranle alarm felt at time of occurrence, A good maut