The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1898, Page 2

(& THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FR wrenched and the end foundation cracked. and there would h been mno more | harm done had the same thing hap- | pened to it. The end of the machine shop is in place, but it i, ttled 2 cracked and if it stands to-mor- row it will be a disappointment. Both buildings stood on t'e w und and their end foundations i ovtward, ard in one case > whole end. which fell into »ad condition. Both have bulged the ends, and the main building dumped a few tons of bricks from under the gable onto the ground below. The other end is protected by ropes, for it is expected to 1 at a time, the t serious damage being shown on inside. In the other ryt much dam hop buildings there is apparent, but shaft- I been comparing notes with itsel to find out how it was affect earthquake. The damage is v and can be summed up very consisting of a wrecked bt broken chimneys and a few cracked glass. There was some excitemen house of A. C. Herry, the when a section of chimney fell apartment below and seriousl ORPNANCE STQRS HO | THE EARTHQUAKE. . CONSTRUCTION PAIN;I‘ S NN SHOP: BUILDINGS AT THE MARE ISLAND NAVY-YARD DAMAGED BY | penders cross. Mr. Lacombe is not ‘:Liraid of any man living, but he draws | the line at floors, so without waiting | for an apology he started to make his | exit through the swinging doors. He | says now that the doors were | open whgn he started for them, but the | earthquake closed and locked That did not deter Mr. Lacombe, how- ever, sc he took a header through the glass, unmindful of the brass rods that red the panes. | eper’s buildings | and kick him just below where his sus- ‘ wide | them. | i has bee a achi v has He only got t Ing has been bent and machinery mic | throush and atter the trouble was over X oS : o friends rescued him and called for the v ml} not go back 10| gmpulanct to take him to the Receiv- 1 achinery starts, ing Hospfial. S We stripped of | Manager Kirkpatrick of the Palace ances a | Hotel draws the line at earthquake | alls have gone | Promenades. He says he 48 willing his . Muere is plenty of splin- | Euests shall have all the diversion they Kty = i T | choose, but these earthquake hops a headless statue | gon’t go any more at his place. He but that was no | doesn’'t object particularly because of | pened in the hospital and | the litter it makes in the hallways, or | ilh% ml}i‘ing up of bedding,h st]m kings o e nb e C - thig | @and other wearing apparel, but he says JeLliete i CTs AD IDDUL L or S ”“'S‘the participants become altogether too | mor but at 1 o'clock work was re-| animated, followed by extreme agita- | sumed b one has \\'Ork"dit]un and unseemly inquiries regarding in tk ops, howev nor will any one | the departure of the first east bound be 1 to work until it is a certainty that the shop buildings can stand the strain of the machinery in motion. It is not known how long this will hold back the work, but it will probably be Mor s, before anything like the for e seen at the ¥ This will interfere naturally with work on the Charlesto but the yard people are only too glad she escaped uninjured. Divers were down outside the dock this morning, but they found nothing serious. It was expected that the crui- had shifted a little, but a little ging of the shores put her straight again. Just up the seawall a crack v discovered in the granite and all up the quay a cre e runs between the earth and damage done is immaterial. The electric light plant has been re- paired sufficiently to supply the lights in the houses and along the roads, but it will be some days before the shops can be lighted again. The water main to the izland is also out of use for the time being, but there is plenty of water over there, and the main will be fixed before the supply runs out. About the liveliest thing in the earth- quake the old ship Independence. “She tried to turn a handspring,” was the most graphic description one old tar could She must have rd. raised several feet on a wave, and then she pounded back into her bed in the mud a way to br the old tars out of their ham- and upon the deck with a run. She was not much damaged, however, except as to furniture and fittings. Already a requisition for brick work- ers has gone in from the hospital, but they are wanted to tear down, not build up. The other departments have also sent in similar requisitions. The board of investigation has fin- ished but half of its labors and it will be some days before the cost of repair- ing the damage can be figured up. In the town of Vallejo the most se- rious damage done was to St. Vincent's Catholic Thurch. 1t is a brick build- ing set high on a hill, and has been a prominent landmark in Vallejo. It may have to be rebuilt, for its towers are wrenched and twisted from base to battlement, and the walls are very shaky. At least $5000 will be needed to- put it in condition again. - INCIDENTS OF THE SHOCKS ASHORE AND AT SEA. quman Beings Not the Only Ones to Fear the Temblor, for Animals at the Zoo Are Affected. Every one in San Francisco talked about the earthquake yesterday. Laughable were some of the incidents of the ehocks, which seem to have caused more merriment than ~mage in this city. W. E. Lacombe is nursing a severe cut on his right wrist and a bundle of badly shattered nerves. Mr. Lacombe was iIn the office of the New Washing- ton Hotel at Fourth and Harrison streets when he felt the floor rise up tone coping, but the | 1g the raw recruits | | train. The 250 guests whose homes are | beyond the Rockies held one of these | promenades Wednésday night, and be- | came so demonstrative that it required | the entire force of clerks and bell boys | to allay the enthusiasm. After they }had quieted down a bit, Manager Kirk- | patrick sought to reason with them, | but they orned his arguments. eved words didn’t count with them. They wanted a safe place to dress in and a chance to emigrate. It has often been asserted that ani- mals can tell in advance that an earth- quake is due and is going to arrive on time. The inmates of the Zoo, at the Chutes, proved this assertion beyond a | doubt. Jolly, the big elephant, was | the first to get the message and he im- | parted the information to the others without loss of time. The animals are usually fed at 11 o’clock and immedi- | ately after the place is locked up and | left "in care of two keepers. Wednes- day night some extra work was being done around the place and twelve men were on duty. The animals were all asleep, when suddenly Jolly set up a terrific trumpeting and plunged so fur- iously as to break the chain by which he was fastened to a stake. All the other beasts took up the refrain, in the midst of which the temblor made its entrance. It was fortunate that so large a force of men were in the Zoo, for the animals were with difficulty subdued. Jolly sounded the first warn- ing fully two minutes before the shock. No damage was done and none of the animals broke loose but Jollv, | Deputy Coroner Jack Terrell was one | of the most frightened men in town, and he frankly admitted it. “Why, when I felt that shock,” he said, “I | rolled out of bed and dropping on my | knees started to repeat the Lord’s prayer, but to save me I couldn't get beyond ‘hallowed be thy name.’ “Why couldn’t you finish it?” asked one of his associates. “Because I had the prayer.” Deputies Hallett and McInnes were asleep on the third floor of the Morgue building and were jolted out of bed by the shock. Both saw several sharp flashes of lightning and each took a solemn oath right there never to touch another drop. Mr. Hinckle was asleep over his gro- cery store at the corner of McAllister and Franklin streets, when he heard a great crashing of bottles and glasses in his store. Thinking that burglars were at work, he telephoned for the police. Some remarkable pranks were played among the glassware on and_tables in Dieffenbacher’'s store at 318 Front street. On one table not an | article was broken, while the contents | of the next were a wreck. A few dishes would be shaken off on a stand, leav- ing the others in place. The shock never disturbed a tier of four high cake dishes set one upon the other, though other dishes on the same shelf were de- molished. The Concordia Club, corner of Van Ness avenue and Post street, sustained as much damage as any building in town. Three of the tall chimneys are in such a state that they have to be tied with ropes to keep,them from fall- ing into the street. The worst damage is on the cornice above the main en- trance. The hy v granite blocks have been wrenched Trom their beds and-are sprung far apart, while the heavy chimney that rested on them has been twisted nearly at right angles from its original position. The interior of the bullding has also sustained some dam- age. 0dd Fellows’ Hall did not escape un- scathed, while a number of other prom- forgotten Hon- | the shelves | | | inent buildings were more or less dam- aged. The Claus Spreckels building was not injured in the least. The first thought of nine out of every ten per- sons was how the tall building stood the shock, and many were the expres- | sions of admiration and gratification that the mammoth structure had es- caped unscathed. The shake caused considerable dam- age to the dome of the City Hall, at a point about 100 feet from the ground, where a large number of terra-cotta plates forming the outer wall were shaken loose. A number of patches show where the square pieces of terra-cotta dropped out and a well- defined crack extends about one-third the wa angel remained intact. In the interior of the hall no damage was done be- yond the shaking down of a few pic- tures and ornaments in the Mayor's office, the flooring of a few hooks in the libraries and the stopping of the clocks. The crew of the ship Rufus E. Wood had an experience while the earthquake lasted that they will not forget in a hurry. The vessel at the time was in the vicinity «of Point Reyes, and the second mate was in charge of the deck. Without warning everything was thrown aback. The vessel's Tieadway was stopped and she shivered from stem to stern as though she had come in collision with a sunken rock. Cap- tain McLean and the watch below rushed on deck in their night clothes, thinking that the Wood had been run down and might be sinking. At first the phenomenon could not be accounted for, and the general opiniorn was that the ship had struck a sunken wreck. A search was made of the waters around the ship, but as nothing could be found Captain McLean came to the conclu- sion that it was some submarine di turbance, and only learned that it was an earthquake when the ship reached port. On board the pilot-boat America Cap- tain Jordan and the pilots who were with him had almost a similar experi- ence, The schooner was cruising off the Farallones when the concussion came, and everybody on board came to the conclusion that the powder works at Pinole Point had blown up. Chizf Engineer Hawley of the rev- enue cutter Hartley had a narrow es- cape. He was in the engine room at the time and was knocked backwaid into the machinery. Luckily ginez had been stopped a few min- utes previously, so he escaped with a few bruises. Heine Benges and Harry Johnson had a rough and tumble experience at the Foleom street wharf. FHeine was going north on the cannery rhip St Nicholas, and while waiting for some other members of the crew he went to sleep in Johnson’s boathouse. Harry also dozed off, and when the quake came it rocked the two men as though they were at sea. Heine grumbled, “I don't want to get up; let me sleep,” while Harry growled, “Leave me alone, —— you.” As the earthquake in- creased in severity they were both rolled out on ‘the fl.or, and each thought he had been pulled out of his bunk on purpose. A fight followed and both of them were considerably bat- tered up ‘before they discovered their mistake. Custom-house Officer Sprague de- serted the barge office at Meiggs wharf in a hurry. The building, according to him, was rocking like a ship in a gale, s0 he did not wait to put on his clothes, but ran bare-footed and bare-headed out on the wharf. He spent nearly all day yesterday in picking slivers out of his feet. The force of the earthquake was con- centrated along the north shore of the bay, from Vallejo to Santa Rosa, as shown by the derangement of the San Francisco and North Pacific bridges. The heavy steel draw over Petaluma Creek at Black Point, on the Sonoma Valley branch, a 180-ton structure, was lifted bodily one foot vertically and two feet laterally, derailed from its circular running gear and rendered useless. Passengers by this raflroad are now being ferried across the creek in boats, and the bridge will not be in working order again for a week. The drawbridge across Sonoma Creek was also thrown out of gear, but was re- paired by a gang of men yesterday morning. ANTICS OF THE TEMBLOR OVER IN OAKLAND. Scared Some People, Broke Several Chimneys and Smashed a Few Panes of Glass. OAKLAND, March 381.—Oakland has large | v around the dome. The wingless | the en-| ened a party of Eastern visitors who were just retiring. The damage was very slight. The water off the Oakland mole was churned into big seas, and the yachts were severely tossed about for several minutes. Large waves beat against the rocking ferry houses but did no damage. | Not the slightest derangement was | caused to the telephone and telegraph | wires, and the only memory Oakland will have of the quake will be the enor- | mous fright that seized everybody. At the Chabot Observatory the seis- mic needle showed that the earth had | vibrated considerably and in a very erratic_manner, e sum total of the shakes!shows t they acted nearly in a circle, althou, there was a little more movement from east to west than | from north to south. One of the freaks of the earthguake was the starting of an old clock in a ‘resldfince on Twenty-sixth street. This | clock is more than 150 years old, and it | has been dumb for many years. A few | weeks ago the clock was renovated and ‘put in a condition in which it was ex- pected would be useful. * All attempts to set the pendulum going proved fruitless, and it was condemned as useless, Just before midnight the an- clent clock felt the earthquake and it has been ticking ever since. At the same time a clock that has been keep- | ing excellent records was stopped by | the vibrations. S S | THE QUAKE AS FELT % IN CLASSIC BERKELEY. | | Professor Leuschner’s Seismograph i Shows the Vertical Vibrations to Have Been Strongest. BERKELEY, March 31.—Last night’s | earthquake was the heaviest ever re- | corded in Berkeley, according to Pro- | fessor Armin Leuschner of the De- | partment of Astronomy at the .uni- | versity. Professor Leuschner makes the followine statement in regard to the temblor: “The duplex seismograph shows that the vertical vibrations were strongest and almost twice as strong as the horizontal vibrations from north to south and from east to west. The first displacement was mnorth. It then turned west, and there. were a series | of short tremors, principally south- west, The displacement next turn- ed ° southeast, and the maxi- mum up and down vibration followed. “Then came a seriés of small vibra- tions, at first southeast and later northwest. A northeast movement fol- | lowed, and was succeeded by one al- | most twice as strong In a direction ex- | actly opposite. Here an almost circu- | lar vibration occcurred, and then the vibrations gradually died out in a southwest direction.” s s e SR CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE AT SONOMA. SONOMA, March 31.—Sonoma was visited last night at fifteen minutes to 12 o’clock by one of the most prolonged and violent earthquake shocks ever felt here. The vibrations were from north to south. Accompanying the shock was a rattle and noise that caused the stoutest hearts to quail. The first shock was followed at intervals by four other temblors that were very heavy and over twenty lesser ones that caused windows to rattle and kept citi- zens in a constant state of alarm. Considerable damage was done in both town and valley by falling chim- neys, the cracking of brick and stone walls of buildings, the breaking of win- dows and the wrecking of glassware. The front show windowsin Clewes’store were broken and the south side of the large building is seamed and cracked to an alarming extent. The Sonoma Valley Bank building is badly frac- tured and the vault seriously damaged. | The chimney on the handsome resi- dence of Willlam McElroy fell with a crash through the roof and ceiling of the dining room and the floor was strewn with brick, plaster and splin- ters of wood. The High School building was badly cracked and seamed, but not to such an extent as to make it dangerous. A strange thing happened on the farm of Captain H. E. Boyes. The water in the reservoir was lifted bodily by the upheaval and cast to one side as_though the reservoir was a wash bowl, leaving it dry. To Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative BromoQuinine Tablets, All drug- E:‘f: TeRand the mency It 1¢ falls t6 ctre. 2o, e genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. 1, 1898 \ RING THE "ING FORCE 1d Tugs Being med Into War ‘essels. gon and the Mari- - -~ ~ail Around the Horn. Official Data Shows Over Ten Million Americans Liable to Military Duty. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, March 31. The work incident to the transforma- tion of the yachts and tugs recently purchased for the Navy Department so as to make them practicable for naval purposes is now well under way. The alterations and changes necessary are being rushed with all possible speed, and orders have been issued to employ a sufficient number of men to work night and day so that no time will be lost. In the tugs particularly there are numerous changes necessary for the comfort of the men who will man them. The yachts, on the other hand, are in better shape, and less work will be required than on the tugs. They will be given a belt of armor as a means of protection for portions which are most vulnerable to the enemy's fire. So far the department has purchased five yachts and eight tugs for the auxiliary navy. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Embassador, called on Assistant Sec- retary Roosevelt ¢ the Navy Depart- for Captain Sigsbee, congratulating that officer upon his escape and his bearing throughout his recent thrilling experiences in the harbor of Havana. cant in the movement of naval vessels reported to the Navy Department to- day. The gunboat Wilmington arrived at Jacksonville yesterday, on her way to New York for repairs. The torpedo-b .t Somers, purchased in Germany, arrived at Pillau yester- day on her way to the United States. The gunboat Wheeling has left Port Angeles for Seattle. The cruiser Co- lumbia and the revenue cutter Morrill arrived at Norfoix to-day. The Co- lumbia is attached to the flying squad- ron, and is in ~.mplete readiness for any service she may be called upon to perform. Her sister ship, the Min- neapolis, now fitting out at League Island, is expected to join the squad- ron at Hampton Roads in a day or two. The gunboat Marietta of the Pacific squadron arrived at Callao to-day. Al- though not so admitted, it is gener- ally understood that she is bound for Key West. The same is true of the bat- tle-ship Oregon, which is expected to arrive at Callao this week. These ves- sels have been informed of the presence of #he Spanish torpedo boat Temerario on the east coast of Scuth America, and have been warned to be on their guard against her while in those waters. The military information divisi~n of the War Department has made public a table bearing on the strength of the militia in the United States in 1897. It also gives data as to the numberof men liable for military duty, information in regard to appropriation, military offi- cers, encampments and mobilization. The table is compiled from the reports made to the department by army offi- cers detailed for duty with the militia of the States. The authorized strength of the military of the entire .ountry (which, however, Includes several States where this strength is not lim- ited) is 186,848, while the aggregate ac- tual strength is 113,760, made up as fol- lows: Infantry, 100,179; artillery, 5055; cavalry, 4978; special troops, 2270 gen- erals and staff officers, 878; non-com- missioned staff officers, 400. The total number of men liable to military duty in the country is 10,378,- 118. State appropriations made for the maintenance of militia in 1897 amount- ed to $2,723,564. Santa Cruz Shaken. SANTA CRUZ, March 31.—Santa Cruz was visited shortly before midnight last night by the most violent earthquake shock felt here in years. It lasted longer than usual. Bells were rung, clocks stopped and in some of the stores artl- cles were thrown from the shelves. ADVERTISEMENTS. NO APRIL FOOL TRICK. FREE TRIP To ALASKA'! e o o o . . The first 60 applicants who ask for passage on the new, safe, swift-going Steamer “Huwiboldt,” leav- ing this port April 4th, and buy of us a complete outfit, clothing, provisions, tools, etc., not less than $200, will re- celve a Full Paid Ticket, costing $50, free with freight privileges. On a pur- chase of $100, a similar ticket at 1 rate: $25. Buyers get the benefit of all cut prices. No commissions paid. We give all profits and more, to prospectors.— ‘Wire at once if interested. MITHS CASH STORE 25-27 Market St., S.F. 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