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field. Through this region ( Marin County) the shock was very violent, 

 and numerous cracks parallel with the main crack in the bay extended 

 along the shores. In the town of Tomales, much and varied mischief 

 was done. The parallel cracks toyed with miles of the Xorth Shore 

 Railroad between Tomales and Point Reyes. At Marshall the hotel was 

 thrown bodily — and upright — into the bay, the boarders unharmed; 

 and at aristocratic Inverness, on Tomales Bay, three summer cottages 

 suffered the same fate. A fisherman in the bay reports that the waters 

 receded, leaving- his boat in the mud. Afterwards they came back in 

 a 'great wave, which looked a hundred feet high, but which was prob- 

 ably not more than ten.' 



At Point Reyes Station at the head of Tomales Bay the 5:15 train 

 for San Francisco was just ready. The conductor had just swung on 

 when the train gave a great lurch to the east, followed by another to 

 the west, which threw the whole train on its side. The astonished 

 conductor dropped off as it went over, and at sight of the falling 

 chimneys and breaking windows of the station, he understood that it 

 was the Temblor. The fireman turned to jump from the engine to the 

 west when the return shock came. He then leaped to the east and 

 borrowing a kodak he took the picture of the train here presented. 



Paper Mill Creek runs past the same village, a considerable stream, 

 noteworthy lately from the successful stocking with king salmon. 

 The two banks of the stream were forced toward each other so that the 

 length of the bridge was shortened by about six feet and the bridge 

 was correspondingly humped at its north end, an arch about six feet 

 high being forced up. 



From Point Reyes Station (at the base of the peninsula also called 

 Point Reyes) the earthquake rift passed along the Inverness Road to 

 Olema, where all the houses not standing on rock foundation were 

 thrown from three to six feet to the westward, toward the crack itself. 



Skinner's Ranch is a large dairy near Olema. The house stands 

 near the road, a dairy house some thirty feet to the south of it, and a 

 large barn with cowyard just behind that. A row of large cypress 

 trees stood just before the house on the roadside, between them and 

 the house a little rose garden, to the south of these, opposite and partly 

 behind the dairy, a group or row of large eucalyptus trees. 



The earthquake rift passed directly in front of the house, between 

 the buildings and the road. All that stood to the westward of the 

 crack was violently jerked to the north a distance of sixteen feet seven 

 inches, or it may he that the east side moved an equal distance to the 

 smith. If Mr. Skinner had chanced to look at the right instant he 

 would have seen the whole row of cypress trees file past his window 

 to take their station in front of the dairy, taking the rose garden with 

 them. A few raspberry bushes came from farther north to take, 



