66 EARTHQUAKES ON THE PACIFIC COAST 



1866. October 8; 22h. Im. 



Light sliock at San Francisco, San Jose, Stockton, Santa Cruz, Sac- 

 ramento, etc.— J. B. T. Another at 23h. 50m.— J. B. T. 



1865. October 8; IX; (Sunday). 



San Francisco. The first shock was felt at sixteen minutes before 

 one o'clock p. m., and lasted perhaps five seconds. It was almost 

 instantly followed by a heavier shock, which continued for ten 

 seconds or more. The vibrations appeared to be east and west, 

 or northeast and southwest. There was nothing in the weather 

 or in the condition of the atmosphere during the previous week 

 to foretell the earthquake. On October 8, in the evening, there 

 vi'ere two or three slight additional shocks. The chief damages 

 to buildings were to Popper's building. Third and Mission streets, 

 the City Hall, the old Merchants' Exchange, corner Battery and 

 Washington streets. The latter building was completelj' ruined. 

 The California Engine I'ompany's House, .Market and Sansome 

 streets, was severely injured and rendered unfit for occupancy. 

 The chimney in the rear of the Lick House was shaken down. 

 Stoddard's warehouse on Beale Street is said to have been thrown 

 out of place several inches. On Third Street, from Market to 

 Howard, the window glass was broken in many places. On 

 Washington Street, also, the glass appears to have suffered from 

 Dupont Street down to Montgomery. On the marshy lands in the 

 vicinity of Howard and Seventh streets, lamp posts, water pipes 

 and gas pipes were broken and thrown out of position. The 

 ground on Howard Street, from Seventh north to Ninth, cracked 

 open, leaving a fissure nearly an inch wide. Not one fatal acci- 

 dent has yet been heard of. The effect of the earthquake on the 

 waters of Mission Bay and on Long Bridge was frightful. The 

 shock was felt severely at San Jose. About ten feet of the wall 

 of the jail was thrown down, and a portion of the wall of the 

 Methodist church. The bell of the convent was tolled. At Santa 

 Clara nearly all of the brick buildings in town were more or less 

 injured. On the Santa Cruz Gap road chimneys were thrown 

 down and the roads more or less obstructed by stones rolled down 

 from the mountains. At Stockton the shock was very severe. At 

 Visalia and Los Angeles the earthquake was not felt at all. — 

 B. Ms.— 8. F. Bulletin, October 9, 1865. A friend walking on W. 

 side of Montgomery Street, S. F., near Bush, did not feel the 

 shock at all. — E. S. H. 



1865, October 8. The shock at Sacramento did no damage, although 

 it was severe enough to cause many persons to feel nausea (YJl). 

 — B. Ms.— Sf. F. Bulletin, October 11, 1865. 



1865, October 8. This shock was not felt in the slightest degree at 

 Santa Barbara — at least not in the vicinity of the town. — B. Ms. — 

 .'^. F. BnUctin. October 17, 1865. 



