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and is suspended by a steel spring G or 8 inches long and three- 

 fourths of an inch wide, similar in appearance to a piece of scrap 

 iron. The shock set the pendulum to wriggling in an irregular 

 manner from side to side and kept it up so long that the strong 

 steel was warped in all sorts of shapes and finally broken. 



The guests in the New Western hotel poured out into Kearney 

 Street when the shake took place (VII?). 



The guests in the Palace Hotel were somewhat frightened, a num- 

 ber of them rushing into the corridors to ascertain the cause of 

 the vibrations. The only damage sustained was the breaking of 

 a few statuettes and some glass, which were thrown to the 

 floor (VI?). 



The shock was very much more severe in the region 50 or 75 miles 

 north of the city, and the residents there had much curiosity to 

 know how great it had been in San Francisco. 



1892. April 19. 



The Chronicle of April 20: The vibration was felt from Gilroy and 

 Fresno on the south to Oroville and Chico on the north, and from 

 Santa Rosa on the west entirely across the State and into Nevada; 

 the area within which damage was done was very small. This 

 district includes portions of Solano and Yolo counties, and com- 

 prises a section some 20 miles wide by about 30 in length. Brick 

 buildings in Vacaville, Winters, Dixon, Woodland, Esparto, Capay, 

 and Fairfield were wrecked to a greater or less extent, but the 

 entire damage, by the most liberal estimate, is so small that it is 

 apparent that the injured structures were of a class easily dam- 

 aged, and no great outlay for repairs or complete reconstruction 

 will be involved. In a few cases injuries to persons are reported, 

 but in no instance were there any seriously hurt, nor was there 

 any loss of life. 



1892. April 19; Vacaville. 



An earthquake occurred here at 2.50 o'clock this morning. The 

 damage in town was very great, there being few, if any, of the 

 hundreds of residences that do not show evidences of the tre- 

 mendous power exerted. Chimneys were razed entirely or twisted 

 badly. Dishes, tinware, crockery, and everything of a movable 

 nature went down with a crash that was truly appalling. This 

 statement will as well apply to the whole township as to the 

 town (VIII). 



This town i^resents a strange appearance to-night. There is appar- 

 ently but one street in it, namely, Main Street, and the south 

 side is nothing more nor less than a row of wrecked brick struc- 

 tures, and the street is filled with pieces of brick and lumber, 

 and the cracked edifices are propped up with huge beams to pre- 

 vent them from falling into the roadway. The north side of the 

 street was composed in the main of wooden buildings, and ex- 

 cept in a few instances the loss on that side is confined to chim- 



