EAETHQUAKES ON THE PACIFIC COAST 227 



1894. May 7; Mount Hamilton. 



Two distinct shocks, two seconds apart, of equal intensity, llli. 

 56m. 7s. p. m. for the last shock. — E. E. Barnard. 



Four shocks in less than 2 seconds, of intensities III, II, II, III, R. 

 F., respectively, llh. 56ni. 16s. ± 10s. p. m. In bed in the third 

 story of the brick dwelling. — W. W. Campbell. No record of this 

 disturbance was found on either of the seismographs. 



1894. Mount Hamilton. 



At lOh, 52m. p. m. a movement of the earth was detected by the 

 meridian circle, which was so slight as not to be felt by the 

 observer. The motion was a regular oscillation in an east and 

 west direction, and lasted for fifteen to twenty seconds. At llh. 

 56m. 45s. approximately, one single sharp shock was felt. — R. H. 

 Tucker. 



1894. May 23; Tacoma, Washington; 22h. 30m. 



II.— P. 



1894. May 27; Winchester, Cal.; 12 a. m. 



Two slight shocks. 



1894. Jnne 3; Ukiah (Cal.). 



A shock. 



1894. Jnne 18; 10 a. m. 



Austin, Nevada. — C. W. Friend. 



1894. Jnly 13; Pine Ridge, Cal. 



News comes from Pine Ridg'e lumber district, 60 miles northeast 

 of this city, to the effect that a sharp shock, lasting a few sec- 

 onds, was felt there at 8.50 last night. The shock was accom- 

 panied by the greatest electric display ever witnessed by inhab- 

 itants there. The strange feature is that no clouds were noticed 

 by the citizens. — S. F. Call. 



Parties arriving from Pine Ridge, 50 miles east of here, state that 

 a recent earthquake [July 13?] injured the dam across Stephen- 

 son Creek. The joints in the masonry were damaged sufficiently 

 to allow the water to pass through, but it is believed that no per- 

 manent injury was done. — /S. F. Chronicle. 



1894. Jnly 14; near Fresno. 



A remarkable phenomenon is reported from the Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains east of Fresno. About sunset last evening a red cloud, 

 apparently fifty miles in length, gradually settled over the range, 

 and as soon as night came on persons in this city observed a won- 

 derful display of electricity on the edges of the cloud. 



To-day news from that region says that when the electrical dis- 

 play was at its height an earthquake, violent enough to rattle 



