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cracked, and the goods of L. Fieldman & Co. badly 

 injured. 



Buildings Nos. 319 and 321 Sacramento Street were 

 also much cracked and damaged. 



On Sacramento Street, just below Montgomery, the 

 roof of a building fell in on a clothing-store under- 

 neath. 



The back part of Smith & Beasson's carpet-store, 

 on Washington Street, is all down. 



The building corner of Polk Lane and Stockton 

 Street is badly damaged. The front wall is very much 

 cracked, and is likely to fall at any moment. 



The Jewish synagogue, between Broadway and 

 Vallejo Streets, is somewhat damaged. Brick and 

 mortar cover the side-walks. 



The new building on Bush Street, near Battery, 

 fronting on Market, in process of erection, fell and 

 covered up, it is supposed, three persons. Jasper 

 Shawe was taken out badly cut about the head, 

 and with an arm broken. 



The store on the corner of Front and California 

 Streets is badly damaged. 



&f' Noonan, the porter of the Lick House, was 

 asleep, and, hearing the noise, jumped out of the win- 

 dow, about ten feet from the ground, and broke his 

 leg. 



A man on the Presidio Eoad was thrown out of his 

 buggy. The chimneys in that neighborhood are 

 nearly all down. 



The fire-wall of the new building corner of Califor- 

 nia and Battery is down. 



No. 318 California Street, brick building, occupied 

 by California Powder Works, etc., front wall consid- 

 erably cracked. 



Wooden building, south, occupied by 0. F. Willey, 

 badly settled on south side, by Reese's building, ad- 

 joining. 



Reese buildings, seven two-story brick, extending 

 to Battery Street, very badly injured ; the west end, 

 adjoining Willey's ready to fall down at a moment's 

 notice ; store underneath r occupied by S. Eeinstein, 

 considerable injury to goods; end of store settled 

 about a foot ; all the other buildings of the row more 

 or less cracked, and cornice on southeast end thrown 

 down. 



Building southwest corner of Halleck and Battery, 

 south wallbadly cracked and leaning off from balance 

 of the building on Halleck Street ; occupied by Ene- 

 stein Brothers. Front wall of Newhall & Co.'s ware- 

 house badly cracked at southeast corner, on Halleck 

 Street. 



The building on the corner of Battery and Merchant 

 Streets, used as a carriage-warehouse, is badly shat- 

 tered, the awning falling and crushing one or more 

 carriages. 



The earth at the corner of Battery and Commercial 

 Streets has settled about three feet below the regular 

 grade. 



The building at the corner of Clay and Battery- 

 Streets, occupied by Breed & Chase, and Sherwood, 

 Buckley & Co., is considerably shattered. 



All the lumber-piles on Stewart Street have been 

 more or less shaken by the earthquake. No damage 

 was done, save in the expense of repiling. 



The Empire Mills, Fremont Street, were also dam- 

 aged. The floor settled in some places nearly two 

 feet, while in others the planks were thrown up by 

 the shock. The earth cracked about eight or nine 

 inches, and the water gushed through the fissures. 

 The damage cannot be determined yet estimated at 

 $2,500 to $3,000. 



At No. 418 Sacramento Street, the inside of the 

 windows fell in, and a Chinaman in the second story 

 fell to the first and was killed. 



At the New Orleans Warehouse, the top of the wall 

 fell, and one man was injured by being struck on the 

 head with a brick. 



At Mrs. Johnson's, corner of Third and Market 

 btreets, all of the plastering was thrown down. 



The building belonging to Stern, on Powell, be- 



tween Post and Geary Streets, was very badly crack- 

 ed. The statues in front of the pillars fell down. 



At Badger & Lindenberger's store, on Battery 

 Street, corner of Merchant, the fire-wall is down. 



At C. P. Banks' s old store, on Sacramento Street, 

 the inside has all fallen in. 



The Eailroad House, on Commercial Street, is bad- 

 ly cracked. 



In Bosqui's printing-office, located on the third 

 floor of a strong brick building on Clay Street, below 

 Montgomery, a heavy Adams press has been moved 

 bodily over a foot, and thrown from its supports ; the 

 other presses the same way. In Bacon & Co.'s office, 

 on the other side of the street, the effect has been the 

 same, and much of the standing type has been pied ; 





same vicinity, has suffered severely. Tons of job- 

 type have been emptied into one shapeless mass upon 

 the floor, and the shelving that held them turned up- 

 side down, although fastened very strongly to the 

 walls. The building, in which this establishment is, 

 is one of the worst wrecked of all those damaged in 

 Clay Street. It is split from the cellar to the roof, 

 the upper portion of the south wall has fallen out, 

 and the west wall has separated from the roof over 

 six inches, while every wall and partition within is 

 cracked and split. The porter narrowly escaped being 

 crushed under the falling type and other material. 

 The papers had hard work to get out their afternoon 

 editions and extras, for the compositors could hardly 

 be induced to enter the buildings and run the chance 

 of what might occur should another heavy shock 



Other shocks occurred during the day, at 

 the following hours, as noticed in San Fran- 

 cisco : 8.10, 8.15, 8.30, 8.45, 9.20, 9.35, 10., 

 11.05, A.M., 2.25, 3.30, Y, and 7.30, P.M. 

 Some of them were severe, others light. None 

 equalled in intensity the first shock of the day. 

 Nothing peculiar was noticed in the weather, 

 previous to these phenomena, or during their 

 occurrence. The morning was calm and foggy, 

 afterward clearing up to a mild, beautiful day. 

 The waters in the bay, as seen from the land, 

 were not at all affected, but as calm as ever. 

 Passengers on ferry boats felt the shock and 

 supposed for a moment that they were aground. 



Upon Russian and Telegraph Hills the shock 

 was not so severely felt as in other parts of the 

 city. In some houses, ornaments were not 

 displaced from the shelves, and the inmates 

 did not go to the door. In others, books and 

 ornaments fell down, and marble mantels were 

 started from their places. 



Several of the public clocks stopped, and 

 the large pendulum clocks in private houses 

 came to a stand-still. The hands indicated 

 from five to seven minutes before eight, as the 

 time of the first shock. 



The loss of property in San Francisco has 

 been variously estimated. A statement bear- 

 ing the name of Mr. James Otis, President of 

 the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, ad- 

 dressed to a similar body in New York, places 

 the loss at a sum not exceeding $300,000. 



Effects of the earthquake were felt in many 

 other parts of California. At Martinez, the 

 shock came at three minutes after eight o'clock. 

 The only damage reported was to the court- 



