12 OI,DIIAM : THE CA.CIIAR EARTHQUAKE OF lOl'II JANUARY 1869. 



The small hospital attached to the native infantry lines was a perfect 

 ruin ; this had Leen a simple rectangular building 80 feet long contain- 

 ing a central room round three sides of which was a verandah, the roof 

 being supported on masonry pillars 2 feet square. The northern end of the 

 building was open ; at the southern end the verandah at either side was 

 enclosed so as to form two small rooms for dispensing medicines, &c. ; the 

 brickwork of all was old, and of very poor quality ; the plain ridge roof 

 was of the ordinary heavy thatch in use in the country. All was 

 in ruins, most of the debris had been removed before I saw the place, and 

 the roof and much of the rubbish was gone, but the pillars still remained 

 as they were first thrown down. That they went over en masse, was 

 perfectly evident from the way in which they lay; portions of the 

 pillars, more than 3' feet in length, were laid along the verandah 

 floor quite unbroken and with as much regularity and parallelism as if 

 they had been carefully alligned. All were separated from the base on 

 the smooth surface of one course of bricks and simply turned over, and 

 this was the case in both verandahs, whether to the west or east. The cross 

 walls and additional division near the southern end of the building had 

 to a certain extent so strengthened the fabric there that the walls were 

 largely standing, but the whole of the heavy massive roof must have been 

 started by the shock and have carried with it the pillars which supported 

 it on either side, and the walls to the north. The axis of the building 

 was magnetic north and south ; the direction of the pillars as they lay 

 was slightly affected by the action of the roof with which they were 

 connected, but all lay at angles between 6° and 10° west of north. 



The jail near the town at. the south end of the bazaar presented a 

 curious appearance. The high outside wall had been laid perfectly flat on 

 the around, a few courses next the ground here and there remained and 

 a small portion of the curved corner of the wall, where each portion had 

 supported the other, still stood as well as parts of the large gateway, 

 where the walls had been strengthened by the heavier piers and but- 

 tresses, the rest was lying on the ground, every portion in its true 

 position relatively to that which was next it in the wall originally, but 



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