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Tanana River. — Messrs. A. H. Brooks, W. J. Peters, and a U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey party were just north of the Tanana Eiver, near latitude 

 143 degrees west and longitude 63 degrees north, a little over 250 miles 

 northwest of Yakutat. At 3.30 in the afternoon they heard a series of 

 loud, distant sounds, resembling the sound of blasting or the discharge 

 of heavy artillery, repeated at irregular intervals with varying intensity 

 for five or ten minutes, then seeming gradually to lose their intensity and 

 die away. Similar sounds were heard for about a minute at 8 p. m.^^ 



Kenai Mountains. — At Latouche, on the west side of Prince William 

 Sound, 295 miles west of Yakutat, Lieut. E. F. Glenn, of the TJ. S. Army, 

 reports having his attention attracted to this earthquake by feeling as if 

 he were about to fall.^'' 



Xear Kenai Lake, 380 miles west of Yakutat, a shock observed by Mr. 

 W. E. Lennox on an unrecorded date in the fall of 1899, perhaps Sep- 

 tember 3, caused lamps to swing, goods to roll from the shelves of a store, 

 and the ground to sway sufficiently to cause dizziness. 



At Homer, Kachemak Bay, 430 miles west of Yakutat, Mr. George 

 Jamme, a mining engineer, felt this September 3d earthquake, which 

 threw him against a drawing table. 



Coolc, Inlet. — At Susitna Station, near the head of Cook Inlet and 390 

 miles west of Yakutat, the September 3d earthquake was observed by 

 Eev. F. E. Falconer at 2 p. m. The shock seemed gentle, with a wave- 

 like motion. 



At Tyonek, on the west coast of Cook Inlet, a severe shock was reported 

 to A. H. Brooks by a prospector, whether on the 3d or 10th of September 

 not being recorded. 



Alaska Range. — Northwest of Mount McKinley, in the Alaska Eange 

 and 480 miles northwest of Yakutat, near the headwaters of the Kuskok- 

 Avim Eiver, in latitude 63° 30' north, longitude 152° 30' west, Lieut. 

 J. S. Herron, of the IT. S. Army, felt the September 3d earthquake at 

 2 p. m.2' Another shock was felt at 2.30 p. m. The first shock was 

 ver\^ severe and seemed to be right under Lieutenant Herron, lasting five 

 seconds. It shook the ground, caused waves two feet high on a creek, 

 made it difficult to stand without holding on to a tree, and impossible to 

 walk. It was a severe and continual rocking or shaking of the earth and 

 not a gradual movement. 



25 From the journal of A. H. Brooks, September 3. 1899. 



28 Explorations in and about Cooks Inlet. Senate Report 1023, 56th Congress, 1st 

 session, Washington, 1900, p. 715. 



27 Explorations in Alaska, 1899, War Department. Adjutant General's OfQce, No. 

 xxxi, Washington. 1901. p. 38 ; Lieutenant Herron's diary for 1899. 



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