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feet apart and 4 or 5 feet deep. A cloud of dust from an avalanche was 

 seen from a distance. 



In 1905 and 1909 we found drowned forests and other evidences of 

 subsidence at a dozen places from 1 to 14 miles from Yakutat Village 

 (figure 6), and the statement that water waves accompanied only this 

 shock at noon September 10 suggests that the subsidence all came in con- 

 nection with this one great earthquake. 



The steamship Dora touched at Yakutat on September 12, 1899, and 

 her crew and passengers brought the first news of the earthquake here to 



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Figure 6. — The Ear1)or at Yakutat Village 



Where submergence, water waves, and sand vents, or craterlets, developed during the 

 great earthquake of September 10, 1899. Soundings in fathoms (after U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey). 



the outside world.** The United States revenue cutter McCuIloch 

 reached Yakutat on September 17. Capt. W. C. Coulson refers briefly 

 to the earthquakes and to changes in the entrance to the harbor in the log 

 of the vessel. The Governor of Alaska, Mr. Brady, went ashore and 

 learned of the earthquakes, to which he refers incidentally in his annual 



*< Sitlia Alaskan, September 16, 1899 ; San Francisco Examiner, dispatch dated Juneau, 

 September 14, 1899 ; San Francisco Chronicle, dispatch dated Seattle, September 20, 

 1899 ; Seattle Daily Times, September 21, 1899 ; Butte Weekly Miner, September 21, 

 1899 ; New York Daily Tribune, September 21, 1899 ; same, September 22, 1899 ; New 

 York Evening Post, September 21, 1899 ; Toronto Mail and Empire, September 22, 1899. 



