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habitants, was greatly damaged by the earthquake, and here 
killed and thirty-four others seriously injured. Frame houses 
were shaken, but not thrown down. At Independence also 
many buildings were prostrated and a few lives lost. 
In this valley, and at some other places, the shocks were pee: 
ceded and accompanied by a loud rumbling sound, which is 
described as being “like a train of cars or like distant artillery.” 
Mention was made in the first accounts of large fissures in 
the ground, fires seen in the mountains, etc.; but these re- 
ports do not seem to be confirmed by the later advices. The 
level of Owen’s lake is also said to have risen four feet. 
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published in the newspapers of San Francisco; and for aid in 
collecting them, my thanks are due to C. G. Rockwood, Esq., 
Newark, N. J i. C. Smith, Esq., secretary of the Merchants’ 
Exchange and News Association, New York, Rev. D. W. Poor, 
D.D., af Nien ay Cal. and John A. Keyes, postmaster at 
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It is to be ati that more full and careful scientific accounts 
of the physical phenomena may have been collected by some 
person on the spot, and that they may in due time be given to 
the public. 
6. A slight shock was reported at Paducah, Ky., on the 
morning of March 26, and another at Salt Lake City, Utah, at 
* The following later news has appeared in the columns of the San Francisco 
“Zone Pine, May 17, 1872.—We had such a shake to-day as we have not had 
since the 26th of March, when the town was reduced to ruins. There has been no 
y thrown from my seat. “The shock lasted some thirty seconds.” 
