KANGRA-KULU EPICENTRAL AREA. 41 



A few accounts have come to hand from Palampur. Captain 

 McKechnie, I. M.S., is reported as estimating that about 100 lives 

 were lost at Palampur and 10 — 20 per cent, in the surrounding villages. 



A letter from Mr. Millar, I.C.S., which appeared in most of the 

 newspapers, described his narrow escape. He was staying in the 

 travellers' bungalow vvith the Raja of Mandi : — 



He was awakened by bricks and plaster falling on his head and ribs. He 

 took refuge under the bed and then the roof fell in. He* was pinned down by 

 the bed which broke, but his servant hearing his cries came in and extricated him. 

 They then went and got the Raja out of his room. The latter was buried 

 under bricks and timber and had a marvellous escape as the whole place fell 6 

 minutes after getting him out. 



Mr. F. Ballard's son was similarly buried, tut for a considerable period of 

 time, and Dr. Owen had to use artificial respiration for an hour. 



Earthquake Form.— "Mr. A. N. Macbean of Clachnacuddin Tea Estate reported 

 three shocks, the second longer and more violent, than the first, and from the 

 north-east or east. The third seemed a sudden jerk from north-east and back 

 again. He himself had a narrow escape, being protected by a window of a wall 

 which did not fall. 



My own observations showed that the bazar and station had 

 Bcazar and public suffered not quite so severely as lower Dharmsala 

 buildings. and Kangra (see pi. 9, fig. 2). There were the 



relics of several houses standing, also the post office, which was still 

 partly in use! But the other public buildings, such as the court-house, 

 sessions houst, school and church, were total ruins, though portions 

 of the walls still stood. A number of small crosses in the church- 

 yard were standing uninjured as at Dharamsala, only one flat slab 

 having been slightly moved. 



The church (see pi. 10, figs. 2 and 3) * had the arches on the 



north side of the central aisle all down, whilst those 



of the south side were standing. The west end of 



the church (which had only a small bell-tower) was much broken, and 



the eaSt end remained as depicted in pi. 10, fig. 3. It should be 



noted that the steep cliff down into the Maul Khad was in the near 



1 I am also indebted to Mrs Ballard for the photograph of this church before the 

 bhock. 



