50 MIDDLEMtSS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



about 50 ft. above the level of the Beas R. About 204 deaths oc- 

 curred here. 



Enrthqvake Form. — Sri Gopal, Vakil to the Mandi State. No tremulous vibra- 

 tions. Three almost successive shocks. Direction N. W.— S. E. A booming 

 noise preceded the shock. 



Most buildings of the type of the travellers' bungalow, guest- 

 house, school and post office, all one-storey high and stone-built, had 

 not suffered much. Their walls were generally standing though much 

 damaged, and the roofs also though buckled in places. 



The palace, a lofty building, and very old 

 The Palace. . ' , _ , _ . . • .. 



m parts, had suffered by portions of the walls 



collapsing. 



Of other buildings, all those with rounded water-worn boulders. in 

 the composition of their walls, had collapsed as a rule, sometimes 

 wholly, and sometimes partially. 



The well-built stone silcras of temples near the river generally had 



not been damaged ; but the anialaka of an old 

 Temples. 



temple S. W. of Mandi had rolled down the surface 

 of the dome in a N. E. by E. direction. Another temple had its 

 golden pinnacle upset according to report to the W. N. W., and after- 

 wards stones fell the other way. 



The tahsil, a double-storied building, was badly cracked, and por- 

 tions of the walls including the S. W. corner had 

 fallen. It was, however, a top-heavy structure 

 roofed with heavy Mandi slates, which are sometimes as much as I to 

 1 inch in thickness. 



Many houses of two and even three stories, with a solid stone base 

 (often dressed stone) and with an entirely wooden upper storey ; as 

 well as many three-storied buildings made of wood and stone inter- 

 mixed, the wood courses being at intervals of 4 to 5 ft. and bonded 

 at the corners, stood the shock very well, especially if they were roofed 

 with light slates. 





