1 14 MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



Mr. U. A. Mackinnon, " Kandi Lodge," Mussoorie. — There were 9 or 10 shocks. 

 A loose wail fell to N. Rock slides W of Kandi Lodge on Benog. The ravine 

 was full of fine dust. He stumbled repeatedly running out of the house. 



Mr. L.J. Evans, Civil Engineer, " Dumbarnie," Mussoorie. — Shock believed to 



be continuous but varying in intensity. Direction N S. but N. 20° E. by swaying 



lamp. He first thought it was a dog under the bed. When standing up the 

 rapidity of the shocks reminded him of the strokes of a piston of steam engine. 

 Each stroke would have 'made him fall but for the next which righted him. There 

 were about 150 or 180 to the minute as tested by a watch afterwards. Enormous 



trees swayed. Room with boarded floor running E W. humped up in the middle 



giving a slope N. — S. As a general rule long walls running N. — S. have suffered 

 least. Cross walls have been very much battered. Long walls running E. — W. 



have been cracked at intervals of 5 or 6 feet. Short walls N S. have been drawn 



apart at points of least resistance, i.e.* springings of door, arches, etc. Alligator 

 skin pattern cracks in plaster of rubble masonry walls. 



Miss Hope, " Clairville," Mussoorie. — At some time during the night or early 

 morning she was awakened by barking of dogs in her room. She heard creakings 

 (see foreshocks, p. 355). Of the earthquake itself there were 1st tremulous vibra- 

 tions of door, 2nd as she was standing she felt as if she had been taken by the 

 shoulders and shaken violently 3 or 4 times. Flower vases on dining room table 

 overturned. Bottle thrown off chest-of-drawers. Camp folding looking-glass 

 thrown off the mantelpiece, frame broken, but not the glass. 



Mr. W. C. Horst, Head Master, u The Abbey,' ' Junior Mussoorie School. 

 — Two distinct severe shocks with an interval of 2 or 3 seconds, the second being 

 the more intense. Direction N. — S. He had to hold on to things to steady him- 

 self walking. Whole room rocked violently N. — S. Two heavy iron bedsteads 

 on castors moved back and forth leaving an impression about 2 inches long 

 on the carpet. Two brass vases fell S. Two book cases at walls running 

 N. W.— S. E., one thrown down. Books thrown out. Picture frames displaced 

 20 inches with horizontal. Pendulum clock stopped. 



Hardwar. 



Hardwar, and the towns which follow in this description, really 

 lie outside of the Dehra-Mussoorie epicentral tract, but, coming as 

 they do within Mr. Simpson's sphere of description, they are included 

 here for the sake of uniformity. Hardwar lies on the right bank 

 of the Ganges just where it cuts across the range of the Siwaliks. 

 Near this point also the main boundary fault curves sharply to the south 

 just as happens between Guma and Mandi in the Kangra Valley 

 area. 



