LARGE CITIES OF THE PLAINS NEAR THE VIIth ISOSEIST. 137 



Clearly the shock has struck this building in a more or less E. to 

 W. or W. to E. direction. 



The Montgomery Hall is a large heavy building of which the main hall 

 has suffered. This is a lofty room around which 

 extends a gallery or internal verandah about 15 feet 

 from the groimd. On the south side of the building is a tall 

 porch which has separated a little from the hall. Part of the roof over 

 the gallery adjoining the porch has fallen upon and broken through 

 the gallery floor beneath: this catastrophe was no doubt connected with 



the movement of the porch, 

 which to some extent appears 

 to have carried with it the 

 wall of the building, in the 

 oscillations, and to have thus 

 drawn the beams of the gallery 

 roof out of their sockets. 



The capitals of the porch 

 pillars are cracked, as are also 

 all the keys of the arches over 

 the gallery, as indicated in 

 the diagram (fig. 40). 





HALL 



u 



GALLERY FLOOR 

 & ROOF FALLEN 



Li 



PORCH 



Fig. 40. 

 The Education Department is a long one-storied building, its long 

 Education Depart- *™ lying N. 15° E. to 8. 15° W. There are 

 *ient. many cracks, mostly vertical, and the transverse 



walls are those chiefly affected. 



In the Kailway Station the injury has been extensive, but uniform 



in nature. The direction of the line and platforms 



Railway Station. . g w 3()0 n> ^ 3. ■ 30° S. On one platform 



the wide-angled gable-roof of the 1st class gentlemen's wait- 

 ing room has fallen, and there are cracks in the corners : in the 1st 

 class and 2nd class ladies' waiting rooms on the same platform the 

 roofs are dangerously cracked and will have to be taken down. On 



