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In the store-room many books and large tins were projected of! 

 shelves running along walls in the direction N. 20° E. to S. 20° 

 W. ; nothing with the exception of a few insecurely placed books, 

 fell from the shelves at right angles to these. 



On the roof is a kind of open shed consisting of six substantial 

 rectangular brick pillars supporting a heavy wooden roof. The 

 structure shows signs of having rocked to and fro from W- 20° 

 N. to E. 20° S. The pillars are cracked at the tops and have 

 either separated from the roof supporting them or cracked hori- 

 zontally close to the base. 



In the offices of the Inspector-General of Police there are many 

 Office of the Ins- vertical cracks but no serious damage, and no 



pector -General of 



Police, indication of the direction of shock. 



The Police Court was unharmed save for a few vertical cracks. 



In Lahore City, situated to the north of the town, the Eajah 



Lahore City: Khirti Singh's Palace has suffered severely. It 



Rajah Khirti Singh's . _ 



p a l aC e. consists of an irregular group 01 red-brick build- 



ings, many of them lofty and most of them old and poorly built : 

 some were in need of repair before the earthquake. A great number 

 of rooms exhibit cracks large and small, nearly all vertical, and, 

 owing to the irregularity of the structure, of little scientific interest. 

 The most grievous damage was done where the floor of an upper 

 story gave way. The wooden beams had rotted just outside their 

 sockets and snapped at both ends when disturbed by the vibration. 

 The features of interest in the mosque of Wazir Khan are the 

 Wazir Khan's f our lofty minars at the corners of the spacious 



mosque. court. These are some 90 feet in height, built of 



brick, octagonal in section, slightly tapering and connected with 

 each other on the north and south sides of the court by low walls 

 on the east connected by the entrance gateway to which the minars 

 are also joined by low walls, and on the west by the entrance to 

 the sanctuary. All four minars are now leaning outwards away 

 from the centre of the court, but bending rather more towards 

 the north and south than towards the east and west. 



