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Mr. A. Greene, Sub-Assistant Superintendent, Telegraph Office. —Time 6-10 a.m. 

 Chest-of -drawers upset accompanied by a breeze and fall in temperature. A very 

 severe shock. He partly lost his balance during the second shock. 



Mr. F. C. Dixon, C.E. (of Adams & Co., Agra). — There was a continuous 

 shaking growing in intensity but no separate shocks. He first thought it was a 

 dog under the bed. Doors and windows rattled, bed shook more violently. He 

 then went outside. No sound. 



Babu Jaspat Rai, Chief Observer, Magnetic Observatory.— Time 6-12 by a 

 Government watch keeping accurate time and often compared with Observatory 

 clocks. Direction S. or S. S. W. Furniture trembled, houses shook, cracks in 

 most houses, lamps, punkhas and other hanging things swung from S. — N. Many 

 people buried under wreck of houses. Bottles and glasses overturned on shelves. 

 Pendulum clocks in the Observatory were stopped. Charts of self-recording 

 instruments all show the. exact time of the occurrence, namely, 5-48 a.m. local time 

 which = 6-12 a.m. Madras time. 



Mr. U. T. Janson, Assistant Engineer, North Western Railway. — Time 6-13 by 

 clocks stopped. There were two shocks, the first being the more intense, and woke 

 him up in Nedou's Hotel. At first the direction was N. 20° E. which increased 

 in intensity for about 30 seconds. Then the direction changed suddenly to one 

 at right angles, the intensity remaining the same. Outside he had to keep his feet 

 wide apart to keep his balance. The waves now appeared to come from all 

 directions, almost in a gyratory manner. Trees lashed as in a strong wind. 

 Finally the shocks subsided to a tremor. 



Mr. P. Brown, Curator, Central Museum — Time 6-15|, believed correct with 

 railway time. Three strong sets of vibrations, the 3rd the strongest. As he got 

 out of bed he was thrown down by the 2nd shock. Hanging lamp, 14 ft. long 

 wire, had a N. — S. swing of 3| to 4 ft. arc. Water from basin splashed N.E. — S.W. 

 No sound heard. Several articles in the museum were overturned and many 

 moved. From examination of hundreds of small articles he noted the general 

 direction of travel to be S. E., especially in the case of glass and earthenware 

 articles on plate glass shelves whose path was traced in the dust. Amount of 

 movement | inch to J£ inch. 



Earthquake Forms — Mian Mir. 



Major T. Y. Seddon, 34th Pioneers.— Time 6-7 (clock stopped). There was 

 first a severe rumbling, culminating secondly in one sudden shock. Thirdly, tremu- 

 lous vibration for 30 seconds after the big shock. It was most distinctly felt. 



Imani Din, Sub-Postmaster.— Time 6-10 by watch in accordance with telegraph 

 time. First 3 or 4 tremulous vibrations, 2nd 2 principal shocks, 3 or 4 seconds 

 each. Direction E. — W. by parcel scale. Everything seemed vibrating. A 

 rattling sound was "felt" before the main shock. 



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