|gg MIDDLEMISS: KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



coming from S. E.— N. W. The whole ground heaved like waves of the sea. [The 

 writer, who has evidently studied the subject, makes some further remarks as to 

 the origin of the shock, which, however, have been disproved by actual traverses 

 over the ground.] 



The Postmaster, Townhall.— Tune 6-10. Duration 1 min. 58 sees. Very 

 severe. Nine people killed and much damage. 



Mr. J. Ashford, Supdt., Central Workshop, Irrigation Department.— Tremulous 

 vibrat ions, 200 per minute. Direction E. by N.— W. by S. direction obtained from 

 oscillating chimuey. The shock was violently felt, all doors and windows rattled 

 violently and some came, unbolted in consequence of the upper bolts dropping 

 down, and doors opened. Ornaments fell. Two pendulum office clocks stopped 

 at 6-11 on wall facing E. They were regularly checked by railway time. Many 

 buildings damaged on E. and W. sides. Violent shaking of the bed in which 

 he was. He ran outside. The sound was a distinct rumbling. 



Mr. G. W. E. Atkinson, Assistant Secretary to the Municipality.— One con- 

 tinuous shock, 40 to 50 seconds. Hotel buildings swayed from side to side, also 

 up and down in a confused way. Direction uncertain. Doors rattled. He was 

 aroused from sleep, and immediately went outside. The most severe shock he 

 has felt in his life. If it had lasted twice as long he thinks all buildings would 

 have collapsed. Isolated houses have suffered more than groups which buttressed 

 each other. Tall factory chimneys did not suffer, nor railways, nor bridges. 



Mr. F. W. Schonemann, Executive Engineer, Bari Doab Canal. — There was 

 first a banging and rattling of doors followed immediately by a rumbling noise 

 like a carriage or cart driven round the house on hard ground. Second a prolonged 

 steady reciprocating motion of horizontal jerks for about 10 sees. Third a regular 

 oscillation for more than 3 minutes. Direction N. — S. by hanging fern baskets. 

 At 4 a.m. his wife heard a door rattle. Also Mr. Roberts in the same house 

 heard it and thought it was thieves. (See Foreshocks, p. 355.) 



Tarn Tar an. 



This large village is situated 14 miles south of Amritsar, 



A wall in the high two -stoned entrance gateway of the Tehsil 



building was dangerously cracked and had to be 

 Tehsil. 



taken down. Several arches inside the Tehsil are 

 cracked, and the E. porch of the Treasury was so severely shattered as 

 to necessitate its removal. 



The injury to the temple is practically confined to the roof on 



which is built a baradari, consisting of four corner 



pillars of L-shaped section and eight intermediate pil- 



lars of rectangular section, the whole forming twelve arched doorways 



