166 MIDDLEMISS: KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



Postmaster, according to the office clock, was 6-10 a.m. At the 

 American Mission, a clock, believed to be correct with Railway time, 

 stopped at 6-12. 

 XT , Two severe shocks are spoken of, the second 



Number of shocks. 



being the longer of the two. Others were felt 

 subsequently. 

 A noise like that of a carriage passing along the 



Sound. 



road was heard. 



At the Deputy Commissioner's .bungalow in the office — a room 



Effect upon built out separately from the house — there are two 



opposite wide cracks in the W. and E. walls near the 



corners made with the N. wall, and there is a corresponding crack 



in the roof. It is clear that the N. end of the room tended to separate 



from the rest. An old decorated room upstairs has several ornamental 



arches cracked. 



The tomb of Mahan Singh is a tall octagonal structure with a series 



of eight solid cupolas at one stage of its height, one 



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at each corner ot the octagon. Ihe two on the b. 

 side of the octagon are bent over, and now lean towards E. 15° N., 

 their iron cores having prevented them from falling. 



In the temple over the sanctuary entrance were two small mina- 

 rets rising about 12 feet above the roof. A small knob on the sum- 

 mits of the cupola of the S. minaret fell westwards on to the roof of 

 the sanctuary, about 6 feet away from the minar ;, the cupola-knob of 

 the N. minaret fell eastwards into the court below (no mark on the 

 ground could be found), and the cupola itself, fell westwards on to the 

 sanctuary roof. 



The roof of a tall two-roomed barn, 20 feet high, has fallen, to- 

 gether with the inside partition- wall and the whole of one of the walls 

 at right angle to this. The material was of burnt brick with poor 

 cement. There has been relative movement between two contiguous 

 houses lying W. N. W. and E. S. E. of each other. One of them has 

 shitted outwards towards the street in a N. N. E. direction, and now 

 projects considerably from the other house. 



