£ 74 MIDDLEMISS : KANCRA EARTHQUAKE. 



Another room below has a very bad crack in one wall. 



The Fort is an old building, dating from the time of Ran jit Singh, 



situated on rising gound, its longer axis pointing 



Fort * N. 30° E. and S. 30° W- The roof is low, heavy and 



vaulted, the vaults being upheld by massiv pillars. There are several 



wide cracks in the roof, one admitting daylight ; all of them are parallel 



to the longer axis. 



All the door and window arches on the second story of the officers' 

 quarters, which are also old, have been cracked ; the ground floor is 

 practically intact. 



The Church is uninjured except for the loss of a few slates. The 

 , ^ , „ dak bungalow has a few cracks, but these are 



Church: Dak Bun- & 



galow : District En- unimportant. In the District Engineer's bungalow, 

 gincer's Bungalow. a c himney fell and cracked the verandah roof ; a 

 gate-post showed many cracks. 



The direction of the longer axis of the Court House is E. to W. 



There are very bad cracks in the verandah, and the 



upper parts of the walls are cracked, but the cracks 



traverse the mortar and not the bricks. Cracks in the rooms are more 



frequent in the walls running N. and S. 



The Treasury building itself is intact. The outer court is enclosed 



by four high walls with a projecting imitation round 

 The Treasury. 



" tower " at each corner. These towers are floorless, 



roof-less, and the walls are incomplete on the inside. All four are 

 cracked down the centre, while the walls connecting them are 

 immune. 



The Town Hall, a large capacious building, has 

 escaped almost entirely. 

 In the principal bungalow of the American Mission, a house of two 

 The American stories, there are slight cracks above the verandah 

 Mlss,on - arches on the ground- floor, and larger ones in the 



same position on the upper floor. There are several cracks in walls 

 and corners, especially in the upper story and especially on the N 

 side of the house, where the verandah is situated. 



