352 MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



down. Fearing volcanic- eruption. Ongole notorious, three shocks annually 

 Oldest men never experienced so many so severe. In the morning at 3-50 a.m., 

 another shock, total 15 till now. Town abandonment absolutely necessary, must 

 remove offices, Sub- Collect or inspected the buildings which were condemned. 

 The people panic-stricken, not sleeping. 



Damage to the Telegraph. 



Of damage to the telegraph in Kangra andKulu, 190 miles of line, 

 239 poles, including a few terminals, were either broken, knocked down 

 or tilted over. 13 J miles of wiie in the aggregate were lying on the 

 ground broken in several places. Telegraph buildings and instruments 

 shared in the general destruction, but fortunately only one postmaster 

 in charge of a combined office was killed. 



Effects on Animals. 



Scattered about in the pages of the descriptive part will be found 

 numerous allusions to the way. animals comported themselves during 

 the earthquake. It seems in many cases to have made horses restive- 

 On birds it had a very immediate effect in consequence of the shaking 

 of the tree3. Dogs and cats were also affected (p. 45). The animals 

 in the Lahore Zoo were highly alarmed and " created a great uproar, 

 the piercing shrieks of peafowl being predominant. "— (Englishman, 

 6th April). 



The Kashmir Seismograph Trace. 



Although I have been unable to reproduce and discuss the long- 

 distance seismograph records of this earthquake from other parts of 

 India and in other -lands (work which has, however, been done far 

 better than I could hope to do by Prof. Omori) there is one seismo- 

 gram which is of interest because it was traced within the seismic area 



rinagar in Kashmir, and has not been mentioned by Prof. Omori. 

 I have received through Dr. Walker, Meteorological Reporter to the 

 Government of India, copies of this seismograph trace, and I have also 

 had some correspondence with Dr. A. Mitra, Meteorological Reporter to 

 the Kashmir State, with reference to the same. 



