22 STUAET : THE SKTl\IANrr.\L EARTHQUAKE OF 8TH JULY 1018. 
fjardens near Juri. At Langla. the manager's bungalow had its 
walls running east and west cracked and some brick work in the 
upper storey of one of them fell outwards. The factory runs east 
and west and has brick walls. Both the east and west gable ends 
were badly shattered and a portion of about 50 sq. ft. fell out of 
each. About 40 ft. of the upper ])ortion of the southern wall of the 
factory was thrown down and the remainder badly cracked. The 
northern wall which is only about half the height of the southern 
wall was more badly cracked but none of it fell. The leaf-houses 
are all steel-framed and run east and west : after the shock all were 
found to be leaning slightly towards the east. Inside the buildings, 
an iron safe on a wooden stand Avith its back towards the east side 
of a wall running north and south was jerked round and left facing 
north-west, having come away from the wall 51 inches at the southern 
corner ; after the shock, the northern back corner was lOi inches 
from the wall, and the southern back corner 15i inches. A 400- 
day clock which was facing east and standing on the top shelf of a 
whatnot was rotated in a counter clockwise direction and came to 
rest facing north. A book-case full of books, standing with its back 
towards the south wall was thrown forwards on to its face in a 
northerly direction. 
At the Phultallah and Chandkhira tea estates near Juri the 
shock was felt still less. At Phultallah the buildings sustained 
merely a few cracks and a little plaster fell off. A clock which was 
facing east fell forwards on to its face and ornaments fell east and 
west. The tea-house is said to have swayed from east to west at 
least a foot out of the perpendicular during the shock. 
The chief damage to the railway in this area embraced by isoseist 
No. 3 occurred at Fenchuganj. Here the embankment leading 
up to the south end of the Fenchuganj bridge settled as much as 
20 feet in places, leaving the railway track hanging in mid air. The 
piers of the bridge have also been found to have cracked below high 
flood-level, a fact that was not known till the river level went down 
several months after the earthquake. 
In many places cracks appeared in the ground and sand and 
water were ejected. This phenomenon was particularly noticeable 
by the side of the railway line between Mymensingh and Kishorganj, 
the borrow-pits by the side of the railway being, in many places, 
completely filled up with the ejected sand and mud. 
