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vents occurred from which water and sand spouted up tu a height 
of several feet. When vibration ceased the tennis-court, wliicli 
beforehand had been quite level, was found to have settled irrefiularly 
into a series of mounds and hollows. 
At Kalighat most of the bungalows were levelled to the ground- 
The Club was flat and all that was to be seen was the shattered 
thatched roof on the ground covering the debris of the walls 
(see Plate 1, fig. 1). The post office had fallen bodily towards 
the east. The doctor's bungalow had completely collapsed, 
and it was here that the only European death occurred. Mrs. 
Mumford, the wife of Dr. Mumford, being tilled instantaneoissly, and 
another lady pinned down, and crushed, by the falling roof and 
debris. The roof had been removed before my arrival, but there 
was still sufficient evidence to point to the fact that the direction 
of fall had been towards the east. Plate 1, fig. 2, shows the debris 
as I saw it, and the twisted and bent steel girders testify to the 
intensity of the shock. 
The Kalighat Manager's bungalow was not down, but was leaning 
over towards the east at a dangerous angle, and, its brickwork being 
badly shattered and cracked, was in danger of falling at any moment. 
The Kalighat factory was perhaps less damaged than the surround- 
ing factories, possibly because it was near the actual epicentre, but 
the walls were badly cracked and portions of the roof had shifted 
towards the east. The leaf-houses were badly shattered and these 
again gave evidence of a fall towards the east. The walls of the 
Kalighat church were shattered and thrown down, but the roof 
and iron frame-work were left standing. 
At Kajurichara the Manager's bungalow was thrown flat, and 
from the direction of fall of verandah pillars, and also of the gate- 
posts, the direction of fall seems to have been towards north-north- 
east. Here, as in the cases mentioned above, great damage had 
been done to leaf-houses and factory. 
At Rajghat the Manager's bungalow was down, the Assistant's 
bungalow partially down, and the remainder tottering ; many leaf- 
houses were down, and the factory was badly shattered and broker.. 
It w^as in the bungalow at this estate that I saw an eight-inch 
steel girder that had been broken across as if it had been a fragile 
stick. The general direction of fall at this estate was north-east. 
Between the factory and the Manager's bungalow on this estate 
is a small stream which for some distance flows south-west. During 
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