300 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 
diameter being 10 inches in a west-northwest direction and the shorter diameter 4 inches 
in a north-northeast direction. The motion in the ellipse was clockwise. The clock stopt. 
Point Conception Light-house Station (Mr. Austin). — While cleaning up in the tower 
at 5° 20" a.m., the keeper felt the lens shake. No one else at the station felt the shock. 
Santa Barbara (J. A. Dodge). —I was aroused from a half-sleeping condition by a 
singular rustling noise in the house. None of us recognized it as an earthquake at the 
time. My bed was not perceptibly shaken. Nothing was shaken out of place, no plaster- 
ing was cracked, and no clocks were affected. The sound referred to was produced by 
something in the structure of the house creaking or vibrating. Other reports state that 
some hanging objects were caused to swing, and that one woman was made dizzy. 
Carpenteria, Santa Barbara County. — The shock was sufficient to rattle dishes and 
slightly move beds, but few people were awakened by it. 
Saticoy, Ventura County (Ki. O. Tucker). — Water in a trough which was 6 inches from 
being full, slopt over nearly a pailful at a time from the ends. The trough lies from north- 
east to southwest. A rattling noise was heard in the house, but no motion was felt. 
Hueneme Light-house Station, Ventura County (C. F. Allen). —'The earthquake was 
one abrupt shake which gradually died out, lasting 4 seconds in all. The weight to the 
clockwork which turns the light thumped back and forth in the weight-well from north- 
west to southeast, and the window weights did likewise. 
In Ventura County a slight shock was reported at Newberry Park,.Punta Gorda, and - 
Ventura. At the latter place, hanging objects were observed to sway from east to west. 
Calabassas (H. H. Wheeler). — A farmer stated that a number of cisterns for collecting 
rain-water for domestic uses were cracked by the earthquake shock so that they leaked. 
Santa Monica, Los Angeles County (T. H. Moody). — A disturbance was noticed which 
seemed to be on the front porch, the noise continuing with:considerable regularity, and 
appearing to change from place to place. Then there was other cracking around the 
house, and finally all was quiet. Nothing moved out of place. 
Los Angeles (J. D. Hooker). — There was a light shock, then a heavier; then a smart 
shock which caused windows and doors to rattle. A window curtain swung in and out. 
A brass ring attached to a cord 15 inches long swung northwest and southeast. At the 
Weather Bureau station the barometers were observed to swing and rattle against the rings 
which confined them. The shock was also reported as a slight one at Azusa, Claremont, 
and Toluca, in Los Angeles County. : 
Anaheim, Orange County (J. F. Walker). — Very few people in Anaheim report having 
felt a shock at all. It was very slight. No clocks were stopt. 
San Bernardino (Dr. A. K. Johnson), — The shock was sufficient to stop the town 
clock at 5" 17", and several: persons felt the vibrations, but no movable objects were 
displaced. At 4" 30" p.m., April 18, a slight oscillation was felt which caused the chande- 
lier to sway. This movement continued for a few seconds, and seemed to be from north- 
west to southeast. 
BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. 
In Contra Costa and Alameda Counties the destructive effects of the earthquake were 
most manifest in the cities of Berkeley, Oakland, and Alameda, on the east side of the 
Bay of San Francisco. 
Berkeley (A. C. Lawson). — A large majority of the brick chimneys were broken or 
overthrown, and in addition to this several brick buildings had their upper walls thrown 
down or were otherwise damaged by cracks. The most notable cases of this kind of | 
damage indicative of the intensity of the shock may be briefly mentioned. 
At the State Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind the upper part of the northwest 
tower of the building, to the north of the central structure, was wrecked by a considerable 
