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many of the heavier specimens, weighing 20 pounds or more, were projected from the 
largest, or top shelf, thru the glass doors, and were found strewn on the floor. In no case, 
however, was the glass of the doors broken. ‘The latter had been forced open at the same 
moment that the masses of rock had been hurled toward them, thus allowing the missiles 
to pass thru. Smaller specimens, weighing less than a pound, on the shelves imme- 
diately below the top one, were very little disturbed. 
Oakland (A. C. Lawson). — The destructive effects of the earthquake were much more 
in evidence in Oakland than in Berkeley, and this is doubtless due in large measure to the 
much greater number of brick and masonry structures susceptible to this kind of damage. 
When particular instances are considered, however, it seems probable that the severity of 
the shock was in reality somewhat greater in Oakland than in Berkeley. Chimneys fell 
very generally thruout the city; the upper parts of brick walls, gables, and cornices 
were in many cases thrown down (plate 1228) and cracks in walls were numerous. The 
underpinning of some few old frame houses caused these structures to collapse. In 
addition to this damage, which indicates fairly well the prevailing intensity of the shock, 
there were several cases of more severe destruction which must be noted. 
The Prescott school, in course of erection, at the corner of Ninth and Campbell Streets, 
was rather badly wrecked (plate 1218), as was also the building of the California Flax 
Works, on the corner of Union and Third Streets, the walls of which gave way, causing 
the roof to collapse. (Plate 1214.) The susceptibility of this building to destruction 
was probably due to lack of transverse bracing for the walls, except that supplied by 
the roof girders. The southeast tower of the First Baptist Church, on Telegraph Ave- 
nue, had its upper northeast corner thrown out, and was otherwise wrecked. (Plate 
1224.) The east and south gables were both thrown out; but the lower towers at the 
northeast and southwest corners of the building were comparatively unaffected. The 
Central Bank building, at the corner of Fourteenth Street. and Broadway, had the brick- 
work of its southwest corner thrown off from the 2 upper stories, and was similarly 
affected, tho to a less extent, on its northwest corner. (Plate 120.) The large smoke- 
stack at the Key Route power generating plant, built on the tidal marsh land, had its 
upper third thrown off. (Plate 120s.) 
Considerable damage was also done to the First Unitarian Church, at the corner of 
Castro and Fourteenth Streets, and to the Christian Science Church, at Franklin and 
Seventeenth Streets. 
(E. C. Jones.) —There were very few breaks in cast-iron gas-mains. Two of these 
were caused by impact of heavy débris falling from buildings and poles. One was on 
Washington Street, where heavy blocks of sandstone fell from the third story and the 
roof, breaking the main 30 inches below the bituminous rock. Another was at the corner 
of Fourteenth Street and Broadway, where a transformer fell from a pole, striking the 
center of a short car rail and bending up both ends. A 38-inch cast-iron main a short 
distance from this was broken at right angles. On the Twelfth Street dam, a cast-iron 
pipe was broken and displaced over a foot; while the high pressure steel pipe paralleling 
it was practically undisturbed. Gas-holders were uninjured, tho much of the water 
was thrown out of the holder tanks. The only damage to buildings was the destruction 
of brick gables at Gas Station ‘“‘B,” First and Market Streets. 
Oakland cemeteries (R. Newcomb). — In the Mountain View Cemetery, which is on 
a little draw between ridges, the chief damage done was the cracking of the receiving 
vault, and that was not injured very much. 
In St. Mary’s Cemetery, on the small ridge to the west, however, many monuments 
were moved or twisted and several were overthrown. On entering the cemetery from 
the east, very little damage was observed, but on climbing the ridge more and more was 
noticed. On the north slope less damage was done, and on level ground farther north 
