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about 500 feet northeast of the hotel, and a secondary crack close to it had a downthrow 
of from 5 to 7 feet on the north or downhill side. The crack was about 4 feet wide here, 
and the line of fracture was parallel with the direction of the ridge. ‘The Summit school- 
house was dropt 4 feet downhill from its original position toward the northeast. In the 
vicinity of Summit several redwood trees were snapt off. 
Just north of Wright’s Station, on the west bank of Los Gatos Creek, there was a land- 
slide 0.5 mile wide which had slid into the creek and dammed it. ‘The top of this slide 
was near the Summit school-house and was close to the main fault-line. The Hotel de 
Redwood was destroyed by the shock. 
Wright Station (Miss F. C. Beecher). — Miss Beecher’s home is on Loma Prieta Avenue, 
on the county line, 1.5 miles in an air-line from Wright’s Station. The house stands on a 
ridge at an elevation of 1,700 feet. There were 2 maxima in the shock, of about equal 
intensity. The movement in the first was from south-southwest to north-northeast. 
All light objects were thrown down. Furniture against south walls was thrown down 
or moved out; objects against other walls were not moved as much. A small square 
piano which stood a few inches from a northeast wall ran back against the wall to the 
north with sufficient violence to break a knob off one leg. It then moved back to its 
original position, then 5 inches west. Then the two legs to the north jumped 6 inches 
south. These movements were determined by the marks upon the floor. A wash-basin, 
and a pitcher full of water, in an upstairs room, were thrown south, and the basin was 
found with the pitcher standing in it, uninjured but empty. A table in the middle of 
the same room fell to the north. A piano in a neighboring house, a heavy upright, was 
moved across the room to the northeast. 
All brick chimneys on the ridge fell, mostly to the north. Trees at the foot of the ridge 
were bent over to the north-northeast. Half a mile to the northwest of the house, a 
fissure 2 feet wide appeared, from which bad-smelling gas emanated. The fissure runs 
from north to south, and the earth was piled up on the west side from 2 to 4 feet high 
across the road. On Highland, a mile to the west, a fissure 5 feet wide was opened at an 
altitude of 2,500 feet. A building standing close to a fissure was entirely uninjured, while 
others a little farther off were wrecked and one collapsed. Most good buildings in a belt 
0.5 mile west of the house were wrecked, while barns and shaky buildings stood. About 
1.5 miles west, a house split open. Gulches appear to have been contracted, as the bridges 
crossing them show that they were squeezed. The banks of Burrell Creek appear to have 
approached each other, so that the creek has become very much narrowed. Water-pipes 
were broken and twisted, and filled with dirt. Water was thrown out of tanks, but the 
tanks were not overthrown. ; 
During the shock the waves appeared to oscillate in a north and south direction at 
first. There were at least 26 shocks during the first 26 hours after the main shock. 
Burrell School (H. R. Johnson). — Near the Burrell school-house, 1.5 miles southeast 
of Wright Station, a crack extends across the road by a blacksmith shop and shows a 
downthrow of 4 feet on the northeast. The blacksmith said there was a strong odor of 
sulfur for 5 or 10 minutes after the shock. A well near by has had sulfur in the water for 
a number of years. 
Morrell Ranch (H. R. Johnson).—The Morrell ranch is located 1 mile south of Wright’s 
Station and is on the line of the fault. The house itself was built exactly upon a fissure, 
which opened up under the house at the time of the earthquake. ‘The house was com- 
pletely wrecked, being torn in two pieces and thrown from its foundation. (Plate 107B.) 
There was an apparent downthrow upon the northeast side of the fault, as seen in the 
orchard; but under the house the vertical movement was not so apparent. An espe- 
cially strongly constructed wine cellar built into the side hill had the upper portion thrown 
3 feet northeast, directly away from the fault-line. After the shock this upper portion 
