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Mr. Dan Pickering, living about a mile south of Santa Clara, on the Santa Clara and Los 
Gatos road, was standing outside his barn when he heard the sound, which he compares 
to a stampede of cattle coming from the southeast. His tank and wind-mill fell diagonally 
actoss the foundation to the northwest, after swaying heavily three times; first to the 
northwest, then to the southeast, and finally to the northwest. He states that the 
ground rose and fell in waves a foot high. Others report that the orchards seemed to 
be agitated by a wave-like motion. 
On the ranch of Dr. Tevis, about a mile from Alma Station, where the land is rolling 
and wooded, the ground was fissured and the bottom of an artificial lake was upheaved. 
(Plate 139c, p.) The cracks and fissures, of which there are many, run mostly north and 
south, and vary in length up to 100 feet, and in width from 0.5 inch or less to 20 inches. 
While a good many of the openings were parallel to the slopes and were caused by the 
ground starting to slide, others crost the roads and could be traced some distance up 
the banks. A board fence was splintered where it crost a fissure. The upheaval of the 
lake was caused by a closing together of the sides, shown by the heaving up of parts of 
the retaining dam at the lower end of the lake. The rise of the bottom is roughly 10 feet. 
Three of the large cemeteries of the Santa Clara Valley were visited. In the Los Gatos 
Cemetery, on the New Almaden road, no monuments were thrown. In the Protestant 
Cemetery, 0.75 mile southwest of Santa Clara, 31 monuments were thrown down and 
mostly broken. Of these 10 fell to the south. In the Catholic Cemetery, 0.25 mile nearer 
Santa Clara, 26 monuments fell, of which 10 fell to the south. The direction of the fall 
of monuments in these two cemeteries is here tabulated: 



N NE E SE. S SW. 
Protestant . . 3 7} 1 10 1 
Catholic. . . 5 1 6 2 10 1 


* Of these, 4 fell from pedestals which leaned to the east. 
In the Catholic Cemetery three monuments were turned on their bases, two clockwise 
and one counter-clockwise. 
The Santa Clara city water-tower, with large tanks on top, fell to the southwest. 
(F. H. McCullogh.) —I was in bed in Los Gatos and was awakened by the shock, which 
seemed to be a violent but irregular shaking back and forth in a northeast-southwest 
direction, altho objects were overturned in an easterly or southeasterly direction. A 
double bed on a polished floor rolled 4 feet from its position. One heavy marble clock 
was thrown off its shelf. Ornaments and bric-d-brac were thrown down. Two tables 
were turned upside down. Plastering was cracked. Chimneys were cracked above roof, 
but not thrown. In the town I could hear of only one chimney which was uninjured; 
90 per cent of all chimneys were thrown down. Water in a reservoir 30 feet in diameter 
and 10 feet deep was thrown out so as to lower the level of the water nearly 2 feet. 
Lexington (H. R. Johnson). — At the Lexington saloon, 3 miles south of Los Gatos, 
very little damage was done. 
At the Averill place, 1.5 miles west of Wright’s Station, a water-tank was moved a foot 
toward the south. A piece of board several feet long, which was leaning against the 
tank-house before the shock, was said to have been found wedged between the bottom 
of the tank-house and the foundation. This would necessitate a lifting of the tank-house 
in a vertical direction on that side, which might have been accomplished by the tank- 
house rocking from side to side. 
Summit Hotel (H. R. Johnson). — At Summit, a summer resort, the new hotel and 
several small cottages were all thrown toward the north. The main fault fracture is 
