270 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 
(G. A. Waring.) —At the San Vicente lime-quarry, the intensity was found to have 
been considerably higher in the bottom of the canyon. A cow in the yard could not 
keep her feet, men could not walk to the door of the cook-house, and milk and water 
were nearly all thrown from the pans and kettles. Little or no damage was done to 
the buildings or furnaces, and cordwood on the steep slopes was not thrown down. 
At Coast there was little sign of destruction by the earthquake, and nothing could 
be learned. At Bonnie Doon, tho the shock was appreciable, no clocks were reported 
stopt and nothing was thrown from shelves. 
(B. Bryan.) —On the road thru Bonnie Doon the shock was uniformly light; chimneys 
were unharmed, plaster was intact, clocks did not stop, and even the milk had not spilt 
from the pans. People did not run outdoors. A top-heavy and rickety pigeon-house 
did not fall over, tho shaken considerably. 
Down Laguna Creek to Coast, and up the trail east of Coja Creek to the asphalt beds, 
similar effects were noted. Near the latter spot, however, the shock appeared to have 
been somewhat stronger; small objects had fallen, milk spilt, and even one chimney 
was thrown down, while people were frightened enough to get out of the buildings. 
From the asphalt beds as far east as the point 52, map No. 22, the observer found 
no one to question; but the shake had been so moderate as to leave no visible signs 
except where some cordwood had broken its end-stakes and rolled down at the ends. 
At the houses just south of this point, chimneys and plaster of 2-story structures 
were not damaged; only lamp-chimneys and such articles fell and broke. It was re- 
ported that at one house in the valley fruit-cans had been thrown from shelves. 
(R. Collom.)—At the Wilder dairy, on the Santa Cruz-Pescadero road, 2 miles west 
of Santa Cruz near Meder Creek, the damage done by the shock was in the form of broken 
chimneys and cracked plaster in the houses. On the road 0.5 mile west of the dairy, 
the force of the shock broke an 8-inch water main. 
A general examination of the country along the coast, as opened up by the Pescadero 
stage road, shows the damage in these parts to be confined mostly to broken chimneys 
and cracked plaster in the houses. Only in the case of buildings with very poor founda- 
tions was any of the superstructure destroyed. 
(G. A. Waring.) —At Wilder’s dairy it was said that the shock seemed to come south- 
ward down the gulch, preceded by a rumbling from the same direction. Other places 
on the terrace-land near the shore west of Santa Cruz were not so badly shaken. 
Santa Cruz (B. Bryan). — Entering the city of Santa Cruz from the west, the first 
chimneys down were only about 0.5 mile from the San Lorenzo River, increasing in 
number as one came into the town; yet many of the better-built chimneys, even on 
2-story and 3-story buildings, were not thrown down. In the eastern part of Santa 
Cruz, some chimneys on both 1-story and 2-story houses fell, and some stood. In some 
cases plaster was cracked, but in no case where enquiry was made had much fallen. 
Some small objects fell in every instance. 
(R. Collom.)—The shock was strong, but no lives were lost. The court-house roofs 
and towers were wrecked, many brick chimneys were down, and communication with 
other towns was entirely cut off by the breaking of telephone and telegraph wires. Many 
buildings had their walls shaken down. 
At the north end of the bridge crossing the San Lorenzo River, at Third Street, there 
were 4 fissures running practically parallel and almost due east and west. These fissures 
are about 700 yards in length, and vary in width from 2 to 8 inches. They run thru an 
apple orchard and are in sandy soil, the softness of the land near the river-bed being 
apparently responsible for their presence. The river at this place runs about east. 
In going thru the town of Santa Cruz in the direction of Boulder Creek, a fissure at 
the intersection of Bulkhead and River Streets was noticed. This fissure was about 
