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not badly shaken; and only small objects — cooking utensils, etc. — were thrown down. 
At an old mill 2 miles southwest, however, a clock had been thrown upon the floor and 
broken at 5" 11" a.m. Half of the piled lumber had been disarranged, and the water- 
tank, built on a frame 15 feet high, was shaken so that it fell the next Monday night. 
Ben Lomond Mountain to the Coast (B. Bryan). — At the junction of the Ben Lomond 
Mountain road (47, map No. 22), the house was empty, but there was no noticeable dis- 
turbance in the sheds or neighboring trees, tho a few hundred yards south a few dead 
limbs had been recently broken from the redwoods and one or two dead trees had fallen. 
Some other trees were so loosened at their roots that they have fallen since the earthquake. 
At the Ben Lomond Wine Company, a place 2 miles southeast of the junction of the roads 
(at 47, map No. 22), a well-built cottage had 2 tall chimneys still standing. People did 
not leave the house during the earthquake. Leaving the Boulder Creek road, and cross- 
ing Ben Lomond Mountain by the Eagle Rock road, the damage appears to consist largely 
of fallen chimneys. Small objects, such as fruit jars, china, etc., were thrown down, but 
only from shelves against north and south walls. People left their houses, but were not 
much alarmed. 
No evidences of a violent shaking were to be found on the trail following southwest 
down Big Creek, either in trees or buildings, except where a small, half-decayed shack had 
been thrown out of plumb and a set of shelves overturned in another cabin. A table near 
these shelves was unmoved, and the bottles on top of it were standing. At the dam on 
Big Creek (at 48, map No. 22), no harm had been done, nor was any damage visible in 
3 old shacks just below the dam. A half mile from this point cracks caused by slides 
were noticed on a very steep bank. Slight damage was done to the flume (at 49, map 
No. 22), which 3 men repaired in half aday. A few objects were thrown down in dwellings 
hereabouts. Near the junction of Scott and Big Creeks, a light terra-cotta chimney did 
not fall, but milk was spilt from pans at this place. 
(H. W. Bell.)—At a house 1 mile southeast of the junction of the east and west forks 
of Waddell’s Creek, a brick chimney was thrown down. Near a deserted mill at the north- 
end of Ben Lomond Mountain, a small landslide had carried trees and brush down to the 
creek, and tall trees had fallen along the road. At a new mill a short distance from the 
old one, about a mile northwest of Eagle Rock, it was reported that the shock was dis- 
tinctly felt, but no damage was done. Dishes even stayed on the shelves. A steep bank 
beside the road showed small cracks, which could apparently have been easily made in the 
loose soil. 
(G. A. Waring.) —At Swanton it was reported that a distinct noise, as of a team cross- 
ing a bridge to the northwest, had been heard preceding each shock. Dishes on a shelf 
running northeast and southwest were thrown off, while those on a shelf standing at 
right angles to these were unhurt. 
(B. Bryan.) —At the school-house (50, map No. 22) the globes were overturned by 
the shock. The teacher said that she had heard from the people at the end of the trail 
just above, leading northwest toward Swanton, that the shaking had overturned only 
a few glasses, and that their pendulum clock did not even stop. At the next place, 
0.5 mile southeast of the school-house, no damage was done, and the inhabitants were 
not disturbed enough to run outdoors. . In the little settlement at El Jarro Point, the 
shock was so light that a small chimney with a terra-cotta top, making a height of 7 
feet above the roof, did not fall; nor were similar terra-cotta chimneys on 2-story 
buildings thrown down, tho projecting from 3 to 4 feet. Glasses and bottles remained 
on the shelves in a bar-room. 
At the lime-kilns (51, map No. 22) the shock had apparently been more severe, for 
tho no cracks were found in the kilns themselves, people ran from houses, small objects 
were thrown to the floor, and piles of cordwood were overturned. 
