266 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 
Just north of the bridge over Pilarcitos Creek, north of the town of Half Moon Bay, an 
adobe house west of the road was thrown down by the earthquake, killing 3 people (at 30, 
map No. 22). The concrete bridge was badly cracked, as were the approaches at both 
ends. Just south of the bridge, several small cracks in the low ground west of the road 
permitted water to spout up, bringing sand with it. In the town of Half Moon Bay 
many buildings were badly damaged, some old frame houses and the brick bank build- 
ing being flat, while the upper half of a 2-story brick structure was demolished. The 
Mosconi Hotel, a 2-story frame building, had plaster shaken from the side walls of the 
first floor only, while the ceilings of these rooms were not cracked. 
In Half Moon Bay it was reported that there was no evidence of any change of level 
along the coast. The streams on the west side of the mountains were said to have 
doubled in volume. The road along the coast from Half Moon Bay to San Gregorio 
showed comparatively few traces of the earthquake. The concrete bridge over Canada 
Verde (at 31, map No. 22) was slightly cracked, and 0.5 mile farther south a water-tank 
lay flat across the road. 
At Purisima the chimneys were all down, and crockery was broken. The intensity 
of the shock was apparently less at Purisima than at Half Moon Bay. According to 
various reports, a crack east of the road below Purisima, due to a landslip, extended for 
about 1,000 feet nearly north and south; and an earthslide on the side of a hill a mile or 
more farther south was about 100 yards long and 80 feet across. 
At San Gregorio very little damage was done. The hotel lost only a little plaster and 
a few dishes. Turning eastward on the road along San Gregorio Creek, traces were 
found of increasing intensity. A mile from the town of San Gregorio, a water-tank 20 
feet high was still standing, while a couple of miles farther east the creek was dammed up 
to a depth of 6 feet by a slide from its southeast bank (at 32, map No. 22), and all chim- 
neys were down. Miss L. E. Bell reports that near Bellville a small alkali flat was raised 
about 3 feet. There was a landslide into the road for a distance of 300 feet, the height 
of the slide being 100 feet (84, map No. 22). Chimneys and tanks all thru the valley 
were thrown down. 
(G. A. Waring.) —Of the 2 stores at San Gregorio, the one in the bottom-land suffered 
most, nearly all the shelf goods being thrown down. Cracks from 12 to 18 inches wide 
appeared in the cultivated bottom-land, and a water-tank was shifted on its platform 8 
inches northward. In the Lobitos saloon a slot machine was hurled to the floor, and 
nearly all the bottles on a shelf running east and west were thrown off. Small cracks 
appeared in the ground at Lobitos, and a small slide occurred in the road 0.25 mile up the 
stream. 
La Honda (H. P. Gage). — The inhabitants say that after the shock the creek rose 
about 4 inches and became muddy. At the hotel, plaster fell from first floor walls; the 
rest were little damaged. The plaster had already been cracked, however, by raising the 
house. Lamps were all shaken off the tables, and all the chimneys were down. Water 
spilt from the horse-trough in a northeast-southwest direction. 
Near the Wecks ranch house, between La Honda and the summit of the ridge on the 
road leading to Redwood, an inconspicuous crack was noticed running east. It was 
about 2 inches wide, with no vertical movement evident. The north side of the crack, 
however, had moved fully 3 feet eastward. The crack simply marks a big slide which 
has been slipping for years, and which descended 3 feet during the earthquake. The 
Weeks house, a strongly-built frame structure, 25 stories high, was badly damaged. <A 
large outside chimney fell thru the roof to the first floor, and the plaster was fairly stript 
from the lower rooms and somewhat cracked upstairs. The sliding doors downstairs 
were shaken off their tracks, several windows were broken, the front door was cracked, 
and many of the door jambs were broken. The heavily built barn near the house was 
