264 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 
On the west side of Bear Creek and north of the road along the foot of the mountain 
near Woodside, a 1-story sandstone house had its south wall thrown down, and was 
otherwise badly damaged. About 50 feet of stone wall, laid with mortar, along the side 
of the road, 3 feet high and 1.5 feet wide, was thrown down. A tank at the cross-roads 
in Woodside was left standing. The upper part of a brick winery 14 stories high (at 
26, map No. 22) was demolished, the roof being split down the middle and smashed to 
pieces. A house 14 stories high (at 14, map No. 22) was thrown toward the southeast, 
the underpinning giving way in front. The house was badly damaged. Water in a large 
tank near the house spilt out on the southeast and northwest sides. 
At the very end of the short, crooked road mapped as running northwest from the village 
of Woodside, there was a well-built 1-story frame house, of which the brick chimney 
had been thrown down; the plaster of the house was only slightly cracked. Near this 
a large water-tank was thrown over; another remained standing but had the shingles 
knocked off the roof on the northwest side by the force of the water dashing up against it. 
The old adobe house at the cross-roads in the village of Woodside was thrown down, 
the posts and supports left standing leaned at a considerable angle toward the northwest. 
A large frame house (Mr. Josselyn’s residence), north of the road and close to West 
Union Creek, was demolished; while another on the opposite side of the road, and just 
south of the bridge, was not badly damaged. The concrete bridge over West Union Creek, 
1 mile south of the point (14, map No. 22), showed a few small cracks. From this point 
on up King’s Mountain road, as far as the summit, there were no cracks nor landslides. 
Page Mill and Alpine roads (8S. Taber). — All brick chimneys along the upper part of 
this road were thrown down. At the Clarita Winery crockery was broken and milk 
spilt from pans. On the road from Clarita Vineyard to the Allen place (at 18, map. No. 
22), several small cracks 0.25 to 0.5 inch across ran east and west; numerous cracks 
intersected (near 18, map No. 22) in various directions, while some large ones running 
parallel to the contour lines were probably due to earth slipping. Judge Allen’s in the 
valley, and several smaller houses, were thrown from their foundations and otherwise 
badly damaged. 
Following the Alpine road up Corde Madera Creek, cracks were common on the outside 
or filled portion of the road, and these were generally parallel with the embankment. 
The steep southern slope of the ridge just north of the Alpine road, along its lower course, 
was favorable to landslips. At many places huge masses of rock had been thrown down 
from these steep bluffs into the road, completely blocking it up. On the south side of the 
creek the slopes were not favorable to landslips, but there were several of them; and at 
one point, about a mile from the summit of the ridge where this road enters the Page Mill 
road, one slide carried away the entire roadbed for a distance of about 300 feet. 
(H. P. Gage.) — Following the Page Mill road westward from Black Mountain toward 
Langley Hill, a 1,000 gallon tank was undisturbed, but 3 live-oaks near by were uprooted, 
one of them being a large tree with a 12-foot base. These trees were in a rather dry soil, 
yet none of a grove of trees growing in moist soil was overturned. Farther west up the 
road which loops toward Langley Hill, a big crack running east and west, caused by a 
slide, showed a drop of 8 inches on the north side; and from here on down to the Alpine 
road the road was badly cut up with slides, but was not impassable. On the steep grade 
of Langley Hill a slide had moved 80 fect. At the ranch houses there was little damage 
done by the shaking save sometimes a fallen chimney or a few broken dishes. At one 
ranch the people reported that cows were much frightened during the shock. 
(I. Lane.) —Along the ridge road southwest of Stevens Creek, separating Santa Clara 
and Santa Cruz Counties, there were some cracks due to landslides. Sandstone blocks, 
some of them 6 feet in diameter, had rolled down the hills toward the creek. People at 
the houses along this road stated that the shaking had been severe, with loss of a few 
