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Menlo Park (H. P. Gage). — At the Catholic Seminary near Menlo Park, a 4-story 
brick building, the upper part of many of the walls fell; towers and chimneys also came 
down; arches were sprung apart, allowing their keystones to drop, catch, and hang. 
There were many cracks in all the walls which remained standing; the capstones above 
the windows on the fourth floor fell out. The chapel behind the northeast side wall was 
thrown in a heap. The I-story brick buildings back of the large one were little 
damaged; a wooden tank was uninjured, altho it was on an 80-foot tower like the 
one in the building which fell. The round power-house chimney (35 feet high) was 
cracked in the middle and the top broken off. A mile nearer Fairoaks Station, a water- 
tank only 12 feet high was thrown down. With this one exception all the tanks on 
this side of the county road appeared to be standing. ' 
(F. Lane.)—A water-tank beside the road, passing north of the cemetery 1.5 miles 
southwest of Menlo Park Station, was thrown down; while one about 0.25 mile nearer 
the station on the same road was left standing. On the second road west of San Francis- 
quito Creek, and running southwest from Menlo Park Station toward the Alameda de © 
las Pulgas, three large trees growing together had been torn apart, and one about 2.5 
feet in diameter had fallen. Water-tanks on the second road west of San Francisquito 
Creek were not thrown down. On the second parallel road west of the Creek, and leading 
southwest from Menlo Park and 1 mile from the station, the roof of a large 3-story 
brick house, which had been recently built, had collapsed, the bricks having been shaken 
from the walls down to the second floor. The Arcade of the Sacred Heart Convent was 
thrown down. (Plate 1014.) 
Fairoaks. — On the road leading southwest from Fairoaks and about a mile south- 
west of that station, a newly completed 1-story bungalow had entirely collapsed. 
(S. Taber.) —At a stable near Fairoaks (about a mile southeast of the junction of the 
Woodside Grade road with the road leading across University Heights) heavy carriages 
and wagons were moved sidewise 6 inches in a direction N. 37° E., but they did not roll 
out on their wheels. These carriages were placed on the northwest side of the barn. 
(H. P. Gage.) Following the road from Fairoaks toward Cooley’s Landing, a house 
with poor underpinning fell over, also the woodshed near it. An engine mounted on 
a platform 2 feet from the ground was not upset. People reported new holes formed 
in the slough near Cooley’s Landing, but their statements were not verified. No damage 
except broken chimneys was noticeable in the vicinity of the Landing, and solidly built 
houses seemed to be intact. One house on a poor foundation was knocked down; while 
the barns, tanks, etc., belonging to it were uninjured. 
(F. Lane.) —South of Menlo Park and east of the Meyer Place on the west side of San 
Francisquito Creek, a crack about 1.5 inches wide ran for 20 feet along the edge of the 
county road parallel to and just above the creek, showing a half-inch vertical displace- 
ment, the lower side lying next to the creek. This crack appears to be due to the start- 
ing of the filled ground of which the road is partly made. The water in the reservoir 
of the Bear Gulch Company, 3.25 miles west of Stanford University, is reported to have 
been thrown about 25 feet beyond the dam on the southeast side of the lake. Water- 
pipes along the road leading from the reservoir toward Menlo Park had been pulled apart. 
The buildings in the neighborhood of the reservoir are of frame, and no great damage 
was done to them, except that the brick chimneys were thrown down. 
Redwood (R. V. Anderson). — The intensity of the earthquake in Redwood City was 
about IX. Many buildings were partially wrecked and the new court-house was com- 
pletely ruined. Over 40 houses in the town were moved upon their foundations, and 
a majority of the houses had the plaster badly cracked. Ninety-four per cent of the 
chimneys fell, and dishes and similar objects were universally thrown down. Along 
the two roads leading from Redwood to Portola, out of 23 big public water-tanks 20 
were thrown down. 
