256 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 
Clara Valley floor. As a rule, the older the buildings were the better they withstood the 
shock. Much damage was done by the throwing down of stone chimneys. The 150-foot 
stone chimney of the power plant was thrown down, crushing part of the boiler house 
and killing a fireman. The double-flued 60-foot chimney of the assay laboratory fell. 
The large stone chimneys of the dormitories were broken off at the roof edges and fell 
into the buildings. At Encina Hall, the men’s dormitory, one chimney fell thru the roof 
and carried down a tier of rooms into the basement, killing one student. The south ends 
of the wings of Encina Hall were so badly cracked that they had to be entirely rebuilt. 
It was found that the injury done to the ends of the wings was due to the relation of 
these particular walls to the roof beams. Excepting the cracking of plaster, Encina Hall 
was not otherwise injured, tho it is a 4-story building, with basement and attic. 
The chimneys also fell from Roble Hall, the women’s dormitory, and did some damage 
to the roof and upper floors; but the building, which is of concrete, was otherwise unhurt. 
The Chemistry building had 82 tile-lined stone ventilating chimneys projecting 12 to 
16 feet above the roof, besides 2 ordinary stone chimneys; these were all thrown down. 
The stone tower of the church was shaken to pieces, and in falling destroyed the parts 
of the roof immediately around the tower. The north gable end of the church was 
thrown outward into the quadrangle. (Plate 103B.) 
The top of the memorial arch was broken off down to the upper part of the frieze, and 
in falling it wrecked adjacent portions of the arcades to the east and west. (Plate 103a.) 
The parts of the arch left standing were cracked. The 2 smaller arches at the east and 
west ends of the inner quadrangle were slightly cracked near the top, but they were not 
seriously damaged. 
Besides the damages to the church and the memorial arch, the most serious injury to 
the quadrangle group of buildings was done to the larger structures. The 1-story 
buildings, especially those that had been standing for several years, were not damaged 
beyond the occasional cracking of plaster; and even in these cases the injury was found 
to be directly related to the method of supporting the roofs upon the walls. The statues 
of the front fagade were dislodged and one was thrown down. (Plate 1008.) 
The I-story buildings in the outer quadrangle had all been lately put up, and these 
were somewhat cracked, tho none of them was seriously hurt. ‘The cracks were generally 
about the ends of the buildings and along the tops of the walls where the roof timbers 
rested upon them. ‘The higher buildings of the outer quadrangle were more seriously 
damaged, especially those situated on the corners. These buildings are all three stories 
and basement. ‘The towers on the inside corners of these buildings were all more or 
less broken and require rebuilding. The Civil Engineering building — three stories and 
basement — at the southeast corner of the outer quadrangle had its outer walls badly 
cracked, especially on the north face, and about the tower at its northwest corner. 
Inside the plaster was injured more or less all thru the building. 
The Geology building, at the southwest corner of the outer quadrangle, was the last 
building of this group to be put up. It was a 3-story structure, and had barely been 
finished; but it was not yet occupied when the earthquake occurred. Sections of the 
walls were thrown down from every face of the building. These sections extended 
from the eaves down to the second floor. The tower at the northeast corner was badly 
cracked and part of it fell. The plaster was broken on all the vertical walls, both on the 
outside walls and on the partitions, showing that there was much internal wrenching 
of the building. The walls of this building will all have to come down and be rebuilt 
from the foundation. (Plate 102a.) 
The inner arcades of the quadrangle were not much affected. At one place on the 
south side of the memorial court, where the arcades are not directly connected with any 
other building, they were so violently swayed that they seem to have come near falling. 
They were found to be 7.75 inches out of alinement after the earthquake, and the tops 
and bases of the supporting stone columns were chipped off. (Plate 105s.) 
