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It is reported that ditch tenders on the Government irrigation canal noticed a disturb- 
ance of the water surface, and light splashing of the water as if by low waves or rocking. 
They reported it at camp in the morning some hours before news of the California earth- 
quake arrived. Direct testimony is lacking on this point, tho the report was generally 
believed at the Reclamation Service Offices at Fallon and Hazen. 
Fairview. — Reports from several sources are to the effect that no shock was felt, and 
no distinct evidence of the earthquake was observed. 
Lovelock. — Several clocks are said to have stopt, but some of the reports, tho direct, 
seem to be unreliable. Several persons were awakened. One (Mr. Dawkins, principal 
of the Lovelock School) felt a slight shaking; others heard a noise as if a person were 
knocking, or the blinds or ventilators had rattled. One feared the powder house had 
“gone up.” (F. J. Gunnell, A. G. Bosk, C. H. Valentine.) The clock in the hotel is 
said to have stopt. It hangs on an east-west wall and faces south. The station clock, 
in a similar position, was also reported stopt. On several ranches 8 to 12 miles south of 
Lovelock the irrigators noticed waves or splashing in ditches or canals, and reported the 
same at breakfast that morning. Ditches extend north-south; the slope is very low, 
almost horizontal, and the water surface smooth and quiet. (John Sullivan, irrigator 
for Lovelock Commercial Co.; Peter Naker, rancher; James J ensen, son of rancher, etc.) 
One report speaks of a lamp swinging. Those who saw the effects on water surfaces, 
and others in general, felt no shock. 
Mill City. — The station agent said he had no positive indications of the earthquake 
and no one felt it. 
Unionville. —Tom Powell, a rancher 4 miles south of Unionville, says that his wife 
woke him about daylight, and called his attention to the lamp swinging. They felt no 
shaking. They noticed later that a fine dust from the adobe walls had crumbled down on 
to the surface of the cream. 
Winnemucca. — A rather thoro canvass of the town was made because it is the farthest 
east at which any report of the earthquake was made. Only one definite account was 
obtained, and it is believed to be reliable. Mrs. Sloane, nurse at the County Hospital, 
had been on night duty and had just retired. As she lay quietly in bed, she noticed a 
hanging lamp with pendant glass prisms swing. It swayed, in her judgment, nearly 3° 
inches, not far from east and west. She called her husband’s attention to it and suggested 
that it might be due to an earthquake. It continued swinging some time. No shock 
was felt, nor was swaying of the building noticed. The railroad agent, the weather 
bureau observer, who was up at the time, the postmaster, the employés in the telephone 
office, the people in both of the newspaper offices, and a number of other people in various 
parts of town, all said that they had felt no shock and had seen no effects of it, and knew 
of no one who had, except a few who had heard of the case of Mrs. Sloane. Another 
person, reported by one or two as having felt the shock, was interviewed, but claimed 
that she had felt. no shock and that the report must have been started as a joke. 
Hawthorne. — Two clocks are said to have stopt. Mrs. Taylor described the shock 
as a tremor, as if a pet dog were scratching and passing the bed, followed by a distinct 
movement toward the north and back toward the south. Mr. Brodigan, in the second 
story of the court-house, felt quite a shake. 
Mina. — The shock was distinctly felt by some. In the store it was said that the 
building distinctly swayed, the dishes and tinware on the shelves making some slight 
rattling. In the telegraph office the clock stopt. The shock was very slight, and felt by 
only a few. 
Bodie (i. B. Brooks). —The shock was perceptible; some clocks stopt. It was 
noticed by occupants in some 2-story buildings, but was not generally felt. 
Mono Lake. — A slight shock was felt on the west side of the lake. 
