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tinued southward down the hillside about 0.5 mile northeast of the railway track. It 
opened 5 to 8 inches, not faulting. 
“T was then about 15 years of age. My home was near Irvington. When the shock 
came, I was alone in the house with my baby brother. My mother was in the milk house, 
about 10 steps from the kitchen door. She called to me to get the baby. Tho I was 
thrown the length of the dining-room, I managed to get the child over my arm, face 
down, and a pillow on top. Then, falling and crawling, I worked my way back to the 
open kitchen door. My mother was on the ground. Every time she tried to get up, 
she was thrown again, and the milk in the buckets was spilt over her. My two brothers, 
my step-father, and the hired man were also down and were trying to get to the house 
by crawling and falling. As I sat there, I could see the ground in waves like the ocean. 
After the main shock, I think we had 100 shocks during the first 24 hours. The ground 
opened; we traced a crack thru town, and the ground settled several inches in one 
place. Not a house was left with a chimney on it. Our safe broke thru the floor, 
and the piano was out in the room nearly to the opposite side.” (J. McD. Preston.) 
Mission San Jose. — “I was curled up in a big rocking-chair, reading, and my two 
sisters were outside playing, when suddenly there came a swaying of the house. This 
lasted only a short time; then the house began to shake in earnest. My sisters began 
to cry and scream. I jumped out of the chair to go to them, and ran from the room, 
bumping against both sides of two doors. I finally reached the porch and succeeded 
in catching hold of a post. I distinctly remember that the pump in the yard was pump- 
ing as if some one had hold of it; and small rocks on the hill in front of the house were 
rolling down into the creek. The milk pans had been resting on shelves of slats; some 
pans slipt entirely out, some only halfway. The milk and cream were on the floor. 
My brother was hauling a load of wheat to San Jose. When the earthquake was at its 
worst, he thought his team was choking down and jumped off his wagon to find he could 
hardly stand. I was told at the time that the water spurted up in the streets of San Jose, 
and out in the road between Milpitas and San Jose, to the height of several feet. The 
old Mission church, which was of adobe, was shaken down, as were several other build- 
ings at the same place. On the mountain above the old Mission, just above a place called 
Peacock Springs, a great crack in the earth appeared, which lookt as if the lower part 
of the mountain had parted and slipt down. Many times I have crost the bridge which 
was built over the crack, and stopt and thrown rocks down to see if I could tell how 
‘deep it was.” (Mrs. N. Ainsworth.) 
Along the hills back of the town and southward, passing thru the present Sinclair 
and Stanford ranches, the crack opened. Generally it was 10 or 12 inches wide, and 
faulted some 18 inches on the valley side. (A. Kell.) 
The shock was preceded by a rumble passing to the northwest. Adobe building not 
seriously injured. Crack at Irvington and on the side of Mission Peak confirmed. 
(J. Sunderer.) 
Brick store was cracked. Confirms cracks at Irvington. (8. Ehrman.) 
Chimneys fell north and south, as they did also on April 18, 1906. (S. Murphy.) 
Warm Springs. — The crack past along the foot-hills at an elevation of 350 to 450 
feet from Niles southward, back of Mission San Jose, disappearing near the county line. 
In some places the fissure showed a fault of 10 to 12 inches. (H. Curtner.) 
The warehouse and wharf on the slough fell, also Dixon’s house. Cracks in the vicinity 
of Milpitas flowed artesian water for 48 hours after the shock. (Mr. Durkee.) 
Milpitas. — Along Coyote Creek the ground was cracked from Boot’s ranch to the 
San Francisco Bay, the cracks being on the bay side and following the winding of the 
creek. As in 1906 much water was ejected from the cracks, and Coyote Creek rose. 
(W. Bellou.) 
