186 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. | 
Ukiah, Mendocino County. Population, 2,000. (R. 8. Holway.) — A brick building 
owned by Mrs. White was so badly damaged that it is being taken down. The north fire- 
wall of the McGlashan Building was thrown down and the engine house is reported un- 
safe. Mr. Cunningham, inspector of chimneys, reports some 30 to 40 actually down, 
but probably one-fourth of all chimneys condemned. Sexton Rogers reports no damage 
in the cemetery. The State Asylum for the Insane, a large brick building, is east of the 
river and some 2 miles away. The gables fell out, coping and ornamental stones fell 
from walls, and chimneys fell generally west or east. In one case, where a chimney was 
braced by an east and west rod, the washer was pulled thru into the flue, but the chimney 
remained standing. At Vichy Springs a greatly increased flow of water is reported. The 
water was milky for a few days. Increased temperature was reported, but no ther- 
mometer was used to determine this. 
(Geo. McGowan.) —The town is partly on bottom-land and partly on a bench slightly 
above the bottom. There is no rock near the surface and none of the ordinary wells go 
to rock, but pass thru washt gravel and clay. Ukiah Valley is approximately 12 miles 
long, and 2.5 miles wide, lying about north-northwest and south-southeast, and sur- 
rounded by mountains. Russian River enters at the north end of the valley. At this 
place it is at the extreme east side and continues near the east side to its exit at the south 
end. The greater part of the valley floor is alluvial fill. It is nearly level except for a 
depression toward the south to correspond with the grade of the river. Ukiah is a little 
to the west of the center line of the valley and about 4 miles from the north end. There 
are several deep canyons at right angles to the valley in the bordering mountains. 
In the town a 2-story brick building, rather flimsily built, the front being set on 
pillars, was canted about 6 inches to the south, breaking most of the plate glass in the 
front. It struck against a 2-story brick building just completed, also set on pillars, 
and the latter was set over nearly a foot and the walls badly cracked. The greater part 
of a long fire-wall on the north side of a 2-story brick building fell and an inner wall 
that served as the casing of a stairway was badly cracked. A large number of chimneys 
were dislocated and some were thrown down. Some of our well-built structures suffered. 
Quite a number of houses had the plastering more or less cracked. The railroad lost a 
large water-tank which was thrown down and demolished, tho a large oil-tank near by 
appears to be uninjured. The shock caused an old sheet-iron tank full of water to break 
loose at numerous points around the bottom and lose its contents in short order. Of two 
pendulum clocks one was stopt. Chimneys and loose objects were thrown to the north 
and south, some one way and some the other, and some chimneys that were not thrown 
were dislocated and turned partly around, in a direction opposite the apparent motion 
of the sun. ‘The electric-light bulb hanging over my bed swung first back and forth, then 
changed to an ellipse and finally almost to a circle. There were two principal maxima, 
of which the first was the stronger. The first movement was north-northwest and 
south-southeast and this was succeeded by a twisting motion. 
Mr. 8. D. Townley, in charge of the International Latitude Observatory, 1 mile south of 
Ukiah, reports: 
Many chimneys were thrown down from 2-story buildings, and also from some cottages. 
One new brick store building just nearing completion was so badly cracked and thrown out 
of plumb that it is necessary to tear it down, and several other brick buildings were damaged 
to a greater or less extent. The particulars are given in the Ukiah Press for April 27. A 
rough estimate of the number of chimneys in town would be 1,000. P. B. Westerman, 
teacher in the Ukiah High School, reports that 120 chimneys fell, most of them either to the 
north or south. At the Asylum on the eastern side of the valley, chimneys fell to the east 
or west. Cemetery monuments were not overthrown. One chimney on a house 200 yards 
southeast of the Observatory was badly cracked. 
At the Latitude Station no damage whatever was done, altho the shaking was the most 
severe ever experienced by the writer. Dishes rattled, milk was spilt from pans little 
