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building one block north of the station had the top of the end wall thrown down. A 
3-story brick hotel was very slightly cracked. On May 1 the town showed no sign of 
earthquake to the casual observer. A crack one block long, north and south, in low land 
near the station is reported. At the Hotel San Rafael 2 chimneys fell on the roof and 
porch. At the cemetery, 2 miles north of San Rafael, only 3 monuments and some 8 
crosses fell. Mr. Weaver reports that on 12 houses near the station and the Hotel San 
Rafael chimneys fell east. My own inquiries up town were generally answered by “all 
directions,’ so far as chimneys were concerned. 
San Anselmo Theological Seminary is a stone building on a rocky knoll, not tied by 
rods. The tower of the library fell, part of it crashing thru the roof to the first floor. 
At the dormitory the coping on top of the walls and the chimneys have fallen on all sides 
of the building. 
Mr. Frank M. Watson reports the following effects of the earthquake in San Rafael: 
In the drug store of Mr. Inman, Fourth and C Streets, hundreds of bottles were thrown 
from shelves running east and west, and bottles on shelves running north and south were 
thrown parallel with the shelving. 
At St. Paul’s Church, Fourth and E Streets, the chimney moved 0.375 inch bodily to the 
south, and bricks were crusht out on the north side. A chimney to the west of this was over- 
thrown. The Grammar School, west of this church, had 2 chimneys down. The High 
School to the south suffered no damage, but bottles moved on a shelf mostly to the west. 
At the house, 17 Fourth Street, on level land, the occupants felt 2 shocks witha very 
short interval between, the first being longer and lighter than the second. The general 
direction of movement was thought to be east and west. The chimney fell east. The clock 
stopt. The shock was lighter on the rising ground to the south, as inferred from less damage 
to chimneys in that direction. 
At the house of Mr. W. Robertson, 20 Fourth Street, on level land, an up-and-down 
motion was experienced. The middle portion of the shock was the heaviest, and it was then 
that a marble mantel fell east. 
At the building occupied by Mr. George D. Shearer, 306-310 Fourth Street, on level 
land near the depot, there is a crack running north and south; 4 chimneys fell west and 2 
east on a flat roof. The north end of a wall of the building fell out down to the level of the 
second-story floor. The coping on north and south walls fell off, and plaster was badly 
cracked on inside partitions. In the adjoining house, Mr. Joseph La Franchi was awake, 
his bed lying east and west. The shock was north and south. The chimney from the next 
building crashed down thru his house. 
At the office of the Western Union Telegraph Co., 608 Fourth Street, a clock facing the 
east stopt at 5" 13™ a. M. 
At the jewelry store of Mr. J. D. Bennett, 709 Fourth Street, on level ground, 2 large 
accurate pendulum clocks hung 10 feet apart, one on an east wall and the other on a west 
wall. One stopt at 5" 12™ 35°, the other at 5" 13". These clocks do not vary 3 seconds 
in 24 hours, and were right at noon of the previous day. 
At the Grand Central Hotel, 720 Fourth Street, on level land, an up-and-down motion was 
felt, then an oscillation from east to west. The building, built of brick in 1860, is 3 stories 
high. It shows a crack 0.5 inch wide in the east wall, extending from the roof to the second 
floor, and there were also cracks in the south wall over the windows. Some plaster fell 
and one chimney was broken. 
At the house of Mr. George L. Richardson, county surveyor, on Harcourt Street, on level 
land, 2 shocks were experienced; the first apparently heavier than the second, both being 
of about the same duration. The oscillation was from east to west. No damage to resi- 
dence. At his office in the court-house, the marble back of a washstand was thrown west, 
and plaster was cracked on east wall. 
At the house of Mr. L. Armstrong, 206 Ross Street, on a hillside 50 feet above sea-level, 
milk and cream slopt from pans a little north of northwest. There was no damage to 
buildings or chimneys in the neighborhood. A slackening in violence was noticed about 
the middle of the shock. 
At the San Francisco and North Pacific railroad depot, on level land 7 feet above sea-level, 
the night operator, Mr. Vernon Grisham, reports first an oscillation, then an up-and-down 
movement. Buildings shook for 2 minutes by the watch in an east and west direction. 
