208 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 
The clock stopt at 5" 12" 30%. It does not vary 2 seconds in 24 hours, and is set daily by 
telegraph. A crack was formed in the ground 100 feet long, running north and south. _The 
greatest damage was half a block north of the depot. The depot itself suffered no injury. 
At an unoccupied house on D Street, opposite Ross Street, a chimney moved 1 inch west 
and twisted clockwise about 5°. A second chimney moved bodily westward 0.75 inch, and 
was similarly rotated. All the chimneys in this vicinity were down. 
At the grocery store of E. Kolepka, First and E Streets, a 2-story brick building, all 4 
chimneys were cracked but left standing. Goods in the store were thrown from shelves 
running north and south, and to a less degree from shelves running east and west. Some 
plaster fell from the ceiling, and all chimneys in the neighborhood were damaged or thrown. 
Mr. W. Robertson, city inspector of chimneys, reports that there are 1,200 chimneys 
down and many more damaged. Probably 100 were twisted, the amount and direction 
of the twist being quite variable. Most of the chimneys, however, fell northeasterly. On 
the hills the shock was lighter. 
At Scheutzen Park, 1.5 miles east-southeast of San Rafael, on land 7 feet above sea-level, 
2 shocks were felt: the first light and long, the second hard and short, the direction of 
movement being east of north. There was no serious damage to buildings or chimneys, but 
water-pipes were broken, and there were many small fissures in the neighboring ground, 
running north and south. 
At the Catholic Cemetery, 2 miles north of San Rafael, on rising ground, an up-and-down 
movement was experienced. A clock in the house of the guardian tipt over, but no damage 
was occasioned to buildings. There were 3 monuments and a few light crosses overthrown 
in the cemetery. The chimney of the brick yard, a mile to the east, remained intact. 
At the residence of Mr. C. Day, near the San Anselmo Seminary, the east chimney was 
twisted clockwise 10°; and the chimney on the church next door was affected in the same 
way. Things on the walls fell east. One chimney fell west. 
Novato (F. M. Watson). — Town is situated on sloping ground. Mr. A. Scott states that 
2 shocks were felt, the first east and west and light, the second north and southand heavier. 
In the grocery store canned goods were tipt south on shelves running north and south. 
Chimneys as a rule were not damaged, but the top of Mr. Scott’s chimney moved 1 inch 
to the southwest. Two clocks were stopt. 
Sausalito (F. M. Watson). — Nearly all chimneys were thrown, most of them falling 
about northwest. Mr. Landon’s 1-story house, on a hill about 125 feet above sea-level 
on hard rock, was moved slightly to the west on its foundations. On this house 2 chim- 
neys fell to the west. The earth was cracked on the low ground near the station, the 
fissures running north and south. The railroad clock stopt at 5" 13”. 
Mt. Tamalpais (W. W. Thomas, of the Weather Bureau Observatory). — The observa- 
tory is in a slight depression between the east and middle peaks of the mountain. A 
number of rounded peaks form a prominent ridge about 3 miles in length, extending nearly 
east and west, and having an average elevation of about 2,500 feet. Rocks are exposed 
everywhere at the surface. No chimneys nor other tall structures were overthrown, but 
ornaments and small objects were thrown from shelves that ran north and south, or were 
more or less displaced in a direction somewhat south of west or north of east from their 
original positions. No objects fell from shelves that ran east and west, and no object 
moved north or south of its usual place was observed. An anemometer fell from the 
instrument stand to the floor, where it lay in a direction about west-southwest of its 
place on the stand. The instrument is so balanced that it takes no greater force to oyer- 
turn it in one direction than in another. There were 2 maxima in the shock, and the 
first was the stronger. The direction of movement was about west-southwest and east- 
northeast. A vertical movement is inferred from the fact that all four of the direction 
arms on the triple register recorded at one time. This would indicate that the instru- 
ment received a sudden jar or series of jars in a vertical direction, for no electrical contact 
nor any amount of lateral shaking can cause all four of these arms to record at the same 
eae Some plaster fell, and a part of a loosely constructed stone wall was thrown 
own. 
