Show r ills 1 I 1 hi and piles of architecture ac became piles of debris destruction IN YACA VACA the mot severs savere visitation in northern for many years year carnage to property ft a million lon dollart dollars but no ao los lo io I o s of life J afo VACAVILLE cal april 20 this town was waa the center of a great earthquake main alain street presents a picture of great devastation the thoroughfare is blocked with brick lumber mortar and tangled wires there is not a brick building on oa tha south side of the street which was waa not more or lesi wrecked and some of them aro are a total loss the shock struck the town at just and lasted fully three quarters of a minute the vibrations were from the southwest A to the northeast and then changed to north and south fronts of buildings tumbled into the street chimneys were twisted and torn as if struck by a kansas cyclone and the entire population rushed into the streets that thero there were no fatalities is little short of miraculous though there were a number of narrow escapes the odd fellows hall masonic hall ball chittendens grocery grocery store hack hacked hardware store rambo kambo a cigar store reams thomas grocery store joe donovans donovant Don barber shop and Davis butcher shop are a total loss lobs will patten and tom rodgers were sleeping in ft a rear room and were buried beneath the brick and mortar but escaped alive and almost unhurt ray bennetts saloon is almost a total wreck it was a two story brick and throe three young men were slen sleeping in the upper story the front and sides de of the structure fell outward leaving the beds sitting on the verge jani J M millers drug store hewitts dewitts He witts jewelry and mand baim brothers grocery were greatly damaged the pratt block the finest iu in town was almost destroyed in this thia bluck block were located the opera liall hall pst post office wells fargo office crystal brothers dry ghods store C R Ala ladds dils grocery the ell enterprise ter prise office and Mc Cabes tin shop the brunswick house a large two story structure J W danby ato proprietor krietor etor suffered buffered severely almost every inch of plastering being shaken from the willa walls of the lower story some of the citizens have made figures on the total loss in tho the town and estimates place it at from to 2 news of the disaster comes from all directions in this section in pleasant valley between here aud winters tho the shock was terrific and it is said not a chimney is standing in the entire valley john thi thistle tie jr who lives lived in pleasant valley left a lamp burning when he retired when the shock came caino the alie kanip was overturned and the house with all its contents was destroyed the tha occupants barely escaping with their lives the residence of carl gates about three miles from vacaville jacaville Va caville was almost totally to tilly destroyed rev 0 0 felkner of A ban jose was waa visiting there thera and was vas very severely injured by falling urick brick and timbers timber ile he was frightfully frightful lo y cut about the hea head and face having no less than a dozen wounds the residence rest of W J dobbins near town is a complete wreck miss lou dobbins was caught by falling debris but escaped escal sc aped with a 8 fractured hand and a few painful bruises freil fred suttons Hut tons brick residence was destroyed the occupants ec escaping aping they can t tell how mr davis residence one mile south of vacaville jacaville Va caville was completely wrecked tit th occupants having a close call for their lives tile new presbyterian church was damaged to the extent of and chini chimneys neif s were toppled from tle tho christian church and college building in J A mallon Mall onys rs frame buil building diu was turned ind and thrown three feet apet towards the not noi th by the violence of oe th toioi f shock and the chimneys were thio tin own vol down and andton the plastering shaken froni from tile walls his daughter had her arms badly injured the shock at Wint winter erit canned ardt daulke dainnie dain daul ge there is ia not a 1 chimney standing in in the town main alain sheet presents a badly wrecked appear anca although buildings building sare are still standing the laig laipen ge new cw D V blasg hotel suffered iera aily much of tile the brick front caving into tit alie street there were about forty guts guests gu ts asleep in tile hotel when tile shock occurred and men women and children ran terror stricken down stairs on reaching tho the office they found chairs scattered catt ered around tho the plaster fallen and tile the furniture in contusion mrs dertha Bert lii roberts wis avas rather severely hurt by fulling falling plaster so far us its known she is tin tho cersoli person although innus miraculous c escapes capes ara reported rep arted crowd are gathered gathe reI around th the scene escene of and business men iian are aluir los losses loses es the shelving in ill day W yai its ding I 1 lug 11 tore store near the hotel wita wa i exult emptied il d of its contents and taw firms loss los will reach 7 ia sixty feet of fire will of f allo new cr dw dwick ick building ou on main sti beet top led westward upon tho the fraine roof of J judy nily brochert Brot hert stables and cra crawling Aling through completely completed comple tel s buried six hort in their stalls s A school bouto houto just finis finished lied by contractor baiter of Sacra was to have been turned over to tho trustees trus tres the brick foundation I 1 was cracked bracki 41 chimneys thrown to the alie ground and the plaster boin the tha old school is badly wre wrecked kol tho the loss los to town ii i i estimated tit ill between 4 at the graveyard louia tombstones atone A MH around or completely shuttered shattered near town the ho I 1 auk of pasith click citek tell en fi fret fiet et wide caved all in gilld nering tiiu fill bottom betto ir ot of the creek for it giant diN distance tance lenti ri rr mu ie by tile t j I 1 lucks avem vem of hiir eliut ilan an acie of ground LAM tl nl into tiiu the creek |