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Show Accident Causes Eearthquake Rumors. San Francisco. The failure of an engine in one of the big power houses caused by a shutting off of the feed water condenser, interrupted all tele graphic and telephone commun'cation with the outside world for a few min. utes Saturday night, but isolated San Fraicisco long enough to give rise tc a flood of rumors throughout the country coun-try that the interruption had been caused by an earthquake. For about twenty minutes the hundreds of wires nruning east, north and south were silent. |