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Show Si FRANCISCO mail m up TWO EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS CAUSE PANIC AMONG THE RESIDENTS. But Slight Damage Done to Building, Build-ing, Which Were Soon Depopulated Depopulat-ed When Tremoni Began One Man Fall Dead From Fright. I I I Sun Francisco. -On Saturday this city wiiH visited by two of the heaviest heav-iest earthqiiitke nho ks since the big quake of 11)015, and for a lime many of the resident feared that tliei" was to be a repetition of that terrible ter-rible catastrophe which resulted in a heavy loss of life and the partial do miction of the city. The Hhorkii Jnrrcd the central portion por-tion of California and western No-vada. No-vada. The II rut kIioi k came at 2 o'clock, and waa followed In a few seconds by one of similar Intentilty, each lasting about live second. It was felt to the northward of Sacramento, In the Sacramento valley; val-ley; aa far southward iut Fresno, and to the east at Carson and Hero, Nev., the former place exierif tiling the beavleat shock In its history. Only trivial damage bus been reported re-ported from any aectlon, but In San Francisco and other cities In the affected af-fected area panic seized upon crowda In Htorea and restaurants and there waa a pell moll exodus from the large building Some slight damage was done to buildings In Kan Francisco Heavy stones In the corjilce of the Mechanics' Mechan-ics' bank building were moved slight-ly slight-ly out of alignment; superficial cracks were made In large office buildings; cornices of the new post-office post-office building were disarranged, and minor damage waa done to the Interior In-terior walla of a number of other i buildings Within a few seconds after the first i shock, many downtown buildings i were depopulated In a rush to the , : streets. Telephonic and telegraphic j service waa suspended because of operators deserting their keys. Her- i bert Hadley, a lodging house inmate, ! fell dead of fright and some cases of i hysteria or of cuts or bruises suf- i fered Id the semi panic were treated at the emergency and other hosplt tls. t |