Show FAULT AULT PLANES MOVER MOVE I ER CITY Early a Morning Havoc Done by Shocks That Spread Terror and n Alarm TEMBLOR MANY Seismograph at University Records Tremors That at Recur Thrice rice Or Originating Originating Originating Entirely Ent rely in fri Salt Lake Doing Considerable Cons Damage FOR F OR two minutes and fifteen seconds yesterday morning Salt Lake swayed and rocked tall buildings wavered windows and doors rattled clocks stopped and Mother Earth J convulsed with hidden wrath was menacingly unsteady Then the rumblings ceased the buildings stood still hearts that seemed for the time to have ceased beating thumped with hope J again and the Utah capitals first big earthquake was a thing of the past Two subsequent shocks were of less violence By noon the city had regained its physical and mental l composure the streets held their usual gay Sunday throngs sunshine was wasI I everywhere greetings were exchanged Salt Lake was safe Comparatively speaking there was little damage The Th v earthquake was according to the best of authority the th shifting of a gigantic earth block almost directly under the city The first shock came at the second at and the third at 1126 the last being barely perceptible The center of the disturbance disturb nce was Salt Lake Other sec sections sections sections of the state suffered but little Provo Bingham Ogden and other cities report almost no damage The total property loss in Salt Lake probably will be heavy comprising numerous minor damages City Building Inspector A B Hirth says the solid construction of the local business blocks undoubtedly saved them from serious damage dam e or from destruction Salt Lakes panic while it lasted was widespread Hotel guests rushed frantically from their rooms and down downstairs downstairs downstairs stairs many being restrained by force foree from descending fire lire escapes The few Sunday Sun a morning occupants o of the big downtown buildings mostly janitors and scrubwomen dashed in terror in into Into into to the streets In the resi rest residence residence dence lence districts district rudely awakened by bythe bythe bythe the first shock hastened out of doors According to the thc united opinion of or orall all alt claiming knowledge e of earthquakes there Is no further danger langer anger the earth block is 15 quiet in a new lodging place Recorded on Seismograph The three shocks were recorded with distinctness by the seismograph In the basement of the Museum building at atthe atthe the th University of Utah The first had hada a duration of ot two minutes and fifteen seconds and for the first of ofa a minute the needle of th delicate in instrument instrument strument was thrown off oU its tangent course three inches The needle then wung swung back to the starting place and the record shows that the disturbance in the earth modulated for almost two minutes until the waves were no longer perceptible and the needle continued on its well WeIl defined straight course un til tn an hour and ten minutes or until minutes past s 8 when it quivered again for about 20 seconds At twentysix minutes past eleven the third record was made m de Prof Fred J Pack in charge of the instrument says the disturbance was entirely local and that its centrum was almost directly under the Instrument on the University grounds This he says is certain because the instrument instrument instrument ment did not record any preliminary waves which are always shown s own when the disturbances come from a distance In the case e of all aU three shocks the instrument records that the waves ran from northwest to southeast Dr Pack declares the disturbances were more in the nature of vibrations as the waves become more definite after leaving the nearest point on the earths surface from the centrum or the exact spot in the earth where the thc disturb disturbance disturbance disturbance ance originated Center of Quake Zone The interior disturbance must have been bien decidedly violent said Dr Pack as the needle after being driven fully three inches Inces off its tangent tan ent did not swing back like a pendulum but was held to one side from its starting Continued on Tivo I I Record of f Two Minutes of Quake Shows Queer Things Tf z fAULT PLANES MOVE RIGHT UNDER CITY Continued From Page One joInt It is the first time we have ever had this kind of registration They are rare and aud have teen been the sub of oi much scientific Investigation Salt Lake Is ig i the center of an earth earthquake quake zone and we ve may expect ct recur recurring recurring ring disturbances from time to time The disturbance Sunday morning may maye be e directly traced to the moving of ot o great greal fault auit planes or rock ledges ex extending extending extending tending along the western slope of the Wasatch range The ledge which ex extends extends tends over miles Is a formation Distinctively conducive to disturbances The same cause which resulted In Inthe Inthe inthe the disastrous San Francisco earth earthquake earthquake earthquake quake Is attributable to our local dis dIe disturbances disturbances which have occurred from rom time to time with greater or less l ss vio violence yb lence for the past five years Through House While the greatest havoc was wrought rought in the downtown district the was severely felt on the foot foothills foothills hills In the northern part of ot the city sand and although there was not much dam damage damage damage age done to property the people of ot that district received a scare they will willot not ot soon forget The greatest damage done In this district was at the home of or F A Bit Bitner ncr ner at 69 Center street where the vi vibration vibration bration loosened the Inner brickwork 4 of the front part of the house Just near its apex The bricks came tumbling down crushing through the ceiling of Mr BItners front fro parlor and carrying lath and plaster with them fell feU to the floor The piano barely escaped dam damage damage damage age but other articles of furniture were vere badly damaged The bricks tore tote torea a 5 hole In the ceiling at least four feet wide Ide and Mr Bitner estimates his loss at t Mr Bitner and nd his family were at breakfast when the first and greatest shock hock came After the house had stopped shaking they were startled to hear a deafening noise Issuing from the front room and rushing In saw the bricks piling down through the cell ceil ing Five Homes home 8 d The block on the south side of or Third South street between First West and Second West streets probably sustained more damage than a like Uke area In any part of the city Here there were no noless noless less than five houses damaged from the tle quake At Al the house occupied by Sen West Third South street the shock caused quite a number of the bricks from the chimney to fall At 45 West Third South street which Is Isa Isa isa a double house occupied by William illiam and owned by the Windsor company com pan two chimneys were badly damaged One of these which is about fifteen feet high is cracked Its entire length 1 and is so badly damaged that it is I dangerous At West Third South street which Is in a terrace a number of bricks from the front coping of the building have been displaced One of the members of the family when leav leaving leaving leaving ing the house just after the first shock narrowly escaped having several bricks tall fall en cn n his head The old church standing at the northwest corner of Third South and First West streets and now used as a hotel also sustained some damage The two wooden turrets which surmounted the building In the front were hadly shaken and the one on the east side gave way wa after atter the shock and nd toppled over Its downward progress was stayed by the large chimney on the First West street side of the building where here It now rests wedged in between the chimney and the roof root |