Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-23 | Page 2 | Boston Building Swayed by Shock

BOSTON BUILDING SWAYED BY SHOCK Top Floor Rocks While Quake Puts Quietus on Two Clocks in the Office What is considered one of the best evidences as to the exact time of ot the first earthquake yesterday is the fact that both the big clocks In the local weather bureau office stopped together when the quake came at precisely The clocks are of the same make and are hung in m different rooms but on the same corresponding walls and fac facing facIng facing ing the same way Both stopped In Instantly instantly and while one later was started going the other was left to bear mute muta testimony as to the time of the initial shock The office wired a report of the tha shocks to Washington ington early earl In the day Assistant Observer J T B Snyder was wag wagIn In the office early the requirements of the department of agriculture being that some of the bureau shall be there at 6 every morning Probably Mr fr Snyder being wide awake and at the top of one of the tallest buildings in the city had a little better opportunity to note the effects of the first shock than anyone else at least he had as good a chance as anyone Snyder says Bays the building swayed and rocked until he verily believed It was about to topple over There was was no doubt in his mind as to the cause no thought of an explosion as It would not have affected the upper floor In that manner and the weather man was wondering what he should do and whether death actually was facing him when the swaying ceased The weather bureau people of course are not experts on the subject of earth earthquakes earthquakes earthquakes quakes They made no prediction be beforehand beforehand beforehand forehand and had no scientific or tech technical technical technical explanation to make afterward