| Show T J E h i i hak 11 al NORTHERN california VIS VISITED BY A SEVERE SHOCK laev vl arp 1 TI i PK r miff lii AiLl biti i iTi anti egitto it oll ii li enolia wl wis 9 time llie of a destructive alre VACAVILLE cal april 20 this town wits was the center of a 1 great earthquake main alain street presents a picture of great devastation tile the thoroughfare is M blocked with brick In lumber niber mortar and tang tangled lel winea there is not a brick building on the south side of the street which was n not ot more inore or less wrecked and some of them are a total lom lohs th shock struck tile town at just and lasted fully three quarters of a minute the vibrations were from the southwest to the northeast and then changed to north and south fronts fronta of buildings tumbled tumble into the street chimneys were twisted and torn as if struck by a kansas cyclone and the entire population rashed into the streets that there were no fatalities is ia little short of miraculous though there were a 9 number of 0 narrow escapes the odd fellows hall masonic Ala sonic hall ball chittendens grocery store i hackes hardware store cigar store reams thomas grocery store joe donovans donovant Don barber shop and davis li butcher fitcher shop are a total loss will patten and tom rodgers were sleeping in a rear room and were buried beneath the brick and mortar but escaped alive and almost unhurt ray Benne bennetis tvs saloon is almost a total wreck it was a two story brick and three young men were sleeping in in the upper tipper story the front and sides ides i of the structure tell fell outward leavin leaving tit tho beds sitting on the verge J al millers 1111 fler s drug store hewitts dewitts He witts jewelry and mand aland blum Brot brothers hev grocery were greatly damaged tho pratt block tile lie finest in town was almost destroyed in this block were located the opera hall pott pot pot t office wells fargo office crystal brothers I 1 d dry ry goods store C R alidas grocery the ell enterprise tor prise office dind and Mc Cabes tin shop the brunswick house it a largo large two story structure J W dauby proprietor etor suffered severely almont every inch of plastering being shaken from the walls of the lower lower story alry some bouti e of the citizens have made figures on the total loss in the town and estimates place it fl at from to 2000 oi news of the disaster comes from all directions in this section in pleasant valley between here ani and winters tile shock was terri flo and it is saia said not a chimney is standing in the entire valley the shock nt at winters caused great damage there is not a chimney standing in in the town main alain street presents a badly wrecked appearance although buildings are still standing the larye large new D V blia hotel suffered consi considerably or ably much of the brick front caving into the street there wera about forty guests asleep in the hotel when the shock occurred and men women and children ran terror stricken down stairs on reaching the office they found chairs scattered around tha plater plaster fallen and the furniture in confusion mis bertha roberts was rather severely hurt by falling plaster so far as known she li is the only person injured |
