Show MOUNTAINS WERE JORN ASUNDER Strange Strang Occurrences Outside San Francisco During the th Earthquake Shocks GEYSERS SPOUT BLUE MUD REDWOOD TREES SPLIT TO THE TH E ROOTS Special to The Herald San Francisco May 6 Mountains were literally torn asunder by the tho earthquake which devastated San Francisco A staff correspondent of The Herald has just returned from a trip into Santa Clara San Benito Monterey and Santa Cruz counties where he went to investigate the many stories of wonderful natural phenomena reported to have taken place in n that locality While he discovered that about had many man of the tile rumors floating no foundation in fact he found many things fully equal in strangeness to the occurrences described in the floating ru rumors rumors rumors mors The effects of the earthquake ap tip appear appear pear to have been greater in the tho th Santa SantaCruz SantaCruz Cruz iruz mountains a spur of the coast range near Santa Cruz Theses I moun moan mountains mountains are largely composed of limestone slate shale and other sedimentary rock which were easily rent asunder by the terrific vibration A long period of wet weather had in many places softened this strata and made it easier for the earth earthquake earthquake earthquake quake to tear apart the tile huge rocks Monuments Torn Asunder A trip through the mountains shows on every hand the results of this force It is the commonest sight to see great sections of the mountains fifty to 1000 feet or more long ripped off from its former location and sent thundering down downto to a resting place far below It is the theory of many scientists that the coast range is gradually rising while others declare that a general settling is in pro progress progress progress gress So far as a layman can see the result has in this tills case been to tear off portions of the mountain and to send the surface soil and sections of the deeper strata into the gullies and und canyons One of the most striking instances is in inthe inthe inthe the canyon of the river There nine men are buried under fifty or sixty feet of rock They The were in the employ I of one of the lumber lumb r companies operating in this region and were returning from a trip to fire the donkey donke engines in use usein usein usein in cutting timber When rhen the earthquake came parts of the mountains on each side of the canyon were shaken off and came tearing down to the bottom of the gulch burying bur ing the men The river rier Is dammed and has risen to a depth of fifty or sixty feet This reservoir is being utilized to tear out the obstruction and rescue the bodies s of the tile men The methods of hydraulic h mining are being applied A huge pipe has been inserted in the deep water and the big stream has been through this duct duet to a place below where it can be turned with great pressure upon the mass of debris Cn er the flood the portions of the mountain piled up are being rapidly washed away awa It will not be long before the entire obstruction will have been carried off and the vast pent up flood will have poured down its for former former former mer channel Giant Redwood Trees Split The terrific force of the tile shock is shown also by b its effect on the giant siant redwood trees One will serve as an example It Iti ip 4 i fully full twelve feet thick and has resisted the storms and shocks of centuries The recent earthquake split it almost exactly down the tile middle and tore off the top feet above the ground leaving the entire tree prostrate except for this one rem remnant remnant remnant nant The ground In many places is strawn wn with the tile branches of redwood and liveoak trees Neighboring orchards have been in many instances almost de destroyed destroyed destroyed Peach trees are to be seen at an angle of 45 degrees thrown that way wa by bythe bythe the tile sway of the ground All A 11 through this section are many man wide and deep crevices in the ground One was observed fully thirty feet wide and OO feet deep deeo d cp In another place In the middle of a pasture the crack made almost a circle a little littleover littleover littleover over feet in ill diameter and the entire ground within the circumference had sunk to a depth of about twenty feet Ceet Geysers Spouted Blue Mud So far as can be ascertained at this time this is the only region affected by bythe bythe bythe the earthquake where some volcanic ef effects f are shown Along the Salins Sauna Car Carmel Carmel Carmel mel and Pajaro rivers were to be observed for a time scenes reminiscent of the Yel Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellowstone park For two hours after the earthquake geysers ge sers spouting blue mud played along these rivers The Salinas river ran warm for a time The hot springs at Gillroy flowed 10 degrees warm warmer er than they had ever done before One Onel artesian well near Watsonville ISO feet deep spouted blue mud for a time and ancl then went dry It was cleaned out with some effort and finally finalI began to flow slowly but with increasing volume One man solemnly averred that as he was thrown to the ground by the earthquake a crevice opened close to him which spout spouted ed blue mud at intervals and gave forth sulphurous silIl fumes tunics His Ills testimony is not substantiated but it is certain that he was extremely nauseated for some time and he gave this as us the reason The force of the earthquake was un an undoubtedly undoubtedly greater in the higher regions than it was close to the sea level WorlIng Working Work Worl Working ing on an orchard near Watsonville is a former sailor by the tile name of Mat Jen Jon Jenkins Jonkins kins When the tile shock came he was outdoors with some of the other es eson on the ranch Above the tile roar of the tite quake could be heard his voice calling loudly Steady while she pitches When the trembler was over Jenkins be began began began gan to apologize and explain 1 i worked for years on a sailing vessel with a cap captain captain tain tam who always lashed himself to a spar on deck when Wilen the tIle men were aloft during a heavy sea sen said he It matter how much noise the storm was making we could always alwa s hear his big voice as he felt the first tremble of a sea striking the ship calling to us Steady Stead boys bo s while she pitches When the shock came it felt to me just as it used to when I was reefing with tops 1 during a storm on the tue theold theold old Mary lary Ellen The way the thc rocks were thrown about by the heavy pitching makes the sailors story stor plausible |