Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-19 | Page 1 | Earthquake Shakes Eureka, California

EARTHQUAKE SHAKES EIEIMIIIF01IA Chimneys Knocked Down; Windows' Win-dows' Broken ; Citizens iu . Panic; No Lives Lost. EUKEKA. dal., Autr. IS. Three sharp earthquake fehocks, which knocked down more than 100 chimneys, shattered shat-tered about forty plato glass windows in tne ousincss portion ol tiiircka, broke much crockery in houses and senr many pcoplo slurrying from .their beds into tho street?, occurred here early today. to-day. Tho damage reported so far is estimated at between $2000 and $3000. The firat and sharpest shock camo at 2:5S p. m. It was almost as severe as tho ono felt hero on April IS, 90G. At 3:0S a. m. another but lighter shock was experienced, followed by a third at o:'i0 o'clo"ck. The first shock caused practically all the damage. Besides shaking down many chimneys and breaking crockery, the temblor caused tho sixteen-foot statue of Minerva on tho county courthouse court-house to drop her heavy staff1, which crashed through the roof into Superior .Judge Hunt 's courtroom. The walls of the courthouse were cracked in several places, but thc-dam-age is not great. The walls of the Carnegie Car-negie library building, erected five years, ago at a cost of $25,000, wore slightly c racked. .Reports from the Seazy ranch, near Freshwater, six miles north of Jiureka, state that the earthquake caused a big fissure iu tho earth for half a mile. A number of chimneys were thrown down in that vicinity, but otherwise little damage was done. ! j The shock extended as far north as ' Blue Lakes, twenty-five miles uorth of ) Eureka, where somo crockery was bro- j ken and half a dozen chimneys knocked down. , , I The shocks seem to have been confiucd to a small area, and the vibrations wore southwest to northeast.