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Show In GKNKRAI, S1K l)()lr(i LAS hah;, who is warmly ! praised l Field .Marshal U French for brilliant work on the battle front. J UTAH FAULT PLANE CAUSES EARTHQUAKE Professor Pack Thinks Tremors Tre-mors Started in Wasatch Mountains. Tiia: faturday night's erth shock, noticeable no-ticeable in Utah. Nevada, the northern per: of California, Oregon. I-laho. and even New Tork. originated in the Wasatch Wa-satch "fault plane' whr-h extends from -Vephf to ConinKion. a distance of about ISO miles, la :ho belief of Frederick J-Pack, J-Pack, professor of geology at the University Uni-versity of Utah, who in in charge of the seismograph at that Institution. "It if a well-known fact that there exists ex-ists a fracture in the earth's crust which extaruls north and south along the Wasatch Wa-satch mountains." said Professor Pak yesterday. "This is commonly known an the Wasatch fault plane, and while, as yet. T tanno produce positive proof of this fact. It Is my belief that Saturday night's quake, as well as other recent disturbances, originated in this 'slip.' "It la a singular coincidence that Saturday Sat-urday I had just returned from a two dayp' visit to this fault plan, where 1 made observations of the geologic features feat-ures of the fracture. Hnd T remained there T would. In my opinion. Mave been very near the center of the chock." Shock Is General. 1 Reports revived iif Salt rake indicate that the earthquake waa quite general-So general-So far as In known, however, Nevada is tbe only stats that suffered any considerable consid-erable damage. flo violent were the tremors there that railroad water tanks along the Southern Pacific were thrown down and various other minor damage was caused. According to advices from Ogden, several sev-eral thousand dollars damage along the. Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific in Nevada was --aused as the result of the destruction of the tanks. In no Instance, however, according to reports recefved there, were the tracks Mrx-kcd. As In Salt T.ake, no actual dajnage was done In Ogdcn so far as is known. Great anxiety wae felt In Boise for the safety of the Arrowrock dem, which Is to be dedicated today. Fear was allayd yesterday, however, when It was learned that the tremor had not been felt at the dam. The shock was distinctly felt at Idaho Fa 11a, but no dauiase was done. One peculiar result of the quake In Nevada was the drying up of the hot springs at Gcrlach. Similar springs at (Jolconda, 200 miles cast, rose six Inches and the flow increased. Three Distinct Shocks. According to Professor Pack, who made an e?camination of the seismograph at the university early yesterday morning, the Instrument recorded three separate and distinct r.hocks. The first quake was registered at 4:43 o'clock Saturday afternoon, after-noon, the second at 6:51 thftt evening and the, third at 11 5 at night. The first bock was the least severe, the second a trifle more violent, and the third and last was of such a violent nature that the ntylus of the seismograph was thrown (Continued on Page Five.) UTAH FAULT PLANE CAUSES EARTHQUAKE (Contli.tie-l from Page One.) off the drum and the nia. huie Iticapa-M-tated. U was this last rtbook tlmi was felt K-euerally by the people of Sr lke. WtnoTOara were raitletl. i-handellrrs se.ae.i and p-'tU'le u :- fnm their aleep. Dr. James K. Talniajra. who Installed the "eisniocraph at the pnlverslty, haI retired for tho rajrght. Jut bfore nddniaht he-was he-was iWOaOMd b the slux-k He vfo-terday vfo-terday that he arose and loekNj at hi wat. h nnd that it whs just 1164 o clock. Mug Au akenod. H.n Irv ls. of oilier person In Salt Lake felt the sho- k. and newspaper offl-r ere Vesieged with telephone talla hr persons anxious to know If there really had been nit earthquake. Acrdina t Professor Pa-k. the sels-inoraph. sels-inoraph. sh.tw.n that the renter of the drsr dtaturhanie wa aboui looo miles illatant. the center of tha aerond about 900 miles distant and the '-enter of the third practically local 1 le say that it liad never tfore been, recorded that ao ntany diaturbancea Iiave been shown on the same alteet of a setsmo;rapi at any one time. Much Damage Hone. I M LA V. Nev . Oel 3. M ueh da ma-re was dene by ea t iiiake sho'ka last niRht for a hundred mites atone the Southern I-fcclflr iwilroad. H was learne! from re-porta re-porta received ttvlay. Several railroad water tank toppled fr-rn their hta;b sup-porta. sup-porta. and one of them, at T-oveto-'ks. forty miles west of here, crushed one end of a dwelling houae. People tied from their residences in night clotblra; here and elsewhere Walla of three bri-k dwellings at I-ovelock were cracked open. "Plow orders" were issued to all trains when the third tremor wat felt at 11 o'clock last night. An earth fill at the approach to a railroad bridge at Gol-conda, Gol-conda, Xev.. fifty miles ratal of her, sank fire inr-hes. riast e- walls a nd en i ney were cracked In manv hiilblinss here. Patrols were aent out along railroad tracks from all section points. Twin Falls Feels Shock. Special to The Tribune. TWTV FATT -S. Id?. Oct. 3. A flight . earthquake tremor, lasting nearly two minutes, w-aa felt in this auction last night about UJ9. It was felt by a number num-ber of people, Inclriding ?nfi? ho were awakened from .".p. 3ffl nlso sliook down a rareleaty placelpan and other things here and there, bnt otherwise passed unnoticed. This is the frrt bocX ever felt in this section of the state. |