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Show ! age resu'tlng from the eartlkjuake. Mr Bell said U would .ouht'es cot several thousand dollars to repair the da mage on the division. So far as could be asort Ined today, no actual damage wan caused In this City from the shock, which was perhaps, the most severe ever felt In Ogden. Due to the fact tliat It occurred at such a late. hour, comparative!;- few persons wre actuallv aware of what was taklnc place. In the Reed hotel and Colonel Hudson building, five-'sWry structures. I per"ons were given ample evidence of the shock. At the hotel more then a score of guests were aroused from their beds and. in some instance?, particularly amona those from California, they came tumbling down stairs in a mad ruah to reach the street. Members of the Weber club, which is located, on the top floor of the Colonel Hudson building. lost no time In reaching reach-ing the street when the structure beean to creak and groan under the swaying I effect of the earth shock. From the va- i rious reports of those who fett the shock here it is estimated that the tremor tast- I ed thirty seconds. WATER TANKS ARE SHAKEN DOWN BY THE EARTHQUAKE Special to The Tribune. OGTEN. Oct. 3. The acrtbquajfcfl RhocU felt in this cltv and throughout most western states at 11:57 oviork last night did several thousand dollars" damage along tha Salt Ijke dMsion of the Southern Pacific railroad, according- to reports received at the division headquarters head-quarters here todav. The principal damage dam-age lo the railroa-1 properties was the shaking down of four water tanks at as manv points In Nevada. Trains from the west were late In arriving In Ogden today, but officials of the company de nled' that this was due to the earth sho k disturbing the track. The water tanks that were shaken from their foundations and. in most esses demolished, were located ar Par-ran Par-ran a f-mall station just east of Hazen: rxjyelocks. Kodak and Batllc Mountain. According to EL I.. Bell, assistant superintendent, su-perintendent, all of the damaged tanks were constrii'-t-d of stcl an! rested on concrete foundations. Thi? official said that In no Instance were the tracks blocked bv the falling tanks. While nothing like a definite estimate can be made as vet regarding the gam- |