| Show WHAT THE EARTHQUAKE DID I Throws 1700 I Met Out of Work at Mare Inland I Navy Yard m 1 Otherworlit tb ana hI tb Cllfornta hkeup W o r ICbt Was No vrVZuL I San Francisco March 31 Owing to damage done by last nights earthquake earth-quake work has been shut down at the Mare Island navy yard temporarily and the 1700 emplovcs are Idle Only two of the buildings escaped damage Now that the excitement over last nights earthquake has subsided It Is I learned that very little damage was done The shock occurring so late at night when most People were asleep seemed mora severe than It rally was to the frightened Inhabitants of this and other cities The only thing aprpoachlng a casualty In San Francisco Francis-co was the collapse ot a frail tenement tene-ment building on Clem nUn street This building stood on the sand supported sup-ported on thin wooden upright and 1 sank gently to the ground The five families Inhabiting It were got out In safety In other portions of the city a few bricks were thrown from chimneys windows clacked clocks stopped picture thrown down and various other little happenings Incident to earthquakes were noted The earthquake earth-quake seems to have been confined to within a radius of one hundred miles ot San Francisco Bay Considerable damage Is I reported from Mans Island navy yard where the sawmill was levelled to the ground and In the town or Valejo nearby Water means were broken At Martinez a few miles from Mare Island the earthquake lasted forty see ond Chimney wee toppled over and the brick library building and the court house malls miere cracked In San Francisco after the people discovered that building were not toppling about their head many amusing sights were witnessed At the down town hotels especially those from the east i tuned out Into the halls nnd cQurt and even so Car as the street without stopping to dress An alarm of fire turned In a few mill I utes after the shock added to the excitement ex-citement but the blaze was only a small one caused by the overturning I of a lamp and was noon extinguished The most serious phase of the earthquake earth-quake was lhe > demonetization of the telegraph and telephone service for n few minutes Circuit were broken and for a short time San Francisco had no telegraphic connection with the outBid out-Bid world Tho earthquake served to demon strata that modern architecture Is ImPervious Im-pervious turbancc to the effects at seismic ills Tho bB building recently erftted In thin city Although the swayed In an alarming nnne dId nut Buffer tiny Ini tier Not a beam br a girder was displaced nor a hrlclc nor a stone moved While the scare last nlnht was genuine gen-uine while It lasted fan Trinclscanr are today laughing over their expert Prices and affairs here have settled Into their normal conditions EFFECT AT Tfln NAVY YARD Vallejo Cal 4 Marl h 31Work on the navy Mini lion been hut down and the 1700 rmphn PS are Idle on the en1 Hnen of Vnllejo A conservative fs tlmali of the damage at tho navy Yard Hires It at MIl a million dollar Only two buildings on lhe Mare Island navy yard oneoped laniiifrc th administration ad-ministration liOlldlnR and urdnuce storehoute and workshop The sawmill mill and point h ar a Maas of ruin and every building except the two mentioned has sustained some drimnstio inhK hospital 1 threestory brick building I Is cracked from top to hot torn and every nrr seem loosened I while the plastering Js strewn Everywhere Every-Where Several narrow escapes are related nrrow and patients received I severe many gmt JlmnI Jlmnc shocks In tin gfflc V room vaw I t4 r house to I damaged gable being dow anti chlmn demollhd I I Admiral Klrklands house showsll least nmage The house of CivIl Engineer < lolly lay rated th a worst All department have desed work except that of equipment and tin Surds and clocks The great chlmncl of the power house la cracked In several sever-al place and will have to be rebuilt The cast wall of the engineering I foundrj has fallen and the Inlcilor Is badly Cal h1linllefoo wrecked The machine shop which ndjjlns It li I also damaKn and tile machtnerv i disturbed to such nn extent that It will have to he l overhauled throughout l The electric plant which lights buildings and SiouT131Its badly bad-ly shaken and Hooded no that there nlll be no llolit for two or three dam Ilulldlns 6J used hy l d hmam general storekeeper I I > rbably 1amo a tire Worst an1 will undoubtedly hove tu he condemned Th north wall has fallen and the wall on both miles area are-a ked The south wall stands file l inches out of plum i Tlulldlng rlr J let across the thr otrcct < is 1 In much the game con dltlon and a blow of a Pledge would ca use the south wall to fall On raved airier lmal the lam age nt n million dollars Al thc cum pHcaled and P expensl lachlnery la I out of Place and will hove to be l lake down and put up aftcrwardi The damage at Vallejo alone Is estimated at 150000 Stnve r Itend Chicago March 31A telegram received re-ceived here says Steve Boodle famous for his Jump from the Brooklyn bridge died today on 1 train at Adrian Mleh He left Chicago guttering from Congestion con-gestion of the lungs |
