Show Earthquake in San Francisco Frightens City Tall Buildings Sway Plaster Falls Windows Broken and Cracks Appear In Palace Hotel Lobby Citizens Awakened By Shock Rush to Streets in Alarm CAN FRANCISCO Oct ct 22 The Associated Press SAX SAN By 22 By Two Press violent earthquakes rocked the central coast counties of California this morning just an hour apart The first shock was at 4 36 a in m and lasted about 20 seconds The second was at 5 36 and was much sharper but lasted only ohly about 15 seconds No injuries and no serious damage had been reported from froni either cither A third and less violent tremor was felt at 6 42 The rho center of ot the shocks hocks ap appeared ap- ap appeared to be between San Fran Fran- Francisco Francisco cisco and Monterey bay The temblors were weri we 1 felt fell oa as tar far south asSan as asSan asSan San Luis Luls Obispo approximatelY miles miles mUes south of San Fran Frail Francisco cisco and as far north as ns Nape l 50 miles from here They w avre re I also alao felt at Stockton 30 90 miles I east and south BUILDINGS SWI SWA SW I In San Francisco Oakland and San Jose th the tha largest cities affect affect- affected cd ed cd large buildings swayed like liko I trees driving people Into the tho Streets and parks for tor safety Hoti guests were feTe shaken from theIr slumbers and those who did not rush to the streets gathered scant scantily SC ily lIy clad lit In the tho lie lobbies At the Palace alace hotel one of the largest hostelries In the city elly plate glass windows window were broken pIns plas plaster ter fell from the ceilings and small cracks In lit the lobby floor At the he n nv w Dulle Bulletin tin building where The Tho Associated Press are located clocks were stopped molten typo type metal was shaken front from the pots In the stereotyping I room arid And rid furniture jIggled around MANY 1 WILD WILT RUMORS Many wild rumors were in cir circulation cir cir- n over the stale about to today's to- to days day's shocks abodes One Ono of ot them was the that story 16 Pacific Gas and andEle Ele bull building hero here had been turned around So far as could be ascertained no damage was wall d done ne to that building which Is of modern quake and aud fire tiro proof con con- con construction ii Golden Gate park one ono of the th largest In in UK tho country was the at within ot within a a afew few minutes after the after the first shock The I Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company reported that the were felt In virtually every town up and down the coast for 00 mile r in California and for tor or more miles inland Gas light and water service were not Interrupted anywhere av available reports showed sho CITIZENS IN I FEAR FEAK Police Pollee and fire stations ana newspaper offices were besieged by telephone inquiries from fright fright- frightened ened residents who were told to togo togo togo go to parks it if the buildings they were in were ivere not substantial The shocks did not interfere with printers transmitting the tho re- re report report re report port Cities ClUes reporting the temblor are Salinas Severe Salinas Severe shock no InJuries In- In Injuries injuries juries or serious damage Santa Cruz Shocks Cruz Shocks swayed buildings and broke broka windows San Jose Jose flocked Rocked buildings and broke s Oakland Oakland Both Both shocks violently shook buildings I I Stockton Shock Stockton Shock not severe Palo Io Shocks Alto Alto Shocks violent but no Injuries did and no serious dent dam dama dam ago a age o reported Three Idled Three shocks all eli distinct no damage S Shocks Sacramento Shocks not felt fH at newspaper offices and It If occurred not serious Tho The quake appeared to move In a a south north-south direction along the old fault ault which caused the trouble In the quake of ot 1906 Santa Barbara which suffered 1 In the 1925 HZ quake apparently id not nol feel teel today's tod ys tremblers DISASTER STEn Til CALLED The Tho most violent shock felt hero here prevIously an and 1 tho thc most mem mem- meni- meni memorable in the tho city's history oc- oc occurred occurred oc occurred at about 5 o'clock on the mornIng of ot April 18 1906 the 1116 city was laid In ruins mostly as a result of fires started by the quake In that district lives were lost 1600 1500 persons Injured inSured and made mado homeless The property loss was estimated at n That Th-lt quake as to- to today's to days day's Is presumed pr to have been was along along along the Sail San Andreas geo geological geo- geo geological geOlogical logical fault This fault tault extends along the t coast range mountains from from a a point on the northern Cali- Cali Call Cali forna coast about miles north 0 San Francisco to a Gulf ot of Lower California It follows the tho coast line for a distance of about miles south of San Francisco where I it swerves In approximately 20 miles and gradually extends further eastward traversing Los Angeles Riverside and San Diego counties It was wu a slipping of ot the earth Continued On Poe Page Six I 1 SAN FRANCISCO Y SHAKEN Continued l front from Page One Ono strata along this fault that caused the 1906 HOC quake scientists saId WINDOW BROKEN The Pacific Telephone and Tele- Tele Telegraph Tele Telegraph graph company's building tallest structure In the city and rising feet teet Into the th air was vIrtual virtually un- un unaffected un unaffected affected A preliminary examina examination tion by y the building superintend superintend- superintendent en ent revealed that one pane pano of ot glass hall had been cracked It is 27 7 stories and In the tho ho downtown district Weather bureau officials said they had received reports from Santa Rosa north of San Fran Fran- Francisco Francisco cisco and from Paso Robles far farto farto to the AhO th south that the shocks had been felt there Two sharp earthquakes that lasted several seconds were were felt feltin feltin In Modesto miles mites southeast ot of here early today The Th first c came me at about and the second sec sec- ond tremor around o'clock i hOTEL n U Gener General 1 C B n Blethen publisher of ot the Seattle Times an Associated AssocIated Press member turned re- re reporter reporter reporter porter this morning when the th first temblor shook San Francisco He H B was stopping at the th Palace hotel bote and nd Immediately telephoned The Th Associated Press and descrIbed what happened at that hostelry The Tho general l said his bed rocked more than it had ever rocked while lu lIe was on an ocean liner The Tho wrench of ot the quake he ho saId was from north to south and ground some of ot windows Into loto fine tine fragments of ot glass ghis Plus Plus- Plaster ten ter fell from ceilings In III unexpected places and small cracks appeared In the tho lobby WINDOWS DOW BROKEN Four plate glass windows two ot of them large suffered most mos The two larger ones were on the th new ne Montgomery street side and the lace lac curtains hung nt lit the windows bythe were torn to shreds apparently by b the tho broken glass On the west westside side ido of ot the hotel ono one of ot the largo large irs plate glass windows window was broken Into small pl pieces ces |