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Show II BOISE IS SHAKEN 1 BY EARTtfOUAKE fflff Most Violent Tremor in the tl History of Capital fll ' of Idaho. M ; Boise, Idaho, May 12. Boise experi- I : onced early tonight the most violent I i. : earthquake shock in the history of I : the city. The tremor, which occurred Ml: at 7:2G o'clock, lasted about three S ,' seconds and was more in the nature of my. an upheaval than a wave. In the I down-town district people rushed I j from the buildings to the street. No I I damage has been reported. I : Tonight's tremor was the second j in a fortnight, the first having been I s recorded on April 30. I ;' At Weiser, sixty miles west, the S i ( quake was felt with exceptional vio- ( lence. A 'now gas well, in which a flow 5 was struck ten days ago, showed a re '. markable increase of pressure ira j mediately after the quake. The flow :' caught fire tonight and hundreds of ; people watched the shooting flames. ? The tremor was not felt to the east j'i' o Boise. Twenty-five miles north, "r at Enimett, the quake was violent and ;. . aiarmeci uie inruiDuanis. iampa, 10 the south, also felt the shake, as did I Idaho City, thirty-six miles north, Windows rattled at Payette. Spokane, Wash., May 12. The sis-mograph sis-mograph at Gonzaga university here registered a pronounced earthquake shock at C:29 o'clock tonight, followed by several smaller ones, the entire disturbance lasting about fifteen min. utes. Father Adams, the local observer, ob-server, said the general direction of temlor was southeast to northwest, the main shock being unusually severo for this region. The quake occurred, Father-Adams estimated, about eighty miles southeast of Spokane. Slight tremors were felt in Salt Lake by residents on the northeast I i bench at the time of the earthquake. ; . Most persons were of the belief that the tremors were caused by blasting. ; r Heno, New, May 12. The seismo- ' graph at the Mackay school of mines. ; university or Nevada, registered an . earthquake at C:31 o'clock tonight. j The disturbance lasted until G:36, Pro- fessor J. C. Jones, of the university, ; figured the center of the disturbance : as about 400 miles north of Reno. |
